Taken

Chapter 23

"I'm been away from my family for a while now, they probably think I'm dead." I mumble. Marco doesn't say anything except hand me some clothes.

" So you are basically going to be doing a lot of chores like cleaning and cooking." He states, scratching the back of his head.

"I'm sorry what? Did you just say I'm basically a maid?... that's ridiculous."

"I know but I-" He stops mid-sentence when I hear a door behind me open and someone approaches me. Suddenly Marco slaps my cheek and I'm stunned as my head snaps to the side. I look up at Marco with tears forming in my eyes, I knew I couldn't trust him...

"You need to learn to respect me." He spits out and I'm still shocked at this sudden change.

"That's it, boy!" Someone says behind me, I recognized it as Matteo and I slowly turned towards him. He had an evil grin plastered on his face.

"I can deal with her myself brother, there is no need for you here."

"But brother don't you see what a huge milestone this is? You're finally eighteen and this is your first step in becoming a man."

"I told you I'm fine brother, leave me alone with her." Marco says sternly, his face was cold and I could see he was tense.

"No, she needs to get ready." Matteo tells him and Marco pushes me towards the bathroom.

"She can get ready here." Matteo says with a smirk and my stomach turns.

"You can at least give her some dignity and not treat her like a toy." Marco follows me into the bathroom and I'm confused as to why he isn't leaving.

"W-why did you do that to me?" I whisper and he looks away.

"I had to, if he saw me being nice to you he would've done worse things to you." He states and I nod, maybe I could trust him a bit but not entirely."I have to stay here with you too, that's what he wants but I won't look." He says and turns around to face the door

I put on the short black dress and tie my hair up in a ponytail it was harder since my hair was so long now and it was something I haven't been able to do since before everything happened. I looked at myself in the mirror quickly and noticed my mascara was running so I fixed it.

After I was finished I tapped on Marco's back and he whipped around and grabbed my wrist. I looked at him shocked and he quickly let's go.

"I'm sorry, I thought you were trying to esca- never mind..." he says." Well, I have to grab your wrist again and it's gonna hurt. I have to put up a show for Matteo."

I hesitantly nod as he grabs my wrist tightly and opens the door. He practically throws me out of the bathroom and I grab on to something to catch my fall. I quickly realized I'm holding onto Matteo and I let go, causing me to fall to the floor.

"There she is! I liked her hair better down though..." Matteo states and I frown as he takes it out.

"Why'd you do that brother? It had nothing to do with you." Marco asks, his jaw tightening.

"I can do whatever I want. I am older and wiser than you." Matteo says and pulls me up by my wrist. "I'm going to show you your room now so follow me." He leads me out of the room and Marco tries to grab me but it's no use.

" You don't seem that big of a problem... Hunter made you out to be some type of nuisance. How old are you anyways? Twenty three?Twenty four?"