Broken and Beautiful [Kingx #2] [Wattys2018]

Prologue

Warning :  Also I want to remind you that this book is a dark romance.  It contains very disturbing scenes, graphics violence, sexual content, strong language, things that may triggered you etc. Read it at your own risk\^^/
Pg-18

Please excuse the spelling and grammatical mistakes. I will try my best to fix them when I can.

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Little Maya was walking slowly on her way back from school. She hold the apple they got for lunch tightly against her chest. She will need it in case her Uncle acts weird and forget to make dinner for her and her brother again. She misses her mama and papa badly. It has been so long since she last see them. She wants to go home but her big brother told her they are not coming back but she doesn't believe that, her mama and papa love them, she believe that they will come back someday. She hates her uncle's home, it is so small and they are constantly hungry, they don't have new cloths, big yellow room, new toys etc anymore. She will tell her mom all about it when she comes back.

She was so busy thinking about it that she bumbs into a leg, she falls back but big arms steady her, 'Whoa,careful shorty' A man says then frown, 'Are you alone?' he looks around,

Maya doesn't wait for him to finish talking, while he was looking around she ran off the the direction where her apple rolled off to, she runs after it, it was a dark alley but she didn't think twice. As she sit down to pick it up, she heard sounds coming from the side, she frowned at what she saw.

A little boy! He look so untidy, his cloths and shoes were so shabby. She wonder what he was doing especially since he was hugging his legs against his chest, burying his forehead on his knees, rocking back and forth. She didn't understand why he was doing.

"What are you doing?"

As soon as he heard her voice, his head jerked up, eyes wide and scared, he though for a moment they found him, only to change to rage and he glare at the little girl with wide pretty eyes staring at him with full curiosity, his hands started shaking, he want to hurt, them, himself, her so he just start scratching his arms instead. The pain numbs him mentally, distract him from the voices.

The girl's eyes started to change to panic, 'What are you doing?' she asks him,

He look around, she was talking too loudly, they will hear her, he lift his finger to his mouth to shush her. He didn't dare speak up. But the girl didn't understand. She should.

It makes him more anxious so he scratch harder, waiting for them to take him away. He felt the stinging pain, the scrapes from old wounds coming off replaced by fresh red marks.

Then the girl shouts "Stop it!" making him wince,

She knelt right in front of him and held out her apple, she hesitated a bit before she asked, "Look, I will give you this if you stop doing that"

His eyes landed on the hand that reach out, food! He salivated instantly. He doesn't remember when was the last time he ate so he didn't think twice before snatching it from her hand and eating as if it his last meal.

After he was finished, the girl gave him a pretty smile making him froze for a moment. He couldn't stop staring at her. She was talking. Questioning him. He didn't bother listening because he wasn't going to answer anyway but he does realize one thing. The voices stop!

He didn't understand. He look around once more to see if they are hiding somewhere but when his eyes landed on her again, he knew, it was her. She chased them away. He couldn't stop staring at her. Is she an angel? She must be. She is kind and is nice to him. She doesn't keep on shouting at him and she's giving him food. She is really pretty and smell really nice too. Most of all, she gave him the thing he crave most-silence, by chasing them away.