Chapter 20 Marco and I had some delicious dinner, it was almost 10 pm and we were done with everything. He had shown me all the beautiful places Las Vegas and he made my trip way better than it was but I was getting sick. My temperature was rising and I was getting a cold. My throat slowly turned sore as I kept speaking, Marco got me a medicine but it was too difficult for me to swallow. My head rested on his legs as he drove towards the airport. My flight was just in a couple of hours and in no time I would be home with my parents. The time I had spend with Marco was precious and something I couldn't forgot-it was also a little terrific when he shot my old master but I didn't care much. Bruce didn't text me or call me again, he just left a simple message. 'See you back soon,' after that he didn't say anything else. I questioned him about his whereabouts but he didn't respond back, assuming he slept or something, I brushed the uncertain feeling off my shoulder. As my eyes were about to close, Marco's phone started to ring. I turned around and looked at him, he stared at the caller ID and then stopped the car behind a building. The town was alive, everything was awake, the people, the buildings, the lights, the clubs-nothing was sleeping. "Yes, Stephan?" Marco said as he picked up the call. His fingers brushed down my cheeks and he played with my earlobe as he spoke with his friend named Stephan. I had met Stephan earlier, a couple times now. "He isn't?" "Okay, thanks then. I'll sort this s**t out later!" Marco exclaimed. Fury raged in his eyes and closed the call immediately. "What's wrong?" I spoke, my voice came out dry and low. My throat ached as I spoke. "You didn't tell me that your 'old master' was a member of a gang?" Marco questioned. Sᴇaʀ*ᴄh the Find_Nøvel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. I got off his lap and looked at him with shock. As the word old master rolled of his tongue, fear rose inside me. "I didn't knew, why? What happened?" I looked down and asked. "He didn't die and he is a part of a rival gang. Tell me more about him, Wendy. Like where is he from, how old is he and how did you meet him?" Marco questioned. I didn't wanted to tell him anything but I had too. He bought all those horrific memories back up but I was in no position to decline his questions. The look he had on his face demanded answers. "I met him when I was fifteen, a long time ago. He was then 42 years old." I stopped when Marco interrupted me. "What the f**k? 42? What the f**k were you doing with a 42 year old man?" Marco yelled. My eyes scurried away in stress. He was being rude to me, I felt like I was being attacked by his words. "I am sorry, continue." He said. "We met at a cafe, back in my town. I was homeless-my parents kicked me out then. I didn't have any home neither I had any friend then. My old master took me in, he was a father-like figure to me in the beginning but slowly he started controlling me. I was only allowed to eat when he wanted me to, I could only sleep for a couple hours, I rarely went out in those two months. He never allowed me to communicate with anyone else, not even my parents. He used tie me up in his basement and beat me with metal rods if I disrespected him, as a punishment. He would keep me in the basement for days without any food or water, he knew I had a fear of rats so he would throw them at me while I was down there. We used to have s*x every day, sometimes more than once. I would bleed every night like a virgin for him because he was never what I wanted. He kept me for his pleasure and gave me pain." I explained. By the time I was finished, I was sobbing. I placed my hands over my face to hide the tears away from Marco but I couldn't. "Then? How did you get away?" He asked. His tone changed from anger to calming. My words came out like broken, my lips and hands were shaking uncontrollably. Tears were streaming down my cold cheeks as I continued. "I had no hope, two months I had stayed with him. I never felt like I was going to be saved or something. I did believe that he would get tired of me then throw me out but he didn't. By the end of the second month, Bruce came back from his vacation. He had left for a trip to Calabasas for 4 months. When he came back, he noticed that I was gone. My parents didn't tell him anything, they had no contact with me, they didn't even care where I ended up. Bruce searched for me, he didn't report the police but he sent his connections everywhere. After a couple days of him arriving back, he found me. I still can't forget how happy I was to see him. I was broken, my body, my soul everything was completely shattered. Bruce's little touch scared me, I would wake up in sweat and tears from the nightmares my old master had given me." I stopped for a second. It was all over now, there was no going back now. Victor was out of my life. "Bruce healed me, he kept me in his place for a month. He never harmed me in anyway, he took my crazy ass for therapy. I relapsed a lot but somehow he controlled it all. Victor was threatened out of the town by Bruce, he left the town and since then I never saw him again. I went back to my house and continued with my life and acted like nothing ever happened. My parents do not know about this neither does anyone else except for Bruce and now you." I felt a relief when I told Marco everything. He pulled me into a hug when I was done with speaking. His hands went up and down my back. "I'm sorry this all happened to you, princess." He said as he kissed my forehead. His kiss wasn't filled with lust, instead it was with love. My heart was still wrenching from the story but I tried my best to control my tears. "I am going to kill him, princess, I hope you don't mind." 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