Taken

Chapter 28

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Chapter 28
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Katies P.O.V

   My hands were sore and I could feel the cuts on my knees. I managed to pick up what I could of the glass and I slowly stood up to come face to face with Matteo who seemed to be staring out the window and lost in his thoughts.

I did not do anything to pull him away from his own little world he was in as I was afraid of what he would do to me next. I looked around and saw that Noah had left. Matteo finally noticed I was done and he whipped his head to look at me.

"You took forever." He tells me and even though it was him I had been waiting for I said nothing. "You're not going to say a snarky remark or sorry? That's a shock."

I looked down at the floor. Matteo confused me a lot and most of the time he was doing it to watch me make a mistake. I knew my best option was to keep silent around him.

"The thought of spending the rest of my life with you makes me sick." He tells me. If he hates me so much why would he waste his life with me just to get back at his brother, it made no sense at all. A tear rolled down my cheek and I quickly looked away from him. However, he grabbed my jaw so he could see my face.

"Are you crying?" He had a huge smile on his face and it made my stomach sick. I felt a lump in my throat and I tried my best not to cry. I wanted to wipe my tears but my hands were full of glass. His hands slid down to my throat and I gasped. "Sometimes I wonder why it was Caterina and not you."

"What do you mea-" his grip on me tightened.

"You stupid girl, don't play dumb with me." His grip on me was still tight and I was starting to see stars. I reached up to grab his cheek to get him to stop and he suddenly let go.

I gasped for air as the world around me slowly stopped spinning. I steadied myself and that's when my heart nearly stopped beating when I looked at Matteo's face. I looked down at my hands to see the glass shards still digging into my palms. I dropped them on the floor when I saw blood painted them. Everything was spinning now.

I slowly looked towards Matteo and saw that he had blood trickling down his face and a scrape on his cheek. I stood there frozen. I was in a corner, there was nowhere to run and he looked angrier than he ever was.

"You are going to pay." He says menacingly. I noticed the glass shard in his hand and I quickly backed up against the wall. I knew it was over at that point and I slowly slid down the wall until I was sitting on the floor.

"No, she's not. What do you think you're doing to her?" The voice was Noah's and I was very relieved to hear it for once. Matteo scoffed at Noah and slowly backed away from me.

"You have great timing..."Matteo says to him before leaving the room, he glanced at me before he left and his eyes still filled with hatred. I knew I was safe this time but Noah would be gone soon and I will continue to be trapped in this house with these monsters.

"You owe me now." Noah says as he crouches beside me. "Are you okay?"

At that moment I wanted to yell at him. Of course I was not okay. How could anyone be okay living like this? This is not a life that anyone wants to live. I had been stolen away from my family and put through months of abuse physically and mentally. I did not have a choice of what I said, ate or when I slept anymore. I could not be a real human being. I sat every day wondering if I would ever see anyone that I care about again.

Instead, I just nodded. There was no point in starting something with Noah, he had gotten Matteo to stop. If he had wanted to he could have stood there and said nothing but he stopped him from hurting me.