My Boys (boyxboy, girlxboy)

Chapter seventeen

Cassie's POV

"So you found him like me and Sammy?" Riley questioned me on the way home from school in the car

"Yup" I squeaked, not wanting to delve into the issue of the male stripper currently living in my house.

"Where was he?"

"In the city"

"What's his story?" he asked, eating chips and getting crumbs all over his lap making me cringe.

"Uh I'm not totally sure yet we didn't talk much"

"So you don't know much about him" he questioned glancing at me quickly, I could see him frowning

"Not really"

"What if he's dangerous, you left him home with Sammy all day!" he said raising his voice

"He's not dangerous Riles" I sighed

"How do you know?"

"Why does he need to be a dangerous person? Because he's from the streets?"

"Don't do that Princess you know that's not what I meant" he scowled

"He's exactly like you two when I found you; he's having a hard time"

"If he hurts Sammy Cas, I'll kill him" he snapped tightening his hands on the wheel

"This has nothing to do with Angel" I snapped back

"This has everything to do with Angel, he could be a serial killer, or a rapist or worse" he yelled dramatically

"What's worse than a serial killer or rapist?"

"Princess!" he whined

"If it was anyone but Sammy you wouldn't care" I stated and watched him flinch

"You're right" he said quietly, watching me out of the corner of his eye while trying to keep his eyes on the road

"Are you going to tell me what happened yesterday night?"

"Derek happened"

"How can he stay with him Riles?"

"Sammy doesn't think he deserves to be loved, he feels lucky because Derek tells him he loves him"

"But Derek..."

"Beats the crap out of him" he finished sneering

"I don't know what I can do for him" I said sadly watching Riley frown again

"That's no love, love doesn't beat there boyfriend half dead and then rape him" he choked out pulling the car over to the side of the road

"What?" it was barley a whisper but I knew he could hear me

"Yesterday morning after I took Sammy out, I found Derek and I told him to stay away from Sammy. I warned him that if he ever laid a hand on him again I would kill him"

"Then how did Samuel get hurt?" I could feel my eyes burning at the thought of how much pain my little boy had endured.
He was too young for all this, to kind and had too little self-esteem to fight back. Samuel did fight though, he must be! If it had been me I would be locked in my room for sure, or downing a bottle of pills somewhere. What he was given couldn't be called a life, it was an existence.

"I hadn't realised that Riley was crying until now, tears ran down his cheeks making me tear up. It's unsettling to see someone like Riley cry, made me feel like everything could fall apart at any moment.

"Later that day Derek called Riley and told him to come over. He went, completely unsuspecting to Derek's house Cassie. He got hurt because of me." he put his hands over his face and I could see his shoulders shaking