He woke to her sleeping on the couch in the room.

He hated the way her face was out of his reach. She looked like she was in deep sleep. Her black eyelashes shined when the sunlight hit her face. He got up and closed half of the curtain to let her sleep more peacefully.

His phone vibrated and he picked it up and said"Hello?"

"Liam, it's me, Curtis."

"What do you want?"

"I wanna meet you. Right now."

"I'm busy."

"It concerns Em."

He paused and looked over at Emily: "Where do you wanna meet?"

"A bar. I'll text you the address."

"It's a little too early to drink, don't ya think?"

"Trust me you'll need a drink as well."

"Fine"

"Meet me in 10 minutes."

"Okay."

Liam took a shower and got ready.

As he was fixing his tie, Emily woke up and he saw her through the mirror. She rubbed her eye and asked, "Where are you going?" He looked at her and noticed her neck. The night he gave her a hickey was only a day ago and now it was gone.

How?

He replied"Business. I'll be back in an hour. By then I want you to get ready for work and I'll pick you up, Understand?"

"Understood, master."

"Good girl."

He then left

When Liam arrived, he saw Curtis drinking a glass of neat whiskey in his hand. He sat beside him and said sarcastically"Don't you look fucked up." Curtis looked at him and said to the bartender"A glass of neat scotch for my friend here please."

"I'm not your friend and I don't want it."

Curtis scoffed and said, "You'll need it when you will feel fucked up too."

The bartender served Liam his drink.

Liam said, "Shoot because I don't have time." Curtis threw the paper at him. Liam saw it was the rules that Emily had written down. Curtis said, "How could you do this?"

"She's my wife. I can do whatever I want."

"She's also a suffering human being."

Liam squinted his eyes and asked, "Did she put you up to this?" Curtis said"No! She would never. I wish she did."

"So why am I here?"

"I'm tired, Liam. I'm tired of saving her alone. And I'm here to tell you she deserves to be treated with love, respect, and delicacy."

Liam scoffed and said, "Looks like someone had a crush."

"You're disgusting. You have no idea what she has been through in her 10 years of living in that hell what I call my parents and a home."

"She's not that fragile, Curtis."

"She's just a little touch away to be shattered completely. Do you have any idea about the things she went through?"

"Now you're making that up to get me to treat her differently."

"No, I'm telling you this, so you can know her life and start treating her with love and respect that she deserves."

"What could possibly happen that makes her so fragile? That bitch is lucky to have me!"

"No, Liam. You're the lucky bastard that has her. Try getting raped every week by your uncle."

Liam pauses and looks taken back" What?"

"That's right. David raped her. Every week. For the past 5 fucking years until I found out and threatened to tell everyone. She's a girl that has been raped but never been kissed. You and David are the same. He stole her virginity and innocence. You stole her kiss. One thing that she saved for herself. She always saved her kiss for the right someone who she knew will make her happy and take away her misery. But you stole that happiness from her too at your wedding day."

Liam was angry.

He rested his back on the chair and said: "I don't fucking believe you, Curtis."

"I know you wouldn't but there is proof"

Liam's lashes rise up and he asked"Proof? What proof?"

"The scars"

"What scars? I haven't seen any scars."

"All over her body that she keeps covered because she fears David. She's afraid to the core and soon that is what's gonna break her"

"I still don't believe you, Curtis!"

"There are other marks of her being constantly hit by Tanya and Melissa, have you saw those?"

Liam stood up shouting"I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU!" Curtis stood up and said"You want proof? Go home and ask her. Go!" Liam drank the alcohol in one motion and marched out in anger. Confused between what to believe and what not.

When he reached home, he shouted"Emily!" He took off his jacket and folded up his sleeves. He again said"Emily!" But no response. He marched upstairs. Angry and confused.

He looked at her. She was buttoning up her shirt. She said, "You're early." He held her wrist and stood her in front of the mirror. He said, "Take off your shirt." Her eyes widened but he was a very impatient man.

He turned her around to himself and started unbuttoning her shirt. She held his hand and asked, "What are you doing?" He looked at her with anger and ordered: "Not a word." A tear fell from her eyes as she smelled the strong scent of alcohol from his mouth and she shivered saying"Please. Don't do this again. I'm sorry for disobeying you last night!"

She thought he was gonna punish her like that day again.

He kept unbuttoning in a hurry. He took off her shirt and stared at her back in the mirror. No bruises.

She was trembling, afraid. Her tears pouring down her cheek. He unhooked her bra and took that off as well. But again, no bruises.

He asked, "Emily, how do you take off the makeup?" She looked at him with eyes widened but remained quiet. Embarrassed to be standing half-naked in front of him. He shouted"Emily!" She flinched"How do you take off the makeup?!" She shivered"T-T-The remover."

"Where is it?"

"Above the bathroom sink."

He marched in the bathroom and bought a towel and the remover.

She covered her chest by wrapping herself with her arms. Looking down and crying.

He soaked the towel with the remover. She begged"Please. Don't do this. Just listen to me once. Please, Liam."

She cried but he ignored.

He lightly pulled her front closer to his chest and started rubbing the makeup off of her bareback. Looking at her back in the mirror as he rubbed the white towel against her skin. The white towel was turning brown as the cover came off.

As it came off, it revealed the old scars. She cried and cried for him to stop but he ignored.

He pushed her back lightly away from his chest and looked that her arms were still wrapped on her chest. He pulled her hand and started wiping the makeup off her chest then on her torso. He asked, "Are there more?" She remained quiet. He again said calmly"Are there any more, Emily?"

She closed her eyes and nodded. Her tear slipped on her cheek and his voice getting softer as he asked"Where?" She replied in a low whisper" Everywhere."

He unzipped her skirt from behind and let it fell on the floor.

The scars were everywhere.

On her chest, arms, legs, back, and even her neck. I linked my fingers into her hand and looked closely at the cuts. There were cuts, scratch marks, whip marks, and bite marks everywhere on her body. Even the fresh hickey I gave her.

Her tears still streaming down her cheek and I asked: "Why didn't you tell me?"

She looked at me as I saw her eyes glazed with tears" And say what? You wouldn't listen. The way you treated me all these months made me sure that you won't care. So it was no use." She shouted with her broken voice"You tried to rape me when you found out Ivan kissed me. You did not even believe me!"

She was right. I was ignorant.

I cupped her face and said"I'm sorry. I was drunk and I got angry. I thought that you were cheating on me. But you still could've tried telling me." She screamed"I've tried! So many damn times, Liam!" She rubbed the tears on her cheek "He threatened me. He told me to cover it till the day I die."

" I could've helped."

"I couldn't. I couldn't tell anyone or else they will come for me and kill me."

She was still crying. My eyes fall on her chest and she was heaving. A bite mark on her right breast, circling her nipple. I couldn't control my anger. Felt like I would explode any minute. I felt so sorry and guilty for the way I had treated her these past few months. Felt guilty, disgusted with me.

My body heated up as I thought what they did to her. I said, "Emily look at me." She looked at me with her eyes red and still glazed with tears like she was trying to hold them back again. I said"I'm sorry. I really am. I know what I've done to you, you will never forgive me. But I promise you this: I'll destroy them. For you. I'll destroy them all. You do not have to be afraid now."

There was this feeling inside of me. The need to protect her and love her. The need to be her shoulder. The need to hold her. And I did. I held her close to my body and wrapped my arms around her. Taking her small and fragile body in my embrace.

She held me tighter and cried her eyes out on my chest.

I walked towards the bed, didn't wanted to let her go. I pulled off the sheets of the bed and wrapped around her naked body. I pulled us down on the bed, sitting as I held her, she said: "Liam, I'm scared." In a low gentle voice, I said"Hey, I won't let them take you away from me. I won't. Ever."

I wanted to comfort her so badly. Like I wanted to take away all her pain.

The gentleness and softness in his voice, one that she had never heard before made her calm a little.

He lied down flat on the bed pulling her down too and again taking her in his embrace as she cried herself to sleep that day, he never let her go.

•••••

HE FINALLY KNOWS!

What do you think he will do next?

What do you think he will do to make her happy again?

What will he do to the Parkers now?

Keep on reading people!

Bye!

Love, Hope

♥️♥️

EDIT: Okay, so y'all know that I'm editing this story and honestly I try to read all the comments. and most of y'all are confused about age and everything. So here it goes. Emily's parents died the next day of her 15th birthday. And David adopted her when she was still 15 and started raping her too. so he raped for 5 years. meaning raped her from age 15 to 20. Curtis found out and he kind of made it stopped. Emily is currently 25 and Liam is at the end of his 20s and like the starting of 30s. I hope this all makes sense.