Chapter 33

The twins are awakened around 3am to Allie shaking and sweating while she’s screaming out in her sleep, “No please. I didn’t mean to. Please. No, it hurts. Ouch. Please stop. It hurts.”

“Baby.” Liam says in her ear.

“Baby you have to wake up.” Josh says a little louder.

“NO NOT THAT. PLEASE I DIDN’T MEAN TO TOUCH IT.” She screams as she shakes violently in the bed.

“ALLIE WAKE UP LOVE.” Liam yells as he is over the top of her and Josh is running his hands through her hair.

“Baby please wake up. You are safe my love.” Josh says softly in her ear.

She screams again in pain and sits upright as her eyes shoot open.

The twins wrap her up in their arms and rock her saying soft words in her ear. She is crying uncontrollably and shaking still holding onto Liam for dear life as he is in front of her. Josh has his arms snaked around her waist and his chest pressed up against her back.

They are both kissing her neck and shoulders as they say soothing words in her ear trying to calm her down.

“I-I’m….so….sorry….I…had…a…bad…dream.” Allie says through her sobs.

“Baby, it’s okay. There is nothing to be sorry about.” Liam says softly.

“We are here for you. You don’t have to go through anything alone ever again baby.” Josh says as he kisses the side of her head.

She smiles and allows her body to melt between her mates. They hold her up as her body is trying to fall and give out back to her past.

“Would it help if you talk through what your dream was?” Liam asks sweetly.

She just sits there lost in thought and their arms. “Baby it probably would. Maybe get it out of your head.” Josh says as he squeezes her tighter.

Allie can feel their muscles and big rough hands wrapped around her and she can’t help but feel the love and the overwhelming sense of being safe. She has never had this feeling ever that she remembers in her past.

“I was about nine maybe. I don’t remember for sure my childhood all runs together. Anyway, it was my night to sleep and I had gone to my normal room that I shared with the maids but I wasn’t paying attention and laid down on the wrong bed.

By the time I realized it, I was outside stripped and being whipped with chains and belts by the maids. Then my father, mother, and brothers came and punched and kicked me until I passed out. When I woke up, I was strung up in a tree. The maids wiped me again until my back bones were poking out.”

She breaks down again and Josh realizes that they have seen her naked but never paid attention to her scars. They didn’t care about any scars but with what he just heard they both realized there needed to be revenge taken.

Josh pulls his arms away and pulls Liam’s arms off her back. The scars that are on her back take his breath away.

He runs his fingers over them and it causes Allie to gasp. “I’m sorry. They are so ugly.”

“Baby they are not ugly. You are beautiful even with them.” Josh says as he traces her scars.

“Will you show us all of them?” Liam asks as he looks her in the eyes.

Allie looks at him but looks down. “I don’t want you to see how ugly I am.”

“Please, just humor me.” Liam says with a smile. “And you are anything but ugly.”

“We want to know what we need to inflict on these people for what they have done to you.” Josh says with a chuckle.

She looks to Josh over her shoulder. “Are you both sure?”

“We are sure.”

“Okay don’t say I didn’t warn you then. I need to get something out of the bathroom to wipe this off then.”

“Wipe what off?” Liam asks. Concern written all over his face.