Figuring It Out Part 2
Rian’s POV
(Trigger warning descriptions of rape and abuse.)
I sat up holding her tight. “Iz? Are you okay?” I was concerned.
“I just felt someone’s pain. It was so sharp and overwhelming. I feel nauseous. Excuse me,” she quickly got off me and the bed ran to the bathroom.
Everyone had stopped what they were doing when she yelped. The girls quickly went to her. Ian untied Shane.
“What’s going on?” Shane asked.
“I don’t know. She felt something or rather someone’s pain,” I said looking at them.
“It wasn’t me,” Patrick said.
“Not me either,” Ian said.
“Dude, I was in heaven!” Shane said.
I started to get up as she walked back out and cuddled with me. “Are you okay?”
“Yes, can you take me to our room please? I don’t think that I can walk,” she said softly.
As I lifted her, Amelia collapsed in pain. Isla started screaming. Then Zoe. Then Charlie. Then Taylor. We were all at a loss. We each grabbed our sexmates and carried them to our rooms.
Isla panting from the pain and sweating profusely. I didn’t want to leave her, but she needed water. I grabbed two bottles and Grams walked up to me. I looked at her and she nodded. She followed me into the room. She tended to Isla. All the grandmothers going to the girls.
“What is it?” I asked, concerned.
“It’s the pain of the other sister. The cursed one. She just felt the surge from all of your bonds. It’s overwhelming her and making her angry,” Grams wiped Isla’s brow.
“Shane’s curse has been lifted and he can now find his true mate,” Grams said. “This made the other cursed one’s pain worse. We can’t lift her curse because we don’t know who she is, but I suspect that I may know. I can’t be sure.”
“I nodded. Who do you think that it is?” I asked.
“Rebecca?” Isla sat up and asked. Grams nodded.
“Seriously?” I asked.
“If you have all the male sexmates, which is Charlie even though she’s a woman this time. Then you’ve awakened the bond between the girls now,” she explained.
“I know that I did. I was drawn to her whenever I felt rejected by Isla,” I said, seeing the pain in Isla’s eyes broke my heart.
“She’s my twin flame?” Isla asked.
“Yes, and your doppelgänger,” Grams admitted. The girls always looked similar and yet different. Isla’s dad was always fawning over Rebecca. “Your dad was not your real dad. He adopted you. Rebecca was also adopted by his twin brother. We don’t know what happened to your real parents. Just that, your dad knew your parents and Rebecca and you were some sort of payment that they owed Duncan and Deacon along with your fortunes. They we’re both monsters, who tortured and raped you girls. Though I didn’t know about Rebecca until you moved in with me.”
Isla started shaking and crying. I held her close. “I’ll leave you to check on the others and let them know that you’re okay.” Grams patted Isla’s hands.
“I’m sorry. I’m so sorry,” I whispered, rocking her, and kissing her head.
“I knew. Something told me. She was always so jealous. I felt drawn to her and kept her close,” she was whispering at this point. “He would tell me about the other little girl that he played with. He was so sick and twisted. It started out as caressing my private areas and showing me his private parts. My mother tried to stop him, which made him chain me up in his torture room. There he beat me and touched me. Then he made me watch him beat and rape my mother. I would fight and he would grin. ‘Keep fighting. I’ll beat the fire out of you,’ he would say. He didn’t rape me until the day that my mom died. ‘Now that you’re the woman of the house, I will show you what a man feels like and how to please him,’ he taunted. He raped me that day and every day after until Grams took me away. He called me a dirty tease. He was the worst kind of man.” She shuddered and I was ticked. Who would do those sadistic things to a child?
“Why are you telling me?” I asked, knowing how awful this was for her.
“Because Rebecca made comments that make me think that he did it to her too. He kept talking about another little girl who was better behaved and did as he said. If he did, I would feel terrible,” Isla said. “I never stopped him. His eyes would watch me naked from a young age and it unnerved me. When he raped me, he told me it was all my fault for being too sexy. Then every time after that it was that I was all his and I liked it, despite my screams asking him to stop.” She was shaking and tears streamed down her face.
I was shaking with fury. What the hell? She never deserved that. It’s a good thing that he’s dead. I would have killed him myself.
“It’s over now and I have gotten the help that I need. Now I have you,” she whispered, kissing me deeply. “I learned what not to do.”
“No one will ever hurt you again!” I proclaimed holding her tight.
Amelia rushed in crying and wrapping herself around us. “I’m so sorry.” She whimpered.
Zoe followed in a similar fashion and so did Taylor. All crying and hugging Isla. I let them have their space with her, but she pulled me into the hug.
“Sex is never supposed to be that way. Amelia said. Taylor and Zoe, yours should have never been either. I’m so sorry.” Amelia cried more.
“The past is the past. I just was given a raw deal and so were Zoe and Taylor,” Isla said.
Not wanting me to be left out Taylor said, “Zoe was beat in one of her relationships and I was also raped because I liked girls more.”
I nodded, my heart breaking. Charlie stood in the doorway the whole time watching. The other guys joined her.
I looked at Patrick and he mouthed “how do we help?” I shrugged without having an answer. They sat on the bed with us, and we all sat there quietly as the girls sobbed.
Eventually it was just Isla and I. “Let’s go shower and then we can grab some food.” She nodded.
After the shower I tucked her into the bed and went in search of food. I found Shane, Charlie, Patrick, and Ian doing the same. The grandmothers with them.
“She will feel it the most. She has had the most torture and has the deepest connection with Rebecca,” Grams said to me. I nodded.
“How do we help?” Ian asked.
“Just hold them and be there. They’ll tell you what they need,” his grandmother rubbed his shoulder. Gee-Gee was so sweet. She used to punish us for ruining her garden. I smiled at the memory. “You stay away from my garden, Rian!” She scolded me and I laughed.
“But Gee-Gee, you are so fun to tease,” I teased.
She wagged her finger at me, “I’m not too old to spank you.”
I wiggled my eyes at her, “I might like that now.”
She shook her head, “go fuck your sexmate! I’m too old for this shit!”
We all laughed.
When I got to the room Isla had put on a movie and fallen asleep. I climbed in next to her and pulled her into my arms and she snuggled in. “I love you,” she whispered and fell back asleep.
I turned off the TV and ate the food that I had brought before going to sleep myself.