Shattered Girl (Emmy)

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ok my time looking through the menus before settling on a Chinese place we all liked, and Drew placed our order. Since we had almost half an hoor before our food arrived, I decided to bring up a question that had been on my mind for a while. "So what do we do know?" I asked, addressing the question to everyone.

"What do you mean, baby girl? Josh asked.

"I mean, I'm safe from my father, so that problem has been taken care of, hut your dad and my mom are still missing. What do we do about that?" I Inoked at the four brothers. I knew they all loved their father, and I didn't want to sound uncaring because of my nonexistent relationship with my mother. At the same time, I wanted to escape this city and all its had memories; I wanted a life with all six of us, somewhere that we could all be happy. How did I say that without coming off and sounding heartless and uncating?

It turned out Drew had an answer. We are meeting with our family attorney, Mr. Shannon, later this week; he will know what steps we need to take After that we will continue with our plans like before. We are going to find a house for us, and as soon as we can, we will move there. I don't think any of us feel truly comfortable staying here especially with how easily you were taken. He paused, glancing at the other guys, who all nodded in agreement. "We want you safe, comfortable, and happy, and we will go wherever we need to accomplish that," The others nodded in agreement again, and I felt my eyes sting with unshed tears. They loved me enough to leave everything they built behind to ensure I was safe and happy.

"Sweetheart, why are you crying?" Jake asked, moving to pull me into a hug. All I could do was sniffle into his shoulder; it took me a few minutes to speak.

You are all willing to give up everything you have here to ensure I'm safe, but I can't let you do that. You have built so much here; I won't ask you to leave it all behind," I said with a trembling voice. "Love, we would do anything for you; if you want to leave the city, line, move to the other end of the country, great, wherever we need to go for us to be happy, we will," Patrick said firmly. "We will work it out," Mike promised.

"Besides, there were several houses we saw that we liked. After the meeting with Mr. Shannon, we will get serious about finding a place just for us." Jake promised, and I nodded.

"Thank you, all of you," I said, my voice still a little shaky. Before I could say anything else, all the guy's phones went off, and a computerized voice announced loudly that someone was approaching the front door. I jumped at the sound, my heart racing, and a squeak escaped my lips before I could stop it.

We forgot to warn you that we upgraded the security system," Drew said as he stood. Coming over to me, he tugged me from Jake's arms and wrapped me in his own, giving me a quick kiss before heading out to get the food. The smell of hot Chinese food made my stomach rumble again, but 1 ignored the teasing as I followed the others into the kitchen,

of food, and the guys were bickering about what movie to watch. My only contribution to the argument was to remind them of no horror movies. They finally settled on a superhero movie we had all watched before, and

occasionally glancing at me. I had a feeling they were plotting something, but I just shook my head and left them to it. I got drawn into the movie, and it wasn't until the

Em, can you come with us for a minute we wanted to show you something." lake asked with an innocent smile on his face. I glanced at Josh but

I promise." Josh said reaching for my hand. I let Josh

up

his neck, before looking over at

of them could answer jake was carrying me down the hall toward my room, with

my room kicking the door closed with his foot before following his brother over to my bed. "Come on you two whats going on? What did you want to show me?" I was very curious, but neither one of them was giving me the slightest hint

really, but you will probably

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it down

something we had thought

delivered while you were in the hospital so we set it aside to give to you when you came home." Jake