Spade narrowed his eyes at her as she uttered those two words, waiting for her to say something else, but when she didn't, he took it upon himself to speak.

"How is that my business"? He asked blankly, and he heard Matteo growl out beside him

"Gio" he called warningly and Spade just sighed out

"Go on" he muttered, hating that Matteo was doing this to him, he didn't want to know if Nate was missing, for all he knows it might be a ploy by Nate and his sister, to have him running back to Nate, like a knight in shining armor.

"I think my father knows where he is" she added making him cock his brows at her in question

"I don't see your point" he said in a bored tone and Matteo groaned out again, making him just sigh out, already knowing what Matteo was trying to do and he hated that he had to listen to the blonde

The girl sighed out again, her eyes moving from Matteo to Spade "you still don't get it do you"? She asked, almost making him roll his eyes at her, she was actually the one that rolled her eyes at him, making his jaws to tick. "My father has been abusing Nate physically, for as long as I can remember" she finally let out, and this made Spade to frown, his whole body going stiff

"What do you mean your father has been abusing Nate"? He asked, not even recognising his own voice as he watched her sigh out

"My father has always wanted Nate to be a part of this life, this dangerous life of killing people, lying and cheating people off their money" she paused and looked at Matteo, the blonde had already heard part of the story, so it wasn't really a surprise to him, but Su hadn't told him the complete story. "As a kid, he would force Nate to accompany him to places, dragging him everyday with him at odd hours, and when my mother would ask him, he would say he was trying to mould him and turn him into a man" Spade's expression wasn't giving anything away, as he just stared at her with his eyes blank and his face bored, but inside, his brain was working, trying to figure out where this story was going, but deep down he already knew but didn't want to believe it was actually like that.

"Sometimes Nate would refuse and that's when the beating started, whenever he refused to go with our father, the man would beat him up, not minding that he was just a kid, and then lock him in our basement for days, sometimes a week, until my mother would beg for him to be let out" she explained, Spade clenched his jaw, he could feel Matteo's stare on him, but he was focused on the girl in front of him, he balled his hands into a fist, hearing what Nate's father had done to the young man "Sometimes it would get so bad that my father would beat him into unconsciousness, all because he wanted Nate to be like him, most times he always dragged Nate out in the middle of the night, he would come back bloodied and so would Nate, when I tried talking to Nate, he shut me out, bit by bit he shut everyone out, didn't speak unless it was necessary, he recoiled back into himself, became a shell of the bubbly kid I knew before then" her eyes were now glossy as her voice had a slight shake to it.

She sighed out and swallowed, making Spade to actually look at her and see the sadness in her green eyes "everyday it got worse, every night he went out with my father he got worse than the last, he would lock himself in his room for hours only coming out when my mother asked him to, and when I tried to ask him what he always did with my father, he wouldn't say, he'd just ignore me and wouldn't talk to me for the rest of the week"

Spade sighed out, his eyes twitching at the sides "then one day, a man started showing up at our house, my father never introduced him to any of us, except my mom and he told her the man was a friend of his, as at that time Nate was 10 going on 11" Her eyes moved from Spade and landed on Matteo who now looked surprise, because an hour ago, she didn't tell him this part

"At first the man would come and he would spend hours in my father's study and then leave, but as time went on, my father started leaving with him, and he always took Nate with him, my mom was never in support of it, but when she tried to speak, my father would beat her up and threaten her"

Spade ran his hands down his hair, he didn't like where this story was going, it was making him nervous and he hated feeling nervous, but he'd already started, so he might as well finish it.

His mind going back to when he just met Nate, how the young man always reacted around his father, and the way he always flinched whenever Spade made any sudden moves, even the way he was barely able to speak out.

He should have known, he should have fucking known that the young man had been abused as a kid He chewed on his inner cheek and listened to the girl in front of him as she continued speaking.

"One day it stopped, my father stopped going with this man, he just let the man take Nate whenever he came, of course my mom opposed again, but he told my mom that that man would do a better job of turning Nate into a man, whatever that meant" she chuckled lightly, before sniffing, there were no tears in her eyes, but they were glazed over and glossy, and her face was contorted in sadness as she spoke.

"I noticed the fear in Nate's eyes when this man started taking him, it was worse than the fear in his eyes when my father used to take him, it was more than just fear, it was terror and pain, and he stopped talking to me, he started keeping to himself more, he even stopped baking with my mom, he slowly pulled away from everyone, and it was strange why he would still be this way, when unlike my father, he never came home bloody whenever this man took him, but I should have known, even though I was only 14 years old, I should have seen it" she said taking in a shaky breath.

She looked down at her hands on her thighs, a single tear dropped and she wiped it off before looking back at Spade, who now had his heart in his throat, it was beating as he kept praying deep inside that it wasn't what he was thinking.

It shouldn't be what he was thinking, he pulled at his shirt, trying to stop the heat from overcoming him, he sighed out, hoping it'll help him. "Then one day, at night after the man dropped Nate off, I noticed something, I didn't ask him that night because I assumed he was tired and needed rest, so I waited until the next day when we were walking to school, I asked him why he was limping, probably he sprained an ankle or something, and I immediately noticed how he became nervous and scared, he quickly told me it was nothing and that he was fine, he made me promise that I wouldn't tell our mom, I didn't understand why, but I obliged because he rarely ever talked to me, and I felt the least I could do was help him with that and keep his secret" she sighed out again, as if trying to calm herself down.

Spade could almost see the tears in her eyes, and the pained look in them, he was hoping this story did end up going that direction, he could already feel the churning of his stomach, he had brought his hands out of his pocket now. "For a while, I stopped bugging him and we just lived like everything was okay, but everyday after school, this man would come and take Nate away, even when my father had traveled out, he would take Nate and bring him back at odd hours" she paused "this went on for a while until one day, after school, I stayed back for practice, I was part of the cheerleading team" she explained.

Spade could see why, he wasn't exactly blind to how beautiful and attractive she was, right from the first time he saw her, that was the one thing he noticed about her, she was almost beautifully flawless.

"Nate usually went home before me and my mom would pick me up after practice, but that faithful day she didn't, and I had to walk home on my own, when I got home, I didn't find anyone at home, no Nate, my mom either, my dad already travelled the previous day, so I was basically home alone"

She looked from Spade to Matteo, before she swallowed "Given that that man always took Nate whenever he was back from school, I didn't really see it as anything, I decided to go upstairs to change and find something to eat, but when I passed by Nate's room, his door was unlocked and slightly opened"

She took in a shaky breath as her eyes dropped another tears, she stopped talking while trying to calm herself down

Spade could already feel his cool draining from him, his throat was running dry, and his fingers dug into the palm of his hands, almost drawing blood. He prayed to whoever was listening that it wasn't what he was already thinking

Nate's sister looked up again and this time she looked calmer, as she swallowed "I looked inside and..." She paused again, finding it hard to complete her sentence, shutting her eyes, she willed herself and opened them again "I looked inside, and i saw him, I saw that man and... He.. had Nate bent over his bed while... While he raped my brother" she finished, before letting out a deep breath, her tears now dropping from each eyes and staining her cheeks

Spade felt his lips part as he let out a shaky, laboured almost inaudible breath, his clenched fists released themselves as he looked up, shutting his eyes He didn't want to believe what he was hearing, yes he was hearing right but he didn't want it to be true.

His heart was hammering in his chest as he felt his chest caved in, he could almost feel and hear his shallow breathing, he looked back down, and his own eyes held pain of their own.

He didn't know how he was feeling, or what he was feeling. He didn't know if it was pain or agony, but he knew it felt as if he was being stabbed in the heart.

"I couldn't do anything, I just stood there and watched while he molested my brother, I could see the pain in Nate's eyes and the sadness on his face but I couldn't take it away, and in that moment I realized why he was the way he was, this man had been sexually abusing him" she voiced out, almost a whisper and a croak.

"When he was done, I heard him tell Nate that no one should know about it because if he ever told anyone then that man would kill me and my mom" she shakily voiced out.

Spade wanted to drown out the rest of her words but he couldn't, he wanted to hear it all. All this time he kept wondering why Nate was the way he was when they first met, the lost look in his eyes, the way he rarely ever spoke up, it was all because of this.

Spade couldn't even hear himself breath again "I tried to ask him about it after that day, but he ignored me again, of course I didn't let him know I knew what was happening, but he still shut me out and after that, I wanted to tell my father but I was scared he wouldn't believe me, and my mom, if she knew something like that, it would break her heart, so I kept it in and hoped one day, my mom or my dad would catch him doing this to Nate" she paused again.

She was no longer crying, but her voice was still shaky and she kept fiddling with her fingers, something Spade noticed, he noticed because Nate used to do it all the time

Now he knew why Nate was always so nervous, and why it took him so long to let Spade in, he took in a deep shaky breath, he felt his legs almost giving up beneath him, but he had to keep calm.

He clenched his jaw "and then one day, as usual I got held back at school for practice, but this time my mom came to pick me up, she brought me home, but the moment we entered into the compound, we noticed that man's car parked in the driveway, my mom and I exchanged looks, but I knew she didn't know what I knew, but she never really liked the man, so she asked me to wait for her in the car while she go check out what he was doing here, and probably stop him from taking Nate again" Su stopped as she looked at both of them

Spade had pain written all over his face, and maybe she was just seeing this but Matteo's eyes were a bit glossy, and his jaws was clenched hard

"I waited for her, and prayed that she caught him doing that to Nate, and stop it, but after a few minutes I didn't see her come out, and I didn't see him come out either so I decided to follow behind her, I stopped in front of the door and peeped through the keyhole and that's when I saw it, I didn't know what they were talking about, or what my mom had said before I came but he slit her throat, his hands and knife were covered in blood, he killed my mother" she finished with her voice trembling.

This was it for Spade, he so badly wanted to throw up, bile rose up his throat, he still hadn't looked at Matteo, he couldn't look at Matteo, not after what they both just heard.

They all just stayed there, each one with different thoughts going through their minds, Spade was killing himself and Matteo was finding it hard to swallow what he just heard, and Su was reliving one of the worst moments of her life

She finally sighed out, before looking at Spade, whose expression was now more open and transparent than when she'd just started talking. He looked more in pain than before and his eyes showed just how much thought he was deep in. "That man, he stopped coming to our place after that day, and when my dad came home after what happened, he blamed Nate for what happened and he locked him in the basement for three weeks, we never got to talk about what happened, and I never got to tell him that I knew what had happened and that I knew what that man did to him, and to my mom" she finished.

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