MC: Moniz: Book 9 (7 page)

Once they’re out I look at Aubrey. “What’s Christmas?” she asks. I think of the Senior Center with the kids and Santa. She nods. Shit.

“I need a beer. You need a drink?” She nods and I wonder about them eating. She shakes her head no. “You’re determined to freak me right the fuck out aren’t you?” She shakes her head no looking scared. Fuck. I push it away and carry her to the kitchen. I see we have some juice and pour two cups. She sits on the counter drinking her juice while I make sandwiches for her and her mom. “You like ham?” She shrugs. “Is that a yes or no?”

“I don’t know what that is,” she says looking at the meat in the bread. What the fuck does she eat? A flash of food on the bed hits me and I freeze. My hand loosens on the counter and I shake my head. Did she just do that? “Yes.”

Fuckin’ hell. Who do I call for help? She giggles and I hand her a piece of ham. She stuffs the whole thing in her mouth before I realize what she’s doing. “No!” I put my hand up and she ducks and starts coughing. “Spit it in my hand before you choke.” She looks at me and spits. Fuckin’ gross. I dump it and wash my hand. Taking another piece I rip it. “You take pieces so you don’t choke. Chew that and I’ll give you more.” She does, but is still looking scared. Since I can’t change that, I just make the sandwiches. She eats the whole piece. “You like ham?”

“Yes.” She’s looking at the sandwiches.

Since she tried to inhale ham I cut a sandwich in six pieces and the other in half. I get a bag of chips and a flat pan. I put everything on the pan and look down. “You need to follow me. I’ll spill the drinks all over the place if I try to do it with one hand.” She nods and follows me upstairs. On the stairs I feel her pulling on my pants. She’s using my pocket to pull herself up. I slow and wonder what we need to do to fix her foot.

In the office I see Marty is still typing. She looks at the screen and Brantley signs he has it. She’s sending the shit to Brantley? She looks at me with a smile. “You sent them everything?” She nods and her smile gets bigger. “Here eat.” She smiles big and my dick jumps. Jesus. I need to go to the Club like fuckin’ yesterday.

Aubrey is still behind me. I pull her around and sit her on my lap. “Eat one at a time so you don’t choke.” She turns away from her mom and starts eating. I open the chips and put some on her plate then give the bag to Marty. She signs, ‘thank you’ then stuffs half the sandwich in her mouth. It must be a family trait. I push her hand down. “Slow the fuck down before
you
choke.” She starts with the tears, but nods. I start typing to see what she sent to the kids. She’s got some payment confirmations and email addresses. Some pay in fuckin’ PayPal? Shit. She pulled IP addresses for at least fifty pussies.

Aubrey spits food all over my arm. “What the hell?” She’s wiping it out of her mouth breathing like a dog then tries to wipe her tongue on my arm. “Stop!” She freezes and looks at me with the tongue hanging out of her mouth. She’s got tears in her eyes and I’m thinking I’m never going to get through a whole fuckin’ night of this. Fire flashes in my head. “It’s burning?” She nods. I reach for her cup and take the bread from one of her sandwiches handing it to her after she takes a drink. “The bread will help.” I pull the bag of chips and look at it. Fuck. Fire is right they’re spicy nachos. I lift her standing and take her to the bathroom. I wash her hands and stand her up while I’m washing my arm. She’s got drool and chip bits all over my arm. She must have put more than one in her mouth. I hear her pissing in the toilet and turn toward the door. Jesus. “You go without men in the room.”

“Jess said I use the toilet when I need to go. Then wipe and wash my hands,” she says it like she’s proud of herself.

“Yeah. You do that when men are
not
in the room.” I’m wondering how she went before if this is new. I see a bottle on the floor. Fuck! “Stop doing that.” I hear the water and turn. She’s got soap all over her. “Look. One squirt.” I push the top once and put it down. We wash her hand for three minutes trying to get the soap off.

When I turn to get the towel Marty is standing watching. “She didn’t know not to go with me in here. I told her.” She nods, but looks sad. Fuck. I didn’t do anything but wash her damn hands. I grab the towel and wipe her hands. Her face is a mess from the chips. I lift her up and tell her to hold her breath. When she does I scoop water on her face cleaning the chip drool off. I wipe her up and put her down. “The chips left marks on your face. Don’t eat them again.”

Her eyes go big. “They was gross.”

“I won’t feed them to you again,” I tell her trying to keep from laughing. I stand and she stays behind me then climbs on my lap when I sit. I brought the towel to clean the chip mess but it’s gone. I look at Marty, “Thanks.” She nods. “Why don’t you tell me what happened to you?” I tell her pushing the keyboard toward her. “Drop it on a doc.” She nods. I look at Aubrey. “Aren’t you ready for bed yet kid?” She looks scared to death shaking her head no.

“You’re going to keep me?” she asks.

That’s a hell of a question. “For as long as you need me to. Yeah.”

“I sleep with you?”

My jaw clenches and I look away from her. Marty is watching with tears running. Fuckin’ men did this to a five year old. I wonder if she ever had normal. “No. You sleep in your own bed or with your mom.”

“I have a bed? Like before?”

The chain and manacle flash in my head. “No. You have a real bed. I’ll ask the old ladies to make you a room. It will be yours, no one sleeps in your bed but you.” I carry her into the room that Jess went in then I go to the other one. It’s pink everything. Fuck, Pepto-Bismol threw up in here. “This is your room. I sleep downstairs in my room.” I bring her downstairs and show her my room then back up to hers. As we pass it I tell her that’s where Marty is sleeping. She looks the other way. In her room I show her the bed with pink sheets and some stuffed animals the kids must have collected for her. I know the unicorn came from Harley because she carried it everywhere for a while there.

She looks around the bed. “No chains. You get up to use the toilet when you need it. You come to the office or downstairs to get me if you get scared. I’ll sit with you until you fall asleep.” She nods, but doesn’t look like she believes me. I put her down and she grabs my hand. “Let me get a chair so I can sit.” She lets me go and I find a chair in the other bedroom. While I’m carrying it toward the kid Marty stands at the office door. “I don’t want to sit on her bed.” She nods.

In the room I put the chair by the bed and sit. She watches me like I’m going to bolt. “What do you do if you have to go to the bathroom?”

She rolls her eyes. “Go.”

“And if you get scared?”

“Look for you in the office or your room. Do I go on your bed later?”

Her mouth on a dick flashes and I jump up holding my eyes. Fuck! “No! You never do that shit! Jesus!” She starts crying that she’s sorry. Fuckin’ hell. I probably scared the shit out of her. “Look kid. I didn’t mean to scare you.” I’m pacing back and forth. “Only bad men do that to kids. I’m not like that. Our Club helps kids–we don’t hurt them.” The doorbell rings and I’m hoping it’s someone to explain this shit to her. I start to walk out and she screams. Fuck that goes right through my head. I pick her up and carry her out. Marty is in the hall crying. God save me from fuckin’ tears. I hit the alarm and open the door to CJ with the twins. “Please tell me they can help, I can’t take anymore BJ flashes in my head.” Jeremy pulls on Aubrey’s leg. I put her down and they each take a hand walking her upstairs.

Jacob turns back. “He’s going to take what he can away Geek. She’s too little to have that he said. Little Ben is coming to help.”

I walk into the kitchen and pour a shot of Jack. “Sorry you have to go through that Geek. Christian told me. The boys and Little Ben are going to take care of her. It will help.”

“I hope to Christ you’re right. Pictures of dicks flashing in my fuckin’ head isn’t doing it for me.”

Marty comes running in the kitchen signing, ‘They climbed in her bed.’ I nod. “They’ll take what they can from her so she doesn’t have those memories,” CJ says.

‘She is safe with them?’ she asks me. I don’t fuckin’ blame her.

“Yeah. They are protectors. They won’t hurt her. Little Ben will be here too. He’s going to scare the shit out of you, but he’s a protector too. He’s the President of the Little Brothers he’ll make sure she gets all the help she needs.”

“He texted me and Jeremy. That’s how I knew to come here,” CJ tells her.

Marty nods and runs back toward the stairs. “The kid won’t even look at her. She thinks she’ll get hurt if she does. Said they hurt her–cutting her–so she can’t look at her.”

“Friggin sick bastards!” she yells.

“You think you could tone it down? I have a fuckin’ headache that won’t quit.”

She deflates. “Sorry Geek. Do you need me to stay?”

“No, Little Ben will be here he’ll know what to do.” She nods and turns toward the door. The alarm is a fuckin’ pain in the ass now that I have a revolving door.

I hear the bike before I see him so I wait at the door. CJ’s got a guard walking her home and Chet’s on the porch. I throw him chin and hit the alarm when Little Ben closes the door. I give him the numbers and climb the stairs. “I told her no man gets in her bed anymore.”

“Yeah. I saw the flashes. You scared the fuck out of her,” he says, but it isn’t mean, just matter of fact.

“I can live without the flashes.” Especially those.

“Jeremy will try to take that from her. It will help with most of it,” he says going right past Marty into the room. I follow him in. Signing, ‘Little Ben’. She nods but looks scared. If she saw the flashes she’d be screaming her fuckin’ head off.

I stand behind the chair, Little Ben is sitting holding her hand, Jeremy is holding her on his lap, and Jacob has her other hand. “I’m Little Ben, you’re one of mine now Aubrey. We protect what’s ours and tonight we protect you because you’re a Little Sister. We always protect our girls. While you sleep we’ll be right here making sure no one can hurt you. Believe in your Brothers, Aubrey.” She yawns and her eyes close.

Jeremy looks at me with tears on his face. “Like Diego.” I swallow and nod.

“Yes. We’ll take that for her Jeremy. She won’t remember most of it then we’ll protect her to make sure it never happens again,” Little Ben tells him.

Jeremy nods and kisses her head. Fuck. “I got this Geek. Find the pussies that did this.”

I walk out taking a deep breath. “Yeah.” Marty is like a fuckin’ ghost standing in the doorways. “She’s safe.” I tell her walking by.

I flip everything on and sign into Security. “Little Ben there?” VP asks.

“Yeah, where do you need me?”

At five-thirty I drag my ass across the hall. Little Ben has his head on the bed but still has Aubrey’s hand. Jeremy still has her on his lap and Jacob has his head on her legs. Marty’s asleep on the floor and I leave her. She needs to see they help not hurt. I see it’s all good and head down the stairs to fall into bed.

A scream wakes me up. I’m just up the stairs as Little Ben is coming down the hall with Aubrey in his arms. “It’s okay. Marty was trying to help her. She had clothes to dress her in.” I nod and hold my heart. “You look like shit Brother. Samantha is on her way. Aubrey will need you for that. I don’t want that on the kids.” He’s got the look of steel in his eyes.

“I planned on it.”

He nods. “I’ll get them fed. The old ladies will take care of the room and shit while you’re with her. Kate is coming for Marty.” I nod and head back down the stairs.

“Marty wrote what happened to her. When you’re done it’s a doc on my desktop.” I tell him at the bottom of the stairs.

Aubrey smiles at me and I bend kissing her head before I realize what the fuck I’m doing. Little Ben smiles. Fuck. I walk away and jump in the shower then dress as fast as I can. Not really looking forward to this, but I’m wanting it over so the kid isn’t dragging this shit into her new place here.

Coming out of my room I see Brothers heading upstairs with tools. I decide that I don’t want to know before coffee. As soon as I hit the kitchen my little cling-on comes running. “Harley is coming to play and she’s bringing her brother. They’re my friends and Little Ben said I can play after I see the doctor.”

“Sounds like a plan to me. I need coffee then you can tell me about the day.” She nods but doesn’t let my legs go. I lift her up shaking my head. “Coffee first.” She puts her head on my shoulder. Little Ben finds us funny. Since I don’t have my coffee, I don’t. He must have made the coffee so I can’t be too pissed at him. I drink a cup straight down and make another adding a splash of cream. When I sit he’s still smiling. “Don’t even start.”

He laughs. “I was going to tell you Kate has Marty. She’ll be back after the doctor’s appointment. Kate will start her with a therapist this morning. The appointment is at one.”

She won’t be back before two. “With Doc?”

“Another one of Mitch’s.” He shakes his head. “I think it’s the one Diego went to. After reading the doc I don’t see the point, but Kate wants to be sure.”

I think about that. “She’s a hacker. She was keeping everything in a file so she could get the cling-on back.”

He gets a serious look on his face then starts signing. ‘She doesn’t know Marty’s her mother. She doesn’t remember. Brantley went through the file. They’ve been selling her for over a year. All she knows is bad. Jeremy took some, but he was exhausted when he got here. He says it isn’t enough and he was crying again. I have concerns about that.’

‘I’ve never seen him cry. For some reason she’s affecting him more than the other things he sees. He helped with Diego. He kept telling me ‘like Diego’ when we got to Marty and again with Aubrey.’

‘I don’t know what to do. I want to help him deal with this but I don’t know where to get help with this one. CJ is nervous because Christian is shutting down and Jeremy is crying.’

Janelle is the parapsychologist we used for Tess and Christian but she’s so far removed she wouldn’t be any help now. Kate gets kids but doesn’t get all the vision shit. The kids have always been the best at answering for the others. ‘Ask him? At the worst you get nothing. Maybe Jacob knows. I know why he was crying the first time. Jacob was going to be taken and he couldn’t change that.’

‘There are times when I wish he could just talk. His head is in perpetual orbit.’

I look at him. ‘What do you mean?’

‘Everything moves so fast. He isn’t ever thinking of one thing or if he is it’s hidden under layers of shit.’ He looks frustrated. ‘I think he doesn’t talk because it all moves too fast. I don’t know how he gets through a day.’

‘Your dad catches for him maybe he knows.’

He laughs. ‘He’s almost as bad as Jeremy. I’m going to ask Danny. Maybe he can point me in the right direction.’

My head flashes with Aubrey a couple of years older. She’s laughing running in the sand. Jacob and Jeremy are chasing her laughing. “Holy fuck.” I look at her. “You need to cool it with the flashes.”

“Okay Geek. The men aren’t here for me right?”

I hold her tighter. “No one here is going to hurt you.” I’m talking to her but I’m looking at Little Ben.

He signs, ‘Jeremy will be back. Jacob said maybe later or tomorrow.’ I nod.

Danny comes in and my cling-on holds me tight. This has got to stop. “Aubrey this is my friend Danny. He helps make kids stronger. He has a bunch that he helps. You said Ally talked to you. This is her dad.”

She sits up and looks at him. “You know Ally?” He laughs. “She’s my daughter. I brought her today. She’s going to help watch you and Harley. Harley is my granddaughter, Blaze’s best friend, that means I’m her dad’s dad.”

She watches him make a coffee. When he sits she surprises us. “You don’t hurt kids you help them?”

He smiles and nods. “Every chance I get. I help anyone that can’t help themselves.”

She looks at Little Ben. “You help people too like you helped me so I could sleep?”

He nods. “We take care of our own. That means when you come to us you belong to us. We take care of you from then on. Remember what I said last night?”

“You always take care of your girls. I’m a your girls?”

Danny laughs. “Definitely one of ours.”

“That means we take care of you. We protect you and make sure you don’t ever see the bad people again.”

Faces flash through my fuckin’ head. Fuck! Little Ben grabs my arm. When she hits on a familiar face my breath catches. “Fuck!”

He squeezes my arm. “Keep it together Brother. You can take this for her. It will give her peace.”

I clench my jaw and breathe deep. I hope she lets them all out and want her to stop all at the same time.

The doorbell goes off and it stops the fuckin’ slideshow of pussies running through my head. Danny goes to the door and I’m trying to stop shaking and breathe. Little Ben takes Aubrey. “Take a minute Brother. Calm down and catch your breath. You’re needed for what she has next.”

“Right.” I walk out the garage door and punch the first wall I see. Fuckin’ bastards. I lean my head on the wall and breathe. She needs a better fuckin’ Brother than me. Why the hell is she stuck to me? I take a breath and push the anger away. I need to be there for her.

Walking back in I see Samantha sitting by Little Ben. He has Aubrey on his lap and it doesn’t look like she’s letting him go anytime soon. I sign a ‘hi’ to her, and she smiles while talking to me. She isn’t as clear as Darren, but I can understand her.

“We need a room where she can lie down,” she says but I think it’s for Aubrey.

I sign my room. I take my little cling-on and walk to the room and right into the closet. I pull a clean sheet and put it on the comforter then lay Aubrey on it. “Doc Sam needs to check you, she’ll be looking at your private parts, and I’ll hold your hand while she’s doing that. Yeah?”

“You won’t let her hurt me?”

“No baby, no body hurts you anymore. We take care of our girls just like Little Ben says.” She nods. I look at Samantha. “What do you need me to do?”

“I need her undressed and I’ll need to get swabs. You can hold her hand and keep her calm for that, she trusts you, which will help.”

I nod and help her get undressed leaving just her panties. I start walking to the bathroom and she cries, “No! You have to take care of me!”

I look at her she’s so damn small. I can’t get mad at her. “I am. I’m getting a towel to cover you. Boys aren’t supposed to see you undressed until you’re a grown up. You a grown up yet?”

“No.”

I nod and get the towel. I put it on her bottom half while Sam is watching the monitor she has for heart and blood pressure. She puts the stethoscope on and watches her breathe on the monitor. She checks every bit of her marking shit on her iPad. When she has Aubrey lay down I kneel and put my head near hers. “We got this right?” She looks scared but she nods. I tell her about the Little Brothers setting up the water park soon. She doesn’t know what it is so I explain it to her. She’s never been to a park. I tell her we have one right here on the compound and I’ll take her after dinner. She thinks this is the best day ever because she has a friend and she’s going to the park. She winces a couple of times, but doesn’t say a word about what Samantha is doing.

Samantha tells me I can dress her. She has tears in her eyes and I don’t want to know why. Everybody has tears lately and they’re connected to this kid. I need to do more than walk her to the play area. She’s only ever seen the room she was chained in. Once she’s dressed I have her help me put the sheet and towel away trying to avoid what’s next.

Little Ben knocks on the door. “Ally is here looking for you Aubrey.” He moves aside and Ally bends down to hug Aubrey.

Ally laughs. She’s so damn cute. “You are my new BFF. Let’s go see Harley, she is so excited to see you.” Aubrey looks at me so I nod it’s okay.

“You won’t leave?” She looks like she’s going to start crying again. Jesus.

“No baby, I’m staying here with you today.”

She takes Ally’s hand and walks out with that damn limp. “Did you notice the foot?” I ask Samantha.

“Yes. It’s been broken and healed wrong. That is not my biggest concern. She’s got scar tissue that will need to be fixed both vaginally and anal. A big man hurt her. She has fresh bruising and when I swabbed I pulled blood. She’s not healed from the latest abuse she’s lived through. Her head didn’t need stitches and looks to be healing already. Someone that knew what they were doing saw her.”

Little Ben signs, ‘Amanda.’

She nods. “She’s underweight for her age which you would expect. How does she eat?”

“Like an animal.” I tell her.

Little Ben nods. “The kids will help with that. It’s sad to say but we have experience with it.”

“My biggest concern is she doesn’t have a reference of normal. She was chained in a room. She’ll get winded easily until she builds up some muscle. She needs to eat right and gain some weight. Vitamins and plenty of milk need to be a staple for her. She’ll need to learn how to be a little girl and replace the bad memories with good. I’m so glad you found her. I’m surprised she latched onto you Geek, but thank God she did. I’ll let you know about the test results when I get them back later today. I’m checking for STDs. Try to keep her calm until she’s healed inside. I’d say about a week. If you see blood after a couple of days call me.”

She packs up her light and puts her things in her bag. “Do you have any questions?”

“I’m stuck on fuckin’ STDs and her bleeding.” I shake my head trying to clear it. “Do I need to get her anything for the bleeding? Do you give a kid pads and shit?”

“I’ll have Kate send something over for her. Her mom can explain it I’m going there now to see her. I’ll be doing the same thing for her.” She shakes her head.

“Aubrey won’t even look at her. What do I need to do?” I ask thinking I’m going to kill the little pussy. He’s one of them that did this. She looks at me like I’m nuts. “Aubrey hadn’t seen her since she was two. They had them separated. They started selling her last year. She knows nothing outside of the bed she was chained to. She doesn’t remember having a mom.”

“That is the saddest damn thing I have ever heard.” She closes her bag. “She’ll need liners because she’s so small. You peel the paper off and stick it to the center of her panties. Change it every couple of hours. She doesn’t seem phased by the blood it is normal for her so it won’t be a problem. Call me with your questions or concerns. It’s ten minutes for me to get here. Mitch has a doctor coming for her foot tomorrow. She’ll need to be at the Clinic for X-rays at ten.”

“Okay.” I have absolutely nothing to say. I want to hit someone so bad my hands are shaking. Samantha walks out the door and Little Ben follows her. As soon as they’re gone I close the door and try to breathe. ‘A big man hurt her.’ I punch the wall and pull my hand out of the sheetrock, then punch it again. I see the pussy’s face and know I’m going to kill him. I’m going to make sure he feels her pain and he knows her terror. Just like we did for Samantha, I’ll make sure he knows what that feels like. “She’s five.” I growl when my arms are pulled behind me. “Fuckin’ five years old!”

Danny turns me and grabs the back of my neck putting his head against mine. “You’re right. We can’t change what’s happened, but we can change what will. She
will
be protected and we
will
take care of her Geek. You are the biggest part of that. She trusts you above anyone else. We need you to keep it together. Little Ben told me about the pussy from the grocery. We’ll do that tonight. Little Ben can stay while we go take care of that. Right now you need to keep it together because there’s a scared five year old that is terrified you’re going to leave her.”

I look around. Fuck! “I got this,” I tell him trying to catch my breath.

“Go take the kids for a walk, let your Brothers deal with this. We got it; take care of your girl.”

I made a fuckin’ mess. Fuck. “Yeah, thanks Brother.”

“Let me clean your hands first Geek,” Little Ben says holding a towel and the first aid kit. I let him put band aids on and go find the kids.

Ally has them on the back patio. As soon as Aubrey sees me she’s on me. “You didn’t leave!” She has the biggest smile on her face.