Chapter 11

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"Max?" Kate said, in shock. He looked back at her, his cold gaze immediately softening.

He rushed to her.
"You called." He said, hugging her tightly.

She called him by mistake.

"If I see you ever again, you're dead." They heard Evvie grit.

Max walked over to them, stalking towards Jerry. He grabbed his collar and made him stand up.

"And I will follow through what she said." He gritted in his face, glaring at the guy. With one final punch, which made him fall down and groan, Max took both the girls' hands in his and started walking back to the cafeteria.

"Are you okay?" He asked, as both of them nodded.

"Oh God! What happened?" Jenna rushed towards them. She made them sit down and looked over at Evvie's lips, blood on side.

Before they could freak out, Evvie wiped it off with the back of her hand, saying,
"I'm good."

Max rolled his eyes and tended to her injury, dipping a cloth in cold water and wiping the blood away.

"Are you okay?" Evvie asked Kate, when Max stepped back, still concerned about the injury.

"Yeah." She said back, not maintaining eye contact.

"Did he hurt you before?" Max asked.

"N-No." Kate stuttered, shaking her head.

"You're lying." Max and Evvie said together.

"He's dead." Evvie gritted, standing up again.

"Your guards were there." Max said, putting a hand on her shoulder and pushing her down to sit down again.
"They handled it."

Evelina's POV.

Max wanted to know, everything that happened with Jerry, while Kate was in a relationship with him. We knew something was bad about that guy.

I saw Oliver rushing over to us.
"What happened?" I asked.

"Boss wants you home." He said, making me groan.

"Let's go." I said, sighing. I looked down at my hand to see it bruising already.

"Are you okay?"

That's the first thing I heard as I entered the house.

It wasn't Will or Leo or any of the caring soft brothers.

It was Elonzo.

"Yeah." I smiled, before he put his hand forward, silently asking me to show my knuckles.

"Guess I'm in trouble?" I said, showing him my hands. His jaw clenched while looking at my hand.

"Maybe." He said, before asking, "Where's Kate?"

"Here." Kate said, entering behind me.

"Are you okay? He didn't hurt you, did he?" Elonzo asked, moving towards her.

I was engulfed in a hug by all of my brothers, before they started interrogating Kate about it. Making sure she was okay.

"I'm okay, I swear. Evvie came to the rescue." She said, smiling at me.

"Ok. Did you eat?" Will asked us as we nodded.

I led Kate to my room as Max followed, as if reading my mind and knowing he had to be involved in the conversation.

Kate sat down on the bed, while we stood before her, towering over her, our arms crossed.

"Did he abuse you while you were together?" I asked, coming straight to point.

She looked away and nodded.

"More than once?" I asked. She nodded.

"And you didn't dump that trashcan, the first time he hit you?" Max asked, his jaw clenched.

She shook her head this time.

"Why?" I asked.

"I don't know. I thought I loved him and living without him seemed like an impossible task." She mumbled, not making eye contact with them.

"You didn't try to tell anyone?" Max asked, a frown on his face.

"No. I tried telling Mum, but she didn't listen to me. She waved me off and didn't even hear what I was saying." She said, as tears filled her eyes.

Her parents were ignorant, never paid attention to her.

"They're so hearing something very colorful from me." I said, gritting my teeth.

Her parents were the reason we didn't make many memories together. They never allowed her to go out with friends. After I moved in with my Dad, she threatened them in his name. They also run a business and couldn't turn the most successful businessman against them.

"You should've told us." Max muttered, looking at her sadly.

"I don't know what I was doing." She said, as her voice started cracking. She suddenly stood up and hugged me, sobbing her heart out. Max stood there for a second then wrapped his arms around both of us.

"I'm sorry." Kate said.

"Don't worry. We're glad you guys broke up. But don't think, he's going to get away with everything." Max said, gritting his teeth at the end.

"Elonzo got him. I'm sure he's going to go though one hell of a trauma." I said, chuckling.

A phone rang.

"Mom." Kate said, looking at the caller ID.

"Give it to me." Max said and snatched the phone before she could protest.

"Yes?" He said, rudely. I put my ear to the phone.

"You? Why do you have my daughter's phone? Where is she? I don't even know why she is friends with scum like you." The lady said.

This witch.

"If she can live with scum, she can be friends with them too." I gritted, making Max stifle a laugh.

I know they are Kate's parents and we are deliberately disrespecting them, but they are mean to everyone, including her. So, she turned ignorant too. She simply ignores it when we disrespect them, which is rare, may I add.

"WHO WAS THAT?" She roared.

"That was Evelina Romano. Ms. Romano for you. Stephan Romano's daughter?" Max smirked. "Here. Talk to her."

"N-No. It's okay." She muttered.

"Well, Mrs. Johnson, Kate is staying at my house tonight. She will come home tomorrow and if I find out you were mean to her or you called us any names, I'll make sure you're ruined, your business will be ruined. Have a nice day." I said and hung up without giving her time to react.

"Here." I passed the phone to Kate. "I'm sorry, but I can't tolerate them being so mean and ignorant to you."

"Don't worry. I'll turn deaf, when you disrespect them, just as they turn deaf when it comes to me. Besides, you guys and your families have been more of my parents till now." She said, shrugging, chuckling a little.

"We're home." We heard someone yell.

"Let's go." I said, as we went downstairs. Kate stayed back to remove the ruined makeup and freshen up.

I entered the living room and almost shrieked my oesophagus out.
All of the cousins were there.

"What? Can't we visit you now?" That's the first thing we heard.
That was Austin.

"No. Get out." Luciano said.

"No one asked you, grumpy." David said.

"You can come here anytime. But inform me first. Let us prepare for the chaos." Elonzo said, rubbing his temples.

"Woah. Hey, losers. Didn't see you in a while. It was peaceful, honestly." I said, walking in.

"Oh yeah? But I missed you little sister. Come here." James said, grabbing my arm and pulling me into a hug, my face squished in his chest, so all of my protests and threats came out as a blubber.

"What?" He asked, pulling away a little, smirking down at me.

"We meet at school everyday, you filthy little mothertrucking monkey." I said, glaring at him. "Now, let me go."

"No." He smirked, before pulling me into the face squishing hug again.

"I swear James, if you don't let me go right now." I threatened, but it wasn't understandable.

"Okay. Get away from her." I heard Matteo say, before James was pushed away and I was pulled into a gentle and a 'not face squishing' hug.

"How are you?" He asked, looking down at me.

"Great, as always." I said, smiling cheekily at him.

"Okay. Kids. Leave her alone." Drake said, as he came forward and practically snatched me away from Matteo and into his hug.

What the truck is up with them today?

"You all are acting too sweet today. I mean you are always like this but today you are being extra." I pointed out.

"Is it because she is giving more attention to her boyfriend? Are you jealous? Awww... You're not getting enough attention?" Max said and started laughing.

He's quite daring, because saying that to twenty five of them and then being unfazed by twenty five glares is a big thing.

"Shut up." Diego grumbled.

"He's not her boyfriend. Don't use that word for him." Emiliano said looking disgusted.

"Seriously?" I scowled.

"Yes." Vincenzo said, raising an eyebrow.

"Ugh. Oldies." I groaned, rolling my eyes.

Then I was passed from brother to brother, for a hug, like a toy.

"Ugh. Where's Grandpa?" I asked, already tired after hugging all of them.

There are so many of us Romanos. Its not a family. Its a whole freaking country.

"He's gone to Italy with Dad and uncles, for business." Elonzo answered.

"Why does Grandpa have to work?" I whined.

"Because he feels young." Xander rolled his eyes. "He said, he's too young to get retired."

"That he is." I said, with a thoughtful look on my face as all of my brothers, looked at me ridiculously.

"Where's my twin?" I asked, suddenly missing him.

"Here." Nathan said, already opening his arms, for a hug.

I jumped towards him.

"What? I'm her twin." He said, chuckling as the other brothers who looked at him with jealousy.

"Yeah." I said, as I hugged Nathan tight.

"So, if I ask you if I could get a hug, you'll still stay there?" Elonzo asked.

I don't want to answer that.

"That's an out of syllabus question." I said, wisely, then chuckling nervously.

He just shook his head and looked at us adoringly.

"Wait. I'm calling Zack." I said. All of my friends were here, so why not?

"No."

Twenty four NOs. Everyone except Nathan.

"Can't you just spend time with your brothers?" Ace said.

"No? I see your ugly faces every other day." I said, shrugging. "But I don't get to see my baby's handsome face that often."

Thank goodness, Zack is not here. He would have thrown up about a hundred times.

"Ewwww...." A chorus of heavy voices.

"Can we keep the disgusting things unsaid?" David said, faking a gag.

"You refer to him like that again and see how I glue you to the corner." Vincenzo warned as the Oldies nodded.

"Or how I punch you and your baby to two different planets." Luciano said, with a scowl on his face.

"What? Why are you so bothered by that? Aww.. My baby must be missing me." I said, but stopped when I saw shadows loom over me.

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Ew. Even I am not used to her referring to Zack like that.
Haha. Joking.

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