A Famiglia Christmas by A.J. Daniels
Author:A.J. Daniels [Daniels, A.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-16T05:00:00+00:00
Chapter 8
Cooper
âCoop, Iâm scared,â Lil whines, shuffling closer to me.
âI know, Lil. Iâm going to get us out of here, okay?â I put an arm around her and pull her closer into my side, kissing the top of her head.
The room they stuck us in is cold and dark. Itâs so dark that I can barely see my hand in front of my face or Lil sitting beside me. When I tried feeling around earlier, it felt like there was nothing in the room except for the mattress on the floor we both woke up on. Thereâs one window up high on one of the walls but thereâs barely any light coming in from it.
âDo you think our dads are out there looking for us?â
âSure, they are, Lil. I bet theyâre searching the entire town for us right now,â I say, hoping I sound more convincing than I feel. I have no doubt that our dads will search high and low for us, but if they find us⦠thatâs another thing.
âCoop?â
âYeah?â
âIâm sorry you have to spend your birthday like this.â
âItâs okay, Lil. Iâm with you.â I give her another squeeze and lean my head back against the wall, ignoring the cold. Truth is, this isnât all that different from the birthdayâs I spent at home before the Ferraraâs adopted me and Cameron.
We lived in a shitty apartment above a whore house. We didn't have any heat and barely any food because our mom decided that feeding her addiction was more important than feeding her kids. Cameron was barely older than a newborn. I tried as best as I could to take care of him but, I was eight I didn't know anything about taking care of a baby. And then the Ministry of Children and Family Services came and took us away. The night we spent in the center was the first night I was warm in a very long time. And then Jessika and Alessandro came along and said they wanted to adopt us.
A smile tugs the corners of my lips. Iâm glad we have them. Iâm glad that Cameron will never know our birth mother or the way we lived before Jessika and Alessandro came into our lives. They are our parents. Theyâre mom and dad.
âCoop,â Lil whimpers, trying to crawl inside me by the way she plants herself into my side.
Iâm about to ask her whatâs wrong when I hear it. Footsteps bounding down the stairs above us and then shouting followed by loud pops.
âCooper,â Lil sobs, burying her nose into the side of my neck while I hold her close.
âLil,â I say, before taking a deep breath. âLiliana, I need you to listen to me, okay?â I pull away from her and grip the tops of her arms so that I have something to anchor me to her. âIâm going to distract them so that you can run.â
âNo,â she cries, her hands clutching the front of my sweater.
âYou can, Lil. You need to run and go find your dad or mine and tell them where I am.
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