Strip me Bare

Chapter 1 What do you do when your world becomes poisonous? What will you do to defend the one you love? In my case, anything, everything. When I fell in love, I never thought that the man I trusted would betray me and our son and try to get rid of the evidence. The evidence which included us. I was supposed to be in bed, but our son was not feeling well, so I was in his room tending to the fever. As soon as he was calm, and the fever had broken, I thought I'd go down to Romero’s' office and see if I could help with anything. I never thought that later on I would grab my son and our dog and run like hell. As I approached the office I could hear more than one voice. It was hers. The woman who came before me. My sister and my worst nightmare. " So when will you get rid of my sister and that mistake of hers," Elana asks. " Soon my love, it's taking longer than I thought it would to get her to sign over all the shares. As soon as she does, I will remove them both," Romero answers. I froze, so that's all we are. A meal ticket. You f*****g snake. I will make you pay. "You better. I have already asked Laura to start the poisoning from tomorrow for the little brat. It's slow, but he will be gone sooner than Rory. She will be blind with grief. Then we can go ahead with our plans, my love," Elana replies. I just stood there as they started kissing and moaning, thinking I need to leave NOW... I didn't hesitate. I ran upstairs, grabbed a suitcase in our room and started packing the essentials. When I was done, I went to my son's room and started packing everything I would need for him. As soon as I was done, I hid everything. I would leave as soon as they were asleep and no one could stop us. I am so grateful that I have my own bank account that he doesn't know about. I have an online tutoring job which pays quite well. I never wanted a cent from him. To me, it was dirty money, money earned from hurting others. That is not who I am. As I exit my son's room, I lock it so that Romero can't enter and take him. I will make sure he can't touch my son. It's almost midnight. Romero came back to our room almost an hour ago and is fast asleep. Nows our chance. I got out of bed and headed to Connor's room where I hid our bags and a change of clothes for me. There is only one vehicle in this mansion that belongs to me that not even Romero knows about because he just does not care, and that is my camper van. Thank goodness it's already stocked up with everything we would need. We were supposed to go camping in 2 weeks. Well, that's not going to happen anymore. After I changed and loaded all our stuff, I headed back upstairs to grab Conor. I didn't get far when I heard him, "What the hell are you doing, Rory?" I turned around at the base of the stairs and looked at him, cold and unforgiving," Why do you care Romero?" He was so confused, not quite understanding the fact that I had just given him an attitude which I had never done. His gaze turns deadly. " Oh, I care, especially when my wife is wearing jeans and a tank with sneakers and going to my son's room. It looks like she is running." Before I could react, he grabbed my arm and pulled me against his chest. "Where are you going, Cara Mia?" I didn't hesitate, I kneed him in his balls and ran for the stairs. I barely get up 3 steps when he lunges for me, taking me down with him. I struggle to get loose when he grabs my throat and asks in an even dealer voice," Where are you going, Rory?" I can't say a damn thing with his hand around my throat, but he shakes me and shouts, "ANSWER Me!!!" He finally lets go so I can answer. " I'm leaving so you can be with that w***e of a sister of mine. After all, you have already f****d her in every room in this house, or was that just talking smack?" His face goes ashen as he realizes I know more than I should. He lunges for me. There's a glint of silver and a blood-curdling scream. While he was so focused on my face, I was preparing to attack with the switchblade I had hidden in my jeans. He never saw it coming. I ran as fast as I could to Connor. He had woken up with all the noise and when he saw me and the blood he started to cry. "Connor, baby, look at mommy. I am okay, but we have to leave baby. Grab your slippers and your wolfie. Mommy will get Vira." As Connor and I were about to go to the door, Romero started banging on it, trying to get in. Shit... Thank goodness he didn't know everything about me. I turned and went to the balcony. Connors' room was right above the secret garage entrance, which Romero thought was a gym for me. A room he never entered. I grabbed the sheets from Connor's bed and tied them to the end of the balcony. "Connor. Look at mommy and listen. We are going to climb down but you g=have to hold on to me. Don't you dare let go, okay?" Connor just looked at me, but I could see the understanding in his eyes, the understanding that we need to leave now. I picked him up, and he clung to me like glue. I climbed over and took hold of the sheet and started to climb down. As soon as we reached the bottom, I heard the bedroom door shatter. Thank goodness we were already down. I opened the door to the garage and we snuck in. Vira, our Pitbull, will either sleep in the camper or in Connors' room. Thank goodness she chose tonight to still be in the camper. I grabbed tools that I would need, and my emergency kits as well. I needed to move faster. We were running out of time. I loaded Connor in and strapped him to the car seat I had built myself for the camper, and I started the engine. I didn't care about the dam door so rammed it. We had barely reached the front entrance of the estate when I saw Romero and his men standing in formation to stop us. It was split seconds, but in my heart and soul I knew we needed to leave to survive. I didn't stop. I drove straight through them all.