The City Held Its Silence byIrel Knx 211

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211 A family broken 

“Are you the one who attacked my mum?” I then burst out asking him. 

I looked down at the food. Roast beef, potatoes, and some asparagus. 

My eyes widened in shock as I stared at Marco as well. Marco looked down at the floor in embarrassment. He didn’t say anything. 

“I expected it since you two were already familiar with one another. 

“Anyway, my dads really terrifying so dont do anything like yelling or shouting at him again. He doesn’t hit me but his punishments are horrible,” he said to me. 

“That’s much better,” my uncle complimented Marcos‘ eyes. 

We didn’t see him very often. And I only said ‘hello‘ a few times. 

“Are you two boys getting along so far?” he asked us as the servants came with good and okacec it on the table before us, 

“Yes, Uncle,” I said out loud. 

“I think he did something scary to my mother,” Marco told me. 

ANTHONY’S POV 

My eyes widened remembering he said his mother hadn’t returned after leaving the mansion. What had Uncle done? 

My uncle then paused, and a dark look appeared on his face I felt the hairs on my body stand. 

“Why did you attack us?” I asked him. 

I slowly picked up the fork with my hands still shaking and started eating. 

So you were pretending this whole time that you were my dad’s son?” I asked him. 

“Sit down, boys,” he then said to us. 

“Quiet in there it’s bedtime!” one of the bodyguards outside yelled. 

“Ah, so you remember me?” he asked me. “When was the last time you saw me? At your father’s birthday party?” 

He then laughed. “And if I am?” 

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“Scary things?” I repeated. 

“I suggest you eat Anthony because there won’t be a second dinner after this, and you will go to bed hungry,” he told me. 

Marco signaled for me to follow Uncle’s order. I followed Marco’s lead, and we sat next to each other at the table, 

A shiver went down my spine and my legs wanted me to run away from there. 

I suddenly felt a nudge in my ribs. I glanced at Marco, who was shaking his head, telling me not to speak. 

The servant then came away from Marco, and I looked at him and saw his eye color had changed. They were the same brown gold color as uncle’s. Tears were coming out of his eyes for some reason, and he wiped them away. 

“Yes,” Marco replied as he and Uncle began to eat. 

When Uncle finished eating he left first. Marco and I continued eating in silence. We were then prepared for bed by a maid and then went to our room. 

“That all depends on your father and whether he cooperates,” he told me. 

“She’s fine, and she’s with your father right now,” my uncle told me as he ate. 

“Does your Dad hit you too?” I then asked Marco as I continued to whisper scared the guards outside our room could hear us. He was really terrified of his father so I wondered if he beat him up like his mother did. 

Marco nodded. 

“Good boy,” he said to me. 

I thought about it for a moment. He had attacked my mother, beaten her up and kidnapped me. I believed Marco. His Dad did do scary things. 

Was Marco my…cousin? I tried to understand what was going on. 

“Because I wanted to take you,” he answered casually,” he said. 

“Cooperates with what?” I then asked, even more confused. 

“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you sooner,” Marco told me in a whisper as we stood in the middle of our room with his head down. “I didn’t know how to tell you.” 

“Use your words…” he spat out through gritted teeth. 

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“Anthony, I’m going to tell you this once and once only,” he started in a calm but terrifying voice. “If you want to have a pleasant experience whilst in the house, being quiet is your best friend. You speak when spoken to and you don’t talk back to me, understand?” 

“My dad told me to lie about it to my mother. He had put dye in my hair and made me wear the blue contacts,” he told me. “I’m sorry if I made you angry.” 

“What’s wrong, Anthony?” he asked me. “You look as if you’ve seen a ghost.” 

“Now eat your goddam food before I give you a punishment you won’t like!” 

“Uncle?” I asked in horror, staring at the man. His face was kind of similar to my Dad’s, but his hair and eyes were different. 

“It’s not poisoned,” he told me. “I need you alive.” 

I felt Marco flinch beside me. 

“Will I be able to go home?” I followed up. 

“Where is she? You hurt her!” 

My head slowly nodded. 

My eyes then met Marco that were looking in mine. Like he was waiting for me to say something. 

I slowly nodded my head. 

“I wasn’t angry just surprised,” I told him. Uncle was terrifying so I understood why he listened to him. It’s just this whole time I thought my father chose Marco because he was the perfect son who looked exactly like him. But it was all a lie this whole time… I didn’t know how to feel. 

As I looked into his gold eyes. Now I knew why he was acting strange all day. 

My hands 

Marco shook his head. “No,” he whispered back. “But I’ve seen him do scary things to people…” 

I think his name was Uncle Kol–something. I last saw him over a year ago, 

The rest of dinner was quiet as we ate. I was forcing myself to eat but I wasn’t hungry just wanted to go home to mum an Louis. 

I 

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He had also called Uncle, ‘Dad‘, just now. 

“My mum is probably looking for me right now! She’s going to stop you!” I snapped at 

him. 

He knew about us being friends at school? 

There was then a sharp knock at the door. 

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