Chapter 2.

Kayden Miller's pov.

Everything happened so fast. In one second me and my parents were on our way home to the hotell from a business dinner my dad had to attend. The next we see a girl stubble on the sidewalk about to collapse.

Our driver stopped the car and me, mom and dad run out of the car towards her. I catch her right before she falls to the ground, and close her eyes. "Oh my god, what happened to her?" My mom asked in shock and almost on the verge of tears covering her mouth with her hands.

I carefully turn the tiny girl in my arms and see she have been beating pretty bad, dad checked her pulse "we need to take her to the hospital right away" he said sternly.

Dad carefully took her backpack off her, and I carefully picked up the girl and held her bridal style in my arms then walked fast over to the car, I got in and had her resting on my lap. This poor girl looks almost like skin and bones.

Mom checked her pockets to see if we could find an id of her while dad checked her backpack. Dad found her vallet then took out her id. "Okay I found it, let see if I can get a hold of her parents." he said started to tap on his phone.

"Wait, don't" I said almost frantic. Mom and dad both looked at me questionable, "why not Kayden?" Dad asked sternly raising one eyebrow. "What if they are the once who did this to her?" I asked looking down at the poor girl on my lap resting her head on my shoulder.

I do not want to send her back to someone that treat their kids like this. I look up to see both my mom and dad look at me with a sorry look on their face. "What?" I asked confused.

"It's not like you to care what happens to others!" Dad said with a small smile on his lips. I just closed my eyes for a second and internally rolled my eyes at them.

Not long after we reached a hospital. Dad talked to a doctor and explained how we came across this girl and how she passed out. Some other doctors came and wanted to pick the girl out of my arms but I didn't want to let her go!

"Sir, we need to get her checked out, please give her to me!" The doctor said looking down at the girl with a worried look. I looked down at her as well, for some reason I just didn't want to part with her!

"Son let them check her, we will wait here until we know more!" Dad said putting a hand on my shoulder and give me a light squeeze. I nodded and handed the doctor the girl.

I saw the doctor place her on a bed and then they started running down the hall with her to check her out then disappear though some doors. I just stood there looking at the doors the girl just was rushed through.

"Come on honey, let's sit down and wait. The police is also on their way and want to have a talk with us." Mom said putting an arm around me guiding me towards some chairs.

"Did you learned her name?" I whispered just looking at the floor in front of me. "Yes, son, her name is Talia Collins" dad said quietly sitting on one side of me and my mother on the other.

I just sat there switching looking between the floor in front of me and the door Talia was take through. Talia... What a sweet name to a sweet girl. "She is 17 years old" Dad said. "What? 17? she looks so small for her age!" mom gasped out covering her mouth.

After a little two police officers came into the hospital and a nurse by the reception desk pointed towards us and then the police officers walked over to us. "Are you the ones that brought in the girl?" One of the officers asked sternly.

Me, mom and Dad stood up and dad gave a stern look back and the officers started to look a little scared. "Yes, we did, and this is her id we found in her backpack." Dad said sternly giving the id to one of he officers.

One of the officer took the id and walked away a little then made a call. "Can you please tell us what happen?" The officer still standing with us asked. Dad and mom both explained everything how we came across Talia.

I just stood there looking at the door waiting for any news from the doctor. But I did listen to the conversation my parents and officer have. The other officer came back to us and cleared his throat.

"It's good thing you guys didn't call the parents. It have been a lot of complaints from neighbors around saying it's always a lot of shouting and stuff getting smashed around in that house.

"Oh my god" mom said cover her mouth. "We will stay here until we can talk to Talia as well, but can we be so rude to ask if you guys can stay here as well? Maybe it can help her a little!" one of the officers asked.

"Of course we can" I answered without talking to my parents. The officers then looked at my parents waiting for their answer. "Of course we can, it's nowhere we rather wanna be right now!" Mom said putting a hand on my shoulder.

We all said down again so did the officers, gonna wait till the doctors. I'm just lost in thoughts, how could someone do something like this to such a sweet and beautiful girl?

Like I'm not gonna say I'm a saint, I have both beaten up and killed people before, kinda come with the family business but I can never believe this girl have ever done anything to deserve this!

A little later the doctor came out and walked up to us. "Okay we have finished our check up on Talia, luckily she didn't need surgery, but she have 3 broken ribs, hairline fracture to her left arm and right femur, she is badly bruised all over and have a concussion, she have been starved for years" The doctor explained.

"Oh poor girl!" mom said with such a sad voice, I just stood there in shock. "She also have a lot of scars on her upper body, she have been abused for years" The doctor continues.

"She will be here for observation until we know she have recovered a little" The doctor said, "Can you take a blood sample? We need to do a DNA test to see if she have some other relatives she can live with if this is caused with her current home!" One of the officers asked the doctor.