Black Romance Chapter 60

"No," I said, cutting the air with my hand and throwing my finger at Virgo . "He's the one who set the ball in motion, he was the mastermind behind that entire fucking day . My father didn't want to do it, but Virgo wouldn't let it go . "

"Why didn't you tell me? How could you not tell me?" Tears spilled effortlessly down her cheeks . She looked so lost, so afraid, so crushed . It was like all the emotions she had been holding onto suddenly floated to the surface .

"I didn't know that it was you and your family, Jessie, not at first . " Taking another step in, I tried to reach for her .

AdvertisementI wanted to hold her, secure her in my arms and let her cry until she couldn't cry anymore . My fingers ached to brush her hair, my tongue tingled to whisper soothing words in her ear .

Holding my arm out, I inched closer . And that's when it happened, that's when I saw the look, the same look I had seen on my mother . Hate .

Swatting my hand away, she kept moving deeper into the room, staying out of reach . "When did you know? When did you realize it?"

Laughing, Virgo leaned against the table . He didn't seem phased that I had just gotten out of his trap, it was almost as if he expected it anyway .

"Tell her more, tell her the truth . You want to play the good guy, but we both know that's bullshit . Tell her how your father gave her sister and brother away, how he was the man who brought her to me . Tell her how your father hunted hers down like a fucking animal . How he cornered him and slit his throat, and how he loved every second watching him beg for his life . . " Pausing, he lifted his hand to his lips and grinned happily . "Tell her how you were there . "

"Oh my God," she groaned, clawing at her throat . "I can't breathe, I can't breathe . " Her lungs lifted and fell with labored urgency as her face went pale gray . "I can't see, I can't breathe . " Tumbling backward on shaky legs, Jessie shut her eyes, trying desperately to not pass out as she planted a palm on the wall .

I wanted to run to her, I was ready to do what she wanted me to all along and whisk her away from all of this pain .

But the anger inside had reached its boiling point . I felt numb from head to toe as the adrenaline surged through my muscles, releasing the monster that lived inside me .

I honestly didn't know it was her at first . But when she said her full name it all came rushing back .

Memories of that day flooded my head . I was still new, only turning eighteen a month before . It was my second job with my father and his crew, and I was just doing what he told me to . There were no real details, just that we were looking for a single man who owed a lot of money .

My role was to check the house, to go in and see if that guy was there . If he was, my father wanted me to bring him out . I wasn't allowed to kill him, because our client wanted him alive . But the house was empty . Her father had gone into hiding, abandoning his family, not realizing the true danger he had put them in until it was too late .

It all happened so fast and was done before I could even stop my father . I never expected him to kill the woman or take the kids . I only knew the information that he gave me .

But who I was to against my father?

I remembered when we got home that day and the look of disappointment on his face as he realized what he had done . And I remembered the blindfolded little girl that was sitting in the backseat of his car .

I never knew what happened to that little girl, or where the other two kids ended up, and I never asked . It wasn't until Jessie told me her full name that I was able to put two and two together .

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