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Gabe takesmy hand to lead me inside so he can close the door.
“Talk - tell me what is going on.”
I nod and pull in a deep breath. “Antonio… I know who killed him. It’s Tobias Antonella. I saw him today.”
I don’t know what should worry me more. The situation or the fact that Gabe looks as freaked as my family did when I mentioned Tobias’s name.
“Charlotte…Are… you sure it’s him?” He narrows his eyes and his thick brows furrow. “The Antonellas aren’t usually involved with the De Luccas.”
“It’s him. He…” I blink back tears and rest my hand on my heart to hold it all in.
He places his hands on my shoulders and steadies me. This is the part where I have to dive in deeper and tell him what no one else knows.
“He was a client of Antonio’s. He paid just like the others did to sleep with me …” No, I stop. Why make it sound like he just slept with me. That’s not what happened. “He raped me over and over again. Just like the others. He was just the worst.” I feel so dirty as I say the words. I feel vile. The same vileness I accused Tobias of.
Gabe’s face now is different.
First the blood drains from his cheeks and then it’s like I watch it rush back to his face.
He drops his hands from my shoulders and they hang like deadweights at his sides.
His eyes flat and wide, blaze with darkness.
The darkness I never wanted to see in him.
DarknessI told myself never existed in him because he was so willing to listen to me as a girl read my poetry.
The soulless darkness is there now. It’s there in full bloom and his face contorts into a hard scowl.
“What the fuck are you saying to me Charlotte?” he demands.
“Please… don’t make me say it again. It feels like a nightmare I lived and I don’t want to remember. I don’t want to remember. I had to do it to keep people alive. It all started from the time I was taken. I suffered for years.”
As soon as I say that he growls loud like a feral animal, pulls his guns out and I scream.
I just scream, rush to the corner by the bookshelf and sink to my knees cowering as he whirls around and starts shooting up the glass on the far side of the room.
He shoots and roars like some ferocious hell beast and I cry.
He only stops when the bullets run out, but only to walk over to a cabinet and retrieve more guns.
He rushes back to me and crouches down.
“What does he want? Tobias? What. Does. He. Want?”
“Me...”
He blows out a hard breath and his eyes flash open wider, blazing with fire. “You?”
“He… made a sex tape, he’ll show it to the school if I don’t go to him. I won’t be able to teach ever again.”
He seethes baring his teeth and the vein on the side of his neck bulges. “We’ll see about that.” It’s like he’s borrowed Tobias’s words.
Gabe barrels ahead, torpedoing through the door and I get myself up because I know if I don’t stop him he’s going to get himself killed in the blind rage that fuels him.
Stupid me again…
What did I think was going to happen by coming here to him?
