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Marc Fontaine…
This situation has placed me right back in Mimi’s path. He’ll know that we were there tonight. We disposed of Porter’s body but it’s not enough.
Mimi will have a target on her back, separate to the fucking situation at hand.
Marc thinks she has the files. I have to find out what those files contain.
Experience tells me that when the sharks stop chasing their prey to look behind them, there’s a bigger threat. We just have to find out what that is.
But not tonight.
Tonight Mimi needs me.
I’ve taken her to my parents’ house. To my old room.
We’ve all moved out and moved on but our parents kept our rooms the same for situations like this when the family needs to stay together in one place for safety reasons.
We just came back. On the journey here Mimi didn’t say a word. She just cried, and cried. I was grateful for Gabe support with her because I don’t think I could have dealt with seeing her look so distressed by myself.
The next day passes with her like that. Grief stricken. It’s Ma who takes care of her while I’m out with the boys.
I return very late in the night , death on my hands again, dirty.
I find her sitting on the window bay waiting for me. She gets up when I walk in, worry on her face.
“Baby,” I say going over to her.
“Hi,” she mutters and reaches up to touch my face. “You’re hurt.” She observes me.
“Am I?” I don’t even know. One of the guys I was fighting earlier hit me with his gun so I guess it must have left a mark.
We went out tonight sticking to the plan to find the underground facility while Vincent looked deeper into the prospect of finding the files.
“Your cheek is bruised badly,” she breathes.
“Comes with the job.”
She holds my gaze. “I never said thank you. Thank you for last night,” she says and a tear trickles down her cheek. “Thank you for coming. Rescuing me…again.”
I gaze on at her.
“Of course I would come,” I tell her.
No one would know the panic that surged through me when Tony messaged me to let me know Mimi was in danger. It was luck that we were in the area, pure luck.
Mimi looks away from me and bites down hard on her lip. So hard I think she might break the soft skin.
Last night was a lot for anybody to process, I can’t imagine how she must feel.
I remember her mother. She didn’t deserve any of this shit.
“Babygirl,” I begin and she looks back to me with those beautiful eyes I love so much. It feels so good to have her here with me. I know I mustn’t indulge. I know I’m to do what I need to and not drag her in with me any deeper than necessary. It’s just hard. “I’m sorry about your mother.”
“Thank you… I’m … numb… I’m so numb. I don’t know what to think. Every time I think of what happened to her horrible images fill my mind.” She winces and tries to choke back tears. “Everything’s so bad. Mom just wanted to be a lawyer and she put her life on hold so she could take care of me.Marc Fontaine,Salvatore? Mom doesn’t know people like that.”
“I don’t think it happened that way. It seemed like chance or something along those lines.”
It’s fucked up. That’s what it is, and I’m trying to figure it out.
