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Mimi cries harder and presses into me. I slip my arm around her and hold her. Hold her tight, so tight it’s probably too tight.
I don’t like her seeing this. Right now though… I can’t protect her from the gruesome sight. We’re in it. In the heart of it.
What the fuck happened here? How?
How did it happen? Vincent’s house is like a heavily guarded fortress. This looks like the enemy just walked in and eliminated everyone. These men are skilled. Aside from the men that guard my parents’ home these guys were the real deal.
This couldn’t have just happened.
The rat…
Had to be them.
Where is Vincent?
The sound of the baby crying gives me something. It’s not comfort though. Not in the least, and I know comfort will never come as I follow the sound to the kitchen and find Vincent on the kitchen floor holding Sorcha’s lifeless body.
There’s blood everywhere.
All over the floor and all over her and him. A hole in her head. A bullet hole.
Mimi screams and starts crying.
Vincent’s leaning against the metal door that leads into a safe room, built in the house so his wife and child can get away safely. It looks to me that only one of them got away. Sorcha must have put the baby inside the room and locked the door just in time, it opens from the inside. Upstairs in the attic is a code panel to unlock it from outside.
I crouch down next to Vincent and he shakes his head at me.
“I can’t fix her Salvatore. She’s not moving. She’s so… cold. I don’t know why she won’t move,” Vincent says, lips trembling.
I can’t be the hard man I’m supposed to be. I can’t break my brother’s heart and tell him why his wife will never move again.
I can’t do it.
A tear slides down my cheek and I shake my head.
“Vincent, we have to get Timothy out of the room,” I tell him.
“No… he should stay there. Safe. My baby should stay inside where I can keep him safe. They will kill him just like…” he stutters and then it’s like he realizes what’s actually happened when he looks down at his wife. He breaks down and starts crying harder.
I’ve never seen him cry like this before. Like a man who’s lost everything. Absolutely,everything.
The same love I saw in his eyes the other night is still there.
I can’t believe that was just days ago. It was just days ago that I was here playing uncle. I came here and she hugged me. I thought how good she looked after having a baby not that long ago. I thought how good she looked with my brother and how happy they were. The three of them as a family.
Now this.
I can’t even look at her properly. I can’t because this can’t be fucking real.
“Vin… Vincent…. Come on, I’ll make sure nothing happens to the baby. He needs you. Sorcha always cuddles him and comforts him. He needs you to do that for him now,” I tell him hoping he’ll listen.
“Salvatore, I couldn’t save her, my girl…. My babygirl.”
Another nerve strikes inside me.
Babygirl… yes. Of course she is. Just like mine is to me. The same way I’ve known mine forever, he’s known his girl forever too.
I don’t think of mine now though. I dare not. I won’t.
