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“Fuck you. This is between me and your sister.” I hear him come closer and will him silently to not come any closer, he doesn’t. “Gucci, look at me, please.” The broken tone of his voice is the only reason I give in and slowly turn to face him. He stands in the middle of the room with my brothers at his back, it’s then I notice he only stopped coming for me because Koby and Kiara stepped forward ready to stop him. His eyes implore me to listen but my heart is broken and I don’t think I can hear him admit to me that I was just a pawn to be played.
“If you hurt her, I will gut you myself and send pieces of you back to your father. But, I’ll keep your fingers to hang from the mobile I’ll hang over my kid’s crib so they know what happens to people who hurt the ones I care for.” Vin’s face scrunches in disgust. Knight begins to laugh behind him and wink at his girl… Koby is one badass that I am glad is on my side.
“I never wanted to hurt her––” I cut Vin off ,unable to stand here and listen to his lies.
“But you did! You’ve been here the whole fucking time, Vincent. I’ve been dying inside daily picturing the horrors you must have been going through at the hands of my own brother.” He at least has the decency to look sheepish. “I fucking begged him to tell me where you were. I-I begged all of them to help me find you and this whole time you’ve been here doing… what?” I’m shouting now, feeling the remnants of my tears flowing down my cheeks, but ignore them. Vin darts his tongue out to moisten his lips and shoves his hands in his pockets.
“I’ve been working with them,” he says softly. Movement out of the corner of my eye catches my attention and that’s when I spot Luka, Mav and other guys that work for my family slowly coming out of a room in the back. I focus back on Vin and disgust rolls through me.
“So, that was the plan, huh?” His forehead creases in confusion. “You seduce me, get me to fall for you and hey, why not fuck me as well while you waited for your in with my brother?” King, Knight and Bishop both mutter beneath their breaths but I ignore them, they aren’t stupid enough to believe we weren’t sleeping together. Vincent’s eyes widen in horror, he takes another forward but the girls block him again, earning a growl from him.
“I never fucking used you, Gucci. I told you I would never lie to you ever. I have kept true to my word––”
“Bullshit!” I scream. Vin moves until he is standing in front of Kiara and Koby.
“Move,” he growls.
“Not happening,” Kiara grits out.
“Touch either of them and the deal is off,” Bishop snaps. I look to my brother and that’s when I see it in his eyes. He made a deal with Vincent and that’s why he’s here willingly. I shake my head in disgust that my own brother could do this to me. I look back to Vincent. As a sob breaks free, his face crumbles in pain at the sight of me.
“You made a deal with my brother?” I hiccup, he nods his head which just causes my tears to flow faster.
“I had to,” he says softly.
“Was any of it real to you? Did you even care or love me for a second?” He growls and pushes past both girls. The guys shout behind him but he ignores them as he cups my face between his hands. His touch feels like a balm to my battered heart. Just the feeling of him touching me makes me feel like I can breathe again, that he will keep the nightmares away and keep me safe from the monsters of my past that haunt me nightly. He bends at the knees so we are eye level, his eyes flick between mine searching for what, I have no idea.
“Every second was real. I do love you more than anything. I had to make this deal, Carlina. I didn’t have a choice.” I pull free of his hold, his face falls but he allows me to put space between us.
“What deal?” He stands there quietly for a second pondering how to answer me but Bishop answers before he can.
“He agreed to help us take his father and Pauly down, if I gave him the one thing he wanted most in this world.”
Devastation consumes me but I make sure to keep my face blank. He’s right, he never lied to me, he always said his end game was finding his sister and saving her. A part of me hates him for it but another part of me understands and respects his loyalty to his blood. It’s just going to take me a long time to convince my heart he made the right choice.
Vincent
I grind my teeth in anger, the fucker worded it like that on purpose to keep her away from me. I can see the utter heartbreak in her eyes. I open my mouth to set her straight and tell her the whole truth but she beats me to it.
“I get it, I really do.” I shake my head, no you don’t, baby. “I hope you find Selena. I wish you both well, Vincent, I do.” Again, I open my mouth to speak but she steps sideways until she can see her brothers. “I’m not staying here. You can try and stop me but I’ll never stop leaving. I cannot sleep in that fucking room one more night!”
“We’ll change your room,” Bishop says. He’s a fucking fool. He doesn’t understand that it isn’t just the room. The whole fucking house brings up bad memories for her because of what happened in that house.
“No, I don’t want to go back to that house, I can’t. You won, B. You got the help you needed to win your war but it cost you your sister.” I hear his footsteps pounding toward us as he moves to stand beside me, keeping his eyes on my girl.
“I’m doing this for all of us, Carlina. Everything I have done is because of all of you, I had no choice––”
“You always have a choice, Bishop!” she screams.
“Everyone get the fuck out now!” King shouts. Everyone except for the nine of us stay where we are.
“I didn’t, Carlina. I never wanted this fucking title or to run shit!” My brow furrows as I turn to peer at Bishop.
“Bullshit, you did it for yourself so you could go after Kiara!” Tears stream down her cheeks like a broken faucet. I want to wrap my arms around my girl but she needs to do this on her own.
“I did it foryou!” Bishop roars. I feel the others creep in closer to us, Carlina’s eyes round to the size of dinner plates.
“Bullshit––” Bishop cuts her off.
