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“I wanted to see you take your last breath,” I said. “I needed to know that you were gone.”
He coughed; it was a wet, sick sound. “Am I such a boogeyman,mijo?” he asked.
I leaned back, crossing my arms over my chest so that I wouldn’t be tempted to pinch his airway shut. It would be so easy to snuff him out like this. “You tried to kill my wife and my child,” I said. “You’re lucky for the few months that Emma spared you. I would have beaten you to death and smiled while doing it.”
Gustavo coughed again, and when he reached for the button that was wrapped around the guardrail of his bed, I got to it first. “What’s this?” I asked. It looked like an old-school game show buzzer, but it was attached to the machine on the IV stand.
“My morphine,” he said and stuck his hand out for it. It wobbled in the air, and he had to lower it back to the bed. “Give it back.”
“Pathetic,” I spat. “You are a pathetic excuse for a man. You can’t stand the pain? Do you need it that badly?” I was taunting a dying man; Emma would be horrified. But there was an ugly part of me that was enjoying watching this man suffer. Before, I was waiting for him to die so that I could take over the family as I was always meant to; now I wanted him to die in agony. “You don’t get to be comfortable.”
Gustavo’s breathing became a rattle. It took me a moment to realize that he was laughing. “I knew that you wouldn’t let me die alone,mijo,” he said. “You are nothing if not predictable.” He touched my hand. His skin was dry and scaly against mine. “See you in Hell.”
“What —?”
The door swung open, bashing against the wall with a rattle, and I jolted out of the chair, knocking it to the ground. Two men that I recognized as underlings for Luis Rojas came through, guns raised. I reached for my 9mm, but I was too slow. There was the sound of a small explosion, and then another, and it felt like I’d been struck by a bat. Pain enveloped me, and I tried to scream, but no sound came out.
I couldn’t draw in a breath; my lungs were tight and felt like they were filling with water. Looking down, blooms of red had erupted on my shirt.Fuck. Stay awake. Keep breathing. But my chest rattled and refused to fill with oxygen.
My knees hit the ground with a dullthud, and my vision started to swim and darken…and then icy blue eyes came to mind. A soft smile. The gentle curve of a belly.Emma, I thought blearily,I’m sorry.
I knew that I was losing consciousness, and as much as I tried to fight it, I couldn’t stay awake. My chest was wet, but the pain was starting to recede.That’s a bad thing. I should be in pain. Getting shot twice in the chest should hurt.
Omar would take care of Emma and the baby; he would never betray me. I held onto that thought as the world slipped away. The last thing I heard was a laugh followed by a thick, wet cough.
End of Vicious Heir
CASTILLO CARTEL BOOK 1
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