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And Jac screamedbastardand pulled him off Lili’s naked body, cum running down her thigh, eyes open, and he started beating my father.
Mercilessly.
Because I came in just as that happened. Lili had called me, too.
I tried to stop him, but Jac killed my father. He was blacked out with rage, had pushed the barrel of the gun in his mouth and shot him dead.
I didn’t want him to just kill my father. I wanted the man to suffer first.
I hear him swig from the bottle, and there’s absolute silence from Magdalena.
“Hendrick Sr. killed Lili, so I fed him my gun. Your boyfriend Hendrick came in, probably too late to the party and wanting a piece of Lili, too.”
He’s right about one thing. I got there too late. My father had been fucking her for years. Statutory rape from age fifteen, but Lili kept it up, right up to her death.
I know she always went willingly to him because my father kept a very extensive journal, one I found after he died.
And that night… Jac just handed me the missing piece. The part I’d been too late to see. It hurts.
“Are you going to shoot me?” Jac asks.
“I don’t know.”
She sounds flat.
“Shoot the fucker who wanted to hurt my sister, not me, MG.”
Jac just called me a rapist. A would-be one. And…fuck, he meant it. I always figured he stopped me going to Lili’s funeral because of what happened, but after, I had tried to go visit his father…because… Shit. Confessions were useless, but there was something of Lili’s I needed, and—
I found Jac’s father dead.
My name in the appointment book. A bullet to the head, through the mouth, in the same fashion Jac had killed my fuck of an old man.
And I got painted for that.
“He also executed my father,” he says like he’s picking up on my thoughts. “Just like I killed his. His name was in the appointment book my father liked to have. And Hendrick, the coward, left him and won’t admit to it either way.”
He laughs, and this time, I open my eyes. “And then we both became Quinate, so I couldn’t murder the fuck. He can’t kill me. He hides behind convention, not his truth. And his father and him, they…”
He stops. Drinks more of my booze. “Is the fucker here? This is his brand.”
“Jac,” she whispers, “stop.”
He’s not drunk, but he’s…shit, I don’t know. I don’t think he’s told a single person any of that. I know how much he loved Lili.
But he’s wrong about me.
Lili didn’t deserve any of that. Not one moment. Not when my father groomed her and certainly not that end. And I didn’t fucking know the extent until I found that journal.
But he’s right. I’m to blame for her death. So is Jac.
Why the fuck didn’t he save her? It was his one fucking job. Protect Lili.
And me? Jesus. I’m even worse. I should have known what was going on.I should have known.I should’ve made Lili pack up and gotten her to the other end of the planet. Keep all the toxins from her life.
“You should go Jac,” Magdalena says. “I have a lot to think about.”
“I’m sure you do.” He stands, and she turns, looks at the door of the bedroom for the first time during all this.
