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“Erika?” My mom hedges, silencing everyone else in the room, mom waits for her to finally lift her gaze and smiles kindly. “I am so sorry for what you have lived through. I can’t imagine the pain you have been dealing with but let me be the first to reassure you, Bishop has never and I meanneverforced himself onto me or… anyone else.” I roll my lips over my teeth to keep from laughing, my mom hates the fact that my dad has been with other women before they got together.
“H-he.” Erika clears her throat and tries again. “He told me it was you.” She whispers as she looks at my father. “I never saw their faces, they made me watch as they defiled my mother in front of me and…” A sob claws out of her and her body begins to shake, tears cloud my mother’s eyes as I spin Erika around and press her against my chest, holding her close as she breaks down. No one speaks as they all stare at the woman who is currently clinging to me, the only sound in the room is her cries. I shoot Sin and Havoc a look telling them without words to lower their fucking guns, Havoc does as he’s told but Chanel, she takes a minute longer.
“Who told you my husband did that to your mother?” My mom asks softly, Erika sniffles and tries to step away from me but I refuse to allow her.
“Emillio told you my dad was the one to execute your family, didn’t he?” I ask, she nods against my chest. “Why did you go to Chance?” This time when she pulls back, I allow it. She gazes up at me with tear filled eyes.
“It was planned out months ago.” She whispers, I cock my head to the side not following.
“What was?” I push.
She darts her tongue out to moisten her lips, when she sways again I growl and swoop in. I scoop her up bride style and stalk out of the room with everyone's shouts following me but I don’t give a fuck. I just showed all of them and Erika herself that I can’t fucking kill her much less harm her so why keep fucking around. I head straight for the kitchen, placing her on one of the stools, I make my way to the fridge but just as I grab the handle a dainty little hand I know all too well covers mine. I turn to look down at my mom, she smiles knowingly and wiggles her brows.
“Sit down with her and talk, I’ll get her something to eat and drink and then we can hatch a plan to get your cousin back before your aunt and uncle burn Miami down to find their boy.” I smile my thanks and do as she said, I slide on the stool beside her and wait. I won’t push her to speak but I also need the information she has. Clearly torturing her didn’t get her to spit it out. She watches my mom gather all the ingredients out of the fridge for a sandwich as she speaks.
“Chance has always worked with Emillio, he had to work off his father’s debt so he struck a deal to launder money for Emilio and gain him access to all the docks in Miami. Columbia is hot for feds and police at the moment so we needed to get out but still needed to have somewhere shipments could arrive without problems. We had no issues with your family, Emillio had led me to believe that there would be no issues with your family because we would take you out and then take over Miami and New York.” I grit my teeth in anger, did he really think it would be that easy to get rid of us? “Chance promised to give us all access to the docks but then, he called Emillio and told him that he knew who had killed my cousin.”
“How did Chance know?” Comes from Havoc as he enters the room with Sin, Dad, Vincent, Gage, King and Ally. She keeps her gaze on my mom as she answers him.
“He never said. Emillio just thought it was because of us wanting to enter the states but I knew better.” She slowly lifts her gaze to face Havoc, a loaded look passes between the two of them. He stiffens, his nostrils flare the longer he looks at Erika as he can read her thoughts.
“How do you know?” She smiles and shrugs but winces from the pain in her shoulder, I feel like a fucking prick now.
“Every great war always starts over the love of a woman, it wasn’t too hard to figure out.” Frowning I look between the two of them not following.
“You had no idea who the fuck we were, so how did you know it was over Rico marrying Lailani?” Mom places a glass of chocolate milk and the sandwich in front of Erika who smiles her thanks and downs the glass of milk in one go, she coughs a few times but I’m frightened to tap her back in case I cause her more pain.
Once she gets herself under control she answers. “It didn't take a genius to work it out, Rico had told me he didn’t like some guys from UNLV. He even told his father he wanted to marry Lailani, Rico never wanted to settle down so it was easy to put it together that he did it out of spite.” I cut a glance to Sin to find she is studying Erika, no one else knew about this, shit Sin and I didn’t even figure it out until it was too late and the war had started because of the twins.
“That answers why Emillio is here but that doesn’t answer why the fuck you are here.” Chanel clips out.
She takes a bite of her sandwich and then turns to face me, I make sure I give nothing away as she looks at me. “I knew you would come out of hiding if your father was taken.” I can't hide the shock from my face.
“It was your idea to take the plane down?” Uncle King asks, she keeps her gaze on me as she nods.
“Why?” That one word out of my mouth holds so much fucking weight, she started all of this. Everything that has happened is because of her.
“I wanted you to feel half of the pain I felt when my parents were murdered in front of me. I made Emillio see that forcing Bishop’s son to step up and try to fill the shoes of his father would hurt him more than just killing him.”
“Why were you with Chance?” I grit out.
“To get to you.” My brows raise to my hairline, I feel Chanel close in on us.
“Start telling the whole fucking story bitch or this time I won’t fucking miss because of a helicopter!” Sin snarls.
“I knew you would find a way to go after Chance, the only way to get a man on the inside was if Emillio promised to wipe Chance’s debt to him by marrying me.”
“You agreed to that shit?” I seethe.
“Yes. I wanted revenge for the deaths of my parents, I would have done anything to get it even if it meant marrying that piece of shit. Chance had no idea why I was there, Emillio wanted me to marry him to secure his alliance with Chance. I agreed but I had a plan of my own.”
“Which was?” Dad presses.
“To find you.” She says as she continues to stare at me. “I planned to capture you, take you to your father and force him to watch as I killed his only child in front of him. Emillio figured out that I wanted something different, which is why I managed to convince him to keep your father and uncles alive.” I reel back.
“I knew it.” She looks over my shoulder at Vincent. “He wanted to kill us at the tarmac, you stopped it.” She nods.
“You signed something to me that day, what was it?” She swivels around on her stool to face my father who leans against the far wall with my mom tucked into his side. Erika signs something to my father and his eyes narrow. “What does it mean?”
