LOVE, HATE AND EVERYTHING BETWEEN

Chapter Six

6

VALERIE

I got home at 7am and my dad and his guards were waiting.

“Why did you go to a bar owned by the Shadow family?”

I couldn’t speak, I was too weak. I didn’t want to. The world has lost its shine. My Kimberly is dead and she didn’t live to see thirty like she planned. She died at the age of twenty three and though Theodore killed her, I was an accomplice. I should have never spoken to her or been friends with her. By now, she would have still been alive.

“Answer me!” he ordered.

“I am going to bed and I don’t want to talk to anyone right now or for the rest of my life.” I walked into my house and my mum just looked at me.

Not with care but with fear. She was scared of me revealing her desires, she didn’t ask what happened or why my eyes were swollen. Because she wasn’t Kim. No one was Kim to me. No one understood me, no one cared for me. Will she ever forgive me? Does she hate me?

I don’t know but one thing I do know is that Theodore Enzo has to go down.

TWO YEARS LATER

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It was a day after Kim’s anniversary and I went through the plan again in my head. I looked at myself and the changes I have made. I have always been bland so there wasn’t much. I dyed my brown hair red and that was all.

I looked at all the companies owned by each of the mafia families, their schedules and the rankings. The top ten powerful involved the Shadows family, my dad’s and The Skull as the top three. I didn’t want my family getting in a war. That left me with just the Skull and Shadows. The lord of Skull had five guards and they all left for meetings at 10pm. The lord of Shadows, the disgusting Theodore Enzo had six and sometimes guarded himself but always had dinner at 10:30pm. I needed to get to Skull’s, steal somethings and plant them in Shadows. Leading tracks to Shadows and they have a war.

I dressed in a black hoodies and black pants, baggy ones. I could pass for a boy.

I waited till 9:30 before leaving the house and I have gotten better at escaping. I took a cab and I made sure it dropped me a block away from Skull’s.

I came down from the car and something covered my face. I didn’t bother struggling. I just hoped I will join Kimberly in Heaven and that she would take me. My hands and legs got tied with a very strong rope from what I felt and I let them because I didn’t care. Even if they killed me. I wouldn’t care. They shoved me into somewhere and then we were moving. There was only two explanations for my being in a vehicle. Firstly, the lord of Skull had a headquarter far from here. Secondly, the lord of Skull is not my kidnapper. Someone else kidnapped me.

After hours, the car finally came to a halt and I was brought out and I was being handled carefully. Like an egg even. I wonder why. Was I being displayed to be sold?

The people carrying me spoke in a language I couldn’t pick. Not like I spoke any language besides English.

I was dropped on the floor and they removed the bag and before I knew it, I was injected.

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My eyes opened and I was feeling weaker by the second. My vision was blurry and could only pick up a few things. Like Theodore Enzo sitting before me like he owned the place.

His sight made me nauseous and not in a figurative manner but literal.

“You were going to either start a war or get killed tonight and I chose the better option for me. Kill you.” He pointed a gun at me.

“For your good and my sanity, you better not be bluffing. If you are going to kill me. Do it now.” I couldn’t recognize my voice. I was growing weaker every passing second.

“And give you the satisfaction. Never. Why did you dye your hair red? You looked horrible enough,” he said.

I cried, “Why? Why did you kill Kimberly? Why?” I asked but it sounded like a plead. It will be the best time to find out that with all his irritating characters he was a vampire or any creature who could bring back Kim.

For a second a look flashed on his face but it disappeared quickly and he walked closer to me and I felt like vomiting.

“Move back,” I said.

He didn’t, he squatted before me and I could see his face clearly and I vomited all over it. A face that once upon a time, I could like.