Dante

Chapter Twenty~Seven

Dante King...

4:39 a.m

That's what my clock read on my nightstand. I don't know why I'm up so early, I guess with the news I've gotten from Trina yesterday it kind of got me wounded up.

She called me to tell me that Russo has been sending his men to all sorts of spots. Everywhere I took Bambi, those are the places they were found at. They're getting too close now and I have to come up with a plan for her safety.

I don't know why that bastard love playing hide and seek. Instead of sending his men like they are his little puppies, he can come face me like a man.

It's ok though, he'll slip up...they always do.

And when he does, I will finally have him in my grasp.

So he better get ready.

I got out of the bed and walked out of my room. I was on my way to the kitchen when I looked down at the coffee table to see that the envelope was on longer there.

Where in the world did it go?

Looking up, I saw a little light in the kitchen was on. Curiously, I walked inside to see that someone has taken residence in one of the chairs.

What is she doing up in the wee hours of the night?

Is she alright?

I made my way up behind her.

"Hey what are you doing...?" I stopped when I saw that the envelope was on the kitchen table and all the pictures were spread out neatly.

"I couldn't sleep." Was all she said. "Every time I closed my eyes, I'd see my mother and father's lifeless eyes staring back at me."

I looked at her but she kept her eyes trained on the pictures in front of her.

"Reigny..." I said but was instantly cut me off.

"Who is he?" She asked softly.

Here we go. I knew this was going to come up and I've been trying to prepare myself for this situation but now that the day is finally here, my whole mind went blank.

She was asking a question that I didn't think she was ready to get an answer for. She was asking questions that would problem open some open wounds...not just for her, but for me too.

"Who is this man?" She asked again.

I let out a sigh before pulling out a chair and sitting down beside her.

"Listen Reigny..."

"No Dante..." it was rare for her call me by my real name, so I knew that she was serious.

"No more hiding things from me! No more sugarcoating shit to me!" Her voice cracked.

"I've been kept in the dark my whole entire life. I just watched my parents get brutally murder." Hearing her talk and letting everything out on the table may me feel like she's been fighting this battle before we even crossed paths. This was something that she finally needed to released.

"For ten years, I've been told that my parents died in the car crash and that I was the only survivor. Only to find out that they actually survived the crash but end up getting killed. I had been kidnapped by the Russian Mafia. The people who I've been living with...people who I thought were my aunt and uncle were actually apart of my parents death.

I've been living with my parents killers for ten years. And now it's all out in the table and I don't even know what or who I'm dealing with.

I have a target on my back for some unknown reason..." she took a deep breath before furiously wiping the tears that we're running down her face.