the fate played

47 - blood, blood and blood

Chris Langford

An hour ago we received the call about the people involved and to the very same notion, Jessica Simmons was tied to the chair in the middle of the room or should I say cell. Once we had the names, the Romano mafia was quick enough to track down Jessica but the Mark guy was being brought to us in some another hour.

The mafia had a dungeon down their mansion, it was a jail and torture room for their enemies, cheaters and fuckers who think they are superior. It had black walls and bars, shackles, and all those old fashioned and modern weapons meant to amend torture.

Jessica squirms at those ties around her wrists and ankles and cries, "let me go, please, it was all Mark's deed, I was only there to bring Hailey to him, please let me go, I have no hand in this, please." Lucas snaps his fingers twice and surprisingly a woman steps ahead with a taser in her hands.

The taser buzzes and Jessica thrashes violently, "please no Chris, please!" It was fruitless, I was in no mode for any shitty games. Lucas says in a deadly voice, "Tell me what happened everything and I'll let you go as I have no intention on hurting you." And she did, she confessed every single thing.

Apparently, the bastard Jaimeson was after my uncle's shares and so to have them they went after Hailey, threatened her with some video, asked her to bring the papers but she didn't and Mark raged on her and that fucking idiot even had the audacity to hit and kick my woman.

Even God won't be able to save him from me once I have my hands on him.

But what she said after that had me burning with rage, fury high inside me, wanting to rip off everything and set the fucking world on flames, especially fucking Jaimeson.

"I went to check on him but I saw him kissing her. He had ripped off her shirt and pointed a gun at her. He was stroking himself in front of her. She kicked him and took the gun. They got in a fight for the gun but Mark had fired the bullets on her."

"Enzo, ask our men to be as quick as possible, I want that bastard alive", Romano roared.

The guy- Enzo nodded at him and with a phone to his ear, he went off. Jessica sobbed, "Chris, please I tried to get him off her, trust me please. But he won't listen and in the fight he fired at her. I even agreed to cover up for him in exchange to take her to hospital but he refused and instead asked his men to burn down the building with her."

"What was the last thing you saw?" I ask.

"Hailey was alive, she was breathing harsh, her pulse faint but it was there", she answers. I gulp hard. The words were tormenting my insides. My heart was cut open and left to burn. Trying to be optimistic I repeat in my head, that she is fine, that she will be awake when I go there to her, that she will smile at me, that she will call me her big boy, that she will hit me and call me Langford.

Leaning on the wall besides the table of weapons I let myself catch a small breath and walk out of the dungeon feeling suffocated. Romano gestures me to follow him. We walk to a room, it looked like an office, with a desk in the middle with papers and photos and notes spread on it and even tucked on a pinboard.

It takes me a whole minute to realize that Romano had her eyes on Hailey for quiet some time. There were pictures looking like taken by some spy, pictures of me and Hailey leaving the gala, us going on bike rides, us in front of the hospital, Hailey holding flowers that I got her several times, us on those Sunday evening beach dates, walks, cafe, dates and many more of Hailey alone, standing at the hospital entrance, in her uniform.

"When I saw her for the first time, it felt unreal and impossible. She looks just like her mother and if not for that maybe I would've never known that she is my blood. The very same face, the very same nose, those same pair of cheeks, just like her mother", Romano whispers standing in front of window, facing the world outside him.