The Billionaire Darkness

Chapter One-Hundred-One

The drive back towards Brooklyn left me with little to no stress and a lot to think about.

My mind was far too clear which partially made me uncomfortable as I had gotten so used to things going on, to having some issue in my life and yet there wasn't one at all. Well aside from my girlfriend being iffy lately, and gang activities drawing more and more attention towards themselves.

I had actually thought back to my parents for a brief moment. Their promise to try and help people, by removing criminals on the streets and aiding in education and rebuilding the lives of the homeless population.

However, the brutal truth is that some people don't want to be helped. So many get so far that they can't come back and its painful to see as a family or as friends of that person.

I see it at Thornbrook at times every once in a while someone gets hooked on hard drugs or some form of addiction, and then there was no going back.

Detoxification treatment didn't work because by the time anyone knew they'd been on it for months, then scandals followed and satirical jokes flooded the school's halls.

But that was the world we lived in no one was safe and stepping into Thornbrook was like walking into a wolfs den and then hoping you won't be torn to shreds.

That's what would happen if it showed that I was the person running a gang out of Manhattan, I'd be arrested, my family's company would be seized and investigated, all the guns I had access to would be gone, my cars would be taken, my homes impounded and searched. I needed to get out and find a way to slip away from this while also securing a zero trace back to me.

Pulling to a stop light I connected my phone and found my favourite music playlist and began blasting music to make a distraction of my mind so I don't have to think or focus on anything else.

Not a chance will that happen.

My subconscious isn't wrong, I find more often than not my ability to have a clear head is too foreign the concept of nothing is almost non-existent. The only time that happens is with music which was the full explanation of why I hated driving with dumb people I noticed the mistakes more, as I could focus on driving and driving alone. It was also the reason I loved the Hamptons drive back home because Long Island changed from Brooklyn, and Queens to so many suburban areas that led out to the actual Hamptons Bay where all of them were where home was.

The day I got the house flashed through my mind and I felt foolish now giving my parents grief for thinking it was just to get rid of me, the arguments flashed through my mind as well, then followed by all the times of happiness, the walks in Central Park, the drives to ski resorts, and the trips to Montana, my parents letting me start their cars as a little boy because I loved the sound of the engines. The ice cream and movie nights, staring at the stars with my little sister. All of it was nothing but peace to me.

Eventually I got back to the Brooklyn Bridge and a piece of me yearned for the kind of calm they had for normality but I knew I wasn't going to be able to have such a thing. The Winters Family wasn't far enough away from what it had been so many years prior on the edge of being broke and falling into obscurity.

I couldn't imagine that explaining to my future children when I had them or Kate's that it all fell into nothing with us that we were once a family worth a quarter of a trillion dollars, and then became nothing but a memory. That we had been around since the world was the rulers of the seas, we had fleets of ships two hundred years ago. We had an empire and had risen and fallen several times but never lost our wealth, not like we had in the latter years of the 90s.

My father had enormous stress about building Winters Enterprises, and in the end, it built a platform I would inherit but at the time the family was broke when all of that was happening, and then six years later Alexander Winters almost crashed his Murcielago into a woman who didn't look where she was going.

I still found the whole story interesting though they never told me how they actually got together after and built an empire to the size that they did.

Getting back home I slowed and pulled into the garage parking the car in it's spot and letting the engine fall silent.

It was complete sensory cancellation and I loved it, complete utter silence. It was also the only place where I had true genuine peace. Not surrounded by supercars in the basement of my townhouse, but just in peace. I also knew it wouldn't be long before my mind would be back in motion and my need to do something would break back into effect.

Eventually I sighed and pushed open the door of my car before getting out and shutting it once more before disappearing upstairs as I did, I finally got the confidence to pull up the hour clip of what happened after I left that warehouse.

Getting to the top of the stairs I walked down the hall to the kitchen and put the key back in its spot in the drawer before crossing the unlit room to my living room where I used only a lamp to cast pale lightly over the room as I picked up my laptop and opened it going through the numerous links until I got to the video and prepared myself for what I may see.

I lied to myself.

They walked over and got chains before using them as brass knuckles to beat down the guy who had blown our cover until he was bloody and barely moving. The grainy video didn't help with total image but I got the most of it. Over an hour of them bringing this guy to the edge of life before tying his wrists and legs together and tossing him into a boat and taken out of the frame.

Leaning back, I knew almost immediately what had happened they likely bricked his feet and tossed him over so he could die by drowning. It was crude and cruel yet I also knew the levels in which things could be pushed. The people that entered that warehouse died every time somehow, I knew that now which showed how little I actually had control and how much I had gotten myself into this without ever thinking of the consequences and now there would be.

Fuck sake.

Saving the video to the file I'd been curating with what was now over four hundred items of evidence against what I'd found myself surrounded by and leaned back realizing that me collecting proof of all the things the gang does and did will either lead to me having to live as witness protection or going to jail, and either was fine by me. I just want to see them go to prison for these crimes and they all surely would.

I just couldn't stay like that, so I would have to be certain to ensure none of them every got to leave, I'd have to create strong evidence which wasn't difficult given how violent much of what I had was, and my own background involvement was limited to begin with.

I spent the next several hours collecting it all, and organizing it with names of those in the videos or mentions and then subdivided evidence on a personal level with the aid of a Lyre, one glass at a time as I began to work through all of this. It was also something I slowly grew to understand my own childhood had been torn from me and I would never get the chance to change that because time couldn't go back. If it did, I'd still have parents and so would my sister.

The flip to that is also that I wouldn't be who I was. Being an orphan, on my own suited me, I was familiar with it, I had become someone people didn't particularly feel like getting close to, no one dared, no one touched me, no one challenged me. It was perfect because in that I received peace.

There no one could hurt me, they couldn't cut into me, and for a moment I wished I never let Sav into my life so I could have remained the dark and mysterious son of two dead billionaire's. I could remain as this untouchable figure with no cracks because I hid all of them under so much armour and blankness that no one could damage me. No one could get to know me.

And I wanted it to stay that way.

    
    
Getting closer to one of my favourite planned scenes in this whole book so I am excited my music choice for the night may also be helping so we ignore that, comment, vote, and share. Anyways

Peace✌