Handsome & haunting

Chapter 38

Londyn

(Earlier)

It's been a few days since Kataleya broke up with me. And it has been torture. How do you show so much feelings for someone and then just...walk away? Just like that. How can she do that? How can she be okay, knowing that I'm not okay?

What was the reason?

I was there for her through everything. I motivated her, pushed her in the right way, supported her with everything. I was there to help teach her about her own worth. I showed her a world she never knew existed, but still deserved.

I loved Kataleya and still fucking do...Fuck, even saying or thinking of her name hurts. But no matter how mad I am at her for leaving me so suddenly— I know that something she experienced during the day made her want to break up. What it was I don't know.

"Daddy, are you thinking about her again?" Kiara's quiet voice fills my ears as she comes up to stand in front of me. Instantly— my heart starts aching at the sight of my daughter.

Her hair is put up into two space buns with two braids hanging from each side. She specifically asked for silver cattleya designed beads to be put onto the braids. She wanted to match with Kataleya. Those metal pieces are what make me sadder because they remind me of the beautiful brunette.

"Yeah Bug, I am.." I whisper out, my raspy voice coming out kinda croaked due to my throat being closed up by painful tears I've let spill the last couple of days.

My beautiful daughter puts her arms around my neck and my arms wrap around her little body. The warmth of her makes me smile.

"You should talk to her. I can come too." She suggests and sits on my lap.

"I know...Maybe I should-"

"London we have to talk." Kevin storms in with a shaky voice, his eyes telling me that it's something serious.

"Kiara can you please go in your room for a moment." I say, not waiting for an answer as my "question" was rhetorical.

Kevin sits down in front of me as Kiara leaves us and I worry as he looks stressed— his hair messed up from running his hand through it many times while his leg shakes.

"What is up with you, man?" I ask with my face scrunched up but I let it quickly fall as I realized it was Kataleya's usual thing.

"Jade is a murderer." He says with fear dripping from his tongue. This is not what I expected. I freeze in my seat and after a moment of awkward silence I start to chuckle.

"Oh, you're serious-" I stop chuckling as he stares at me with stunned eyes.

"Londyn! I just said your psycho ex is a murderer and you're sitting here taking me for a joke?!" He breathes out, baffled.

"No but like, you can't assume something so terrible about a person even if they are indeed sick." I say and lean back on the couch.

He then takes out papers from a folder he brought with him and lays them out in order on the table. Then he also takes out his phone and taps the screen which then leads to Jade's voice starting to play.

~"Your name is Kataleya Miller and you are adopted from Orfanato Sol by Samantha and Tanner Miller. You grew up in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia....."~

My eyes widened and I jolt forward from the couch to look at the printed pictures on the table.
A gasp leaves my mouth at the sight of bloody, beaten and murdered people. This cannot be true.