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Chapter 29 - The Truth

Rose's face is empty as she asks, "What?" Hiding the fear inside her.

Zoya looks to Madrid for clarification, but he stayed put and continued to stare at the ground.

She turns away, letting the anger slowly rise, "Well you know what? That would explain why you two were gone for the whole day! Every day in fact! Leaving us wondering if you guys were okay. Fear of the unknown got to us!" She crossed her arms in anger.

"What have you guys even been doing while you were away?!" Rose furrows her brows.

Zach and Lonokai exchange worried look. Then, Lonokai answers, "We, we um.... We mainly... kill people. People our father doesn't like." The guys look at each other again, "Which brings us to our second point." They look to the girls again and Zach starts, "Before we reunited again, we were actually set out on a mission to kill you two."

Rose uncrosses her arms and her eyes widen because a memory flashes in her mind about her and Zoya waking up to Lonokai and Zach hovering knives over them, ready to kill. She stumbled back.

"Woah, Rose, are you okay?" Lonokai rushes to stabilize her.

But they didn't.

"Don't touch me!" She yells.

"You guys should have told us this earlier! We would have trusted you more! I can't believe you did this!" Zoya loudly declared.

"Why did you try to kill us??" Rose gained her stance.

Zach sighs, "Your dad... murdered our mom."

"Wha-"

"And in turn, that made our father furious. He questioned why we ever hung out with you guys as kids. But this is not your fault."

"O-our father... did what?" Zoya cowered in fear.

"So what, you and your dad decided to try and kill us? We had nothing to do with it! That doesn't even sound like something he'd do! He's not like that." Rose defended.

"He's the whole reason we got trained into the Mafia business!" Lonokai popped.

Rose and Lonokai hold a serious stare until Zoya chimes in, "Madrid." She said while her and Zach held each other's stare.

"Huh?" He springs up and is surprised to hear his name after what just went down.

"Can Rose and I stay with you?"

"O-of course-"

"Great. We'll start packing. Let's go, Rose." She grabs Rose's arm and they go to their room and find suticases to fit their belongings.

"Are we really doing this?" Zoya breathes while shoving things in her bag.

"Apparently. I can't believe they never told us! We always told each other everything as kids... I guess it's different now."

"At least we'll be with Madrid, he's good."

"Yeah.."

Once they finish packing, they go downstairs. They see Madrid seated alone in the large living room.

"Um, where are they?" Zoya looks around while asking Madrid.

"They wanted to give you space, so they left to their rooms. You ready?"

"Yes, let's go." The girls say simultaneously and leave through the door.

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Madrid had a backup house that was only for emergencies. And in this case, it was an emergency. Yes, he's rich, too.