Kill The Rich

4th Chapter: More Questions and Information

(Flashback chapter - January 2024, 4 months ago)

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Max sits in the bed with her back being leaned against the headboard, her legs being up as she hugs them, her head being leaned on her knees. She looks at the time, seeing that it is eight in the morning, her night just consisting of her crying then dozing off but getting back up.

Her eyes hurt from all of the crying she has been doing all night, her throat hurts from all of the screaming and yelling she has been doing, crying for help. Her heart feels insanely heavy, like a pit being in her stomach from the news that she received.

She shivers even though it is not cold in the room, her eyes being red and puffy, her cheeks being flushed. She feels like she is out of tears but she knows any minute she could start crying again, because the feeling hurts so much, she has never experienced this kind of pain before.

She has experienced being stabbed and cut, but this...this is a different kind of scarring pain, one she thought she would never experience. The more she thinks about how this whole time he was using her to achieve his goals it makes her eyes tear up, her crying to stop the tears that leave her eyes because she is tired of crying, but at the same time the feeling hurts so much, and it is so overwhelming.

Her eyes droop a little bit, her grunting lightly as she rubs her eyes, her hearing as her stomach growls, her hugging herself more.

While she sits alone in this room she just thinks a moment to think, think about more questions that begin to stir in her brain.

"When was the last time you got angry? Like real angry?" Max questions.

"When a guy was trying to touch my sister." Lucas answers, him going to take out his phone.

"That is not okay." Max shakes her head. "What did you do?"

Lucas puts his phone back in his pocket, him going to look at Max. "His name was Charley." Lucas starts. "When I feel myself getting to pissed or to angry about it I just say his name...that way I can remember on what not to do."

Charley...

She wonders about that, because she has seen a handful of times where Erica would always mention a Charley lowly to him whenever it seemed like he was irritated, and based on what he mentioned it was something he did do to this...Charley that he doesn't want to do again.

And something else that has been ringing in her ears ever since Lucas left the room last night.

Sue laughs a little bit while shaking her head. "Max...you have....no idea what you are getting yourself into."

"Cut the bullshit Sue, it's not going to work." Max shakes her head. "I just want to understand why? Why put a bounty out on your own son?!"

"Look at where I am Max!" Sue sneers while coming closer to the Plexiglass. "It was only a matter of time before I was going to be in here if he is still...."

"So you are trying to kill your son because you know he is going to out the truth." Max states. "Wow, just wow."

"You are blinded Max." Sue shakes her head. "You are blinded and you are in a trap, you don't see it."

Max looks up when she hears the door open, her seeing Lucas come inside of the room and close and lock the door behind him, him holding some bags, one of them being of food. "Lucas?"

Lucas looks up at her, him fixing his tie a little as he puts down the bags. He goes over to her with the bag of food. "IHOP breakfast, your favorite blueberry pancakes, sausage eggs and some grits, like you got in Texas."