Hermosa Asesina - Beautiful Assassin

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Le coin des amoureux

The best French restaurant in all of California.

"Have you ever been here Madeline?" I ask, holding onto her back. She looks at me and scoffs before giggling.

"I wish, the fanciest place I've been taken to was a Denny's." She says admiring the place. I smile at her comment and stare at her as she stares at the people walking in and out. I wrap my arm around hers and start walking us to the entrance. We walk in and a waiter immediately greets us and walks us to a room in the back, just for us. Once we arrive at the room I pull the chair out for her and we both order a drink.

"So Madeline, since we are being honest with each other, tell me more about yourself. Stuff that I can't just read on a paper." I say sitting down across from her. She adjusts herself so that her cleavage is sitting in front of me, I can tell by the fact that her hands are lying down on the table she's not trying to intentionally but shit, was it hot. She tucks a strand of hair behind her ear and huffs quietly before beginning.

"What do you want to know?"

"Uhh... start with your parents. You barely said anything during your 'interrogation'." She smiles before looking down and taking a big breath. "My mom abused Me and Tatum the first couple years of my life. She treated Tatum the worst. He was the mistake, and his diabetes didn't help. He could never be good in her eyes. Kaden was her favorite. He was the oldest, funniest, the perfect son in her eyes. Over time she 'warmed up' to us I guess and treated us better near the end. My Dad loved us all though. Treated us equally, made us feel loved, even when our Mother treated us like shit. But, eventually he got addicted to whatever shit she was drinking or smoking. Then one day, they were on their way home from a friends get together and they drove off the side of a highway that was built on a cliff. " She smiles at the end. My mouth drops trying to grasp all the information I just processed. A waiter comes over and we receive our beverages and order our food.

"Okay! Enough about me and my dysfunctional family, tell me about yours." She smiles. It confuses me on how she's able to stay so calm when talking about such stressful moments.

"My Mama, and Papa are nothing special. They're just parent. Of course, they have their faults but they're my parents. I love them. My sister, Marie, you've met her. She's the best and most important person in my life. I love her more than anything. " She smiles slightly before resting her head in her hand. "How did you meet Shitface?" I say with a large smile on my face. She cocks her head in confusion before finally getting who I'm talking about.

"Nathan," She says drawing out his name. "He was my best friend and boyfriend while my mother was still abusive. When I graduated I didn't wanna stay home so me and him decided to join the army. Kaden was supposed to go but, he got up into whatever bullshit he does so I went, it's a tradition I guess, the first born in our family goes, my dad went, his dad went, so on and so fourth, anyways. We dated for a couple of years and then my parents died so I broke up with him and I went back home and suffered from really bad PTSD but, I think it's gone, if that's how it works. Me and Nathaniel would talk every now and then but it would usually end with him just asking why we couldn't be together anymore." She still has the same giddy emotion on her, like she isn't bothered with telling me this.

"You loved him?"

"I still do." She states staring at me. My chest heaves at the words. Am I really gonna fucking lose the most beautiful woman I've ever seen to some gringo? "But, I don't think it's the way I used to. Nathaniel has changed my life and I probably would have turned up like Kaden without him. But, he isn't who I see myself with. Ever."

Whew.

My phone rings under me and every ounce of my body is telling me to ignore it but, she gives me a look saying to answer it and who am I to disobey the beautiful woman lying infront of me.