Lost Love (Love Letter From Thief X fanfic) [COMPLETED]

Chapter 23

I shake off the flashback and follow Mrs. Sanders off through the rest of the house, my mind on my brother the whole time and my earpiece had been eerily quiet. After checking all the exits and subtly looking for the paintings, I complete my one night only, hopefully, as a maid.
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^Look, they're about as straight as Dean is. Sorry not sorry.😂😭
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As I leave the front gate of the house, Kelly picks me up and I slide into the seat, mentally exhausted.

En immediately asks the question I've been asking myself all night. "How can it be....?"

"I don't know. I watched him be put in the ground and.....and......*gulp*." I fight back my tears, stubbornly refusing to cry in front of them or Takuto. Honestly I feel my heart doing backflips because of the thought that he's alive, but it's also breaking. If he was alive all this time.....Why didn't he contact me? Why?

Takuto looks at me. "You have a brother."

"Had, or so I thought. He died when he was 15 and I was 11, so it was always a touchy subject in my family. We never discuss it."

He nods and begins typing, looking for something. "Well I can't find anything on him. It's like he was wiped clean off of the face of the Earth."

"What? How is that-"

"I'm not sure. But it's probably money and connections. A lot of money and connections."

I lean back in the seat and just close my eyes, mentally sighing. Kelly puts her hand on my shoulder.

"I'm sure he had a good reason."

That's all it takes for me to snap. "YEA I'M SURE HE DID. OF COURSE HE F***ING DID TO ABANDON HIS PARENTS AND LITTLE SISTER FOR 20 YEARS!! THE SAME LITTLE SISTER THAT WORSHIPPED THE F***ING GROUND HE WALKED ON! THE SAME LITTLE SISTER THAT WOULD DIE FOR HIM!!! THE SAME LITTLE SISTER THAT STILL CRIES WHENEVER SHE THINKS OF HIM NO MATTER WHAT!!!!" I break down, sobbing shamelessly. There's nothing that they can do other than let me let it out.

When we get back to the hotel, we go into Kelly's to find an empty room. When we turn on the lights, the room is ransacked.

"WHAT?!" We all shout at once. I pick up a gas bomb off of the floor.

"No......." I look at them in horror and then look around the room, eyeing the broken windows and the obvious signs of a struggle. Riki. I can't loose him.....not again. I see something sitting on the sill.

I walk over, fighting the fear rising in me. It's a note.

Dear, Alaina
Oh my sweet little sister. My, how you've grown. I've got to admit, I like the hair, but back to the matter at hand. If you want to see your friends and fiancé alive again, I suggest that you, Kelly, Enrique, and Takuto show up at the house, unarmed, tomorrow evening. And yes, I know he is, once again, your fiancé. I never thought that Miss Goody Two-Shoes would be a thief. I guess Good Kids Gone Bad runs in our blood.
With all my hate-Ryu