Red

CHAPTER 57.

unedited...

Everything around me fell back in silence as I, without help, blocked them out.

I didn't know how I found the courage but I did when I went across the middle of the living room on weak legs.

My best friend laying in a pool of her own blood, face down, with her large belly evident through her bloody dress as she lied there in death.

Her blonde hair was now shorter, bob cut style and heavily knotted, thick red bruise were around her neck and I knew that the person that killed her had her in a choke hold.

I fell on my knees to the ground above her, her blood soaking my knees and I couldn't withhold the heart wrenching sobs as I shook her.

I shook her so softly at first. "Rosa..." The whisper of disbelief in my voice still.

And when I saw that she wasn't moving, I shook her harshly. "Rosa please, don't do this fucking shit to me please..."

My voice broke as I eventually hugged her close. My eyes closed as tears flowed my cheeks to her cold shoulders.

Why wasn't I here to protect her?

Rosa was always there for me, she was there when I dropped out of college, was there when my land-lord kick me out because I failed to pay rent.

And had to live on the streets.

She was there when I told her that I couldn't make it when River died, she was there...

She was always there.

And where was I when she needed me the most? oh, I was too busy dealing with my own life issues, not taking one fucking time out of my selfishness to check up on her.

What kind of a best friend do that shit!

I remembered when she requested to buy me a house when I began living on the streets, both of her parents had died in a car accident when she was just a kid but Rosa never saw the harshness of life because her parents were filthy rich trillionaires who both owned a space tourism agency.

I gratefully decline the offer because I didn't want her to think I was just friends with her for money.

She was my sister, we shared so many secrets together and even became good friend's with River over the length of our relationship.

The three of us had something in common and that was a love for DC comics, Rosa loved the character Batman while both River and I had this thing for The Flash, specifically Iris and Barry's genuine romance which we always admire.

This was until Nava came into the picture which led River to start hanging out with him and eventually they became friends.

Rosa understood me.

She didn't need to work because of her inherited riches but she still found a career in primary education.

She was great with kids and as my blurry teary eyes glance down at her belly, I knew that her child would have had a great future.

I felt a thick pair of arms wrapped themselves around me and pulled me towards his chest.

His scent was overpowering and it eased my heart until I found myself gripping his chest, my hands grabbing his black shirt at the front and squeezing it in my mourn.

Lorenzo pressed his lips to my forehead and grunted out. His deep tone of voice that I had missed over the past few months working it's warmth as it ignites goosebumps across my trembling body.

"Let it all out baby, come on, I'm here."

I flushed my face in his large comfortable chest and asked him. "Why didn't she called me, why did I just throw away our friendship like that. This is all my fucking fault."

My voice cracked amongst his rumbling chest, his deep voice trailing over my wet face as I sob. He held the back of my head with one hand and then wrap his other hand around my waist, pulling me close.

"You did nothing wrong angel, if I had listen to you that night and didn't force you to run away then maybe we would have protected your best friend."

He pulled me back and as he press his lips on my forehead, we locked eyes together, my heart warming as his hair formed a closure over our face.

Lorenzo was dangerously beautiful...

"She knew that I was the one that pushed you away and you see this scar right here.." He stretch his hand out and just on his vein muscular forearm a slight stale knife cut was there.

"Rosa did that in defense to your name baby, she hated me for how I treated you and even warned me that if I did it again, she wouldn't be afraid to put a bullet to my forehead."

I sob in harsh tears at the thought of my best friend still standing up for me.

"He isn't lying Red because I was there at the hospital when she did it." Sveva and Viviana spoke up from the living room.

I sniffled as I weakly toss them a smile and took a glance down at Rosa dead body.

I spotted a note which was wrinkled in her pale hands.

"What is it baby?" Lorenzo deeply asked as his eyebrows connected into a frown.

I pick up the paper and read the lines, the handwriting conforming my suspicion on the murderer who took away my best friend life.

Nava.

"This is all on you Red! she was a curious little one I'll give her that, that was until her curiosity got her and my son something they deserve. She needed to know where you were and what was on that thumb drive. She was beginning to become a burden so I had to get her out of my way. This. is. all. on. you."

I gritted my teeth and ripped the paper apart in anger.

Nava was fucking with the wrong person and because of this, I must have him suffered for what he did.

He had the audacity to pinned his low-life attitude on me...

Which person in their right damn mind would kill a pregnant woman not to mention a woman who is carry your son.

He was sick and these kind of men didn't deserve to roam God's given earth a second longer.

"We need to find those bastards now. This have gone on too fucking long."

I held Lorenzo's eyes, watching as he licked his lips, his hair flowing to his face as we held a long heated stare.