Fallen Angels

chapter twenty three

Crissy's Pov

I knew who shot me.

I saw the sinister smirk on their face before they pulled the trigger. I don't know how long it's been but it seems like I was in a coma. Paris came to talk to me everyday and every time I tried to comfort her when she cried, I couldn't move.

Sometimes, I would hear Paris with a male and I knew it was Keval. He came here without her sometimes and admitted how he was in love with her. He even told me about the gang and his mission.

Had I been in a better scenario, I would've smirked and told him that I already knew. From the very first time I saw him giving Paris a ride from school when I borrowed her car, I had him investigated.

Keval Terrace. Initially born a Kevialé Santiago, he was the son of a powerful half white Dominican drug Lord who was the ruler Diablos. In an act of protection, Keval's mom left him on Tia Terrace's doorstep just days before she was shot and killed. Tia had already had a son, and was the wife of Keval's adopted father, Ben.

Yes, the same Ben who Dian was fucking with. Every time Paris and Keval came, I wanted to warn them of the big red target on their backs. Paris is just a kid. She was almost seventeen and been training to be a gang leader since she was twelve. Our dad, who I thought was selfish, killed himself right before her eyes when she was only ten and her first love slept with her sister. She didn't deserve the things life threw her way.

She didn't deserve to witness so many gruesome things in her lifetime and it was all because of this criminal life. Her first kill was when she was barely fifteen and she didn't even bat an eyelid when she pulled the trigger. Paris deserved love and Keval could give that to her but only if she realized soon enough, that Keval was sent on a mission to gain her trust only to be set up.

Because everyone knew that if he made Paris fall for him and he betrayed her, she would kill him, even if that destroyed the last unbroken part of her heart.

But she would even destroy everything he has ever loved including herself if she found out he loved her, if she knew that his brother, Joey was the one who shot me.

However, that would be hard since she admitted to me in my coma state, that she was deeply in love with him. Of course, when I investigated Keval I didn't know about the mission. I only found out the same day I got shot.

I also suspected that Tyler was in on this somehow thus explaining his sudden reappearance but he had inside help. He had to have inside help because Paris wouldn't let him close enough to know so much. The only question left was:

Who?