There Will Be Lies || COMPLETED

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Marshall is Aiden's brother?

But that doesn't make sense - why does he want to kill someone from his own family?

Blake seemed as shocked as I was, "What?! Dad, you told us that you were an only child!"

Aiden sighed, "It's a long story..."

"Oh, is it really?" Marshall deadpanned. "We have time, don't we Olivia?"

Aiden's mouth pressed together in a tight line, but he said nothing.

"Fine if you don't want to say it, I can." He continued.

I sat down near to Blake, forcing myself not to break after he inched further away from me.

"No," He muttered. "I can't even look at you right now."

"So, Aiden is my older brother by 2 years. Because of that, he always used to treat me like I was inferior," Marshall paused, relishing our silence for a few moments before continuing. "As a child though, I was always the rebellious one but that meant I got blamed for everything. Fast-forwarding to Uni, I met Emma," He gestured to Blake's mum. "We were great friends, weren't we Emma?"

Emma nodded, fearfully.

"It wasn't long before I started to have a crush on her," He swallowed hard as if it pained him to say this. "The day I mustered the courage to ask her out, I found out that Aiden had already beat me to it."

Aiden cried out: "You never told me you liked her too!"

Marshall shook his head, refusing to listen, "After a few years, Aiden and Emma married and they had their first child, Blake. I loved hanging out with him and taking him outside, but one day I made a terrible mistake and lost him in the park. We were all going out of our minds and it was so serious that we had to call the police. Once he was found, and also due to the fact that things were rough between us at the time, Aiden didn't allow me to see Blake or the rest of his family anymore."

He took a deep breath before releasing his caged up rage, "He banished me from seeing family and for what? Just because I made the mistake of losing his child once? Maybe, and I understand if it was. But we both know it was mostly because you felt uncomfortable that I still liked Emma."

However, still confused, I took the courage to say: "But I don't get it. Why did you start this organisation?"

"Well, after this, I was pretty depressed, I moved away and couldn't find a decent job. But it all changed when I received an email." Slowly, but maliciously he grinned. "One person, mistaking me for someone else, emailed me asking if I could kill someone they hated - as if I was a hit man - and promised to pay me a large sum of money."

Oh my gosh.

People actually do that?

"I realised that maybe, just maybe, I could make a living out of this," He continued. "After the first kill, I received more and more emails from different anonymous people with the whereabouts of the victim and a description of who they wanted to kill: so I went under the pseudonym of 'Marshall' to not be caught by the police. A few months later, when the job became quite successful, I hired some people to help me, convincing them that they were killing the bad guys, and giving them the dirty work of killing while I was gaining a lot of money."

I can't believe this.

I looked at my hands in alarm.

All those innocent people, killed.

Blinding rage bubbled inside me until I couldn't hold it in anymore: "How could you?!" I stood up, pacing dangerously close to Marshall. "You're so evil."

But my outburst didn't seem to faze him at all.

He merely said, "Remember our agreement, Olivia."

"A year ago, Aiden rang me to check how I was," Marshall swallowed, then continued: "He said that he wanted to make amends to our relationship and I agreed so we met up, slowly building a strong bond again. However, days later, after going on my computer for something, he somehow found out about my business killing people. He said it was 'Horrible' and when I said no to stopping the business, he told me that he didn't want him or his family to ever be involved with me again, otherwise he'll call the police. I—" Marshall started, then took a shaky breath. "I was not in a good place: I was alone, unwanted and angry and I still am all of those things but now much more. I decided to take revenge on my petty older brother by killing one of the three children he treasured: Blake Evans. "

Blake tensed and his mum whimpered an: "Oh my..."

Marshall broke into a crazy-looking grin, and I shivered.

"Lucas," Aiden pleaded. "Please let us sort this out."

"Don't you dare call me Lucas!" Marshall shrieked, and pulled out a gun from his back pocket, a gun none of us knew he had, and shakily aimed it at Aiden. "I do not live his life anymore and I definitely do not want to sort this out." 

Tears streaked down Harper's face, and suddenly the outburst Marshall unleashed vanished as soon as it arrived.

"Right, Olivia." Marshall beckoned me over to him and gently placed the gun into his back pocket. "Let's get this going, we've already wasted enough time on my background. When killing Blake, I think you should still use the poison on him - to make his death slow but painful for his dear family to watch."

He paused, then said, "But first, I'll just remind you who you are doing this for."

As if on cue, the door opened and my mum, clutched by a burly looking guard, Sophie and someone I thought I'd never see again walked inside the room.

"Olivia!"

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That was a very long chapter but now you know Marshall's backstory!

Who do you think walked through the door, that Olivia thought she would never see again?

~Debs