Forbidden

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"Kirstie, put down the gun."

"No! Don't shoot!"

"Don't shoot!"

"No! No! No!"

"Mitch. Mitch! Wake up!"

Suddenly I awake from my nightmare with sweat dripping down my face.

I look over to my boyfriend Beau, who has a concerned look on his face.

"Are you okay?" Beau asks.

"Uh, y-, umm, yeah. I'm fine. Go back to sleep." I say patting his hand that's on my leg.

He nods his head and lays back down and drifts off into sleep.

I get out of bed and go to the kitchen to get a glass of water and walk over to my office on the main floor of my house.

As I sit down in my office chair, I pull out a medium size box from a drawer I keep locked at all times.

In the box I keep all the old hits I had put out on people when I was a crime boss years ago.

After twenty something years I still keep it all and thank God that that's not my life anymore.

I then come across the hit I put out on Scott all those years ago.

All the bad memories begin to flood back into my brain.

Quickly I put all of it back into the drawer and lock it back up.

**

"Good morning, Mitchie." Beau says greeting me in the kitchen.

"Morning."

He looks at me and notices how tired I look and becomes concerned.

"Sweetie, are you okay? I mean that was the third night this week that you woke up screaming from a nightmare." He says.

"Yeah. I'm fine. It's probably something I read or seen on tv that's giving me these nightmares." I say brushing off the situation.

Beau puts his hands on my face and turns my head so I'm looking him right in the eyes.

"I can tell you're not okay. You can talk to me about anything."

"I said I'm fine."

Beau sighs and walks away from me towards the stove to finish making breakfast.

I clear my throat and sit at the breakfast nook pouring myself a cup of coffee.

Finally, Beau breaks the silence in the room handing me a letter.

"This came for you this morning while you were in the shower. It seems important."

I take the letter from Beau and open it up to see what it's about.

Dear, Mitch

I hope all is well and I hope you and Scott have patched up your friendship since the last time we seen each other.

I'm writing this letter because I don't have your number or email and had no other way of contacting you.

Since last we seen of each other, my brother Avi moved away to Switzerland and hasn't wanted to have contact with me or our adopted brother Matt because of the whole situation twenty years ago.

I would like to meet up with you and Scott if possible on August fourth. You don't need to write back. I'll know the answer and if you got this letter if you and Scott decide to show up.

If you do decide to come meet up with me, I'll be the Hilton in room 214.

With love,

Esther.

Yay! Welcome to 4th and FINAL book in the Catfished series! I know it's been 2yrs since I said that Hidden was the last book in the series, but I couldn't stay away from this! Enjoy!❤️