Julia has been living on Nova Island for six years. After the trauma she experienced on the island she decides to go home. It's been ten years since she's been to the small seaside town she grew up in. What she didn't expect to see when she got home...
"I wasn't locked in. They tried to kidnap and threatened me because of some boss that doesn't want me to have anything to do with my uncle who's behind bars."
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Knox steps aside and lets me enter his office. There's photos of different members of the family lining the walls. He watches me closely as I take everything in. "Why don't you take a seat so we can talk?"
My fingers run across the brown shelf in the room, where the photos are. "Am I going to be interrogated because of what happened at Twin Towers Correctional Facility?"
He shakes his head. "No, I'm not going to do that. I want to talk to you like a friend would."
Slowly moving over to the chair I say. "We're not going to be friends Mr. Moretti. You're going to get all the information you need from me and then make sure that I don't darken your doorstep again."
Knox takes a seat behind his mahogany desk. "You don't trust people do you?"
I laugh. "Since, I came back home there hasn't been any reason for me to trust people. The ones that should have been happy that I'm back don't want me and the one person I shouldn't like is the reason that I'm staying here. Isn't that messed up?"
Lauren sits next to me and places her hand on my arm. "I know exactly how you feel. Knox and I had a similar thing happen when we first met, but things worked out perfectly for us. I believe the same will happen for Cole and you."
Is she always this optimistic?
Knox looks at his wife and his eyes shine brightly as he says. "That's not messed up, Julia. At least you don't have to go through all the things I did to have Lauren as my wife. There was a lot of people that didn't want me to marry her, but at the end love won out and they were happy that I was going to have heirs that would one day take over the empire."
Looking at Lauren I say. "How do you feel about your kids taking over the empire?"
She stands up and walks into Knox's arms. "Our first born son is going to make an extraordinary head of the family when the time comes. We're raising him to be kind to people, but when it comes to criminals we have to teach him to be hard on them or else people are going to walk over him when it comes time for him to take over."
"Will he have guys stand by him? When they're growing up?"
He nods. "I have a few men that have sons around his age."
"That's good."
Knox looks at the table and then back at me. "How is it that I wanted to talk to you about your life and you can make us talk about ours?"
I shrug. "It comes natural to me, Knox. A lot of the time people like talking about themselves, but I see how hard it is for you because you're the head of a criminal empire. Just know that if you need someone to talk to you can call me."
