Retributed

Chapter 37

Retributed: Chapter 37

~Lexis P.O.V.~

It's been a few days since I've been here with Achillios... I couldn't have been more thankful than I am to be here with him and had the chance to reconnect with the past. I thought everyone from that era had died, except Romeo Sr, Arlie's Mom, Varo's Mom and my own Mom. Those are the only people left who had any memory left of that period in time. I still can't believe I'm here with him, just waiting to wake back up in that hospital bed and be told I'm finally out of my coma but this was real... it was actually real.  

He's opened his home and let me stay here with him in one of his many master guest rooms. He wanted to connect with me because he wanted to hear everything that I had been through with IRG. I'm talking from the morning I was told I was IRG's new leader up to the present moment in time. In exchange, I wanted him to tell me everything he experienced up to the point where he had to leave to Canada. 

We were consumed by each other's pasts, I don't know what made it so addictive to hear more. I already knew a majority of what he was telling me but I loved hearing it again. Like a story that never got old and it left a smile on my face with all this reminiscing. I haven't even thought about my cancer the whole time I've been here. I didn't feel pain, I wasn't coughing- I felt normal like as if I was back in my early twenties and invincible. The past wasn't always great times, we touched on some things that would strike a nerve in both of us, regrets we carried and will continue to carry for the rest of lives and of course the loss of important people who we'd give anything to have another chance to speak to. This makes me wish Arlie and Varo were here too, they would have enjoyed hearing what Achillios had to say. 

"So where is Rommel on this wall?" I asked him as I was glancing over all these pictures and obituaries. How he managed to get all these is impressive. He walked over and instantly pointed to the top row, second on the left. "Can I pull it off the wall?" He nodded as he took a bite of his toast with what looked like jelly on top. I reached for the frame and brought it down. "God damn." I said more so to myself as I looked at his picture. "Exactly how I last remember seeing him." I felt a cold chill run down my spine and goosebumps coating my arms instantly. That same glare he had, a glare that could kill with stone cold eyes that never let anyone in. They say the eyes are the gateway to the soul, I've heard that so many times but I had a theory. Rommel was blind, both eyes entirely grey and glossy, you couldn't see into his soul because there was no soul there since as the rumor goes he sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his insanity to reach success by any and all means. "Wanna know somethin' scary?" I said when I finally broke my stare from the picture. 

"What?" 

"My son, Trey wants to be more feared than this man here." I said holding up the frame. Looking it over one last time, I put it back up in it's spot, right in between Trell Sr. and D-Dot. "He wants to be as fearless but more successful than him and I combined." The look of concern appeared on Achillios' face. "I know. That's what scares me because to get to that level... you never want to-" 

"Lexis, you can't scold him for doin' what a lot of us have done. You can't come in and try to put rules on the game. You follow a code of respect but if someone wants to take that risk to get to the top, that's on them. If Sage and I were wanting to be a leader, I would have killed him because he would have been my competition. There would have been no remorse, just the satisfaction of knowing, I can't be taken out by Sage because I got him before he could get me. Is it fucked up? Yes it is from an outside perspective and moral aspect. But in the game? We call that a risk worth taking if you really want something." That's what I didn't like, I don't want my kids killing each other and being divided because of that mentality. I've spent my entire life keeping that mentality far away from my kids.