The Ghost

48. Enjoy the pain!

Ruby's POV

It's been an hour! We haven't heard anything yet! Not from the doctor or G. I just hope everything turns out ok.

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It's been 5 hours! Where the hell is G? She should have been here already! There better be a good explanation because nothing should be more important than her brother and sister. If not I'll kill her myself.

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The bitch still hasn't fucking showed up. They've been out of surgery for 3 hours now. Rosie may never walk again after both her kneecaps were shattered and Mark is just lucky that his punctured lung didn't kill him.

The doctor says that they should be waking up any minute, but their sister still hasn't shown up. We managed to get them in the same room, so John is sitting next to Mark's bed and I'm next to Rosie's.

Stacy, Thea and Jace got themselves checked out earlier, but other than being malnourished and dehydrated, they were fine. Right now they're at the cafeteria eating everything they can. They're supposed to bring us back some food, but I doubt there will be anything left.

I've given up on G. She didn't try to rescue them faster, she's not here when they need her, and she's dropped off the face of the earth. She may be wallowing in self pity, but that's no excuse not to be here for her siblings.

Galaxy's POV

Looking at the most recent text from John I sigh in relief. They made it. They should be waking up any minute.

I know. I know I should be there, but I'm just a reminder of what's gone wrong for them. I allowed all of this to happen. I deserve for them to hate me. This will make leaving so much easier. I will protect them this time and leave... that's the only way to keep them safe.

The darkness that surrounded me during the fight hasn't left me, but it has made my thoughts more and more against myself. Nothing I do is enough or right according to this darkness and I fully accept that in my mind.

As my thoughts get worse and worse, I decide that it's finally time. Time to end the life of the man who caused all of this. I could have lived a normal life with my family. Well, as normal as a mafia's family life could be. Now it is time for him to leave this world and to stop hurting others.

Jackson's POV

Sitting, tied to my chair, I wait. All of my senses are straining to hear any sounds coming from outside the room, but I can't. I get distracted for a moment by a surge of pain coming from all over my body so when the door is open without there being a single sound, I jump as much as my bindings will allow, but there's no one around me.

I start to prepare myself for sudden pain. My daughter is the only person who could sneak in so unnoticed and she thinks she has every reason to hurt me. I stay tensed prepared for the pain to come, but after what feels like hours without a sound I start to relax bit by bit.

I'm an idiot. The moment she saw me relax, she shoved a needle into a pressure point. I shriek in agony praying that she will just end it soon. My eyes start seeing stars as it becomes too much, but right before I faint, she yanks the needle out again.

As I recover from the needle, my daughter stalks around the chair I'm tied to, dragging a metal chair that screeches as it grates against the floor making me wish I could cover my ears to drown out the noise.

"Today, you will finally get what you've wanted since I came back. I'll tell you what happened to me at school." She claims as she sits backwards in the chair staring straight into my eyes. I can see the change in them from her previous sessions, they're full of anger and pain, and not all of it is directed towards me.