𝐏𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐢

06 | Why?

The look on Val's face when I walked away from her shattered my heart into a million pieces, I never wanted to walk away from her but I had to. I needed to keep her safe and at a distance till I figure out my supposed fathers' grand plan for all this shit.

I am so in love with the girl and consumed by her that all of this is starting to weigh heavily on me, all my decisions are based on her. I sense that Milos is starting to see me crack but I don't think he blames me, I think he understands how much I love her.

As soon as we arrived back at Galen's mansion he calls home even though there is nothing about it that makes it seem like a home, he announced that he was planning an assassination but never said who was the first target.

The idiot wants to take out the leaders of the mafias including the heirs, meaning he wants Fernando, Alejandro, Luis, Ivan, Andrè, Alec, Xavier, and all of them dead. He wants to create chaos within them since they're aligned with each other and are strong together.

He is delusional and powers hungry it's insanity, for now, I will play along with this game but there is no way I'm hurting any of those people. Valentina sees them all like family, they hurt — she hurts.

I've hurt her enough as it is.

My fists pound relentlessly into the punching bag in front of me as I gather all my thoughts, my breathing starting to get heavier. I need to bring down Galen somehow, I need to show Milos somehow that this has to happen.

How can I convince someone who has been around Galen long enough to form a strong bond, surely Milos sees Galen for what he is — a monster?

"You did the right thing." A voice behind me says, startling me out of my thoughts, slightly halting my movements as I tense.

Milos moves beside me into view, I take a deep breath and continue pounding into the bag ignoring his statement.

"Why do you love her?" He asks, as I stop and take a deep breath and he continues, "she tried to kill our father but yet, you still love her — why?"

Ignoring him and catching my breath back, I walk away and hear his footsteps behind me. I sit at a bench and start to unravel the tape around my hands with a grunt from the split in my knuckles.

He takes a seat next to me, glaring at the ground in front of him. He sighs before he rubs a hand down his face — a sign of exhaustion.

"She told me she tried to kill him because he has his fingers dipped into the human trafficking business, I didn't believe her." He starts, my head snaps to him as he sighs again, "but I did some digging on my own and found it to be true, he lied to me about it because he knows most of us are against it, he lied to me because I'm against it."

Why is he telling me all this? Why is it now he's starting to doubt Galen? What is the importance of this?

He begins to chuckle to himself, shaking his head, "I had a little sister, we had a little sister. Her name was Raven, she was only sixteen when she was kidnapped and put into the human trafficking syndicate. I was eighteen and confused on how it all happened but it all makes sense now."

My eyes narrow into slits while I wait for him to continue his rambling, his gaze connects with mine, "our dear father sold our sister to them, I found the transactions recently. He told me she had died when she was kidnapped, I begged him to find her but he always came up with excuses. It now all makes sense, but why he did it doesn't make sense to me. I should have listened to Valentina, she was right about him but I was blind and now he wants to kill everyone."  

I'm glad this idiot is finally seeing sense, I just hope it's not too late to fix all this. I hope Milos wants to fix this because I want to go home to my girl and have her in my arms again.

"We have to play his game, I will help you get back to your girl if you tell me why you love her. What is it about her that everyone is so ..." he trails off, clicking his tongue, "obsessed with, to be blunt?"

I look down at my hands resting in my lap, he's right there are so many people weirdly obsessed with her, and most are not the good kind. There are so many reasons I love her, why other people love her and are willing to die for her.

Taking a deep breath, "she may be an assassin we call Diavola and she may have done fucked up things but we all have. She just does hers for the rights reasons, can you honestly say we have?" I ask, looking at him.

His eyes wide and his jaws dropped, obviously not expecting me to talk, he shakes his head and starts to say something but I cut him off, "that's why I love her, she doesn't do anything without reason. I've heard stories and rumors about how ruthless she is but when you think about it — she only killed those who have harmed her or her family and those who truly deserve to die."

I watch as his face softens before he nods, looking back to the ground again, "I'll help you brother, but first we need to find a way out of assassinating Ivan and Alec Petrov without giving ourselves away. We also have to find a way to destroy our father, he is leading our mafia to death if he takes all of them on. I don't want my people — our people dying for a senseless war."

How is it this idiot is younger than me but talks with so much wisdom? I will never know, maybe this kid isn't so bad and we can work together to take Galen down from the inside. If that's what it's going to take then I guess we'll have to do it, anything to get back home to Valentina.

I'll be begging for forgiveness.