Toys For The Big Boys ✓

(40) Let Fate Decide

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     "A-Antonio...Antonio Valentino. He's the one who has been using my men. He's the one who welcomed me at the airport," Jiyong suddenly tells us, making me gasp from the sudden revelation.

     Mat quickly paused too, shocked on what he just heard as well.

     Romeo on the other hand stared at Jiyong like he just said it all in Korean when it was obvious that he clearly understood what Jiyong just said.

      "No, that can't be," Romeo simply says, then he laughs and points at Jiyong and continues, "You're lying to me."

      "I am not lying. The man who took me here was called Antonio. He had black hair, brown skin, about your height, and had a V tattoo on his middle finger. He was even-"

      "That's enough!" Romeo suddenly shouted.

     Then Romeo quickly looks back at me and says, "Tell me he's lying. Tell me your brother is lying to me."

     I stared at Romeo, unsure what to tell him after finding out about the truth myself. I didn't know what to say, but I knew exactly how Romeo feels.

     This was what I felt when I "found out" my brother was the bad guy. But I knew Romeo felt something more after finding out the truth about his beloved uncle.

     He trusted his uncle more than he trusted anyone. He was his family, and not just in the mafia, but by blood.

      Antonio betraying him never even passed through his mind. Heck, I didn't think about him betraying Romeo either.

     "My uncle...he can't do that right? Your brother is just lying to me, right?" Romeo asked me, now gripping on my shoulders, "Tell me he's lying...tell me!"

     "Val calm down! You're hurting Julien!" Mat now shouted back at him. He was about to grab Romeo, but Romeo quickly pushed Mat away, making him stumble backwards.

     "Let go of my brother!" Jiyong now shouted, and finally, Romeo lets go of me.

     "As sad as it may seem I am not lying to you. This man is the reason why all of us are blinded. He's the reason why until now we don't know who to even fight."

     "He is my uncle," Romeo quickly tells him.

     "So what?" Jiyong coldly tells him, and I could see Romeo clenching his fist tighter because of it.

      "Because he's your uncle you'd just let everything go?" Jiyong asked him, and Romeo couldn't even answer, which somehow made me a little worried.

      "You became a godfather for Julien, but when you found out that your uncle is actually the one behind this, you just...stop? Is that what you'd do? You just act like you knew nothing and just run away because the bad guy is your fucking uncle?" Jiyong asked again, but still, Romeo couldn't answer.

     I could see his eyes turning red as he forced himself not to cry. He looks down on the ground as Jiyong continued to reprimand him; "He's your uncle, I get it. You trusted him, and you thought he was loyal to you. But now is the time to think about what he did to you, measure the bad with the good, find out if this man that you call your uncle is worthy of your forgiveness and mercy, or is he better off dead?"

     I looked at Romeo and saw tears now falling down on the floor.

     Mat looked like he wanted to comfort his old friend, but he stopped and just decided not to say or do anything.