Tory’s POV
” This is insane,” Nate said in disbelief.
” Are you certain?” My mom asked and detective Mason nodded.
” So what do they want? Nate?”
” Obviously. But we’re going to offer Nate to them as bait before we hijack wherever their secret base is” Bill said and I shot him a glare.
” We’re not going to do anything of that sort Mr!”
” It’s either that or they come here and kill everyone else and take Nate anyway. Big D isn’t someone you want to mess with Mrs. Williams” detective Mason said.
” This is a lot, isn’t there another way?”
” No, this is the only way we can get rid of this man once and for all”
” I’ll do it,” Nate said and I glared at him.
” No, you shouldn’t-” I started to say and he cut me off.
” – Tory we’re talking about my mom here! I need to do whatever I can to keep everyone safe”
” Fine! Go ahead and lose everything you’ll ever have to this man, do you really think the police can help you? They couldn’t help my dad when big D had him killed for accidentally coming across their lair!” I yelled as I got up, seething with anger.
” What?” My mom asked staring at me, probably wondering how I knew that.
” Dad wrote it in his letter. He knew you were never gonna tell me anyway. ” I said as folded my arms and glared at my sisters who I was certain knew about it.
” Did he give any clues as to where to find their lair?” Bill asked.
” Why would he do that? That would be putting me in danger”
” Can we see this letter?”
” No bill you can’t!”
” Tory”
” Tia it’s a very personal letter okay? I can’t just give it to the police.”
” But there might be something there that could help them,” Toni said.
” There’s nothing okay, I’ve read that letter a thousand times ”
” Rya please,” Nate said and I sighed and went to my room to get it before I handed it over to detective Mason.
” Do you want to read it one last time?” He asked and I scoffed. ” Wait, what do you mean by one last time?” I asked him and he just shrugged and said ” nothing really” as he and Bill read the letter.
” Reach for the fire inside you…” Bill mumbled, ” you know you don’t have to read it out loud”
” Do you understand this statement?” Detective Mason asked.
” What statement?”
” There’s something hidden in the fire”
” No, my dad uses weird illustrations at times”
Bill and Mason looked at each other and the next thing I know Mason brought out a lighter and burned the center of the paper.
” What are you doing?!” I shrieked as I tried to grab the letter from him but Nate held me back.
” Let go of me!”
” Oh my gosh, there’s something written there – at the bottom!” Tia said and I stopped struggling with Nate as I looked at the paper.
” Bingo! It’s an address” Bill said excitedly.
” Your dad’s a fucking genius,” Mason said with a grin. ” You have no idea what this means. All our problems have been solved” he said with a grin.
I let out a frustrated huff and left for my room shutting the door behind me as I crashed on my bed sobbing vehemently.
It hurt like hell because my dad meant everything to me and Big D murdered an innocent man just because he had accidentally found out where his lair was.
What’s worse, Nate is his son! I was just starting to like the guy and now I can see that it’s inevitable for me to despise Nate.
I cried my eyes out for hours, wanting nothing more than revenge but how the hell am I supposed to do that?
Why did dad even leave an address? Did he want me to find out where the man’s lair was? Maybe he wanted me to give the information to the police.
With that last insight, I stopped crying, I’ve done what he wanted me to.
Someone knocked on my door and I quickly wiped my face clean and yelled ” who is it?”
” It’s Nate,” he said in a low voice. Probably because it was now late in the evening and everyone was probably asleep, none of them even bothered to check up on me!
” Come in, ” I said as I got up from my bed and walked to my bathroom to get a toilet paper, to say that my nose was stuffy is an understatement. I blew hard in the toilet paper not caring what Nate would think and threw it in the toilet before flushing and then I took my time washing my hands because I was contemplating being nice to Nate. It wasn’t he who killed dad but his father.
” Are you okay?” He asked as I came out of the bathroom and sat very far away from him resting my head on my knees, even though I was sad, I still found him very tempting as he sat there in his pajamas that he refused to button for some unknown reason.
” Do I look okay?” I said unable to stop myself from sounding pissed.
” I’m sorry Tory but this needs to be done so that you all can go back to your normal lives”
” We’re already in danger Nate, we are accommodating you so we’re screwed.”
” They don’t know that yet. That’s why I have to go with the police and offer myself up to them but they already have a plan to use that as an opportunity to raid them, they’ll track whoever is coming to get me and follow them”
” What’s the point? They already have the address why can’t they just go there and James bond their way out of this?!”
” Because they found out that Big D’s men have left there”
” Are you kidding me? So he died for nothing?”
” According to your mom, he never even knew it was a Mafia hideout. They were selling pizzas”
” He usually copies out the address of a place that has poor services, they probably treated him in a way he didn’t like”
” And they mistook him for a spy or something”
I sighed deeply as he moved closer to me. ” What’s happened has happened Tory, this is the only way. Don’t you wanna go back to your normal life with your friends, your whole fundraiser thing, your… boyfriend” he said that last part with a hint of contempt though and I rolled my eyes.
” I do, I’m just scared they’ll fail anyway, and then you’ll never get a chance at being who you want to be. If they take you, they’ll train you to be like them and it doesn’t help that you’re already ruthless naturally”
” We won’t fail Tory. Everything’s already planned out, just trust them. This guy is someone they’ve been trying to get for years and the FBI is already hot on this matter”
” Okay,” I said as a tear dropped from my eye, he reached out a wiped it with the back of his hand.
” Aren’t you hungry?” He asked looking at me with so much emotion in his green eyes.
” No, thanks” I said sniffing.
” Okay, good night,” he said and then moved closer to kiss my cheek.
” You know it’s the forehead or head people usually kiss, Nate”
He smirked and said ” well your forehead is too strong, I need something softer”
” Asshole!” I said as I threw a pillow at him, he dodged it and grinned before he stuck his tongue out and I smiled.
” Good night,” he said before he left.