LUCIUS DEVINE
I can’t lose her. I can’t afford to lose Lisa. I can’t let her die. I’d rather die than let her die.
I stepped harder on the accelerator, knowing I had to be there in no time. The tracker had already lost signal so I knew for sure that Sandro had either figured it out and destroy it or he had just had all her jewelries removed and destroyed.
So I needed to get there fast. I needed to be at the last location of the tracker as soon as possible before Sandro would change location and fucking make it more difficult for me to get to Lisa.
“Please stay safe for me. Please” I muttered.
Even though it was still raining and it was cold, I could very well feel the beads of sweats that were forming on my forehead.
The only woman I had ever loved. The only woman I so want to protect with the last blood in me. I could fail at every other thing in life but I was not allowed to fail at protecting Lisa.
For a second, the thought of Sandro telling Lisa about me being her father’s killer came to my mind but I shook it off. That was the least of my concerns right now. Her safety was of the greatest priority.
“Please be safe for me”
MONALISA
I was still refusing to believe the words I had just heard when Sandro continued with his words.
“You might want to ask Lucius what his fifth mission was” Sandro grinned at me.
“Oh no, you would not be able to ask because you will be dead so I will just tell it to you” he grinned like a maniac.
“Stop! Stop saying those words! Stop telling me those lies!”
“Your father, Sebastian” Sandro started and took a few steps back, going to sit on the chair.
I looked towards Irene for a few seconds and once again she looked away from me during those few seconds.
“He was a quite stubborn man” Sandro stated.
“Aaargh” he groaned and looked at Irene.
“Grab me a glass of beer” he said and Irene left the room obediently.
Spite was starting to grow inside of me. She brought me here to listen to these lies! She brought me here to poison my mind in the worst ways.
None of these could be the truth.
“Your father had barely accumulated enough powers to survive but he went ahead of himself with those little powers and proceeded to go against those he was just not strong enough to go against. I was one of them” he let out a slow lazy yawn.
“And I needed him out of the way but your father was quite smart. I give him that. Stubborn and smart. To tame him a bit, I decided to play games with his wife, your mother. I only kidnapped her for a day but Seb retaliated. He would not stand his wife having been kidnapped. Now, how did your father retaliate? He killed my fucking wife!” he chuckled as the door opened and Irene walked in with a glass of beer.
She handed it over to him all the while still avoiding my gaze. I watched as Sandro took a gulp of the beer and nodded in satisfaction.
“Please just let me go” I whimpered.
“Oh, sweetie. You should not interrupt the storytime with pleas. You are going to be saying a whole lot of that very soon so don’t be in a hurry”
More fear gripped me and I felt myself shiver.
“I do not need your storytime!” I braced myself and spoke up. I was going to believe Lucius. I wanted to believe him.
This Sandro here could be lying! Not ‘could’! He was definitely lying!
“Put the tape over her mouth, she’s becoming too loud” Sandro ordered and my gaze went back to Irene.
This time, she let our eyes meet as she approached me with the tape in her hands.
“No, Irene. Irene, no” I whispered, feeling more tears pricking my eyes. The betrayal hurt my heart so much. I had considered her as my best friend.
“I am sorry” she mouthed, standing right in front of me.
“No” the tear rolled down as the tape was slapped over my mouth.
“Great” Sandro remarked.
“Now, your father wasn’t the only smart one. Lucius was also quite smart and for a newbie as he was then, I totally didn’t expect him to be able to kill Seb. It was never even his mission to take Seb out of the way but he thought we had overrated Seb’s smartness and that he could take down Seb in less than a week. And he did.”
“Devine is a natural at this but you know one thing Devine did that I could never understand? It was that he spared you and your mother. He was supposed to kill Seb, his wife and you, his kid to avenge my wife’s death but after killing Seb, he suddenly backed out and said he wasn’t going to kill you and your mother. Killing you and your mum would have been so easy for him to do but he refused to do so. Fuck, that was when I realized that I got rid of Seb just to start having to do with another stubborn devil. I was going to do it myself. Kill you myself but Devine went against me.” He laughed.
“He went against me just like Seb had done but Devine wasn’t someone I could just get rid of. He was a stubborn but useful tool so we had a bit of a deal and after the deal, I let you and your mother be. But perhaps I should have sought to get rid of Devine back then. I should never have let him grow so much to the point where he killed my own fucking brother! That bastard shot my brother!” Sandro went into a fit of rage and threw the glass of beer across the room.
My eyes shut and tears rolled down, in fear.
“And now, I am going to kill you too. Like I should have done a long long time ago.”
I wanted to yell at him that I would not believe any of his words but I could not say a word due to the tape. I wanted to rush at him and glue his lips together to prevent him from uttering another word.
All this seemed like a lie but deep down, something inside of me was accepting these as facts.
He shot up from his chair and walked out of the room, leaving just Irene and I.
Irene rushed towards me immediately and pulled the tape off my mouth sharply. The pain from the take being pulled off sharply made me lose it all and burst into full tears
“Irene! Wh… What did I do to you? W… why are you working with him to get me killed? Did I…”
“Lisa, I can save you. I can talk to Sandro and he will let go of you. I can tell him to lie to Mr. Devine that you are dead so he feels the agony of losing you and then we can leave everything behind and go somewhere else entirely. Start a new life, as lovers or as friends if that’s how you want it. Just… Just tell me that you will go with me”
I felt anger swelling in my heart.
“And why do you think I would want to let Lucius feel agony?” I asked, tears streaming down.
“Because he killed your father! You heard Sandro! Lucius killed your father! You definitely aren’t thinking of loving a man who killed your father, right?”
“I… I don’t believe Lucius killed my father. I don’t believe him and I don’t… Don’t believe you too.”
“Jeez, Lisa! You have to make a quick decision! You have to choose to go with me!”
“No” I shook my head.
“I would rather lose my life” I whispered and just then, we both heard a commotion and then gunshots.
Lucius.
He was here.