Indebted (A Kingpin Love Affair 1)

There is no point in begging him. I know it will do nothing for me, but I have to try to make him understand Mack is lying. “I didn’t… I didn’t know, I swear…He’s lying! My God! How could I have even known you were going to be at my house to collect from my father the day I came home on break? You met my father whom you, yourself, described as weak and simple minded. You honestly think my father could kill someone? He didn’t even fight to save me, his own daughter! He let you take me because he was scared of you! There’s no way a simple, spineless farmer could be a tough, intelligent FBI agent…” My voice halts in the midst of me trying to convince him I’m telling the truth. Time stands still as Zerro stares into my eyes. He’s looking at me, but doesn’t see me. Hate and anger come to the surface with a vengeance.

“He’s your father, Bree. You had to have known. Payment is due, and this bullet has his name written in your family’s blood. So, I suppose this bullet is meant for you.” He refuses to listen to reason, refuses to believe me. Gone is the man I have grown to love and care for. I know death is imminent when I feel the cold metal of his gun against my head,

“Any last words?” His voice is so cold that I barely recognize it as the same tender voice that proclaimed his love for me only hours ago.

“You have to believe me! Look at me! Look at me and tell me you can’t see that I am telling the truth. It is Mack who is lying, Zerro! Please. You once claimed you could always tell when I am lying. Why can’t you tell now?” I am breathless, drowning in my own tears as I try so desperately to make him believe me.

“Why can’t I tell now? I am the king, Bree. From the very beginning, I was taught to trust no one, and that’s how I lived my life. Until you…until you came and clouded not only my mind, but my judgment as well. I want to believe you. I really do, but I am in the middle of a war. Not only with Luccio’s people, but with myself. I am at a fucking, raging battle with myself because of you! The good you unlocked in me is fighting to be free, but the dark, evil, fucked up part of me is telling me not to trust either one of you. That part of me wants to see both of you with bullets in your heads.”

Time stands still as I take a deep breath. There is nothing else to say. The monster has been set free, and he won’t be at peace until I am lying on this very floor in a puddle of my own blood.

The silence is literally killing me, it surrounds us, sucking the life right out of me.

“Pull the trigger!” I scream. I feel every single shred of hope leave me. My body, mind, and soul shut down. I am ready; there is no other way around it.

“I will.” Placing his lips against my forehead, he pulls the trigger. He actually pulls the trigger! The sound of the gun going off is loud as Zerro’s beautiful face is the last thing I see before my world goes dark.