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“I remember you, too,” Dale says, like a realization just fell upon him. “Grant didn’t rape your mother, son; they had an affair. But…”
“That stupid bitch?” Grant fucking Hanlon doesn’t know when to shut up. “She had it coming. Trying to ruin my life when I got married. Of course, I didn’t know my brother was fucking the woman I was marrying. But your mother, JM, she tried to leave her husband for me. To bring her brats. I didn’t want her. She was a good fuck, don’t get me wrong. But I took care of it. Turned her the fuck away and told her husband. He kicked her out. Why don’t you blame your father?”
“He paid for those sins,” I say.
Everything suddenly turns dark, then bright, and finally it’s perfect fucking clarity. Every single thing in the room is laser sharp.
Because the truth.
It’s there.
Right fucking there.
Too bright.
Too clear.
It was the fucking uncle.
Rape or not, he destroyed my family, my mother. And he hurt Scarlett.
The last thing tips the scales into no return territory.
And I don’t think. I pull the fucking trigger and he drops, head hitting the concrete floor.
Fuck, I’d love to say he’s dead.
Gone.
But I can see him breathing. He knocked himself out when he went down.
Another failure of mine.
How the fuck do I kill someone Scarlett cares for? I know her. She’ll still care for him, even while she hates him for what he’s done to her and Amelia.
I turn to look at Scarlett who’s shaking, staring at me like I’m what I am. A monster.
She thinks he’s dead.
There’s no love in her eyes.
No trust, no soft and fuzzy feels for me.
“Don’t kill my dad, Malone,” she says brokenly.
But it’s my sweet Baby Red. She’ll twist herself, find a way to save me.
She can’t.
No one can.
So I put the nail in the coffin.
Kill it dead.
“Give me one reason why, Scarlett.”
Dale pushes himself up and gives his brother a long look. He’s gray, and he holds his stomach like he’s trying not to throw up. But he lifts his head to me.
