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“She found out about it a few days later and went to confront him about it. He was on a call that he was making me sit on in his office. He wanted me to hear him try to sell my virginity for kilos of cocaine since my virginity was literally worth millions of dollars.”
What a sick fuck.
“I remember sitting there, and suddenly, I turned, and my mom stood by his double wooden doors that were usually closed. She turned as white as a ghost, and her body shook like a leaf. It looked like she’d aged twenty years overnight, and it’s the last way I remember her…”
My free hand fisted at my side.
“I was so scared that I immediately ran to her, throwing my arms around her legs as hard as I could, never wanting to let her go.”
Big.
Huge.
Fat tears fell down her cheeks.
“My brothers must have caught on because they came running, too. I remember begging. Just begging over and over again for I don’t know what. She threatened to leave him, yelling and calling him an animal, a monster, a sorry excuse of a man and father. It was the first time I’d ever heard her say anything like that. It was as if it was all pent up inside her, and she just exploded.”
I pictured it playing out in front of me. Everything she went through, trying to keep my own emotions at bay.
“All he did was walk toward her and laugh in her face. I’ll never forget that laugh for the rest of my life. It was such an evil villain laugh,” she choked out, barely hanging on by a thread. “Something in me snapped, and I screamed, ‘I love you, mami,’ and the next thing I knew, he lifted his gun and simply said, ‘I’ll kill you before you leave me.’ I was screaming bloody murder into her legs as he pulled the trigger. Her body fell backward, collapsing on the floor from the bullet between her eyes, and it took me with her.”
“Jesus… baby…”
“He let us mourn her. He let us cry onto her dead body as blood and brains gushed out of her, and then his men came in and took her away.” She shrugged again, wiping all the tears from her eyes, smearing her eye makeup across her face. “We never saw her again. There was no funeral. He simply buried her out back like a dog.”
Her eyes stayed locked with mine. It was almost like they were fused, and nothing could break them apart.
That was when she truly lost it.
That was when it really hit her.
She shuddered, her body giving out on her. Any ounce of resolve she had left vanished like a thief in the night.
My vision blurred.
My throat seized.
The room caved in on her as she unleashed tears from her eyes, sending a steady stream down the sides of her face with nothing but her heartbreaking pain.
She broke down, losing all her strength.
To fight.
To cry.
To hate him.
She fell to the ground, and I went with her. Catching her in my arms, I held her as she bawled her eyes out. I pulled her into my chest, enveloping her so damn tight while she shattered in my strong and comforting embrace.
“Shh…” I murmured into her ear, rocking her back and forth. “Shh…”
She lay against my chest and cried her eyes out for I don’t know how long. It could have been minutes or hours. All I did was try to hold her for as long as she’d let me. It was the only thing I could do. My heart broke for her.
Everything I thought I knew.
Everything I thought I was going to do.
I was all wrong.
