When I’m donewith the jockey, there isn’t much left. I needed to make an example of him, so that others will know what happens when you defy a Moretti. Our stock will rise in the underworld because of it. Like Luigi said, there’s no room for nice gangsters in this world.
As I look at his dead body, I feel nothing. I tell myself I’m building our empire and yet I wonder if this is the way. It wouldn’t be the first empire built on blood…
Luigi’s words echo in my head.
Get out of this business while you still can. Before you get in so deep you can never get out.
I suppose my descent into darkness is now complete. I’ve fallen to the bottom of the pit from which there is no return. I was the first of my brothers to kill, and now also the first to do it merely to prove a point.
I turn away from the body, removing my gloves as I make my way back to the rental. My surviving brothers, and my sister, are all I have now. They’re my lifeline to what’s left of my humanity.
If there is anything left at all…
I think of Angela Amato in that moment. This was practice for my endgame. I need to become a cold, heartless killer so I can murder her father and take her away.
But it’s funny… it never occurred to me until now that she won’t want what I’ve become. I almost laugh at the thought.
I’ve turned myself into a monster for nothing.
It’s probably for the best, since I’m incapable of love now. I’ve been surviving on a steady diet of rage and hate for the past nine months and it’s only going to get worse.
It doesn’t matter, she’ll still be mine, whether she wants me or not. I took her first kiss, and I’m going to take everything else from her. I’ll squelch the light inside her, the inner glow that makes up so much of her beauty. Maybe then I’ll finally be satisfied. Maybe then my brother will be avenged.
Somehow, I doubt it.
I’ve always struggled against the darkness.
Now, I’ve finally lost to it.
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