“What? Can’t handle the truth?”
“Enough!” the man said, louder this time.
“Admit it! You’d rather stick your head in the sand and continue to trust some assholes because you are foolish enough to call them family!”
“ENOUGH!” Sin roared, stepping toward him with clenched fists.
Cecil cringed. He felt a flash of fear and couldn’t stop himself from stepping back.
Sin’s anger seemed to vanish instantly, and horror replaced it, followed by an expression filledwith shame. “I’m sorry,” Sin rasped. “I think it would be best if I left for now…our tempers are too high.”
He apologized once more before leaving.
Cecil trembled and hugged himself in an attempt to hold back the pain. He was alone again. Alone and forever a thief…
The yelling had stopped, and Hyde hoped it meant the two men had worked things out. That hope was dashed when Sin exited the room, softly closed the door, and walked away.
Tension poured off the retreating man. More worrisome was the blood dripping from Sin’s clenched fists. The beast was close to the surface…
“Go to him, I’ll handle things here,” Hyde told his brother, before heading off to take out his frustration on the ones who caused this.
Luckily, all of them remained where he and his twin had left them. Hyde glared and stared down everyone in the room. A few snapped back that they hadn’t done anything wrong.
“Shut up,” he hissed.
“The man’s a thief! He should be thrown out,” Kevin yelled.
Hyde grinned evilly, but his voice was pleasant when he spoke. “The only one who should be thrown out is you, Kevin. Cecil did not steal anything.”
They started to protest, but Hyde silenced them with agrowl. “If you idiots had taken the time to get to know him, you would see what a sweet young man he is. You would also know that Jekyll and I had found him a job. Cecil bought that watch with his own money, and you all ruined it.”
Hyde was not surprised when Kevin spoke again. He had always been a pain in the ass.
“There is still stuff missing!”
“I know that!” Hyde snapped. “But whose fault is that? Certainly not mine. If I remember correctly, Kevin, you were put in charge of finding the culprit. Are you so incompetent that after weeks of searching you still haven’t found the one responsible?”
That shut him up.
“No worries, I will find them myself, and I promise you all now, they will suffer.” Hyde clapped his hands and rubbed them together. “Now, I just need to decide what to do with all of you.”
Hyde cackled when they all paled.
Jekyll found Sin pacing in one of the guest rooms. Sin was deathly pale, the man’s hands were trembling, and there were tears in his eyes.
“I screamed at him,” Sin told him, his voice full of disgust.
“It tends to happen when couples fight.”
“You don’t get it. I lost control of my temper, and Cecil backed away from me in fear! Iwas so close…”
“Sin—”
“I saw what it wanted!” Sin screamed over him. “What my beast wanted to do to him…I saw it! And it wasn’t even the first time.” His boss laughed hysterically. “I held him in my arms, and all my beast wanted was to see him torn apart, his eyes empty of life!”
“You would never let that happen. You are stronger than that,” Jekyll asserted.
“Don’t you get it?! I’m not!” Sin hollered back. “At any moment, I could kill the man I love! I shouldn’t be near anyone!”
