Tino
Halloween Eve. The night before she turned eighteen. The night I’d been waiting for for years. The night I’d imagined a thousand times but not once had I pictured it to become this agony. To become the night before she married my own son. The last night I’d be able to sit in this chair and watch her in her sleep.
Tomorrow, my sweet Angel would never be mine again.
She’d belong to Leo. My son was going to taste her lips, touch her beautiful body, watch her bend under his hands, savor her moans while he made love to her.
There were no words to describe the blazing pain corroding me. The thought of another hand on her was enough to bring out the demons to play.
“Why did you do this to me, Angel?” I whispered. “I did everything for you. How could you betray me like this?”
I tiptoed to her side of the bed and felt the softness of her hair one last time, moving it off her peaceful face. “How could you sleep like that, tonight of all nights?”
The back of my hand brushed her cheek and feathered on her lips, her breath kissing my skin like a whisper. “How could you let me go?”
How could I ever let her go?
A wet drop smeared my hand and another plopped down on her face. My…own tears? I never cried. For the past twenty years I didn’t remember a time I cried except when my wife died. “Look what you’ve done to me, Angel. Look at how much you’ve hurt me. Look at how weak you’ve made me.”
I wiped my eyes fast and yanked the sheets off her body. “I’ll have you right now and ruin this fucking wedding before it starts.”
She’d broken all her spoken and unspoken promises to me. Why should I keep mine? I stripped her with the patient speed I used every time and knelt naked between her legs, my cock ready to take what had always been mine.
I put my knees on either side of her parted thighs and braced on my palms.
Do it. She belongs to you. You didn’t wait all this time for someone else to sink his cock into her virgin pussy.
She’s ready for the taking. Your taking. Do it.
Why should you be the one sacrificing her? Why shouldn’t Leo? You had your eyes on her long before he did. He’s the one who should step down. You’re not stealing her from him now. You can’t steal what’s yours. He’s the one who should have never stolen her from you.
It’s time for him to pay. For both of them to pay.
Do it. You know she’ll love it. You know she’ll beg for it.
Do it.
DO IT!
Her innocent face stared at me in the dark, oblivious to my presence, yet begging me to shelter her from all evil, tugging at my heart like it always did. Then my son’s face flashed in my head, slicing me open with a blunt blade.
Do it.
Do it.
DO IT!
I squeezed my eyes shut and let out a silent scream at the ceiling. “I can’t do it.”
Not to him. Not to her.
I got off her and put my clothes back on. Then I took my gun, felt its weight in my hands as if for the first time. Then I took a pillow and pointed it with the gun at her head.
“You leave me no choice, Angel.” If I couldn’t have her, no one else could. Not even him.
She stirred in her sleep, and the moonlight hit her stark naked body. I’d forgotten to put her clothes back on. I couldn’t kill her while she was naked and leave her for everyone to see her body. Not even in death.
I set the pillow back in place and waited for her breath to gain its steady beat. Then I fully dressed her. She moaned, blinking as I fixed her shorts in place. Swiftly, I straightened and grabbed the gun.
