"No, please..." Evelina pleaded, weeping. "Please don't do this, Luca. We're good together. Good for the family. We can learn to love each other, whatever it takes..."
"It's a dangerous world, Evelina, and you're not ready to step up to the mark," I stated matter-of-factly. "Now that my Pops is dead, you don't owe me anything anymore. Don't owe anything to the family. Don't have to stay with me. For fuck's sake, save yourself while you still can. Before something happens to me, and you end up dead from being caught in the crossfire."
Evelina took steps closer to me, her tear-filled eyes now replaced with something different. With a void. With anger.
Hurt.
Betrayal.
This was what I did to the people who loved me. To the people who got close to me.
I destroyed them.
"You bastard," she whispered coldly, slapping me hard across the face. "You deserve everything that's coming to you. You killed your father. Don't you ever fucking forget that. A man like your father dead, and a monster like you alive... It isn't right. It isn't fucking right."
I screwed my face, burning. Feeling utterly and completely at loss.
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