Chapter 3: Fate.

Three hours earlier...

"She's meant to pay in all ways possible for her father's sins Cassian. You and I know what that means." A blonde haired woman no older than her late twenties said.

She calmly looked at the man in front of her .

Her red manicured fingernails kept clicking on her desk with a rhythmic pattern, like she was counting down seconds.

Cassian didn't raise his eyes from the kitten laying on his lap.

"She'll be useful. You know that Bella."

The woman's lips pressed into a thin line. A scowl alreday forming.

"What the f*** are you talking about?"

She shoved her chair back and rose on her feet.

"Her father did us no good. I don't want his offspring repeating the same sh**."

She picked up the wine filled glass and gulped its content down.

"I'm keeping her alive."

The woman sucked air through her teeth and cussed. She walked around her desk to where her brother sat and sat.

Her heels clicking on the floor like her nails did.

"Cassian" she said leaning on her desk looking down at him. Her expression, calm. "Keeping her alive will cost us a lot."

"I have my ways... Even fate can't stop me." He dropped the kitten on the floor carefully and pulled out a syringe from the front pocket of his sister's jacket.

"Stay out of my way." He gave a light pat on her shoulder and walked out of the office, the guards creating a path for him to walk through as he approached.

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Present time ....

"You killed them." Iris kept screaming and crying till her voice became hoarse and her throat dry. Those were the words she had been screaming since she woke up.

She tugged against the chains that held both her hands up like she was on a cross. She was kneeling, but her legs were chained together and attached to the wall behind her.

The door of the room cracked open and the man stepped in .

His eyes were calm but cold. His expression stoic and his posture relaxed but domineering.

His calm domineer scared the living hell out of her. He looked more like the devil walking in flesh and bone.

"Stay away from me." She screamed and thrashed harder against the chains and moved back on instinct when they didn't budge, her eyes reflecting rage and panic.

Memories of how he injected that liquid into her hours, made her squirm.

Cassian didn't answer. He walked to were she was, at the corner of the kind sized bedand sat down.

His eyes kept staring into hers. Iris pulled her eyes away from his soul-seeing stare and continued tugging at the chains.

"You need to know that truth." Came his voice calm and low. His eyes still on her.

Iris froze her head rose slowly and their gazes locked.

"Truth?" She scoffed. "All I know is you... and your fucked up gang killed my family." She gritted her teeth her eyes red with tears and rage.

"You're wasting your energy and time if you don't know the truth." He leaned in so their faces were inches apart.

He ran his thumb across her pale tear stained face and flicked the tears underneath her eyes. Iris pulled back her eyes now confused and red rimmed.

"These tears of vengeance, are on shed for the wrong person."

"You're lying." She screamed back thrashing harder than before.

"Let me show you." He blinked unfazed by her tantrums.

He stood up from the bed and picked up the laptop on the bedside table. Iris went quiet.

He flipped it open, waited for it to boot, then played a video.

That was the night of their escape but ... the view was from inside the truck.

Iris's eyes widened. There were hidden cameras in their truck.

She gulped her saliva down her parched throat realization hit her slowly.

Her father really ran businesses for the wrong people.

The video played from when her father picked Cassian Donatelli's call. Down to the moment her mom shouted something out before the explosion.

He paused the video and played it in slow-mo.

"Merittua's" her mother's mouth formed.

Iris's eyes squinted and Cassian played that part again.

She raised her eyes up, giving him a weary look she muttered, "More proof."

She sniffed. Then tugged at the chains. "Also. Get this off of me." She tugged at the chains to emphasize her point.

"When you see the last one."

His aloof reply came.

He played the other video.

The clip looked like the camera was attached to the street light of the road the attack happened.

She watched how her family members were gathered together after the fire had gone and shot again in the head.

She screamed but sound came out. Her heart clenched in pain. Watching them die again.

Her tears made it more harder for her to focus, but the next scene made her freeze.

The whole gang had left and after what seemed like minutes. Another set of vehicles arrived. Her eyes widened when she saw him, Cassian, step out of the present vehicle.

He paused the video and zoomed in on each of his members wrists.

There lay a tattoo of a snake eating its own tail.

He took the video back and zoomed it on the other group's wrist.

Iris eyes widened, her expression immediately turned grim.

Her mind slowly getting a hang of what was happening.

"You see, Iris I didn't kill your family." He flipped the slick laptop close and tossed it on the bed.

"All of them are going to pay." She gritted her teeth her eyes staring ahead of her with determination.

Cassian gave out a dark bone chilling chuckle. Iris recoiled.

He squatted to her height, his gaze met her confused eyes .

"You still have your father's debt to pay. Coderito." He whispered in her ear.