CHAPTER EIGHTY ONECATALINAWe both sit in silence, drinks in hand as we are both lost in our thoughts. Underneath that hardened exterior of his Nickolas seems like he is a nice guy quite like Scot, I mean he was the one that came to check up on me when every other person seemed to be pissed at me. From the vibe I got earlier from him I definitely did not expect that we would be in this close proximity without ripping each other's heads off.“How are you feeling now?” Nickolas asks out of the blues.I look up at him but then I notice he is not referring to me as Lily just entered into the room with Scot following closely behind her. A slight smile creeps on my face as I realize what they just did, divide and conquer tactics. She took him and he took me. From the look of calm Scot now has on his face I think it might have worked, I can’t be so sure though so I had better continue keeping my distance.“I am not sure, I am not as upset as I was before and I do not know if that’s a good o

CHAPTER EIGHTY THREECATALINA“What now?” I ask Scot as the phone line goes dead.He is silent for a while and from the look he has on his face it is obvious he is deep in thought. Finally he speaks“Here is what we are going to do, first of all I'll head back to the house and get my car. You are going to send him an address stating where to pick you up on the road and when he does I’ll follow you to wherever he takes you. If there is any sign of danger to your life I’ll come in myself and take care of things.”“Isn’t that a bit risky? If he figures out that you’re following us things could get bad really quickly.”“Don’t worry about that, I am going to make sure he never does.”“That’s not very reassuring given what just happened earlier” I say, referring to me catching him tailing me.He smiles a little “I am going to be more careful than that.” He says as he holds my hand.Right now I can not think of another way or another mode of action to take. This is the only logical way to do

CHAPTER EIGHTY FIVECATALINAFreezing up as I look at the muzzle of the gun, my gun, that is being pointed at me by none other than my own father. I look to the side at Carlos who looks away immediately as he doesn’t want to match my gaze, that is all the confirmation I need. So everything that Scot had said was actually true, my father is the one who ordered the hit on me. He and Carlos had bullshitted me the whole car ride here and I had been stupid enough to believe them. They had played with every emotion that I had in me and in result I had submitted to them all because a part of me really wanted to believe that my father would never be capable of doing something like this.Staring at him in disbelief as he sits there and cocks the gun in front of me.“This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you.”He speaks in such a calm manner that I can’t tell if he means what he is saying or not, it is not like it is going to make any difference after all. This is going to be it, I am goi

CHAPTER EIGHTY SEVENCATALINAReflecting on everything that just happened, I can’t help but feel stupid. This is all my fault to begin with, I should never have even tried to go back. I should just have believed what Scot said, at least if I had done just that then I would not be feeling this way right now. Now I realize that I have been living in a state of denial all this time. I have always been making excuses in my head for why my father would do something like this, even during the car ride to the warehouse a part of me had already started blaming Carlos instead and thinking he could be the one that orchestrated all of it. How stupid I am.More than anyone out there, I should know exactly who my father is and exactly what he is capable of. He had done so many despicable things over the years and even up till this very date I know deep down in my heart that a huge part of the blame for what happened to my mum can be attributed to him but still I have made excuses over excuses for

CHAPTER EIGHTY NINECATALINALooking around the dimly lit room, I try to figure out where I am but I soon realize that it is of no use. There’s no way that I will know that, not from in here at least. I need to find a way out of here and I need to do it quickly. The walls seem to be closing in all around me as I can feel the fear in me growing. My father; I don’t even know if I should be calling him that right now, stepped out of the room a minute ago to make a call. I wonder what his thought process is right now, why the fuck is he doing this to me?The look he had on his face when he walked in earlier was one of disgust and utter disappointment. I had seen the latter before, in a way I had even gotten used to it over the years. He tried his best not to show it sometimes but I have always known that when he looks at me he has always wished that I was a boy instead, somebody that could effectively carry on his legacy. Over the years I had tried my best to be just that, the perfect dau