"I killed your parents, I gave the order",I staggered back a step, as if the admission had physically struck me. My legs trembled, barely holding me upright. I had braced for a denial, an explanation, even a lie. Anything. But not that.The room spun.“You…” I choked on the word. “You what?”Alessandro finally turned to face me then he started to laugh. Alessandro laughed in my face.He looked like a monster a complete monster.I couldn't see him, all I could see was the devil."Why?", I whispered, my voice barely audible. Alessandro’s laughter slowly died, the echo of it still clinging to the walls like smoke.“Because they were in the way,” he said, as if it were obvious. As if that made it okay.Then he took a step closer, his voice dropping lower, darker, something almost reverent in his tone.“God made you specifically for me. That’s why I killed them.”The words landed like a dagger in my chest.“I’ve stopped everyone who tried to take you away from my life,” he continued, eyes
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