A chill slithered up my backbone. The silence within the room was close to deafening.

“I like your son unconditionally,” I whispered, taking my palms off my face, tears burning in my eyes, my chest, my throat.

Tom checked out me and shook his head, with ache, with skepticism, jealousy; I didn’t know. I couldn’t learn his expression.

“Allow us to go. Don’t take it from him. You mentioned you wished to offer him what you didn’t have. Should you meant that, actually meant it… he has it. He has it. Allow us to go. Possibly in time you and your loved ones can heal from this.”

“Tia, don’t,” Tommy answered behind me however his voice was hoarse.

Tom checked out me with tears glistening in his eyes and after a second, he mentioned, “Go.”

He shrugged. The hand together with his gun in his hand dropped to his facet however as I bought to my ft a sneer unfold throughout his face and he raised the gun in my course.

“Tia; fuck!” Tommy’s voice was pressing behind me and instantly he hauled me behind himself and on the identical time produced a gun from someplace on his physique and he fired in his father’s course.

A break up second after I fired my gun and hit my father within the brow with a bullet, Tia went nearly limp in my arms. I knew my pace and my purpose was higher than his. He at all times had others do his soiled work, so he was off form. I additionally had two weapons on my physique, not simply the one in my hand once I walked in.

She was looking at my father’s physique there on the ground in a pool of blood.

I jerked her out of the daze by pulling her hand. “C’mon.”

We left the constructing. She regarded numb, regarded like she was in a trance. I led her outdoors towards the Jeep the place Nino, Dario, and Dex sat. The guards had been all lifeless on the entrance porch.

I bought into the again seat along with her; my brother was again there, too.

“Name JC for cleanup,” I instructed Nino, who was within the passenger seat. Dex drove away. Dario and I exchanged seems. My brother’s expression softened for the primary time in weeks after which he regarded out the window.

She didn’t fully lose it till we had been again on the farm. I had the blokes drop us off there, understanding it’s the place we’d must be.

After we bought up the steps, she walked forward of me to the couch and sat down on it stiffly, staring off into house.

I went to the fridge and pulled out two bottles of water after which sat down beside her, placing the bottles on the ground in entrance of us.

“Child?” I whispered and her eyes traveled up my physique to my face. The fog appeared to raise and when she fell in opposition to me, I crumbled.

18

2 Weeks Later…

I awakened and my head was on his chest, on his proper peck and in my line of imaginative and prescient was ink on his left peck. I lifted up on an elbow and regarded nearer. It was surrounded by pores and skin that was reddish, a tiny bit swollen-looking attributable to being new. It was shiny, most likely with some form of ointment, and it was lovely.

He’d gotten in final night time late, after I’d been asleep. Over his coronary heart was a tattoo that very a lot regarded just like the tribal artwork on his shoulder trailing down his arm, however this was a small owl on an olive department, the Greek mythological Athena image I’d seen 1,000,000 instances in my life.

Under the olive department, it mentioned my identify, however as a substitute of my given Goddess identify, it mentioned Tia and it regarded like my very own handwriting, like I’d drawn my identify on myself. A lump shaped in my throat and tears crammed my eyes. His eyes opened and he noticed what my focus was on. He checked out me lovingly and caressed my cheek.

“The forgiveness you’ve proven me for all I’ve performed to you, child? It means all the pieces.” His voice was sleepy, candy. “You’ve written your identify on my coronary heart, so I wished it seen. I noticed the artist who did my different ink. I feel he built-in all of it rather well.”

“It’s lovely, Tommy.”

He kissed my cheekbone, kissing a tear away. “The way in which you hint my ink on a regular basis after we make love, I need you tracing your identify on me, too. So, I had it written simply the way in which you’d do it. Went via your containers to get a writing pattern. I’m branded. You personal me, child lady. Physique and soul.”

“Will you marry me?” I requested, via tears, taking a look at my Ice Cream Parlor Hottie, my dream man.

Each time he gave me an enormous smile, I assumed it was probably the most lovely smile I’d ever seen. However proper then, mendacity collectively within the little mattress within the hayloft the place I’d actually fallen in love with him, he gave me probably the most lovely smile I’d ever seen but after which he mentioned, “I’ll give it some thought.”

I scrunched my nostril up at him and he leaned over and kissed it.

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