His Promise: The Mafia’s Babies by C. Tamika

Chapter 346

Marvin

I was in Lucas’ car, on the way back to the Castillo estate. We had already been driving for a long time, an uncomfortable vibe swinging in the air as no one knew what to say. Each second stretched into minutes, and eventually into hours.

The only noise was the sound of the radio.

How could I say something, when I had yet to process everything. In a span of 24 hours, I was forced to make a decision, and lost someone who I thought was my friend.

My brother betrayed me.

I had lost Elena.

There was nothing to say.

“Tiago, as far as everyone’s concerned, you didn’t see anything today, and nothing happened today. ” 1 instructed, my voice cutting through the suffocating silence. As Tiago had already revealed, he didn’t always used his brains. “You saw nothing, you know nothing.”

Tiago remained silent as I continued. “And you keep this from our father, Tiago. He must never find out…that you betrayed me.” The words almost made me chuckle. “I will deal with it. I’ll tell him that Panther betrayed us, threatened us-so I had to take care of it. Done.”

“Marvin, L…” Tiago spoke hesitantly, but I was in no mood for his attempts at reconciliation. Whatever happened, happened, and there was nothing that could fix this. Nothing.

I cut him off. “You should also never speak to me again, Tiago. We are brothers in name, but that’s as far as it’ll go. My decision was final. The bond between us, which had already strained, had finally snapped. “Do you understand me?”

“I do and I’m sorry.” Tiago whispered, his voice filled with guilt.

“I don’t need your apologies, I scolded him. “It’s Anya you should be sorry to. Live on for her. Do something worthy of her memory.”

That poor girl had lost her life over nothing, and that was on him. He should’ve never made her worry about him in the first place.

Tiago nodded, knowing the only thing he could do was take in my words.

Lucas knew better than to answer. See, all he had to do was drive and keep his mouth shut.

Some time later Tiago fell asleep in the backseat. How he could sleep through all of that? I truly had no idea, but I guess everything dealt with their trauma differently.

He had just heard Panther got Anya killed.

He had killed Panther himself.

And now he was napping.

“You know.” Lucas cleared his throat, being the last person I wanted to talk to, I didn’t hate him nor cared

for him, really-but seeing him with Elena did something to my heart, and I could tell by his face, that whatever he was about to say-would be about her.

“Elena was worried about you. She has always been worried about you.”

“Hmm.” I hummed, pretending to be uninterested. “How is she doing?” I mumbled.

“You broke her, Marvin.” Lucas said. “I know she lied, but you should know she did it for a good reason. She did it because she didn’t want any of this to happen.”

“I didn’t make her fall for me. She’s the one who decided to do that.” The words felt heavy as they left my mouth. It was a truth I had come to accept. “If anything, I tried to push her away because I thought I would be the one to hurt her, but—“

“She ended up hurting you?” Lucas questioned, probing deeper into the wound I was trying to hide. “No, I’m not hurt.” I lied, forcing a chuckle. There was a certain bitterness in that laughter.

“You don’t have to be like this around me. I’m not Mario,” Lucas said, his words subtly reminding me that I didn’t have to wear the mask of indifference with him.

chuckle from me, but this time it was genuine, “I’m not

accepted my words with

Elena?” I couldn’t help but

“Feelings for Elena?” He

her, but if I didn’t know who she was and saw

to him, giving him a small smirk, but the sides of

was to interrogate her when she was sitting right in front of me?” Lucas said, his own smirk matching mine. “I nearly fell from my chair when she turned

cutting him off. “What are

she will find someone else because she can.” Lucas’ words felt like a punch to the gut, but maybe it was better

want her to be

“Are you sure?”

my heart

to mention that you know George Torres? I assume he likes

“He does.”

who you are?”

“He does.”

still likes you?”

“He does.”

curious about the man who

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your back, so he’ll leave you alone.” Lucas

do one thing

“Anything, brother.”

her. Elena is naive, clumsy-and she doesn’t have many friends-”

knowing what I would ask. He had undeniably observed her as well.

“Thanks

I are friends.” Lucas put

she visited Stevie Maddens wife, she told her Panther was not alone. He was

to spin as I thought about my sister who had had that hair color for

know of Panther’s plans?

you know her by chance-

How could I ever betray my own sister? No matter how

expected anything less from her. She had always

tongue. “Now

the weight

sent me to prison, brother sent me to

to do when everyone was out to get

on the

only way out of pain and betrayal, is

day. Life had moved on, and we all tried to cope with the big changes in our own

about Panther to my Mario,

target us

Mario, who did in fact see him as his son, was left with many questions, but I had managed to turn the story around in order for him not

was hailed a hero. A savior of the Castillo family, and everyone

also interrogated the rest of the man and had to get rid of five, who had strong ties to Panther.

truce with the Hernandez, but I knew better than to trust them. Only time would reveal the

time, our bond strengthened by the

had distanced himself from the family business completely. He had left the estate

best to hide her true feelings about losing Panther, had put up a front and pretended

spending time with the Castillos, spending time with Elena, and reported everything back to me. I was