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

my words

feelings for Elena?” I couldn’t

repeated me. “Feelings for Elena?” He

but if I didn’t know who she was and saw her walking down the street, I think I would’ve asked

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

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

“What are you getting at?”

find someone else because she can.” Lucas’

good. I still want her

“Are you sure?”

but my

know George Torres? I assume he likes you.” I shifted

“He does.”

know who

“He does.”

still likes you?”

“He does.”

curious about

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then, Elena managed to get him off your back, so he’ll leave you alone.” Lucas answered. He must’ve misunderstood my

do one thing for me?” I

“Anything, brother.”

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

Marvin. Don’t worry.” Lucas reassured him, knowing what I would ask. He had undeniably

“Thanks

friends.” Lucas put the emphasis on

she told her Panther was not alone. He was with

I thought about my sister who had had that hair color for a long time in

know of

you know her

sister? No matter how terrible she was,

expected anything less from her. She had always been

tongue. “Now what will be

I paused, letting the weight

prison, brother sent me to prison, and my sister set me to

there left to do when everyone was out to get

on, I will focus on the

sometimes the only way out of pain and betrayal, is

moved on, and we all tried to cope with the big changes

had revealed the truth about Panther to my Mario, about how he was

us next.

course 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 to question

eyes, I was hailed a hero. A savior of the Castillo

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

the Hernandez, but I knew better than to trust them. Only

bond strengthened

from the family business completely. He had left the estate and had thrown himself back into his studies.

a front

He had been spending time with the Castillos, spending time with Elena, and reported everything back to me. I was glad, she would be safe with him.