325: DARK CONFRONTATIONS

ANDRE’S POV

It had gotten dark, and everyone had left the company, going to their various homes. Ariel was the last one to leave, and before she did that, we had a little conversation- just a normal conversation, actually.

I was exhausted from work, and my thoughts added to my stress. I had no idea how this all started, but my head couldn’t shake the thoughts away.

Walking to my car, I spotted a light of another car coming in my direction. The light was pointed at me, giving me the feeling that whoever was in that vehicle came to see me. So I stood, waiting for the car to stop and for the driver to leave.

When the car finally stopped, I didn’t take my eyes off it. The lights were turned off, and I stood still, letting the scene unfold. To my surprise, a familiar face stepped out. And this was not just any familiar face. It was my brother Mason. He was the one

who burst out of the car.

He wore a leather jacket and grey jeans. His face had several scars, and he was definitely not as handsome as he used to be.

“Mason? Is that you?” I asked cautiously. It could be that my thinking had brought me

to this imaginary world.

“What are you seeing, brother?” He replied, opening his arms wide.

He took some steps forward, but it was like he had been injured in the leg. Of course he was. His encounter with Luke was definitely the cause of it. I was quite sure about

that.

“Where have you been all these days?” I quizzed him. His steps were getting closer

each second.

Just trying to build myself.” He shrugged, making that not–caring face. “You know, after what your friend’s lover did to me.

But you deserved it, don’t you?”

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“Ha!” He snapped his fingers. “You know about everything now. I noticed that.”

“Do you have to be so cruel?”

“Cruel? Is that what you call me now?”

“Yes. Mason! You murdered a five–year–old kid who literally had no idea about

anything.”

was the son of Luke.”

with any of your… problems with Luke. If you wanted revenge, you shouldn’t have touched

moving his fingers together. “Then it wouldn’t

Mason? Seriously? That’s what you’re going to say?”

idea what Luke did to me, do you? Do you know the pain that he caused me, the pain that I had to

and kill his son. In

a son to me. He was

had to take her from me. So I followed the law: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Karma came knocking right on his door. I

at him in silence, scanning him pretty well. I looked around, and

were walking

back to Mason. “Let’s find somewhere more safe to talk about

entered my car, and Mason followed promptly. We

while I drove.

air, broken only by the occasional whisper

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could leave someone

we heading to?”

are you asking? Are you afraid?”

I’m just

You know how the saying

window. “That’s an old season.” He looked at me with his sardonic smile. “Those

anything further. I only carried on with my

stood sentinel, their branches reaching out like skeletal fingers grasping at the void. Their twisted forms cast elongated shadows that danced across the road, adding to the

a solitary hill rose ominously against the backdrop of the starless sky. Its silhouette loomed like a specter, beckoning you forth with an unsettling allure. I approached in that detection, and the incline became steeper, the road winding its

me right now, you would feel like you were suffocating under its weight, with the air growing colder. It would look like it was chilling you to the bone as you climbed

the darkness

get out now,” I told Mason,

are we doing here?” he asked me. His tone indicated that

fixed on him, unwavering.

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hell are we doing here? Why

at him. “Are you

that ‘why are you scared

I only asked you twice,” I told

“Bullshit, Andre! Bullshit!”

leave the car. We are here

this city. You

you have a problem

have a problem with it? If I don’t, do you think I’ll be saying

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