Twin Tormentors By RARE

Chapter 60

LORENZO POV

“Sir, you can’t go into the ER while the doctors are treating the patient. Kindly wait here and w e will get back to you.” A very stern nurse called out trying to push me from the doors which were engraved with huge block red letters.

I robotically just stared ahead, staring into nothing in particular.

“Hey…” Someone gently tugged on my shirt, I looked back to find Val looking at me with a very concern-filled stare, she wasn’t judging. She was being the stronghold I needed at the very moment. “She’s is going to be alright. She is a fighter.” She informed in a small voice, adding a little bit of smile. I turned my head and looked at the door yet again. Everything just felt so hallucinatory. Nothing about this whole vendetta made sense. It was as if someone had just pulled a cruel prank on us, and I was still recovering from the aftershocks. Or I had been too happy and caught up in the moment forgetting how cruel and unforgiving life actually is.

I just couldn’t find the answers, the sense in all of this. One minute we had been happy with Ari, our lives so complete and not lacking of anything, and the next thing I had held her while she laid in the pool of blood, body limp and cold in my arms.

“Ma’am, please get your husband to sit down.” The annoying nurse said once again, now in an exasperated voice. I didn’t budge. Val took careful steps and defensively stood in front of me, gently nudging me backward with her arm,

“Can I ask you, how long have you been working here?” she asked in that badass voice she always switched to when she was about to yank some random bitch down her high horse,

“For some time now.” the nurse replied boastfully,

“Okay! That couldn’t be more obvious. Listen, since you are new here, I am going to let it all slide. This man right here can make you disappear with just a snap of his fingers and you would be wiped from the surface of the earth and no one would even know where your sorry ass was dumped, not even the gods themselves I tell you. You may not know this, but this hospital, he donated shit-ass money so that you can get some job here, wear these little scrubs, and have a nice rented apartment with an indoor gym and a little pool by the side. And if this is how you are going to treat your benefactor, then I don’t know what to say about your sorry becursed self. I suggest you behave before things get really ugly because he is so not in a good mood right now.” The little nurse let out terrified puffs of air,

“And oh; he is not my husband. He is my boss and his wife is lying on that cold table in there with a bullet inside her stomach. Now pick up your jaw from the dang floor and fuck off.” She barked causing the little nurse in scrubs to swallow audibly and scurry away hurriedly, the sound of her heels echoed further and further as she left the hallway.

by her arm, then carefully laid me down on the chairs

from the corner of my eye. I took my minute comprehending her words and then shook my

to me and rubbed

was a computer where I could just delete off the damn nightmare, get it out of my mind forever.

breath I had taken since that moment felt like a waste on me. I

blood.” I intoned out

replied in a smooth voice and hurried her rubs on my

glad for doing it. And Raquel…” I let the words hang heavy between us. It still sounded foreign even when I said it. There was

either. Ari was so

Because she’s my angel, our angel.”

empathetic, he felt more than everyone else. And dad knew this. He despised him for that. And when mom brought that bunny for him, dad had screamed at her, I remember holding Verzi in our bedroom, my hands on his ears so that he couldn’t hear all the shouting. He just sat there holding the little white rabbit, with a huge smile on his face. And downstairs, it was so noisy, so loud. The last thing I heard was the sound of glass breaking, that was the last day we saw our mother. We never saw her after that. And when Verzi asked where she was, Lorik said she visited grams. We believed him, Val, we were so young and we didn’t know that our father

my dad killed it, cooked it, and fed it to him. Can you believe it? He forced him to eat it while he stood there with a whip in his hand. Verzi ate his friend in tears, you could have seen him, Val. I have never seen my brother so shattered in all my

Val whispered and then laid her head on my shoulder,

never called. He completely vanished from our world. But we never ran out of food, our fridge was always full and we were never expelled for not paying the fees. He showed up 10 years later, telling us we had to leave Poland. Oh, how we reigned hell on him. There was no way we were going to leave Poland. Not when we had a reason to

face, the snort blocking my nose making i t so hard to breathe. But I kept going, I spilled my heart down. Everything that has happened since then, all came back and crashed down on me, knocking all the air out of my lungs. I heaved for

the cold chain in the hallway of the hospital while my woman was just behind that

knew I had this much burden on weighing me

the thought of leaving Poland. I told him I was going with Verzi, he refused. The following morning, he took me to the airport, and send me to the US. I didn’t want to leave my little brother with that monster. But I had no power to go against him, so I left. I left my brother with that monster and he destroyed him. He separated us, Val. He killed our mother, got rid of everything we held dear, manipulated us into hurting the only woman we cared for, then separated us. He removed my other half from me. I didn’t hear from Verzi for the next full 6 years. I wasn’t allowed to go home either. I stayed in the US for that long, no word from him, from Verzi. I missed him, so much. I wanted to