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

Water, anything?” She offered from the corner of my eye. I took my minute comprehending

rubbed small circles on my back, without

a computer where I could just delete off the damn nightmare, get it out of my mind forever. I saw her once again, I felt that sense of helplessness, that brutal stab in my heart that had knocked me to my knees when she said those

had been the cruelest minutes of my life. Every breath I had taken since that moment felt like a waste on me. I had just stared defeatedly as

much blood.” I intoned out

saw that too.” Val replied in a smooth voice and

much blood, and she had wounds all over. He hit her, Val. My father hit my woman and he was 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 no way Lorik could have done that, I mean he was our dad.

Ari was so good to him.” She

good to everyone. Tesoro is kind to everyone, even enemies. You saw Xander, he has grown on her. Because she’s my angel, our angel.”

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

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

whispered and then laid her head

forgot we had a son of Lucifer as our father. He never set foot in Poland. He 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 keep living. Ari! She was our reason to dream for tomorrow. Do you want to know what he said? He said we could take her’, Val. And we did. Forcefully, we took her innocence and claimed her. For years, we had fantasized about

of my lungs. I heaved for air, trying to make up for the lost oxygen. It had been so much. And for the first time since it all began, I allowed myself to be a child, to feel weak. I was tired of being the hero. Because no one

the hallway of the hospital while my woman was just behind that door fighting for her life,

I had this much burden on

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