Chapter 43
“You're what?!” I whispered through gritted teeth, leaning in close to him. “You're going to kill your own father?!”
His eyes remained unblinking, filled with resentment.
He nodded slowly. “It's the only way to free us all.”
“But he's your father Kyle. How can you?”
“He's no father of mine. Not since he tore my life down around me. I know what he has in mind for you Alice, I know what he's going to force you to do.”
My breath shortened. “What?”
“He wants you to agree to have sex with clients. There's been lots of interest in you. He won't give you the option Alice. I won't let that happen.”
I could almost feel the heat emanating from his body. He looked like a volcano, about to explode at the though. The lengths he'd go to to protect me, to keep me safe. Maybe his father did deserve to die.
“What he's done to do, what he did to Jen. I've been walking with my eyes closed, turning a blind eye. Now they've been opened. Now it's all too real Alice. I can't let this continue.”
“And your brothers? What about them? What will they say when they find out?”
“They won't find out. No one will. I'll be setting them free as well, letting us all choose our own paths, rather than being forced down the one he's constructed. He doesn't deserve to live. Not any more.”
I sat in silence. I could see his mind was bent on it.
“We'll be able to be together Alice, away from all of this shit. It's the only way.”
A moment passed before I spoke again, the idea settling in. We could be together. I could quit, return to my normal life, climb out of the seedy world I was falling further into.
“How?” I asked. “How will you do it.”
He looked me square in the eye. “With your help.”