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“Burkely!” Margie, the chief's secretary, yells behind the door to my office. “It's open.” I glance up from the stack of files I'd been studying when the door doesn't open. “I know it is, I’m just sick of seeing your face!” She yells from behind the door. “What'd you want Margery?” I call her by her full name, knowing how much it aggravates her. “What's wrong with your intercom?! Don't tell me you didn't place it back on the receiver and now it's dead.” I quietly place the telephone back in its receiver. “You tell me, since you've got it all figured out, Detective Marge,” I tease. “Screw you, Burke!” “I love you too, Margery.” “Fuck off, The chief wants you in his office. NOW!” I hear her retreating footsteps and bend the framed picture of Margery, my wife, and me on my wedding day downwards on my desk. Marge and I met as first-year students in the police academy and back then she held a special place for me in her heart. She introduced me to my now dead wife who’d been
Shit! I cut the call and move to touch her but she steps back. “I'm sorry I couldn't tell you, Kenny.” “But I asked you and you said—” “I know what I said. Kenny…” I beg. “Don't say my name.” She steps further backward as I come closer. “You told me that she was attacked by Vongov! You said that the cuts weren't self-inflicted. You two made me feel like a horrible person for even bringing it up!” She gesticulates wildly like the words itself are tearing her apart and she's trying her hardest not to give in. “I'm sorry! She made me promise not to tell anyone!” “And I'm anyone?” She asks and I shut my eyes. I'm not good with emotions and I know how to fix this. A part of me wants to scream at Kenny that things like this happen all the time, that just like how I forget to tell my parents I love them, I also forgot to tell her about Jo cutting herself and she needs to grow the fuck up but that's not true and no matter how much it pains me to say, I was wrong in this. I bite my li
JOJO'S POV Getting used to life in a foreign country and a foreign tongue grows on you faster than you expect ‘specially when the locals are nice and welcoming. My case is not and I feel like I stepped into a sixteenth-century documentary on slavers and the horrors of slavery. Albert, who's Madame Silva’s driver, formed a bond with me after he learned I didn't like working in the poppy fields. None of us liked breaking our backs under the harsh sun to pluck up drugs that'd end up destroying people's lives but I was the only one stupid enough to be vocal about it and that earned me a designated spot at the whipping ground. Albert found me after the first whipping and cleaned up my back and rubbed some healing cream on it. He came back the next night and the next until I found myself waiting up for him after each whipping session. They call The Estate A Casa Do Ouro which makes no sense to me because the Mansion is surrounded by over fifty acres of poppy flowers, growing exotically
JOJO'S POV After dumping my broken feelings on Katrina, we enter the bonding phase, talking about our lives before A Casa Do Ouro for the remainder of the bath and it turns out that Katrina's parents sold her to A Casa Do Ouro for money to pay for her younger sister's illness. Katrina insists the trade was with her consent but I highly doubt that. I think her parents tricked her into getting sold and I think she knows it. Rifling through the closet, Katrina takes out a black gown that covers me up, neck to foot and I nod my approval. “Are you sure this is what you want to wear?” Katrina cocks an unsure gaze at the attire, her despair at the material is mildly entertaining but I'm not budging. “Yes, Kat. This is what I'll wear.” “But it's too old for you and I wanted to dress you up like a princess,” Katrina mumbles her protests with a cute crumbled expression. “Nah, nope you can't sway me on this, I'm wearing the black widow gown.” I grab it from her hands and dump the heap o
JOJO'S POV The first man to reach us, their leader looks at Katrina and me with confusion etched on his face. “Why are you just standing there? Kill that bitch!” The kid screams from the ground. He tries to get up but falls on his face for a lack of balance. “The Madame said not to touch her.” Their leader says with a hateful gaze on me. One of the men tries to grab Katrina, pushing past me and I block his path, my fingers sliding into the waistband of his jeans to pull out a revolver and I aim it at the men. “Step back,” I order and everyone freezes. Except for the guy who's still moaning and rolling on the ground with a broken arm. Such a crybaby. I kick him backward for good measure and the animosity in the leader's eyes flares so I kick the kid again and again for my pleasure. Their leader takes a step forward. I cock the gun and point it at the kid on the floor. Whoever this kid is, he's obviously calling the shots around here. The leader steps back until they're at
JEREMY'S POV We gather in the insanely cramped space that is Mallory's room and I feel her eyes poking lasers into the back of my head. She's not happy with my presence and neither am I. Without a doubt, I believe that if she hadn't tipped the fucking police, Josephine would be here amongst us. Amongst them, at least. Any problems I have with Josephine are between her and I and no one has the right to interfere. I yell the words at the brick-headed Mallory and she yells back that anything that concerns Jo is also a concern of hers. She didn't travel across the Pacific to watch her best friend fall apart over an arrogant prick with no heart and do nothing about it. Kendrick, who'd been glaring lasers into Mallory's head also comes to her support. They're all sisters, she says and they live to support each other because that’s the only way they can thrive. I laugh at their bullshit talk, mocking them with my reply. If they were such a tight-knit support group, why'd they leave Jos
FIFTY-FOUR JEREMY'S POV I swing my fist to his jaw and he dodges my attack with a surprised, “Whoa!” I glare at my stupid body that's working too slow for my rage-infused brain and I want to take my frustration out on something. Something like the man beside me. “What’d you want…” I slur and clear my throat to throw him a glare. Why is my tongue so heavy in my mouth? “Save your anger for someone who deserves it, young Vongov. I have something you need to hear.” I move to stand but my knees are jelly at this point. What the fuck, how's that possible??? “Oh, it is possible.” He answers my unspoken question with a sip of his bourbon, hiding a sly smirk. “You– What did you do to me?!” I snarl at him because at this point that's the only thing I can do. Glare, Snarl, Growl, and Act Surprised. Fuck. “We needed to tranquilize the beast before I could have a proper conversation with you.” He settles back on the stool and crosses his legs like a businessman in a Forbes intervie
Jeremy's POV I stare after the old Chevrolet as it hurtles past me coughing up smoke from its exhaust, I question the believability of everything I just heard. It can't be possible. I trudge mindlessly into another bar, that asshole detective forgot to return my Vodka. The thief. I buy another bottle of Vodka and drink straight from the bottle this time around. No more glasses bullshit. My phone buzzes in my pocket and a piece of paper falls as I try to grip the phone from my pockets with my still lethargic hands. I shrug at the piece of paper and ignore it but a passerby picks it up for me. “Here, you dropped this.” “Thank you, kind stranger,” I answer in Russian as I collect the paper and the man looks at me strangely before walking off. I pull out my phone to see fourteen missed calls from Junnev and Malakai. I dial the group chat and they both answer at the same time. “What's up?” I growl into the phone. “We found her location.” “Where's she?” “She is in Guerrero's