Chapter 48 (Beauty''s Breath) (Zero)


    “No,” I say.


    “When her mother ran away from her father it caused the biggest war between the Russian Mob and


    the Catelli’s. Her mother betrayed her family to the Russians. They solved the problem after a year by


    marriage. The more I found out about this Amariya Demarco, the deeper I dug. I didn''t know at the time


    she was a killer. So, I followed her. To me she was a kid that got a bad break and though I felt like shit


    looking for her with every intention of taking her back to La, I still did it. I told myself he loved her,


    convinced myself she’d be better off with La than living on the streets. It wasn’t long after I saw her


    did rumours get back to La''s ears about her pregnancy.”


    “There''s your coffee.” The waitress ces my cup in front of me and hands me the menu.


    When she doesn''t leave, I re at her. The woman scurries to the other side of the small ce.


    “So, what happened then?” I ask my brother as I take a sip of the filtered coffee.


    “I denied it, I said she didn''t look pregnant. Not sure why I did it, guess following her I got a bit attached


    to the case,” He chuckles and I find nothing about that funny.


    “La didn’t take my lies too well as you can imagine, but he didn’t touch me. I decided that day to get


    her first and listen to her story. And I did, she was eight months pregnant, and hiding out in a doctor’s


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    room. I asked her why she ran from La, she just screamed Logan, girl went into a fit. I left and went


    back the following day not expecting her to be there, but fuck she was still there, so I broke in. Should


    have known better. She attacked me, and would have killed me if her water hadn’t already broken. She


    was going into earlybour. Obviously, at the time I didn''t believe it and thought it was Braxton hicks.


    So, I took her. We travelled for an hour but she carried on screaming. She was sitting in the back of the


    car. I swerved the car to take her to a hospital, but she said it was toote, the babies wereing.”


    “Wait, what?” I’m not sure I hear him correctly.


    He has the nerve to look ashen, “Yeah, Amariya was having twins, two girls, and I was going to deliver


    the babies. Only, there wereplications and by the time I got the first one out, there was so much


    blood. We were on the corner of the road, I’d managed to call the ambnce, but Amariya insisted she


    pushes. The baby was screaming, and I had to put the infant in the car, to get the other one, but that


    one was already dead. Once the ambnce came, Amariya was in hysterics, going crazy. When we


    asked them, what happened they said the baby suffocated, Amariya had it in her head I killed her


    baby.”


    “Then what happened?”


    “Then I waited a few months, the first thing she did when she left the hospital was hand her baby to


    Deno, who I had followed. Found out where the baby was taken, then I went back for Amariya, but by


    that time she was gone, vanished. Few monthster people started dying in numbers and Beggar was


    the name whispered on the streets of Washington. A wanted Jane doe. The cops put a neat bounty for


    her, one even a high society investigator like me couldn’t resist. Imagine my surprise when I found


    Beggar, and was looking at Amariya, only this time she wasn''t just a killer, she was dead inside. When


    she saw me, she wasn''t running away, she wasing for me. We fought and I tried to make her see


    reason but she wouldn''t listen, she stabbed me in the back of my spine. The knife nted right there,


    and then she was gone, thest time I saw her was at the clubhouse a few months back.”


    My frown on my face probably matches my brothers, and while most of what he said sounds true, I feel


    that there is one important detail he forgot to mention.


    I have known my brother my entire life, if he didn''t offer this information now, then there is no way I am


    going to get it out of him without a trade-off. And right now, the only trade-off I could offer him was the


    one thing I will never give up, HER.


    Beauty is the only person who could tell me the rest, but getting her to talk would be like using a shovel


    to dig an empty grave, pointless.


    “How''s dad.”


    And his change of subject proves it, and while I smile not giving anything away, doubt clogs my mind


    and a sense of forbidding hits me in the chest.


    Mercy was right when she said that a girl like Beauty doesn''t want to kill someone for nothing. There


    has to be a reason, and as I look at my older brother, and see how thesest few years has aged him, I


    know that I am not going to like that reason.


    Not one single bit.


    The thing about truth, it alwayses to life, maybe not when you want it, but ites out. Spending


    years serving my country, and years serving my club I know first-hand, how the truth can make even a


    grown man whither.


    It is a powerful piece of knowledge. But this truth, between the woman who owns me and my blood


    brother, is going to be a destruction of all of us.


    “Dad''s good, he''s moving to Ka, decided to spend hisst years that side, just got the newsst


    week.”


    “Nice, at least you there to keep an eye out for the old bastard, heard you broke it off with Quinn. I


    didn''t see that happening, you need to stop jumping around with women and finally settle on down.”


    “Look who’s talking, you don''t even know the meanin’ of fuckin’ settlin’ your own ass down. How''s that


    nurse, still tasting the props?”


    “I actually met someone, names Anna.”


    “Anna? Wow, nice man. How''s the recovery? I see you still with the crutches!”


    “I can walk a bit, but my back kills me.”


    “Better hope Anna loves to ride them horses.”


    He rolls his eyes, “She is ridin'' one horse.”


    Though I keep our conversation light, I want to ask him why he wants to kill Beauty.