We made it into the forest and Brian set me down.
“Are you sure you’re alright?” He asked me.
“I’m fine.” I nodded.
“I’m sorry that happened. Why he tell you why?”
I sighed.
“He just said he wanted me to join him and work with him. And I said no and his little puppy dog threw me in a room.”
He sat down on an old stump and sighed heavily.
“Brian, what’s going on exactly?”
“I don’t know.” He shrugged.
“You have to know something.”
“We came here to find you and take that fucker down.”
“You mean…kill him?”
He nodded.
“Why?”
“Because he’s a sick and disturbed man, Cat. He kills you when he’s done with you. He would have killed you if we hadn’t showed up.”
I looked down to the ground.
“You really think so?”
“Yeah, I do. He had a son. He killed him because he would do what he wanted.”
“My uncle…”
“You remember?”
“My mom said my uncle Tony died in a car accident when I was about 10. No, he couldn’t of done that. He loved him.”
“Don’t think that just because he was family he didn’t kill him.”
“Then what happened to him?”
He shook his head.
“Brian, tell me.”
He stood up and crossed his arms over his chest.
“Tell me.” I demanded.
“He wanted your uncle to work with him. He wanted his family to be the head of the state. He wanted to take over. His plan was to turn all of his family so if anything ever did happen to him by chance, then his family would still be in control.”
“How do you know this?”
“Because I worked for him.” Matt piped in, startling me.
He and the other guys were walking up to us. There was a fire in the back yard. I cringed realizing what it was.
“Come on, we need to go.” Brian informed us.


We had made it back to Brian's house and I immediately plopped down on the love seat in the den.
“Why does he want his family to take over?” I asked Matt.
“Because he’s power hungry. He doesn’t do it for them though, but for himself.”
I snorted, agreeing with him.
“He thinks that if he can get his family to join him, he can get their protection so they’ll fight for him and he won’t have to die.”
“Has he killed anyone else in my family…” I questioned quietly.
“Well, your uncle and his son and daughter.”
“What? When?”
“About a year ago.’
“Why?”
“Because they figured out he murdered their father and they wanted revenge. Stupid bastard thought he could get them to work for him but they refused and he killed them. I watched him do it..”
“How...?”
“He drained them dry.”
I cringed. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.
“You’re family is in danger, Cat. He has to be stopped.” Brian interjected.
“He needs to get a taste of his own medicine.”
I had never been the fighting, or seeking revenge type but I had enough. He caused enough pain to my family when he was alive…or is.
“This bastard needs to go down. My family took enough of his shit when he was alive. He beat my grandmother, treated me and my mother like we were trash and drove my family away. He has to die.” I concluded.