Chapter 51 Lies
We have been home for six hours. I had dinner not long ago and Adrian is in Papa’s office having a phone call, the message still stared at me like it did a while ago.
Will my uncle do this? It felt like child's play to me, to pick up a phone and text this to me, it made me feel like he could be too old for what I think he is doing.
Or could it be Noah or Alana, maybe someone fed them the idea, they are never smart, but I had their numbers unless they used a new number to do this,
The more I thought about it, the more I felt irritated and annoyed, I didn’t want to ask Adrian, I made a whole speech to the men about trusting each other and having each other’s back, I didn’t have it in me to tell him and make him feel otherwise.
I stepped into my bedroom, my feet wobbled against the floor as I stared at my closet, the file that I stole, the four pieces of paper that I forgot to keep back.
Should I do this?
It will make me feel better if I do and I know that I can trust Adrian, I know that I do trust him and I know that I am not scared or worried that he lied to me.
This is only for my peace of mind
The moment I headed toward my closet, my fingers found their way to the little hiding space, which is where I always hide my things so Papa or the staff will never find it when cleaning the room.
My breath hitches as I turn over the first piece of paper
It’s his face, he looked very young, but he still has the same features on his face
Adrian Emilio Morales.
Son, brother, and mafia king.
The age written was eighteen which was about the same time that his father had died, his mom and anyone else in his family, he looked like a kid, a kid that should play, a kid that should have things to do, and maybe go up to college and have fun, he didn’t deserve any of this happening to him
I continued to read the paper
Adrian, born on the twentieth of December, was born in a hospital in Russia and his mother died the moment he was born.
He didn’t tell me that, if she did, who is the woman in the portrait in his house, if she is not his mom; who is she?
Under it, it said step-sibling, Holden, Harry, Darren, and Liam.
He has four stepbrothers, I guess that’s another thing he left out of his story, he didn’t tell me has has step step-sibling, he didn’t tell me that his father remarried again, and it didn’t look like he waited for a long time before he did
It seemed like Harry and Adrian were just a year apart which meant, he got married instantly, which meant he was never loyal to Adrian’s mother, he always had someone by his side
This didn’t feel sound, it didn’t even sound right, if papa had remarried shortly after Mama was taken, I would have never forgiven him, I would have thought he never loved her
But Adrian was young, he was a baby, he never meant his mom and if his dad would do what any other horrible person would, he would never let Adrian know about his birth mother, he would make him think the woman he married his his mom until he found out
I continued to read the rest of it and it didn’t look good.
When he was five, he started to have a bit of problems and he was taken into therapy for a long time After that, when he got back, he was suspended from school for fighting, When he was in junior high and he was suspended in still for stabbing someone.
It seemed like he was a troubled kid, maybe he found out about his real mom, maybe he got so angry about it, about her and he started to exhibit all of these behaviors.
I pulled out the other papers and I started to read them too.
When my breath hitches, this didn’t sound right and I hoped it was wrong, papa will not let me get married to a sociopath, but Papa always says, There’s always two sides to a story, and you listen to them before you make a judgment.
But he lied to me, Adrian lied to me, he never told me a part of his truth, he took advantage of me when my papa died and he lied about his brother too.
It says here that, Adrian was fifteen when he pushed his stepmother off the stairs and she ended up dying, he got into a fight with Harry because of that and his father wanted him not to be the leader because he can’t be trusted and because he thinks he is dysfunctional.
I could not be blame him for having that thought, I would not have wanted that too, I would have kept him far away form home, but he seemed good now, he didn’t fight, he didn’t even tell until he had to, he didn’t think with anger, he calmed down and then he always has thought, I didn’t know what to think about this or how to think about any of this.
I continued to read the file.
There was no attack like he said to me, it was all a lie, instead there was no one who killed his family, it said here he killed his family and Harry was the only one to be able to escape from his madness, the night his family was killed, Harry escaped
The mafia was left to him because they didn’t have any choice, they were scared and Harry was never to return.
Harry could be the one who messaged me.
Fuck.