Page 76 of Shattered Love
“I don’t know. We were called in, the same as you.”
The door opens and in walks Anderson.
Look on his face isn’t good, he rubs his neck. Whatever the fuck is happening isn’t good.
Cecelia steps toward Anderson her whole body shaking. “What’s going on?” Her voice is still shaky.
“Please, Cecelia, take a seat. We need to talk,” Anderson tells her, and I know that tone of voice.
That’s the tone he uses when he has to inform families of victims. My interest is piqued. What the hell is going on? How do Cecelia and Anderson know each other?
“No, tell me!” Cecelia pleads with him, almost as if she knows what’s coming. He eyes are frantically searching for something.
“Cecelia—” Anderson begins, but is cut off.
“Tell me!” Cecelia screams. She’s on the edge. She’s breaking right in front of our eyes.
I walk beside Cecelia staring Anderson down cant he see she fucking breaking like a glass mirror.
“Someone fucking tell us what the hell is going on?” I demand. This fucking charade has gone on long enough. Someone had better fucking tell me what the fuck is happening.
Anderson looks at Cecelia as his eyes glass. “Fuck. I’m sorry, Cecelia, We haven’t heard off him in forty –eight hours. They have him” Anderson tells her and I stumble back. Cecelia stand there frozen before covering her mouth racing for the door.
Fuck. If I've put the pieces together, then this is worse than any of us think. Fuck how I had not put the pieces together sooner! I look to Juliet and see that she is confused.
“Who has who?” Juliet steps closer, looking between Anderson and I. Her eyes dart between us.
Anderson knows I won't lie. I said I would keep their secrets unless Juliet asked me directly.
“I won’t ask again! Who the fuck has who?”
“The Scorpions have Inferno!” Finally, Anderson fucking tells us what the hell is going on. Juliet’s arms instantly go around her waist.
“Inferno is part of the Scorpions,” Juliet tells them, taking a step back. Like she’s just been slapped her face turns pale, I walk over to her standing next to her showing Anderson where my loyalty lays I’m not lying to her.
I’m looking at Anderson’s face and that man has a shit fucking poker face, and Juliet isn’t fucking stupid.
“He’s undercover—well, was. That was until someone has found out that he’s one of us. He hasn't been in touch,” Anderson explains, and Juliet looks to me.
She knows that I know who Inferno is that he’s a fed. The betrayal in her eyes, so much like her mother’s, slays me.
“Brax…Inferno is a fed!” She looks confused. Cecelia walks back through the door pale and visibility shaking. “How do you know Brax?” Then see the moment it all clicks, just like me moments ago, she gasp her hand shaking as she lifts it to her mouth. “Brax is your son!”
Cecelia nods. Taking a seat as if she can’t stand anymore. “Yes he’s my son I was young having him, I never told anyone who he was, not even your mother and she was my best friend.”
I see the tear fall down Juliet’s face. “He kept me safe,” she whispers before she turns away looking out the window.
Cecelia is a complete mess she hasn’t stopped crying which has now turned into soft whimpers, Juliet tries to comfort her.
Luke walks in. “The Scorpions are on the move, we have someone following them.”
Cecelia’s head snaps up and she raises with the help of Juliet.
“Wait, you said the Scorpions. As in, the gang the Scorpions?” She’s different now, less of a mess and more in the present. She’s fully alert.
There is something working behind her blue eyes. Anderson nods at her question.
She takes a step forward. “That’s who has my son?”
