Chapter 22: Allister Wolfe and Eliza Azar

Chapter 22: Chapter 22: Allister Wolfe and Eliza Azar

Erik’s P.O.V.

Great, I could already tell this was going to take longer than expected. Mom just smiled as he laughed. Dad always liked to joke with mom, telling her she was a smiling tiger. He wasn’t wrong though.

"Hahaha. You finally figured it out!" Ruben’s face was red. I wasn’t sure if it was due to laughing or pain. "To be honest, I didn’t want to kill him. But he was just too damn nosy. No one told him to investigate their deaths!"

"Their deaths?" Mom asked. This time, she was not smiling. "Whose deaths? Eliza and Allister?" My face went pale. What did Aunt and Uncle’s death have to do with my dad’s?

"That bastard just wouldn’t stop. He just had to keep digging. I had to kill him. Once he found out what I’d done, he was going to tell Silver" Ruben said frantically.

"So, you played a part in their deaths. You asshole. You piece of shit. Why? They treated you like family. We all did." Mom said in a calm voice. The calmer she was, the scarier she got.

This time, life had dealt her a heavy blow. This man killed her husband, sister and brother in law. I reached out to soothe her but I knew I couldn’t do much. She needed closure. We all did.

"Well? How did you all treat me well! By giving hand me downs to me! By making me feel inferior to you all! That bastard knew I loved her. He knew and he still seduced her. Married her! Impregnated her! He called himself my brother but married the woman I loved. I met her first! I loved her first! Why did she fall for him! It should have been me!" Talk bout a mental breakdown.

"Hahaha" Mom laughed. "You loved her? Eliza never trusted you. She knew you were a snake. She warned us. All of us. She always said the way you looked at her wasn’t right. We should have trusted her. Allister and her got into a huge fight because of you!"

"Fight? Please, he trusted her more than she knew. He iced me out completely. He ended our brotherhood. Prohibited me from ever coming near her again. How was that fair? It’s not like I would have done something to her! I resented him, but I loved her. So why! Why did she still choose him over me! She chose to die with him. I would have accepted her. I forgave her for being sullied by him! I forgave her for giving birth to that bastard daughter! Ahhh!"

This time, it wasn’t mom who acted. It was me. I stabbed him right in the arm with a sharp dart. I was seething with anger. I didn’t speak. The timer was ticking. Mom had ten minutes to end it all.

"Charles, that fool. He should have just kept out of it all and he would have still been alive. But no! He just had to catch on to me... She’s beautiful isn’t she" Ruben said as he licked his lips. "She looks just like Eliza. The resemblance is uncanny. If I hadn’t tried to take her, Charles wouldn’t have reopened their case." He said in a disappointed tone.

What the fuck did I just hear? Did he jus say he tried to take Penny? When?

"You sick bastard! How dare you lay your eyes on a child." Mom looked like she wanted to throw up. She was obviously as disgusted as I was.

"So what? It’s not like I would have touched her at the time. I’m not a beast. I would have waited for her to become of age. I just....I just wanted to make sure she was by my side." He was delusional.

"You were behind her kidnapping!" Mom shrieked. "You were trying to groom her! To be what? Your mistress? You were already married! You disgust me! No wonder Eliza begged me to take Penny with me! She knew you were a disgusting freak!"

"Shut the fuck up! Eliza owed me this! She was supposed to be mine! At first, I wanted to kill his daughter! Allister didn’t deserve to have a child with her. But then, everything changed when I came back to the states. I saw her. She was the spitting image of Eliza. It was the heavens way of repaying me. I knew they wanted me to have her. Since Eliza wasn’t mine, the heavens rewarded me with Penelope." He said while he licked his lips again. This man was sick. "But your fucken husband just had to get in the way. He started tracing everything back to me. The day he died, he was supposed to meet with Silver. Luckily one of my men infiltrated the information. I knew I had to take action. So I did. Do you know what’s the funniest part about all of this? Silver never knew why Charles wanted to meet. He assumed that Charles just wanted to catch up." He said as he coughed up blood.

"What now?" Ruben said. He was listless. It was like the fight left him. He knew there was no getting out of this alive.

"Let me tell you a little secret. You will die. Your family will not know what happened to you. The world is going to end in a few days. Your family will not have anyone there to protect them from zombies and others intruding into their home. They’ll all think you abandoned them." Mom said in a condescending tone.

Ruben’s eyes flew open. He couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Sure, he was in love with Eliza but that didn’t mean he had no love for his wife. She was a wonderful woman. She knew her role and stuck to it. Never falling out of place. His children were also great. He loved them. They were his pride and joy.

He never thought of abandoning them. He needed to get out of that damn basement. He knew Mary wasn’t joking about this end of the world fiasco. He had always paid attention to the Ryker Family’s movements. When his subordinate reported to him that the Ryker’s were making massive purchases over night, he question their motive. They weren’t being quiet about it. Not even trying to keep it hidden. At first he couldn’t figure out what they were doing. But now, it all made sense. They were preparing. Preparing for the end of the world.

"I’ll fucken kill you, you’re just like Charles. Sticking your nose in other people’s business." he yelled. This time my mother didn’t waste time. She grabbed her silencer and shot him in the head. After a moment, she turned around with a smile and told me to have the mess cleaned up. Well okay, I guess I’ll be a cleaner. I took a glance at mom while grabbing the bucket of water and a mop. We let all our body guards go home for the remaining of the week. No need to keep them here trapped with us. Let them go and protect their loved ones.

A/N: see comment for a picture of Eliza Azar and Allister Wolfe. Penelope’s biological parents.