4| STAINED CUFFS

MS. GENEVIEVE BARRINGTON!

our widowed maternal aunt, she was my mommy's twin sister but they were fraternal twins. they never looked the same in appearance.

and now she isn't just our aunt, she is going to be MRS. GENEVIEVE BARRINGTON PHOENIX! Our stepmother and queen of our whole Mafia Empire!

She is one of the highest paid model in the whole world, she began her career at the age of 10. She is truly our idol, I have never seen a strong and confident woman like her in my whole life.

She got married to the love of her life at 21, had her first child 'MIKAEL BARRINGTON' my first male cousin who is 2 years older than me, at 22 but still with her postpartum body, she continued her modeling. Her husband 'MR.SEAN BARRINGTON' was a captain in UK army who sacrificed himself on the battlefield.

And at that time, Aunt was 3 months pregnant with our little cousin sister 'HAYLEY BARRINGTON'.

Aunt Genevieve has suffered all through her life, just like mommy maybe more than her, and I do respect her.

But, after Hayley our little cousin was born, as I said that our main business of selling mobile phones was going in a downfall, 'THE X&D' our brand was near to its end but she, Aunt Genevieve helped us by becoming the brand ambassador of 'THE X&D'.

She was beautiful, she attracted the customers by her irresistible charm and 'THE X&D' was back again.

And for the well being of the company, mafia and our home Daddy gave her an offer to become 'MRS.GENEVIEVE BARRINGTON PHOENIX'. And finally, she accepted.

It was a right decision of hers, she also needed a family which she lost, I know she will be good to us always and forever.

But what if she ends up like Mommy? What if she dies too? WHAT IF HE KILLS HER TOO?

I never disclosed the truth about Mommy's death which was portrayed as an accident, because it was ME!

Because I was helpless, pathetic! and the biggest emotional fool a person can know! I was scared and I want my family to live together as one.

But if anything happens to Aunt Genevieve, Mikael is gonna rip out Daddy's heart and will feed it to both Derek and me.

Because after Daddy, if there's anyone cruel or psychotic then it's Mikael. Even if he is only 10, even if he is a little boy who is in 5th class but he won't think twice before killing anyone.

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Holding Derek's hand I was walking downstairs looking down at my black shoes with dried stains of tears under my eyes.

I feel suffocated, it's hard for me to even breathe her, I want a bit of peace, I wanna leave this house forever.

The whole mansion of ours was decorated with beautiful Roses and Peonies.

Everything was so beautiful and elegant, and media are just outside our "PHOENIX PALACE" in order to capture some wedding pictures and clips for the newspapers.

Every decoration, guests and this wedding is fake, can anyone here notice the darkness of Silvader Phoenix which I have seen since the age of 3?

Whatever, it's better not to think about him.

"See Mikael is also here with Hayley, let's go and meet them." Derek exclaimed as he saw Mikael standing at a corner with our one year old baby cousin sister Hayley.

"okay, let's go" I answered him as I felt a bit light after seeing them.

We made our way to them and Mikael also also noticed us and Hayley giggled when she saw Derek, afterall Derek is her favourite brother.

"Oh my god, see our baby girl is looking so pretty today." Derek smiled and kissed Hayley's plumpy cheeks.

"Hmm" said Mikael, he looks a bit down too. Is he not okay with this marriage too? wait, I can see a stain in his cuffs, wait i-is it blood?? d-did he killed someone??

"Mikael, I wanna talk to you!" Mikael looked a bit shocked when I shouted all of sudden to gain his attention.

"W-What happened to you now?" he asked being a bit awkward, I know what he did before coming here. Psychopath!

Derek looked at us in confusion but his attention was only towards Hayley who was playing with her own fingers inside his arms.

"Come with me, please!" Before he could say anything more I dragged him with me to a different corner of 'PHEONIX PALACE'.

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"why did you take me here Xavier??" Mikael said being a bit angry on me.

Oh are you showing anger to me you murderer??

And without wasting time I asked him with a stern voice.

"You killed someone before coming here, didn't you?"

He gulped, and defended himself saying

"stop talking crap, w-why would I kill someone in this early morning?"

Bloody liar! I agree I am a pathetic and weak person but I am truly not a Fool!