His Promise: The Mafia’s Babies by C. Tamika novel Chapter 345

Chapter 345

Marvin

Everything seemed foggy…

It felt as if I was viewing the world through an underwater lens. That’s right, the car had just crashed. I blinked my eyes through the pain, and crawled away, groaning.

There was no time for pain. The adrenaline pumped through my veins, bringing me back to reality. With heavy breaths, and a ragged pulse drumming in my ears, I had managed to get out of the car.

My first instinct was to go to my brother, who was thrown out of the car. “Are you okay? Can you move?” I asked Tiago, who had luckily remained unharmed.

He nodded his head, his eyes wide open as he took in the scene. With the car almost being on the edge of the cliff, we had barely survived. Did he want to take us all down with him?

My head turned once I had heard a groan, and there he was-Panther, semi-conscious, trying to pull himself together.

A flicker of satisfaction went through my body. Good, I wanted him awake for this.

“Let me give you a hand.” I dragged him out of the wreckage. His body seemed weak as if he was already on the verge of dying. My muscles strained as I pulled him closer to the edge of the cliff, just like I had done when I had asked him about Karina.

I warned him that time.

No more lies, or the next time, I will kill you.

Suddenly I felt a hard object hit me in the eye, and Panther had removed himself from my grip. It all happened so fast, because the next second he stood behind Tiago, with a gun pressed to my brother’s head.

I should’ve known better.

Panther was strong, powerful, he grew up around Castillos.

I carefully observed the frightened expression in Tiago’s eyes. After all those years, and all those days at the Armandos, his reaction towards fear had not changed a thing.

It never would.

“P-P-Pedro?” He almost begged him.

Pathetic.

“I will kill him, Marvin.” Panther smirked. “You know I will.”

“Great.” I shrugged my shoulders, making a thin line with my lips. “Then you’ll know I won’t give a fuck. Good riddance.”

“Marvin!” Tiago called out my name, shocked. Quite funny how he had no issue letting me rot in prison, but now I was supposedly the problem.

He was once again doubting me again.

Of course I wouldn’t let him get killed.

He was still my brother.

“This is how things are going to go.” Panther spoke, taking authority. “I will leave, take him with me–and send him back later, okay?”

I sighed, not giving him a response. Not liking my answer, Panther pushed the gun harder to Tiago’s head.

See, he was actually insane and would do it.

“Okay, okay!” I held up my hands in defense. “But before you go, at least let me know why you’ve been doing all of this. Don’t you think I have the right?”

I was only buying some time so I could figure out what the hell to do.

“Fine.” He sneered. “What do you want to know?”

“You know, Elena told me everything.” I began. “She told me about her family, your threat, she showed me the tape.” I laughed at the last words. “The one of you and my brother conspiring against me to trap me in prison-so first Tiago could take over the business, and then your son….Cisco.”

Panther chuckled, Tiago looked embarrassed.

“Since you know everything so well. Please tell me what happened after that.”

Then I got out, and both of your plans went to shit.” I continue my conclusion as they both listened attentively.

“Tiago felt remorseful for betraying his brother, you probably told him you did too-but that was all a lie. You didn’t need him anymore, you got Anya killed because she knew too much, you knew Tiago would lose it, and somehow the Hernandez took the fall for it!

“Hmm.”

Tiago’s face changed. “Y-You killed Anya?” He immediately confirmed that information was new to him.

Obviously he knew what kind of monster he was, but even he didn’t know Panther was capable of taking the life of someone we viewed as family.

“I did.” Panter admitted.

“Yes.” I nodded. “But I can only not understand where Elena fits into all of this.”

Elena being George Torres daughter was something even Panther couldn’t execute. Our relationship was nothing more than a coincidence.

“I was lost, didn’t know what my last step was going to, and then she came into my life like a gift send from the lord himself. A good distraction, better yet-a DEA agent’s daughter.” Panther chuckled proudly “I figured, the more you’d fall for her, the softer you’d become, the more you’d realize you don’t belong here, and lastly, the more you’d be willing to eventually give up your position to protect her from Mario.”

“Well, I fell for her. I got softer. I got distracted, but not once have I considered leaving my family, not even for a woman.” I said. Ever since a young age, I knew my duties-and no, I didn’t always agreed with

it, but I was a Castillo. “Your plan failed.”

“I can see that now.” Panther spoke. “I knew you were heartless..but damn.”

“I’m heartless?”

“Yes,”

“You’re one to talk.” I murmured. “You’ve been doing all of this, just for a bit of power?”

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“No. I’ve been doing all of this for Cisco!” It sounded like I hit a nerve. “All of you…you don’t look after the boy, you don’t pay attention to him-I had to do something to secure his position, I had to do something to secure my position.”

“If you think I don’t pay attention to my only nephew, you’re even more stupid than I thought you were.” I corrected him. “Cisco is my family.”

Karina was a bad mother, but I was not a bad uncle. I would never abandon my nephew,

“So is Victor, and he doesn’t hold any value inside of the family.” Panther retorted, only he was wrong.

Although he was adopted, Victor was so loved by Dad, it felt as if I had been competing with him all my life.

“Pedro. You were like my brother.” I looked him in the eyes. I truly thought we had a mutual understanding.

“No, no-we were never.” Panther shook his head. “Never!”

“Don’t say that.”

“No, Marvin. We were never. I never liked being in your shadows, I didn’t want to be around you, and every time I looked at you-1 held back the urge to choke you to death-”

“Then why didn’t you? Why don’t you shoot me now?” I questioned. “You say that you don’t care, but you do care-and we were brothers.”

For some reason I was desperate for his validation. A friendship of a lifetime, and now he wanted to tell me that it was not mutual?

Panther snorted. “I know it’s hard to believe, but I don’t think anyone cares about you, Marvin. I’m sorry that I have to be the one to tell you, but no one likes you. Everyone hates you.”

His words felt like daggers, and just like that, it was over. He was dead to me.