His Promise: The Mafia’s Babies by C. Tamika novel Chapter 346

Chapter 346

Marvin

I was in Lucas’ car, on the way back to the Castillo estate. We had already been driving for a long time, an uncomfortable vibe swinging in the air as no one knew what to say. Each second stretched into minutes, and eventually into hours.

The only noise was the sound of the radio.

How could I say something, when I had yet to process everything. In a span of 24 hours, I was forced to make a decision, and lost someone who I thought was my friend.

My brother betrayed me.

I had lost Elena.

There was nothing to say.

“Tiago, as far as everyone’s concerned, you didn’t see anything today, and nothing happened today. ” 1 instructed, my voice cutting through the suffocating silence. As Tiago had already revealed, he didn’t always used his brains. “You saw nothing, you know nothing.”

Tiago remained silent as I continued. “And you keep this from our father, Tiago. He must never find out…that you betrayed me.” The words almost made me chuckle. “I will deal with it. I’ll tell him that Panther betrayed us, threatened us-so I had to take care of it. Done.”

“Marvin, L…” Tiago spoke hesitantly, but I was in no mood for his attempts at reconciliation. Whatever happened, happened, and there was nothing that could fix this. Nothing.

I cut him off. “You should also never speak to me again, Tiago. We are brothers in name, but that’s as far as it’ll go. My decision was final. The bond between us, which had already strained, had finally snapped. “Do you understand me?”

“I do and I’m sorry.” Tiago whispered, his voice filled with guilt.

“I don’t need your apologies, I scolded him. “It’s Anya you should be sorry to. Live on for her. Do something worthy of her memory.”

That poor girl had lost her life over nothing, and that was on him. He should’ve never made her worry about him in the first place.

Tiago nodded, knowing the only thing he could do was take in my words.

Lucas knew better than to answer. See, all he had to do was drive and keep his mouth shut.

Some time later Tiago fell asleep in the backseat. How he could sleep through all of that? I truly had no idea, but I guess everything dealt with their trauma differently.

He had just heard Panther got Anya killed.

He had killed Panther himself.

And now he was napping.

“You know.” Lucas cleared his throat, being the last person I wanted to talk to, I didn’t hate him nor cared

for him, really-but seeing him with Elena did something to my heart, and I could tell by his face, that whatever he was about to say-would be about her.

“Elena was worried about you. She has always been worried about you.”

“Hmm.” I hummed, pretending to be uninterested. “How is she doing?” I mumbled.

“You broke her, Marvin.” Lucas said. “I know she lied, but you should know she did it for a good reason. She did it because she didn’t want any of this to happen.”

“I didn’t make her fall for me. She’s the one who decided to do that.” The words felt heavy as they left my mouth. It was a truth I had come to accept. “If anything, I tried to push her away because I thought I would be the one to hurt her, but—“

“She ended up hurting you?” Lucas questioned, probing deeper into the wound I was trying to hide. “No, I’m not hurt.” I lied, forcing a chuckle. There was a certain bitterness in that laughter.

“You don’t have to be like this around me. I’m not Mario,” Lucas said, his words subtly reminding me that I didn’t have to wear the mask of indifference with him.

His candidness coaxed another chuckle from me, but this time it was genuine, “I’m not hurt.”

“Okay.” He accepted my words with a knowing smile.

“Do you have feelings for Elena?” I couldn’t help but ask my brother.

It was silent, then he repeated me. “Feelings for Elena?” He most certainly bought time to choose his words carefully.

“To be honest, I barely know her, but if I didn’t know who she was and saw her walking down the street, I think I would’ve asked her for her number.”

I turned to him, giving him a small smirk, but the sides of my lips were trembling.

“You know how hard it was to interrogate her when she was sitting right in front of me?” Lucas said, his own smirk matching mine. “I nearly fell from my chair when she turned her back.”

I laughed, cutting him off. “What are you getting at?”

“Elena is waiting for you to call her, and if you don’t… well, she will find someone else because she can.” Lucas’ words felt like a punch to the gut, but maybe it was better this way.

“That’s good. I still want her to be happy.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes. Positive.” I said, but my heart begged to differ.

“Elena tried to mention that you know George Torres? I assume he likes you.” I shifted the subject.

“He does.”

“Does he know who you are?”

“He does.”

“And he still likes you?”

“He does.”

“What kind of man is he?” I was curious about the man who hated me that much.

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“One that resents the Castillos for murdering his partner, Stevie Maddens. Even then, Elena managed to get him off your back, so he’ll leave you alone.” Lucas answered. He must’ve misunderstood my question or he was either really rooting for Elena and I to be together, something which just couldn’t be.

“Can you do one thing for me?” I requested.

“Anything, brother.”

“I want you to stay close to her. Elena is naive, clumsy-and she doesn’t have many friends-”

“I know, Marvin. Don’t worry.” Lucas reassured him, knowing what I would ask. He had undeniably observed her as well.

“Thanks

“Don’t thank me. Elena and I are friends.” Lucas put the emphasis on friends,