I'm shaking and shocked staring into the room "come on in honey, I told you you'd see them soon" Theo says, Rico pushing me in and I tumble through the door.

The four set of eyes switch between me and Vincent and then to Theo's men. There mouths are tied with rags and my parents look confused, my mom has tears falling down her cheeks, her eye swollen with a black eye. My father sits tall but looks scared as hell when he sees Theo and a gun. I divert my gaze to Annie, she's leaning towards Vincent and to Marie. Marie looks confused and she shakes, looking around frantically.

I see Vincent try to go to her but Tommy presses the gun to his head and I break out in a sob as he falls on his knees trying to get to his mother...or mothers. Tommy holds him and Ramsey walks over to me. He pulls me further into the room and sets me down in a chair across from my parents and Marie and Annie.

I'm in too much shock to fight back as I stare across at them. This is how I ended up, after only telling Vincent, not telling a cop or my parents and yet here we still are. He releases my wrists and I move them around seeing the red burns on my skin. He ropes me to the chair, my arms tied back with my chest, I can still move my arms but I'm attached to that chair. Vincent is placed next to me and the same treatment is done to him.

I look over to see the skin of his wrists bright red. Blood and burns cover his wrists. His eyes are set on Annie and Marie, the look in his eyes makes me shutter. He looks blank, completely hopeless. Tommy and Rico stand behind us and now I see both of them holding a gun, making me quickly whip around and face Theo and Ramsey, who stands behind our parents.

"So I just thought it would be nice to have a little family reunion wouldn't you guys agree?" Theo smirks "Vincent I, out of generosity, took the liberty to bring both your mommies, I figured dad wouldn't help much" he laughs and Vincent struggles, he clenches his jaw and I know he's on the edge of rage "and darling, you being the pathetic woman you are had no one but these two" he points at my parents "I have to get rid of them anyways so I figured this would work" he says with a shrug

"You sick bastard, you brought my sick Mother here?!! She has nothing to do with this, she knew nothing!" Vincent screams in a deep spine chilling voice

"But you love her" is all Theo says

"What are you doing? If you're going to kill us just do it" I say, tired of this game, everyone who cares about us is in this room, no ones looking

He laughs "there is so much more to this than you think" he shakes his head "I'm not going to make this easy, for your disobedience you deserve a little more than death" he smiles

"You disgust me" I spit "you'll get caught one day"

Tommy grabs my hair from behind and whips my head back "and you won't be there to see" he says pressing the gun to my head

I close my eyes and wait for death, I never wanted this. I never thought this would happen and I never wanted to go out with my family and the love of my life here to watch me die. I figured Theo would kill me one day but not like this. I hear him cock the gun and Vincent screams but the sound is muffled as I sit there with my heart ponding.

"Wait" Theo says and I let out the held in breath "calm down Tommy, that's not how this will go" he growls angrily

Tommy throws my head forward and I stare up at Theo. Outside I hear a scuffling sound and I figure it might be more of Theo's men...no way we are getting out of this with his people walking around "here's how this will go" he says reaching in the back of his pants and pulling out a gun, handing it to Ramsey "since I'm a gent, ladies are first, now let me explain" he says walking closer to me "Adeline you're going to have a decision to make, you have to decide if-" my heart hammers at his next words

"you want to kill your parents or Vincent" he says my eyes widen in shock "and then if you choose your parents Vincent will have to decide if he wants to kill you or his Mom and fake Mom" he says "we'll see who gets to live, if any of you"

I gasp almost falling back in my chair, tears cover my eyes as I move my eyes to Vincent. He looks just as shocked as I do, his eyes are wide and he looks at Theo "you can't...you're mad!" He says but Theo shakes his head

"Not your turn mister" he growls at him and turns his icy blue gaze back to me

"We'll let you discus, then we'll be back with your gun" he says, Tommy and Rico already head over to the door over to the side, leading into a side room

"You're going to make her do it?!" Vincent yells causing Marie to shake and look around in a panic, her screams muffled by a rag

"Exactly, she needs to be punished" he says and walks out

Ramsey is the last one, he takes the tape and rags out of everyone's mouth and they all are silent as he leaves. No one speaks for a solid minute, the only sound being Marie's quiet scared rambles.

"Is everyone ok?" Vincent asks and they all nod, Annie has a small cut on her lip and a bruise on her jaw but other than that she looks fine, my Father looks a little beat up, a few punches to his face, and thankfully Marie looks ok

"Are you-? You two don't look so good" Annie says

Vincent answers for us and then tells them what happened to him and to me, I tell him and the rest of what happened and we go around to tell how we all ended up here. Mom was at home, she was talking to me and then Tommy and Ramsey came and got her. Dad has been here since last night, they took him when he was at the office, working for Theo. Annie was at her shop filling shelves when they busted in and threw a sack over her head and dragged her out.

It goes silent again after we all finish our story and my brain turns on what Theo demanded of me. I can't do it. I know everyone's thinking the same thing. I look over at Vincent, my heart pounding, he stares at me and I hold my breath, knowing he's thinking what I'm thinking. If I let my held in breath go I'll break out in sobs.

"Vincent" I chock out but he shakes his head

He looks around frantically, he's trying so desperately to get away..to save me from doing this. I start to cry, hard, my Mother joins me "Adeline, calm down darling" I hear Annie say

"I can't! I can't do this" I scream shaking and moving every muscle in my body to get out, my body tearing up as the ropes dig into my skin

"Adeline" I hear Vincent say and I slowly stop to look at him

His eyes are cloudy and glazed with tears but he has that look and I know what he's thinking "no! No I won't do it!" I scream feeling my heart beat the fastest it's ever, it hurts, my heart hammers and pushes fear and anxiety in my veins

I start to panic looking around and hyperventilating, I can't kill my parents and I won't kill Vincent "baby" he says softly but I can't look at him, I can't let him convince me "you know what you have to do" he says

"No I won't" I say tears falling down my face

I look up at my parents, my mother is leaned on my father, she covers her face with his shoulder and I hear her cries. My father sits there holding back tears "This is my fault" he says and I can't say anything back "I made you marry him, he told me everything...how if you told anyone he'd blame the drug empire on me" he sighs "kill me, I deserve it, maybe you can work a deal with him, get you and your Mother out of this and Vincent maybe if you pay him-" he says but I shake my head ignoring the rest, I'm actually surprised at my father's humble words...I'd never think he'd care about me or my mother's life

"You don't understand" I say quietly "whoever I or Vincent doesn't kill, he'll kill them...he can't have any loose ends" I tell them knowing my husband better than them, I hear scuffling outside again and figure it's Theo and the men although I thought they went into another side room, it probably leads outside

"Where am I?" Marie asks,
Annie coos to her quietly as she tries to calm her down, not like it's an easy task considering herself and everyone around her is tied up

I cry, wishing I could be strong for them but the thought of shooting anyone in this room makes my whole body shake with fear, anger, sadness. I wish this was an easy question, a simple answer...but it's not, no matter how my parents treated me I still couldn't kill them. What am I going to do? What if Theo comes back and just decides to kill everyone in front of me "what do I do?" I cry more to myself than anyone

"Adeline you know what you have to do" Vincent says softly but I shake my head again

"Stop it! Stop!" I beg "I can't kill you" I cry

"And I can't kill you" he says, somehow he got his arms loose enough to move his hand over to mine, I scoot closer to him and lay my head on his shoulder, crying like crazy

He kisses my head and place his hands on mine "Vincent I should be the one to go" Annie says, bravely holding her head high as she speaks

"What? No?!" Vincent says gripping my hand

"Darlin' I know you can't kill Adeline and I could never let you hurt Marie...I'll be with Jo" she says her matching brown eyes to Vincent are glassy and look softly over at Marie, who looks calm somehow and is now looking about the room, I'm not sure how they got her here, how did they get her out of that home? Will there be people looking for her? Maybe they'll come-...stop kidding yourself

"I won't" Vincent says harshly and Annie shakes her head

The room goes silent, my mothers crying has calmed but comes out as hiccups and quiet sobs. I stare up at Vincent and more tears well up, the thought of hurting this man makes me rather kill myself-...

That's what I have to do, it's the only logical thing, I can't kill anyone and if Theo forces me to choose I won't because... I can't "you're right Vincent I know what I have to do" I tell him looking over his face, trying to remember each detail of his perfect features.

He looks down at me and smiles a small and sad smile, with a nod "it's better this way...I couldn't ask you to do anything else" he says

He bends down and kisses my lips, with the rope and distance our mouths hardly touch but it's enough for me to freeze the moment and remember the feeling of his touch, his kiss, his warmth. I close my eyes and think about the time we shared together...I wouldn't trade it, not for a damn thing.

"Honey" my mom hiccups "I'm so sorry" she says and I nod

"I know mom" I say holding back tears as I lean as far over as I can on Vincent

"If I knew..." She trails off shaking her head

"I tried" I say quietly, I don't know how many times I tried to tell her he wasn't good...she never listened

"I know" she cries harder her brown eyes red and bloodshot, her usual blonde pampered hair is messy and frizzy...I've never in my whole life seen her like this, I don't even think I've ever seen her cry

We are all jolted when we hear them enter I take deep breaths. Annie looks at all of them with hate, my mother continues to cry, my father looks straight forward with an emotionless face, Marie looks at everyone trying to figure out what's happening.

"Hello again" Theo says "Honey have you made a decision?" He asks smirking "just in advance don't feel bad when she doesn't pick one of you to save" he says motioning to my parents and Vincent

"I have" I say ignoring his last comment

He laughs walking over to me and bending down to my ear "who's it going to be" his warm breath fans my neck and his lips touch my skin

I pull away and don't look at him, I turn my gaze to Vincent and he nods encouraging me to go on, I look away and down in my lap "I choose myself" I Whisper, keeping my eyes down on my bound arms, feeling Vincent whip his head to me

Theo chuckles "well that's a twist" he says quickly

I feel Vincent's intense stare on me and he stares in shock, like the rest of the people around me "What no! No! She means me, kill me" he says in a rush leaning towards Theo is a panic

Theo smirks at me as I look up scanning the faces around me, Tommy, Ramsey and Rico look confused "I don't know, I think I like that idea...I want you to see this" he says to Vincent "and Royce, Lillian you two-" he spits "can watch what your greedy disgusting choices got you...a dead Daughter" he snips "give me the gun" Theo says looking down at me while holding his hand out to Ramsey

"You sure boss?" Ramsey asks handing over the gun

"Yes I'm sure" Theo snaps stanching the gun

"Theo, please if you have any heart at all can I at least say goodbye" I beg

He stares at me for a long moment but finally nods rolling his eyes "fine" he says and unties my ropes

I stand and take a deep breath, still not turning to Vincent. I hug my mother and my father "Theo please don't do this, we can figure this out...blame everything on me, send me to jail but please don't kill her" my father begs, a tear slipping from his cheek

"Please Theo!" My mother sobs clutching to me

I lay my head on her shoulder and smell her signature hairspray one last time, savouring the moment in her arms. I might not have had the best parents, maybe they didn't love and raise me like they should have but I still love them.

"We've already discussed this, now stop talking before I kill you first" Theo snaps

I ignore him and turn to Vincent his eyes are angry and pleading as I place my hands on his strong shoulders "don't do this" he begs with a small angry tone "please" he begs tears falling

"I have to" I say bending down to his level forcing his eyes to look at me "I love you"

"Don't make me watch, I can't watch you-" he cuts himself off holding back his tears

I know he thinks I'm being selfish and I am, I can't watch him or any of them die and I know he doesn't want to but I can't help it...it would ruin me. I gently place my hands on his bloody cut up cheeks and leads his lips to me. I kiss his slowly, pouring my love from my lips to his. My heart calms and I hold on as long as I can. I peck his lips once more and his head goes slack in my hands as he lay's his head in my hand feeling my touch as long as he can as I slip away.

His head falls and faces down, towards his lap as I hear quiet sobs from him, my heart breaking at the sound. I walk to Annie who's tear rimmed eyes stare at me "I'm so sorry darlin' " she says and I shake my head and hug her, it's my fault she's here...maybe I deserve this

"Thank you for everything" I tell her and she nods

"Hurry it up" Theo says but I ignore him and move to Marie

I kneel and take her small hand in mine she looks in my eyes and tilts her head, I kiss her hand "thank you for raising the best son possible" I say quietly but she just watches me with distant grey eyes

I swallow hard and nod standing and walking back to my seat "no...No!" Vincent says trying desperately to move to me but Tommy jumps over to him and slaps him over the head with the the gun

I gasp but thankfully he doesn't fall over, although another cut is placed on his forehead "go ahead knock me out you pussy little prick!" Vincent yells...I know what he's doing

"You-" Tommy raises his gun but before he can follow the orders of Vincent Theo's voice booms

"Damn it, stop Tommy not yet you idiot" Theo growls "first her" her says and I feel the cool metal of the gun placed on my temple

Vincent trashes but Tommy holds him back, when my Father starts to try and get to me Ramsey holds him and Rico stands watching with creased eyebrows and a almost fearful expression "don't do it you son of a bitch! Don't please! I'll do anything! Please god don't do it!" Vincent screams "Adeline! God Theo don't!"

I look at Vincent trying to calm my heart and stop the tears, but the fear is too great. He stares deep into my soul, the look in his eyes killing me, the pure saddens and helplessness in his expression. I shut my eyes remembering his eyes like they were, the soft brown that held so much love. His bright smiles that brightened the room, how his smile grew each time I saw him and got to know him, breaking down the hard wall on his heart. The heart that is now fully mine. I remember the first night we met, a simple car ride that drove me right into love. I remember the sound of his calm voice when he said I love you, making sure that repeats in my head and drains out Vincent's pleas that now echoes about the room. My body shakes and I feel him cock the gun and place it back at my temple while I sit there trying so desperately to block out the completely helpless begs from Vincent and the rest.

It's time

A/N
.....eh.....so next chapter will be up soon, don't freak out! Ok thank you for reading, only a couple chapters left!
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