Donald let go of Selena and walked towards Deputy Behrens. Selena dropped to her butt and held her neck as she gasped for breath. Donald’s group had been metallic. If Behrens hadn’t called him, he would have strangled her to death. Donald wondered what would be so important that Behrens would call him. He was about to squeeze the truth from Selena. There had to be an explanation for why his great-grandfather would hand over all their properties to the Rhoades. And of all people, a woman. “What is it?” Donald asked as he stood before Behrens. In Behrens’s hands was a piece of paper. Donald gazed at it in confusion. “You should see this,” Behrens said, handing over the paper to Donald. Donald, still confused, got the paper from him with his eyes glaring at him. He gazed at him for a few moments before bringing his eyes down to the paper. It was handwriting. It looked like a letter. It read;“My dear Tabitha, I hope this reaches you. My wife, Martha, has found out about our love,

Roman ducked under the couch as two bullets whizzed over his head. The guards weren’t giving them any space to maneuver. This was because the room was filled with them. They didn’t have a point to start from. Roman took a peek and immediately a shot was fired at him, he immediately ducked to dodge the bullet. He turned to Florence who was watching him quietly. “I don’t know about this, Florence. I don’t see a single opening.”“Then let me,” she said and rose from the couch. “Florence no!” He screamed. Florence flashed her gun across the sea of guards and pulled the trigger in quick succession. She was able to take down two guards simultaneously. As she was about to take down the third, a bullet was fired at her and it grazed her arm. This forced her to hide under the couch. She gripped the arm that was bleeding now as it stung in pain. When Roman saw this, he became infuriated by her recklessly. “I told you it was too dangerous.”“If we don’t take risks, Roman, we aren’t going

Roman Lacroix walked slowly through the hallway clutching the gun with both hands as he headed towards the next room. Viper Don and Selena were in there and it was certain that she was his prisoner. She didn’t deserve any of this and needed to be set free. As Roman arrived at the door, he paused by the door and listened to the voices that were coming within. He could recognize Selena’s voice and also Viper Don’s. They were both intensely involved in a conversation. Roman didn’t know if it was the best time to be involved in such a conversation. With little impatience, he stepped into the room and found Donald standing by the other end of the room with Selena in his grasp. He was pulling at her hair with a gun on her temple as well. Roman looked into Selena’s eyes and all he could see was both fear and agony. She had suffered for too long and it was time he got her to safety. He wondered how she had been able to hold it down until he came. She was strong. Stronger than he had initia

Roman watched the paramedics zip up Selena’s corpse into a body bag before wheeling her away. He was standing outside the house now, which was swarmed with police cars and ambulances. Just above him, Twilight was fading, and the sun was coming up. It would have been a beautiful morning if Selena had been alive to see it. Roman didn’t know what to feel. Selena had risked her life to save him, and he didn’t know how he was going to repay her now she was in the grave. He failed this mission, and he couldn’t keep the one promise he had made to Jermaine, which was to protect his daughter. But if she hadn’t tried to escape, Donald would have gotten the certificate of ownership and would have been on his way out of the city. She had risked her life to make sure that never came to be, and he respected that. Florence was talking with one of the officers when she saw Roman standing by the ambulance completely lost in his thoughts. He had been quiet ever since they left the room. Ever since Se

“There’s nothing you could have done, Roman,” Ben said. Roman was standing at the gravesite of Selena now. The funeral had just ended, and it was nothing but a simple one. The only person that had been invited was my roommate back in college, Diana.Diana had been in tears when she had learned of the demise of Selena. They hadn’t spoken in a while and she had thought that Selena needed some time off to clear her head off. It wasn’t easy losing someone so close to you, especially your father. She didn’t know she was out solving a mystery about her family. And it had ended her death. Roman couldn’t blame anybody but him. He had put Selena in harm's way. It had been too easy for Selena to be caught when he hadn’t been with her. He had been reckless and even though he had risked his life and was on his deathbed, he felt that he should have been more cautious with the people he had let into his circle. But how could he have known? Lydia had done everything in her power to make him trust