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“You were in an accident. And we lost everything.” A tear trails down her perfect cheek. Her olive skin begs me to reach out.

But I barely know this woman. Yet I know her intimately.

“Your brothers, your father. All taken from us.”

“The boys?” Our…children. Whose names I cannot recall.

Her eyes harden, her fists clench. “They took our children too.Hetook everything.”

“Who?” I feel my wrath rise, filling every muscle and cell in my body with power. With a need to act. I’ve never felt such conviction, such hate.

“Dom Vipera. He betrayed us. He killed my family. He made you…he is the reason you are this way. Broken.”

“Why can’t Iremember?”

“You don’t want to. The things he made you do…”

My brothers. What have I done.

A sneering visage appears in my mind, and I know it is him. My enemy.

Who took everything away. And he must pay.

“Come, darling. Sit with me while I sing. Then we will go and never come back to this place. Not until we have gotten our revenge on the world.”

To be continued.