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Chapter 2: Heartless
Claudia Antonia Zacharra already knew how this situation was going to unfold, even Johnny seemed to be on board. But it became complicated when the three people in the room found out who was responsible.
The girls father had been pacing in front of her trying to wrap his head around the whole situation. "THAT. BOY. HE. KILLED. HER."
She just stared blankly at him. Claudia had every intention to make the one who killed her severely pay. A bullet in the head would be the least of the their worries. But her need for vengeance was being clouded by a promise that she made to the deceased girl herself.
"What are you going to do about it?" Johnny asked Claudia directly.
"He killed my daughter so its only fitting that I have the pleasure of ending his life." The other man in the room pulled out his gun and moved toward the door, before she could respond.
"Dino, wait" she called out. "I want to hear what he has to say." What she really wanted was for it to be anybody else, not the boy that loved her
"Why? We all saw the proof. He's guilty and in less than one hour he'll be dead."
She couldn't be so black and white on this issue. Claudia had made a promise that no harm would come to him. She could allow Dino to take care of the situation, but she wasn't sure she could live with it. "Not yet." she stood up from her chair and took the gun out of his hand. "I want that boy to look me in the eye and tell me why."
"What he has to say doesn't matter anymore. He doesn't matter Claudia." he stared at her for a minute contemplating something. "There's nothing that he can say that will make me not want to kill him."
"It looked like an accident." Johnny added moving toward the grieving father. "He's just a kid."
"It doesn't matter, accident or not. He took the life of my daughter and he is going to die. I raised her. I was there when she was scared of the thing in her closest. I was there when I had to explain why she didn't have a mommy like all the other kids.." he looked squarely at Claudia with pain in his eyes. "I was there when she got her heart broken for the first time and when she was in the hospital for a week when she totaled her car. I was there period. You two don't have a right to tell me how the hell to handle this situation. I'm going to make sure that arrogant SOB ends up six feet under. Now hand me my damn gun." he reached for his gun, but Claudia didn't relinquish it.
He was right; she had no right to tell him how to handle his grief, or the person that ended their daughters life. She had given up that right a long time ago.
"Claudia" he hissed. "Give me my gun."
"Bring him here first before you do anything, please." She gave him the gun.
He stared at her noticing the same deep brown eyes his daughter had. He could never say no to those eyes, he hated her for it. "John, you're coming with me." he ordered
Johnny looked at him confused.
"You're going to make sure I don't kill him. You think you can handle that. "
Johnny nodded. He glanced at Claudia then followed Dino out the door.
