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Blood Connections
Chapter 14
"Rogue"
"Gambit"
Remy winced at the use of his code name, she was definitely angry, though he realised she had every right to feel this way.
"I'm so sorry chere."
"So am ah."
That didn't sound too promising.
"I'm such an idiot, worse dan an idiot, mais please let me explain!"
"What is there to explain?" Rogue stared right through him as if she couldn't bear to focus on him. The blank, depressed look on her face was killing him.
"I didn' wan' to do dat, dose girls meant nothing!"
"Yes, ah could see you fighting them off. Damn that must have been hard!"
He sighed; of course she wouldn't accept that, every guy in history has used that line at some point! This was it, time to tell the truth.
"Dey were blackmailing me."
That made her look at him.
"What? You're telling meh that the Bayville Bimbos with the combined I.Q of 1 are blackmailing Remy Lebeau, prince of thieves? Please don't tell meh you expect meh to believe that!"
"It's de truth chere! They know a lot about my past. Things that I'm ashamed of. Things I never wanted you to hear about! I wanted to protect you!"
"And a fine job you did. You should have known that you could tell meh anything. You knew you could trust meh! Ah've seen some of you're past Remy, you've been in mah head. Your blood is in mah veins for crying out loud!"
"I know chere, I know! I made a mistake and I'm paying the price. I'm ready and willing to explain though. You may not believe me or you may not even wan' to see me after dis, mais, please jus' hear me out"
"Fine."
Remy breathed out slowly, this wasn't going to be easy.
"You know about de two guilds in New Orleans, an' about Julian an' everythin'. Before I came hear I was engaged to de only daughter of de Assassins. I didn' love her or anything but I had to do it for peace between de families.
"A reverse Romeo and Juliet."
"Oui chere, exactly dat. No one was happy about it, Belles brother especially. He never liked de idea. He crashed de wedding and demanded a duel between us."
Remy was silent as he thought of a good way to tell Rogue the rest but he wasn't sure he could find one. He continued anyway.
"Remy couldn' back down. I'd have no honour an' I'd lose all respect. We fought, I won. De duel was to de death."
"You killed her brother!"
"I thought I did…her brother is Julian."
"The guy we ran into-"
"-Yeah. I've been banned from New Orleans. If I go back and get caught, I die. I heard the police wan' me too but dat could be a rumour….the police have never been involved wit' guild affairs before. Dey tent to turn a blind eye if you pay dem well enough."
"You said you were exiled?"
"Oui."
"But we went there…right into their house!"
"Dey didn' welcome me wit open arms as you saw."
"You said they'd kill you if they caught you."
"But dey didn' catch me did dey?"
"Why didn't you tell meh all of this?"
"I was trying to protect you! One day de Assassins will get tired of waitin' an' dey'll come to me. I don' wan' dem to hurt you."
"Ah think ah'll stand a better chance now ah know what ah'm up against. How did they find out anyway?"
"I have no idea. Maybe de leader's a cousin of derse or something…never expected de B.Bz to know dis much!"
"We can find out."
"You mean we're still together?"
"It won't be like before, but no way are those Bimbos goin' to win over meh!"
No mentions of forgiveness or love but at least he hadn't lost her completely. He swept her up into a tight hug, squeezing her almost to breaking point, thrilled when she-weakly- returned the sentiment.
So that's it!
Before you all rush to complain about Remy not talking in third person, it is intentional as you will see in the next chapter.
Really need to go….my hand seems to be bleeding for some unknown reason!
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Vittorio