Deadly Obsession - Chapter 9 (Patreon)

Romelo

Charlie Hurn.

She is the daughter of senator Scott Hurn. Well, now he’s a senator. Back then he was just running for mayor. The day she was kidnapped they were at an event in a park campaigning. The last thing on their minds was their daughter.

Today is my first day off in a while and I can finally look over the information I’ve been gathering about Charlie.

She was declared missing that day, and has been missing for years now. I chuckle to myself at the revelation that he secured his position in office by doing dealings with the Pasquino’s. If only he knew where she really was all this time.

I pull up the article from when she was first taken.

"Mayoral Candidate's daughter kidnapped from campaign."

His wife ended up losing her mind over the guilt and was placed in an institution declaring mentally unstable. Somehow, she managed to kill herself in the institution.

Charlie’s father, however, has yet to remarry saying he wants to focus on making the world a better place so that what happened to him and his family won’t happen to anyone else. I scoff aloud at the bullshit.

Do people truly believe that they can make the world better? It’s a cesspool of hate and anger. There is no saving it or making it better. There’s only controlling as much of it as you can and making sure your portion is safe and happy.

I turn off the computer going in search of Charlie. She spends her days in different rooms of the house but today I find her in the library, staring at a book. Her hair is now touching her upper back. She’s wearing a white sundress as she cozies up in the windowsill. It’s crazy to think all those years she was with me and I never caught on that she was a woman. I just thought she was a late bloomer. But now that her hair has grown even longer than it used to be it’s clear. And she’s actually quite beautiful.

Her sniffle pulls me out of my musings and I realize that she’s crying.

I study her for a moment trying to pinpoint her mood. She’s staring at the open page of the book, but her eyes aren’t moving over the page. I walk further into the room and she doesn’t even hear me until I’m standing in front of her. I gently pull the book out of her hands and she looks up at me with wide blue eyes.

I silently take a seat next to her, studying the book she was reading.

“You can’t read…”

Her eyes grow even wider and more tears begin to fall out of her eyes. She sniffles out loud and begins shaking her head vigorously. I laugh aloud shaking my head.

The daughter of a senator. How much different would her life have been if my mother hadn’t stepped in? She would have been the perfect daughter. We may have even crossed paths seeing as her father works with us. But she would have been one of Luca’s conquests, not mine.

I especially hate privileged women. In my eyes they are high class tramps that believe they are God’s gift to the Earth because of the family they are born into. I despise them with a passion.

At this point I have yet to tell Luca of Charlie. I don’t know what it is that’s stopping m . I tell him everything usually. But this time, I just want to keep this to myself.

I suck in a deep breath pulling Charlie into me. I open the book to the first page offering her a comforting smile before I patiently begin teaching her to read.