The darkest people often hold the brightest light in their hearts.

Violet's POV

Darkness. Death.

I used to be afraid of the dark, I used to hate nightmares until I started living one. I've learned to hide in the shadows, just me and my fears. I've found the madness and pain they keep me sane. I don't want to be normal or happy, I'm okay with being broken.

Now the darkness is my only escape.

I slowly opened my eyes. I looked down at my body and find I'm in different clothes. I'm in a different room too, it had a queen size bed which I lay on in the middle of the room. The room was painted red and black, it looked beautiful.

I recollect the events that happened before I fainted. I wonder how Jax explained my fainting, I wondered if he touched me after I fainted a shiver runs down my spine at the thought of it. The door opens I'm expecting Bella or Livia to walk in but Xavier walks in.

His eyes widen once he sees me, "Thank God you are finally awake, everyone was worried sick," he said rushing over to me. I'm surprised at his actions, he sounds like he actually cares. "Do you actually care Xavier or is this another one of your stupid games?" I snapped.

I didn't know where that came from all of a sudden I was angry, at everything and everyone. I was angry at Xavier because if he hadn't taken me I would have never met Jax again.

He looks away from me, his jaw tightened. When he doesn't answer my question I assume he's just playing games with me. I get up from the bed which is a bad idea, once I stand from the bed the room starts spinning, I fall to the ground landing on my butt.

Xavier rushes to my side, picks me up and lays me on the bed. We sat in silence for a while till he said, "I'm not playing games with you. I do care." I was going to ask why he cared because it didn't make sense but instead I nodded.

"Besides I'm your only guy friend, I'm supposed to care," he said with a huge grin.

I smile, "You're not my only guy friend," I said, "I have Caden and Ace."

"Violet you've hurt me," he said while holding his chest. I giggle, "But I'm your bestest guy friend," he states, I giggled again.

"You sound like a child," I said. The door opens, Livia and Bella walk in. Xavier stands up and steps away from me. "That's my cue to leave," he said and exited the room.

"What happened V?" Bella asked.

"If that Jax dude did anything to you I swear I'll end him," Livia declared.

I smile a little, even though we are in a tough situation it is nice to know I have friends I can count on. "Jax touched me, I panicked and fainted," I replied lowly.

The thought of his hands on my body made me shiver. "I'm sorry," Bella said. I've always hated that phrase, saying sorry doesn't fix the problem. I hated the pity in people's eyes when the said it to someone who has been through something tragic.

"V we've got something to tell you," Livia said.

Bella glares at her. "She going to find out anyway," Livia said.

"What is it?" I question. Livia opens her mouth to speak then turns to Bella as if seeking for approval to tell me what is going on.

Bella sighs "Fine tell her."

Lives takes a seat next to me and begins to speak, "Bella and I went to the cabin again we looked through Rose's files, we noticed one name appeared a lot, the name is Maria Sanchez. We thought it looked suspicious so we decided to check her out, Bella asked Xavier's friend Ace for a laptop, he was more than happy to help he gave her the laptop in no time. I worked my hacker magic and found some information on Maria Sanchez." Livia stops talking and looks at me with sad eyes. "I also found a picture of her."

"You should see this," Bella said, she pulls out a picture from her pocket and hands it to me. I looked at the picture and gasped.

That's my mother

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Xavier POV

"Are you scared?" I asked my victim mockingly.

His scared eyes widened. He nods yes, a tear rolls down his cheek and onto the cloth I used to gag him. I received intel that the man in front of me who goes by the name Alex had sold a gun to someone in my gang, the same gun that was used to kill Rose.

I pull on the chain that held his hands together, the chain is attached to the ceiling making him hang from the ground. His clothes were torn and stained with blood, his skin had countless bruises on it from the beaten my men had given him.

"Now are you going to tell me who you sold the gun too?" I asked menacingly. He nodded, I smirked at him and removed the gag from his mouth.

"She didn't give a name," he stammers. So the killer is a woman. "She didn't mention any name?" I inquired.

"I don't remember," he replied. I took out a Spey from my pocket and pressed the tip on his open wound. He bellowed in agony, "You better think hard," I said darkly.

"She mentioned a Violet," he shouted. My body tenses, what did Violet have to do with this? I pushed the Spey deeper into his wound and twisted it a little. "Is that all she said?"

"Yes please stop please." I took the knife out of his wound. I turn to my men and say, "Take him to the cellars I'll deal with his punishment later." I leave the torture room and walked to my office.

I ponder on how Violet could have a connection to the killer. I knew she couldn't be the killer, she loved Rose and her reaction the last time I accused her of killing Rose says it all, Violet is innocent so the only explanation left is that she is in danger. She needs to be put somewhere safe or she'll be killed too. I walked into my office finally happy to get some rest from this hectic situation only to find my brother and father.

My father sat on my chair, my brother Jax stood beside him. Their eyes are focused on the laptop in front of them. Jax looks at me and smiles. He turns the laptop towards me, they were watching me interrogate Alex.

"Every nice interrogation brother but I think you should have done more damage," he said.

I looked at him with a glare, "What do you two want?" I asked coldly.

My father's eyes meet mine, "What do you plan on doing now?" he asked calmly.

"Well if you must know I plan on sleeping right now, get out," I responded.

I'm in no mood for their games. He father smiles, "I mean what do you plan on doing to Violet," he said, his calm exterior is pissing me off.

"That is none of your concern, I will handle this situation on my own," I replied.

"Xavier, father and I came here to tell you we do not trust that woman," Jax said. If my father wasn't here I would have beat the shit out of him. "What reason do you have not to trust her?' I asked

"Her name keeps popping up and awful a lot whenever Rose's killing is mention," my father said.

"Exactly," Jax said.

"Jax, would you like to explain to our father why Violet fainted in your arms?" I asked rhetorically. Jax becomes quite, "now you suddenly don't trust her, just last night you were telling me how beautiful she is. What changed?"

Jax opens his mouth to speak then closes it again, "You're the one I don't trust, get out of my office both of you."

My father stands, "You are incredibly stupid Xavier. I will be back here in two weeks make sure by the time I've returned you've taken care of that girl. Jax let's go." with that, they both leave much to my relief.

I need to talk to Violet. I walk out off office and head to the guest room where she is, it doesn't take me long to get there as her room is only a few rooms away from my office. I wanted her close so I could check on her easily.

I entered the room to find Violet on the bed talking to her friends. She looked tense and scared. I clear my throat drawing their attention towards me, "Could I please have a moment alone with Violet?" I asked. Her friend Bella smiles at me and gets up to leave, Livia, on the other hand, doesn't move. "Why can't we stay?" she asked sassily.

Violet takes her hand and whispers something to her. Livia sighs gets up and leaves the room with Bella.

"Violet are you okay?" I asked once they're gone. She nods I frowned a little knowing that is not true. "Alright, can you think of anyone that might want to kill you?" I asked going straight to the point. I've never been one to beat around the bush.

"No," she replies. Her eyes are glued to her hands, I grab her chin softly with my fingers making her stare at me. "What's-" I'm cut off by the sound of two gunshots.

I quickly get up running to the door, "Stay here," I said to Violet in a cold voice. I run to the torturing room and slam the door open. I find my one of men blocking the entrance to the cellars. "What the hell happened?" I asked through clenched teeth. I do not get an answer.

I walk closer to the entrance and pushed him out of my way. "Who the fuck did this!!!" I shouted pointing at Alex's dead body. I'm beyond angry, the only lead I had to find Rose's killer is now dead.

I looked at the body again and noticed a note next to it. Bending down I grabbed the note. It read:

Your days are numbered.

Author's Note.

Hey guys. Finally updated!!!

Okay so I'm losing my shit. Loving Broken hit 5k reads!!!

I made a new book called Magic Tricks hope y'all can check it out.