"Why would you do that?" I scream and collapse across Damon's body.

He's breathing but his chest is raising in quick, short breaths.

His lips slightly parted as his dry lips gasp for air.

His eyes are widened as he stares at me intently, like he wants to speak.

Suddenly my mind is wiped of any anger or hatred towards him.

This look in his eyes was heartbreaking and I couldn't take it.

My hand covers his gun wound and I cup his face. My eyes blurred by my tears.

"He was trying to look out for you the whole time and eventually turn us in." Harry says in an annoyed tone.

The mental pain and agony I was enduring was unbearable.

Damon was alive...but I had a feeling he wouldn't pull through.

So all this time that Damon has been working against me...was to save me?

I was ready to fight, throw everything I had behind me just for this moment.

Just to save Damon, I didn't care about myself.

"I said I would join you my family again. I'll do whatever you want, just please don't hurt him anymore." I beg and Harry glances down me in disgust.

So much for my intimidating talk.

A Merchant never begged for mercy, it was like a rule of thumb.

"It's reassurance just in case you try to double cross us too. You'll have nothing to go back too. And on that note, your little Pretty Boy has been taken care of too." He says and I shake my head in disbelief.

Raphael?

My eyes closed as possibilities flashed through my mind.

No good deed went unpunished and I was certainly feeling it now.

But also all the bad feeds, I had committed as well...karma was certainly a bitch.

But then again, maybe I deserved it. Fuck it, I did deserve it.

"Where the hell is Keegan?" I say, throwing my hands up in the air.

I wanted to face my older brother now.

"On his way, then the real fun begins." Emily suddenly says with a sly smirk.

I was getting ready to rip that smile off her face.

"Is this because I ran away?" I ask curiously.

Surely she must've been holding some personal grudge against me.

Why team up with outsiders?

A Merchant never did that. Another rule of thumb.

I needed to know why. I needed answers.

"No. It was the plan you had." She retorts and I stare at my heartless sister.

"It would have worked if you had listened." I spat hastily.

"No. It wouldn't have. Your plan was absurd and it wouldn't have worked." She says and I frown.

"Yes, it would have! If you had given it a chance." I complain.

She was blaming the whole situation on me when it technically was.

Although everything would have worked out if they all had listened.

"Enough with the petty talk already. I'm ready to get this over with. I don't care if Keegan is here or not." Harry suddenly says and I cringe at him.

His whole entire existence was annoying, out of all people, I probably should've expected him to be apart of it.

It explained how Cameron got in to give me the rose.

What the hell is going on?

Suddenly I turn around and See Brooke walking towards us.

"Me too, I'm tired of this bitch getting in the way of everything." She says and I narrow my eyes at her.

"I should kill you right now." I growl at her and she smirks.

"You should but you wouldnt."

I stare at her blearily and them back down at Damon.

"So at the ball...who gave me the second black rose?" I ask and look at Emily.

"Damon," She mumbles and I glanced own at Damon who's eyes are closed.

His lips part as he begins to speak.

"I.....I have you the black rose...to...to show you that despite what was shown on the screen...you and Raphael would make it through because...well...true love never dies." I smile down at Damon and rub his cheek as he struggle to smile.

"Which wasn't even the purpose that you got the other roses in the first place." Harry mutters and I ignore him.

I stare down at my best friend and tilt his head back, helping him breathe.

"Shh, I understand now. Just keep breathing, you'll be okay." I whisper.

"Where's Raphael?" I suddenly ask as I see Harry's face begin to turn up with anger.

He wanted me out the way now. He wanted done with me.

"Already taken care of." Brooke says with her night pitched voice.

It sounded like nails on a chalkboard.

"So what? Money? All of this was for money and then to kill him off?" I say, pressing my lips together.

The night air was cold and was drawing me in slowly, I felt the het in my body overflow everything.

The disturbed disgust I had felt towards everything was setting in quickly.

Her lips curved into a wicked smile as she put her hand in her dark blue jeans.

"But of course. Though he won't be alive to know the actual truth. But please don't pity the man." She says and I shake my head.

"You killed him?" I ask in barely a whisper.

"Oh yes. And it was far too easy anyways. Now I can get his money since I'm going to be a widow." She says with a shrug and I frown for a moment.

"I thought you would get the money if you we're pregnant with his child?" I say and she scoffs.

"You aren't that bright are you? I hinted that earlier. No, I'm not pregnant with his child." She says simply and I turn to look over at Harry.

"You." I say in a harsh spat and he bites back laughter.

"Me? What about me?" He asks chuckling softly.

"I saw you in the car with Brooke. Kissing her." I say and they both cringe in disgust.

"I was giving my father a kiss on the cheek goodnight. I was actually telling the truth when I said I went to go see my father." She says and my mouth drops.

All this time...and I never knew...but they looked nothing alike.

"My stepfather is the one Anthony met. My mom was a little whore and got around." She says sucking her teeth, probably having cursed memories of her mother.

"Like mother like daughter." I say in a monotone voice and she scowls at me hatefully.

"Then who is the father?" I ask and Emily steps forward.

"Congratulations Rose, we're going to be aunts." She says and I practically vomit.

It made sense when I saw them at the store.

"Keegan?" I ask in a breathless tone.

Seriously?

"Maybe you aren't that naive after all." Brooke says with a shrug and then I glare over at Emily.

"Then why were you with Harry?" I ask and she flashes her left hand in the air to reveal a diamond ring.

"You're marrying him." I groan and shake my head.

Disgust filled me.

Anger consumed me.

Emotion floored through me and the amount if anger that I felt bursting through me was indescribable.

"What do I have to do with this? I agreed to join you. I agreed to come back. Where's mom and dad?"

I ask and he just smiles at me, laughing at how childish I was acting in her eyes.

"Does it really matter Rose? It's over." Emily says and I feel something trigger in me.

An old feeling I thought I had once destroyed, or at least forgotten.

The feeling of no remorse.

The feeling to harm...the feeling to kill.

"No Emily, it's far from that. If there is anything I have learned from Mother, is that a Merchant never forgets and a Merchant never hesitates to kill, even if its my own family." I whisper and I quickly slip Damon's gun out of his pocket.

~*~*~*

Recently I have felt a revelation and I'm determined to become better.

Good karma will come my way and I'm glad God has kept me alive this long to realize it.

I will go forth with this book steadily and I will not rush any longer-this will be a very long book- quite like Possession which was 70 Chapters including the Epilogue.

I plan on publishing She one day as well and continue to stand out an author and as a person.

I will publish Possession and She in the fall of 2015.

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