Page 113 of His Cursed Heart

and for the first time since I met Hanibal, he's quiet. He looks at Althea trying to find his words.

I move toward the table and grab the brass knuckles, putting my fingers through it. I wait for Hanibal to say his thoughts because after that, the show starts.

"I made that bet because I was sure I would win." He says breathlessly. Althea shakes her head and goes near him.

"You threw me at them like I was a piece of meat." She angrily slaps him. "You left me with them for twenty-nine days." Althea's voice cracks and my body trembles.

Hanibal stares at her and his palms turn into fists too. I flicker of pain takes ahold of his eyes and his body trembles also.

"You let them rape me for twenty-nine days. On and on until my body hurt to even stand up. My sheets were always bloody, my body was full with bruises and my mind kept begging for you to save me. Why didn't you save me, Papa?" My heart stops. I can't fucking listen to her. The pain explodes in my body and I want to kill myself because I didn't help her.

I could've.

You didn't know.

It's not good enough.

"Althea-" Hanibal's voice is unrecognizable.

"You taught me how to ride a bike and how to play poker. You were the first one who put a brush in my little fingers because my talent was like no other. What happened?" But Hanibal doesn't answer her. Althea looks at him with hatred in her eyes and she starts laughing.

"Every time they came back, I had to listen to your

screams and pleads. They brought guards, it was impossible for me to stop them. I tried to, believe me or not. I can't stand you, Althea, but I raised you. I tried and I failed." Hanibal groans and Althea freezes.

I go next to her, but she doesn't see me. Her gaze is glued to her father who is breathing harder and harder.

"How can I believe you when your nickname for me is 'whore'? How can I trust you when you killed my mother?" I frown at her words. Gianna Luciano died because she was sick.

Was she?

My head starts hurting from all the information that is thrown.

"The night of my eighteenth birthday is the night I lost my mother. You fucking killed her and took her away from me." Althea's body tremble and I try to take her out of here, but she needs this.

"Your mother died when she fell in love with someone else while still married to me." Hanibal roars and now I see it. The love he still has for his late wife. His eyes are red and his face is full of angry veins.

He looks murderous.

My, my... the snake has a heart.

"My mother died from all the love she had for you!" Althea spats and I hold her back when she lunged at Hanibal.

"Your mother was a cheating whore, uccellino. She fell in love with the enemy but her luck was that you and your sister needed her. You have Gianna's face." Hanibal grows angrier and angrier. "You look just like her and in the same time as him." I see Hanibal ripping the ropes that kept him tied to the chair and his body lunging at Althea.

I move quickly and I slam my fist covered in the

brass knuckles in his face and he falls flat on the floor.

I turn to Althea and see her hard eyes on her father. Her body is tight and she looks ready to kill.

Fuck me.

I cup her face and force her eyes to meet mine.

"My little fox," I say and I kiss her soft lips. She responds instantly and my tongue disappears in her mouth.

"My mother isn't a whore." Althea separates from me and I control my cock from hardening. The angry she gets, the sexier she turns.

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