Page 18 of Cruel Heir

“The wedding will not be delayed,” I heard my father say. “It will take place first thing in the morning. Before that, I will make sure that any losses covered have been discussed, and we will take care of this together.”

“I want Keith to lead the meeting tomorrow after the wedding as the new Don Carson,” Nate uttered.

Keith will be a don, and Father is marrying me off to him.While I knew what that meant, I was too consumed by grief to care about getting hitched to a monster. I wished nothing more than living this life as a broodmare in the place of the young boy who had just been shot.

That was supposed to be me. Sam was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. He could’ve gone to college; he could’ve become whatever he wanted. I felt sick to my stomach as my brother pulled me to my feet.

I turned to Aiden and lost it. "That should've been me!" I kept at screaming on the top of my lungs as he struggled to pull me away.

"Take her," Father ordered one of the bodyguards.

"You're just like them! You're not a good man; you're not a businessman! You're all fucking murderers!"

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Keith

I was completely out of my senses as I drove straight to Bilbao.

I was completely out of my senses when I saw that everything I worked hard to get turned into ashes.

I was completely out of my senses when Aiden shot the boy.

I felt like a statue, trying to hide among the living.

I only returned to reality when I heard Eloisa’s heart-wrenching screams. Her face was pale and red at the same time. I could tell that she was too weak to stand on her own.

When Alesso Castillo proposed my marriage with her, all I could think about was how I could make Eloisa pay for what she did. Looking at the situation now, what could be more miserable than being treated like nothing but an unwanted gift that you pass on to the next person?

It's already miserable enough to see Eloisa finally realize that the men that she truly admired were nothing but monsters. It took a single gunshot for two people to lose their lives that day.

"I will kill myself before I let any of this happen! You're fucking murderers!" she continued to scream. Her voice sounded shrill after screaming for a long time.

I had the urge to comfort her, but I knew that I was not better than the men in her family.The fact that Eloisa hates me so much to go out of her way to make sure that I suffer, there is no way this marriage will only be miserable for one of us.Still, it was a living hell that I was willing to jump into, seeing that the sudden loss shook up my father. He looked defeated as he uttered the words that I waited to hear all of my life. "I name you the Don of Carsons."

If I had to be with the woman who despised me with all her life before I could be a don, I would do it in the blink of an eye. After all, there was a fine line between love and hate, and I finally got what I truly ever wanted in life.

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