Vows Of Vengeance

uce?" I playfully teased my father

as a lot of sauce, Bell

er eyes at him, and my

g like every other in

, my mother just watching us with bright eyes, and

ly stiffened, his

my mother's voice wa

through the window

hoving me down shielding me with

see figures dressed in bla

ce demanded, its owner con

from protecting my mother. "Where di

rom me," my father sp

n smacked my fa

Before he could recover,

here is it?!" The man shouted,

he man instructed

m, but my brother

sound, Belle,"

ho was screaming and struggling, w

r kept shouting. "You have a problem wit

d him and stri

trying to free herself from the man's grip

ile we carried out our operation, did they?" The man

n my face as I wit

ather kept shouting

we came here for, Mr. De Luca," the fi

to give you what they wa

atched our mother being mistreat

ept pleading, blood runnin

gnored her an

wife, feeling hopeless, with

mother, and the men hold

ng down his face as he embraced my mother

No need for more harm. Think about your children," the man

harm to us. He was trying to reason with father, but m

," the man sai

ullets flew from

a hole in his forehead, bl

ed by my brother's hand ove

," my brother whispered

bullet through her chest

until I felt my brothe

y face as my brother's

nmoving as the bull

man shouted. "Make sure

, drenched in my

s," the men

, " the leade

e rooms with gasoline a

roar, consuming ever

o, my numb mind seized upo

rief, I pulled myself free from be

rry with tears. The fire was s

brother's forehead with te

," I kept

filling my lungs as I

lding my mother, even

rings from their fingers an

gh smoke and flame, my heart pounding in tim

, I emerged from t

, carrying the acrid scent

ill, a lone figure silhouette

otic ballet of flashing li

efighters battled the inferno with hoses that se

orange, reflecting the inferno t

searing reminder of the p

burning promise etched in

adows, a silent observer

hoever had orchestrated this fiery dest

a ghost in the night, a

ous dance, but I would be a silent

em, each and ev

isted motives, and then, with cold, calc

from me, and now, they wou