Chapter 23. This Kind of Family

Marcus’s POV

“How careless could you have been to get caught at the scene of the crime?” Father roared angrily as he paced the length of my hospital room in anger.

Eric was standing at the door and had a wide grin on his face. I was still on the bed and even though I was still in a lot of pain, I couldn’t say a single word, I just laid there, listening to him yell at me for something that could have gone wrong if I hadn’t stepped in.

“He was going to kill her,” I stated as I stared up at my father’s face with an angry look on mine, “how on earth was I supposed to just stand back and watch him kill her? Do you really think the Knights would stand down after you kill their only daughter?”

“There was a plan…” Eric jumped to his defense.

“What kind of plan? Killing her in a place like that when her brother and Nolan are already suspicious of us?”

“All I needed was for her to sign the damn papers, if you had not interfered, none of this would ha