Chapter 151. One Way Out

Vincent

“Where could it be?!” I scoured every corner of the room that my sister had once lived in. Each belonging I touched, felt like a piece of my soul leaving my body. She had degraded herself into being someone’s… object, all to avenge a duty that was never meant to be hers in the first place.

I had failed as a brother. First, I couldn’t save my wife and child, and then my sister—I had failed as a brother, a husband, and a father. Perhaps, at some point, even as a son, the day I emptied all the bullets in my gun into my mother’s body.

What else could I have done? She wasn’t the mother I once knew, or maybe she never was. She’d become just a wife, a woman consumed by revenge for her husband’s death, stooping to any level she could.

“Fuck, I need to find it!”

“Do you really think she wrote about it in her diary?” Cora’s voice was laced with frustration, mirroring my own. Despite her wound, she’d insisted on coming with me. Seeing her struggle a