Chapter 39. Jack

Lucia POV

Robert is looking at me like I'm about to give him a deal. I'm not, he doesn't deserve his life.

"Was it your bullet or his that killed Ethan?" I inquire, wanting to know who he killed. He glances around. "Either way, you're dying, Robert, Alan is dead, my dad is dead, so answer." I watch as he nods and cries.

"I had it aimed at your head. Rose stepped into the line." His head falls as he says the words. Yeah, he killed her. He killed Rose.

"You cared so much for her that you tried to kill her sister in front of her. That you didn't even give it any thought that she might get hurt?" My words are screamed, and I raise the gun.

"Please, Lucia, I hate myself. Every fucking day, I hate that I did that. I will take that pain to my grave," he cries and begs me.

"You will take more than that, Robert. Just the day before, she rang me, all excited, she was pregnant. So you don't just