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My son wasn’t just ruthless.

He was something else entirely.

Something I’d helped create but couldn’t fully handle.

I’d spent the next decade trying to contain him. Teaching him when to unleash that darkness and when to lock it away. Building systems and structures and rules designed to keep him in check.

Because I understood the truth:

If Amai ever lost his shit completely, he wouldn’t just destroy our enemies.

He’d destroy everything.

Including the legacy I’d spent my entire life building.

The car turned onto St. Charles Avenue, and my mind shifted to the twins.

Elias and Silas.

The wound that never healed.

The loss that had broken Odette in ways she’d never recovered from.

They’d been seventeen years old when they died. Young. Reckless. Desperate to prove themselves to their older brothers.

Kaisen was supposed to handle the pickup that night. He knew the players, knew the territory, knew how to navigate the politics of a deal that size.

But Kaisen had been drunk or high. Who knows with him.

Laid up with some woman whose name I never learned.

So, the twins went instead.

And by the time I found out they’d taken the meeting, they were already dead.

Ambushed in a warehouse in the Ninth Ward. Executed with the kind of precision that told me it had been planned. That someone had known they were coming.

That someone had been waiting.

I’d asked Kaisen why he let them go.

Why he didn’t tell me.

He’d broken down. Said the twins begged him. Said they wanted to prove they could handle it. Said they promised not to tell me because they knew I’d say no.

The twins had always looked up to Amai and Kaisen.

Worshipped them in the way younger brothers do.

Would’ve done anything they asked.

Including walking into a trap they weren’t prepared for.

Amai had gotten revenge.

Methodically. Brutally. Completely.

He’d dismantled the crew responsible piece by piece over the course of six months. Made examples of them that still got whispered about in the streets. I don’t think he got the right people, but if it gave him peace, it was a small price to pay. I did my own investigation, and all info pointed to them, but it was too clean. Too easy to find them. I just let it go because I knew karma didn’t miss.