Love Grows In The Dark by Eli Lowe (read books for money TXT) 📕

Seeing me reacting in such a furious way, Markus did not say anything for a while, as he stopped being anxious and was standing a bit calm, in front of my eyes.

And then, he chose to say again,

“How did you know that it was Benjamin? How did you guess that it was not the rogues as it was portrayed years ago?” His voice was enough to know that he was no longer enraged but extremely concerned for something or maybe someone.

But whatever he just asked made me scared all over again. I shivered in utter rage as well as fear, recalling the sight before my eyes which happened so many years ago. But I must not stay quiet now, when the whole universe wanted me to tell him each and every single thing about the past. He deserves to know.

“Cause, I was there.” For the time being, I managed to say that much only. But it seemed that Markus had no intention to stop in between.

“What? What did you say?” He enquired once again, ever so desperately, keeping his concerned eyes fixed on me, while his hands came forward to hold me tight by my arms...maybe to stop me from trembling.

“Yes. I was there. I saw how our mom and dad got killed that day, but I could not do anything, Markus. I was so afraid and I was frozen due to complete shock. I could not come out of the place where I was hiding during our play, but if I did, I might have saved mom and dad in time. I just watched them die before my eyes. There was blood everywhere, Markus. I could not do anything.” Even before I could say further, I was pulled into a tight hug. I did not realise when the tears betrayed me and started to flow down on my cheeks due to the utmost rage and the thirst for killing the murderer with my own bare hands.

But I should not lose control, at least not when I have come this far. I must not mess up my plans. It was just a few more time while I needed to stay calm so that I could make all of them pay for their sins.

“I did not know that you were going through all this the whole time. I was not a good brother to you, Kazan. But I promise I will surely prove myself one. You should have told me about everything way before. Even though you could not tell me before, it is still not late. And you must know they were my mom and dad too. I am their blood as well just as you are. So, promise me that from now on we are on this together. And you will never hide anything from me anymore and you will never let yourself suffer alone. Promise me, Kazan. Would you do that?” I was absolutely stupefied after hearing him and seeing that he was not that weak-hearted as I am. He knows how to stay strong even after knowing the truth. Or was he merely trying to become one for the sake of me?

How could he stay this calm?

I wonder if he could do the same after knowing the rest?

But for now, I could not say another word as I was still shaking in utter rage and just nodded him a yes as a promise.

“Good. Now tell, if you saw that it was Benjamin then why did you not tell everyone back then?” Markus asked again after letting go of my arms.

“I did not see his face back then, so I was not sure who he was. But eventually, I got to know that it was Benjamin.” I replied while my desire to kill that bastard was growing even more as I kept on remembering the past.

“Still, even if you had reasons, you should have told me about all these at least, back then, Kazan, instead of keeping all the pain inside you always.” He said, but I just could not keep it only to me any more and I lost control.

At last, I said out loud all those things before Markus, without thinking much about how it would affect him,

“What should I have told you? That he raped our mom and killed both of mom and dad, even when I did not even know what exactly he did as I was too young to understand?

Should I have told you that I saw how mom suffered before my eyes, when he was assaulting her however he wished?

How could I have told you all these when I did not even know how to explain it to anyone?

Only when I grew up, I realised what vicious sin he did back then for which I am going to make him suffer more than he deserves.”

Episode 58

Markus's P.O.V

What the hell was he talking about?

I just could not believe my own ears, just after I got to hear whatever Kazan said, a while ago. I felt my own blood which had now started to rush inside my veins with a tremendous speed, was even making my heart beat even faster than ever. As if my heart was beaten up with a thousand hammers with no mercy at all. The sudden chill which went down my spine did not fail to make me tremble either...no, not in fear but a sudden urge to get my hands tainted with the crimson thick fluid of someone specific.

I did not realise if Kazan was saying anything else afterwards or not, cause even if he was, not a single sound was coming to me as I was feeling inexplicably devastated right at this moment, that I was not at all able to concentrate on other things around me, clearly.

Maybe I