Chapter 3: Two Sides of the Blade.
"It was you." She said as she leaned back, and for the first time in all the years alone, he laughed.
Joseph Cassian, the person who was caged for ten years, who nobody heard talking or laughing, now was laughing into the woman’s face with joy. It was a genuine laugh. It came from deep, so deep that his whole body shook with the chains.
"Me?" He asked, still chuckling and shaking his head and leaned forward. "Lady, I suffered for ten years for something I did not do. My family put me here, yes and you know what I thought about every day?" He asked as he looked deep in her eyes, and for the first time she actually got scared. She felt the goosebumps on her arm, she felt her legs shaking but tried to calm herself as much as she could.
She did so many investigations, she tried to get the persons that were close to Joseph, but nothing. Not a single evidence. Nobody knew nothing, even the deepest fuckers in the underworld not even a single clue.
But now the person everybody pointed at was laughing about the fact that his whole family got massacred, their heads were cut off and sent to the exact same person that helped them put Joseph into jail.
And they too were butchered days later... and he was laughing about it.
"What...?" She asked and tried to have the upper hand as she held the paper that was waiting for her signature. She came here for a reason to see if he was the one.
"I thought about killing them the day I got arrested in my fucking home that I worked for. I lived my life away from them, I worked as a welder, I had no connection to the mafia nor the crimes they did, yet I was thrown into here by them." He leaned forward a bit. "In the last ten years I was just thinking, the day I get out I will chop them up." He leaned back and shook his head as he chuckled. "Every fucking single day I sat in silence and thought about what was my sin, what did I do wrong that I get this treatment? But there was nothing, lady. Nothing. Not a single thing... or maybe that I said no to the family. It was the perfect escape plan for them when the knot tightened around their neck. And it worked." He leaned in again. "I served 10 years. I couldn’t be a boyfriend, I couldn’t enjoy what others my age did. I sat in the darkness and thought about the same thing all the time... to kill them. And when I heard that, did you know what I did?"
She shook her head, but again how the fuck he heard that they died?