Emilia

14: Emilia

"Are you sure you're okay?" I asked her as I closed the door behind us and she placed her hand around her stomach as she rushed into the bathroom.

I furrowed my eyebrows and the sound of the toilet seat raising was followed by her throwing up. I closed my eyes and let out a deep sigh as I strolled after her into the bathroom. I turned on the light and I grabbed her hair and held it as I rubbed small circles on her back.

She dry heaved into the toilet as she cried and I just sat there in silence while I waited for her to finish up. She pulled away and flushed the toilet before standing up and rinsing her mouth out inside of the sink.

"Are you okay mia cara?" I asked her and she nodded her head but her eyes were still filled with tears. She looked up at her reflection and stared at the blood on her face and the tears that were welling up in her eyes had finally escaped.  [translation: my dear]

"F-Freddy's dead.." She cried and I furrowed my eyebrows and pocketed my hands inside of my pants as I looked at her.

"He deserved it, he was going to kill you Emilia." I told her flatly and her whole face contorted in anger as she turned her head to look at me.

"He was in pain, Vincent! You killed his girlfriend in front of him!" She yelled out and her eyes were burning with rage behind her tears. Then her face completely dropped as if she had been struck with fear as she looked at me. She cupped her hand over her mouth and tears left her eyes.

"No no no no..." she started panicking through her sobs as she ran her hands through her brown hair while shaking her head.

"Emilia what's wrong?" I asked her, becoming more worried as tears were now flowing out of her eyes. She looked up at me and a creased was formed between her eyebrows.

"Vincent please tell me you didn't...." she pleaded with pain in her tone as her bottom lip quivered as she looked up at me.

"What are you talking about?!" I asked her in frustration because she wasn't giving me much information to go off of.

"Nina! The girl from your strip club! Vincent tell me it wasn't her that you killed!" She cried out and my eyebrows relaxed as I tried to remember who exactly Nina was.

"No it wasn't her Emilia. Freddy's girlfriend didn't work at my club." I told her and relief flooded over her facial expressions as she held onto the counter to support herself.

"Emilia-"

"Did you kill Carlos too?" She cut me off and I was taken aback by her question. My hand formed into a fist at the thought of Carlos.

"No I didn't." I replied to her honestly and she looked at me with anger in her eyes and shook her head in disbelief.

"Stop fucking lying to me Vincent!" She shouted and shoved my chest. I grabbed her by her hands to stop her and I looked down at her, returning the same anger in my eyes.

"I'm not fucking lying to you Emilia!" I snapped at her and loosened my grip on her hands so that I didn't hurt her. She went silent and her eyes broke away from mine.

"But he's dead...isn't he?" She asked me as her sight focused straight ahead at my chest. I let go of her hands and I nodded my head, causing her to let out a breath she was holding.