Kenna's P.O.V.
I called Alice to see if she could watch the kids today for a little while, since Ms. Kay was at her diner. Alice could, so the line of five SUV's holding us plus Alec and Nick's men are all heading to my apartment to drop off Mason and Aubrey.
The kids and I got out and headed to Alice's door. I told her it would be a few hours until I'd come and get them.
I walked back to Nick's SUV, and got in. A short drive later we were pulling up to a home.
Nick, Joe and I followed Alec and a few of his men to the house.
Alec knocked and a man around his age opened the door.
"Well if it isn't Alec Hayes. What do I owe this pleasure?"
"I'm sorry to drop in like this, but I'm in need of some assistance."
"Please come in."
"I hope you don't mind that I brought my son and his girl with me, we have business after this and Nick has always thought so highly of you."
"Oh no, not at all." Mark was looking into my eyes. He walked over and extended his hand to me, "My dear, I'm Detective Mark Hennings. It's a pleasure to meet you."
"Lucy, the pleasures all mine Detective." I grabbed his hand and shook it. He lifted it to his lips and kissed the top of my hand.
The men sat down and started talking. As they bullshitted with one another, and talked about Mark covering up a job Alec needed help with, I looked around the area we were in. I noticed a vase in the adjoining room that had the same resemblance to one of my mom's vases.
"Excuse me, I don't mean to interrupt. But I was wondering if I could use your bathroom?"
"Of course sweetheart. Go through that hallway, first door to the left."
"Thank you so much."
It wasn't the direction of the vase I saw but I took the opportunity to look around for other things. I found the bathroom and pretended to shut it. I took off further down which brought me to a den. There sat a vase that once sat in my parents living room.
I left that room and headed back to the bathroom. There was a hallway that led me to the living room area and the first vase I saw. It was also my mom's.
Bastard.
I turned to go through that door and my mom's dragonfly vase caught my eye.
I was upset, but I took a deep breath as I walked back into the kitchen.
I walked up to Nick as his eyes narrowed in on me.
He got down lower, "This fucker has at least three of my mom's vases."
"Go stand by Joe, now." He demanded.
I stood right next to Joe's side. Joe took a little step forward and moved me so I was behind him.
Nick brought out his gun and placed it on Marks temple.
"I think you need to come with us Mark." Nick was ice cold, I've never seen him like this before.
"Alec, what's this about?" Mark raised his hand.
"I'm assuming you did something to piss his girlfriend off, and if that's the case Mark... You're in a lot of trouble." Alec replied, coldly.
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After the guys got Mark loaded up in the one SUV, Alec told the guys to take him to the warehouse.
I went around Marks house and grabbed the vases, making sure I didn't touch anything. Joe wiped down the bathroom handle that I touched.
I found all six of my mom's vases that were missing. I was so thankful to have these back.
Ivan got to New York a few hours ago. Him and Bryan showed up to the warehouse a few minutes after we did.
Nick and I walked into the warehouse hand in hand as his men followed us.
Alec's men had Mark tied to the chair in the center of the room. They were asking Mark questions but he isn't talking and denying everything.
Nick was still holding my hand when Alec looked, then pointed at me, "You see that beautiful girl over there, Mark?" Mark looked at me.
"Something was taken away from her. First her parents and then some vases that meant a great deal to her."
"I want you to meet McKenna Jones."
Mark's eyes got big, as realization dawned on him as he sat there shaking his head.
"You and the other cops didn't find all of her daddy's papers. Luckily with McKenna's scooby doo skills, she was able to find information in some of her dad's paperwork that led us straight to you. You were supposed to be helping me throughout this investigation to find these guys, but you just led us on wild goose chases, and now that she's found her parents vases inside your house, it makes me think you had a lot more to do with her parents murder, Mark."
"I never did anything to her parents, I swear." He looked over at me and was about to say something, when Alec punched him hard in the face.
"Don't you dare look at her anymore. If you didn't kill her parents then what was your part in this because I know it's more than just you being a detective."
"Nothing, I swear."
I let go of Nick's hand. I started walking up to where they were holding Mark. Nick followed me as I looked at the tools they used to torture people. I picked up a sharp knife and I looked at Mark with a raised eyebrow and smirk.
"McKenna!" Bryan warned.
I put up my hand to stop Bryan. Now it was my turn.
I looked straight into Mark's eyes, holding the knife in one hand while putting the pointed end of the blade on my pointer finger on the other hand, turning it in circles just gentle enough not to cut me.
"The night my parents died, is a night I will unfortunately never forget. Walking into the living room and seeing my parents bodies laying there, lifeless."
"I have never cried so much in my entire life, as I did that night. The thing is, I also died that night. I haven't shed a single tear since. So you dying here tonight will be nothing to me except for the satisfaction of knowing one of the assholes involved is where he belongs."
"After I left that night, I was fortunate to have Ivan over there. He helped me through a lot, and when I wasn't working with him I was doing an awful lot of googling. Did you know that the male penis is not only the most pleasurable organ on the males body, but it can also cause the most excruciating pain?"
I leaned down, "This part riiiight here," I took my knife and I placed it into his scrotum a little ways, just enough to scare him, as he took in a sharp breath. "This area has a vein that pumps the most blood to your lower region. So if that were to get punctured, not only would it be extremely uncomfortable and painful, it would also cause you to bleed out faster than you could say Lorena Bobbitt."
"You're fucking crazy!" He hissed out.
"I would really choose your words wisely, Detective. Especially to the woman who has a knife to your scrotum."
"What the fuck do you want?"
"Revenge, dah! I swore to myself that I would punish and kill every last person who had anything to do with my parents murder, and I was going to do it the same way they killed my parents. Now, I'm not about to go about raping people because that's just disgusting. So I figured I'd test my scrotum theory and if that didn't work then I'd put a bullet in their head, either way they die."
"I'm sorry I took your mother's vases, but I really don't know anything that's going to help you."
"You're a liar, and I don't believe you. You have five seconds to tell me who did this?"
Silence.
"One..."
"Two..."
"Three..."
"Four..." I pushed harder with my knife.
Mark started crying, as the knife went in a little more. "His name is Santiago Ramirez... I had to help him. He threatened me and my job. I couldn't lose that-"
"So you thought him killing my dad, then raping and killing my mom and leaving their three kids parentless was the better choice here? Fuck you, you asshole!" I hissed out.
"No, listen to me... That man is fucking crazy! I know your dad was doing business with him on a trade, your dad didn't like what was going down, so he backed out. Pissing Santiago off is something you don't want to do. He's like a ghost though, I haven't seen him since that night, he's MIA. You don't find him, he always finds you."
"I found you didn't I, and I sure as hell will find him!"
"He has an alias. I know he goes by that name a lot. I don't know what it is though, I did my stuff for him and got the hell away, now can you please get that knife off of me."
I stood up, removing the knife. I set it down on the tray. I was shaking, I have never done anything like that before.
Ivan came up to me, "It's time for you to leave sweetheart, you don't need to be here for the rest of this."
I looked at Mark one more time, as he's screaming for me to stay. Nick came up to me and grabbed my hand.
"Come on baby, let's go home."
Nick and I walked out the door. Blake, Mike and Joe following close behind.