Don: The Blood Chains

It wasn't an order, it was just his personal statement and, well, his emotion toward Siemon, who was one of many that fake ass testemony sent him to the prison for the fucking ten years, but he felt no anger for him, only pity as he looked at his body on the ground.

On the other hand, what the others felt was mixed emotions as they looked at his body on the ground. They knew they were going to be the same on the ground, dying like dogs and bleeding out, but seeing that he, Siemon, the one that betrayed the family, was laying on his own blood was… good. The mystery that they waited for years… they finally got their answer and, well, their own justice was served even though it wasn't them who pulled the trigger.

The puzzle was finally together. It was finally clear what happened that night, that day, how they could kill their parents and crumble the family… it was an inside job. The family that once was the greatest went down on the road that almost every single big family does… their own betrayed them for something… but what was that something?

What was that thing that they offered Siemon? He had millions, his pay was hundreds of thousands per month, he had influence, he was beside the greatest gangster ever known in the nation… what was the thing that changed his mind to betray them?

"Free me." Joseph spoke again, and one of the men cut the rope of his legs and hand and he was set free… like finally free, and as he got up and looked at them, he saw how the table had turned.

They were all, in a way, lost. What the fuck is happening and how can it be happening? How could it have happened back then, how did nobody notice it?

The questions in their mind were greater than their emotions.

But the question was also in Joseph's mind as he turned to one of the men. "How?" He asked the question. He didn't need to ask it specifically because everybody understood what he was referring to.

"False promises." One of the men said as he pulled down his mask, and there it was… the pirate. Blind in one eye, his face carrying the years of suffering and experience, his hair grey as well as his beard. "He was greedy… no, he was greed himself, boss." He looked up at Joseph. "He wanted more power, he wanted to be in the inner circle of the politician, to be like how your father and their father were… so we promised him that he will get the family, and well, we tortured him and made sure he knew that if he didn't side with us, not just him but everybody that he knew would die."

"That's it…?" Vincente asked with a smirk on his face, that smirk knowing that he fucking betrayed them because of a fucking threat when their family literally had the government on their side.

"Greed is the greatest enemy of humanity" He looked at Vincente. "And yeah, he folded when we cut off his dick, and when we showed him pictures of his family who were hiding in another country. Greed and family, those two are the greatest weakness of a man."

Laugh. Vincent started laughing in a manic way, as he shook his head with that wide smile on his face, like it was just breaking him, breaking the last fucking drop of sanity in him. His family died because Siemon's dick was cut off and his family was found?

Pathetic. It was just pathetic knowing what he signed up for, knowing that he was there with the family from the fucking beginning… he folded because of it.

But to be true, it wasn't pathetic. No, it was something that made sense even though Siemon was a fucker. He valued his family, his three children and beautiful wife that he cheated on every single day… still, they were his blood, and pairing it with greed just made it worse. For him at least, from the outside perspective, he did what he thought was right and what many people would do… but in the eyes of Vincente and the others, it was just pathetic, and the reason for it was simple.

They grew up in a way where family meant nothing more than business. Exactly like how Joseph was thrown into the gutter by his family, they didn't value him not because he wasn't going on the same path as them, but because they, well… didn't love him. It's crazy to say, but his family from the beginning hated him. For what reason, who knows, but one thing was sure, if Joseph would have been outside of the country or not even born, they would have just thrown his brothers in the gutter.

The reason for it was easy and simple. They built up what others could never… and fuck it up with a family? Because they have children that are their weak spot?

Nah. They didn't see them as a weak spot but just another life that can be thrown away.

And Jelana, Gabbana, and Vincente were all raised that way. They were taught from an early age that in this world, family doesn't matter. They were being taught that when the time comes, don't even trust your own blood… yeah, they lived their life comfortable with the fact that even though they were family, own blood, if it was necessary, they would have just killed each other.

Well, they were kids and maybe didn't understand it that well nor had the chance to experience it, because, well, their families were killed off… but the one that experienced it was Joseph… and he also embraced it throughout his years in prison.

Family means nothing. A child, a wife means nothing in this world, they are the weakness and the weight that slows them down, just like a girlfriend or a lover. He experienced it first hand, and even if he said and thought that he would never step on the footsteps of his family and father… the blood was in him, chaining him to that path.