They were hitmen for a certain cartel and they had asked to quit. The drug lord told them inorder to quit they needed to give him something precious to them since letting them go was also giving away something important to him. Somehow he found out that they were expectant and he asked for the baby but they refused so he asked for someone else's head instead.
Someone close to them and someone they both had a deep connection with and this time they agreed." She paused over there.
Then gave me a look making my breath hitch and my heart beat a hundred times faster than necessary.
I was not ready for whatever she was going to say next.
I could feel it in my guts and somehow I had a feeling about what she was going to say but I just did not want to believe it.
I did not want to hear her mention that the people I thought were close to me wanted to present my son's head as a price for them to quit their so stupidly called cartel.
"The leader asked for your head." She said looking at me