Chapter 2

A loan shark, that's what Xavier Huxx was. He lent people money and expected ludicrous amounts in return, and fortunately for him, he was thriving. He had a beautiful wife, and three beautiful children.

"Where's my money, Kevin?" Xavier asked kindly. That's the thing about Xavier, he was very kind and understanding. He gave extensions when people asked because he understood that things could be a bit difficult at times.

Said Kevin was standing in the middle of Xavier's living room where Xavier was casually lounging on his couches, enjoying a football game. Besides Kevin stood his girlfriend by the name of Naomi, and Xavier knew all about her but didn't say a word. He pretended as though he knew nothing about the girl standing beside the young boy.

"Uh," Kevin's voice cracked in nervousness as he looked down at his hands and he was shaking, "I...I've been trying, Xavier. I swear I have," Kevin was a good guy, well, he was definitely a good guy compared to the much older Xavier.

Kevin stood at 5'9", dark skinned with a bald head. He always wore hoodies and he was as fat as a guy can get. He was naturally big built but on top of that he was really fat- like donut eating police officer fat, if that makes sense.

"Is that so?" Xavier asked calmly as his eyes went to the screen where the game was taking place but his eyes would casually falter back to the young couple, "I've been giving you extension after extension Kevin," Xavier told him, stating the obvious.

When Kevin first came to Xavier, Xavier felt sorry for the fat fuck and gave him the $50,000 that he wanted, but Kevin kept coming to plead for more money and Xavier kept giving him more money, but Xavier was tired. As good hearted and understanding as he was, he simply wanted his money back, with interest.

"I'm sorry, Mr Huxx. I really am. I tried getting jobs but nobody wants to hire me, I tried working at McDonald's, anything at all, but I can't find-"

"Who's this? Your girlfriend?" Xavier commented noticing how the couple was nervous before, but stiffened when he'd turned his attention to the caramel skin coloured black girl with a pathetic red wig that was falling off her head. She looked a mess.

Kevin cleared his throat nervously, his heart racing, "yes, this is my girlfriend."

"And what's that in her arms?" Xavier asked with interest even though he knew it was a baby that was wrapped up in that little blanket that the girl held close to her.

"It's my baby," Naomi answered protectively, holding onto the baby even tighter.

Xavier tilted his head, smiling kindly at the girl but nodded and then turned his attention to Kevin, "so what do you want now? More money? Another extension?" Xavier asked him, lifting his hand that held the remote and paused the game on the massive TV that covered the entire wall.

"Both..." Kevin trailed off.

Xavier hated one thing; being taken for a fool. All he wanted was for Kevin to pay him back. Hell, even a single dollar would've sufficed at this point but Kevin just didn't learn.

At that moment, Xavier's wife, Penelope entered the room and confidently strutted into the room, flipping her blonde hair as she looked at the couple with just as much of a friendly smile as her husband gave them, "ooh, I love babies," she gushed as she rushed to Naomi's side and looked down at the baby.

"Oh, wow, look at her," Penelope commented as she peered down at the baby that Naomi held close to her chest, and the two ladies began to talk.

"I think you're starting to take advantage of me, Kevin," Xavier spoke up, his eyes meeting Kevin's brown ones, "and I don't like being taken advantage of, you know that?" Xavier felt his fingers tingling and his toes curled at the thought of killing them.

"I'm sorry, Xavier," Kevin apologized but that was the feather that broke the camel’s back.

The couple froze, looked up at Kevin and his girlfriend, "can I hold the baby?" Penelope said more than asked as she took the baby and when she had the baby in her arm, she raised a gun to Naomi's head while her husband simultaneously pointed a gun at Kevin's head.

"It's Mr Huxx," Xavier snarled, the kind man gone and replaced by a demon, "but don't worry, you'll never make that mistake again."

At that they both pulled the trigger and the two bodies fell to the floor.

"What should we do with the baby?" Penelope asked as she walked to her husband and he stood up from the couch, looking down at the baby and squinted his eyes as he saw her face.

"What's that on her face?" he stupidly asked and Penelope rolled her eyes.

"She clearly has vitiligo," she answered him, "are we going to kill her?" Penelope asked as she smiled when the baby looked at her and kept reaching out to touch her, "she's so pretty."

Xavier shrugged, he'd seen prettier babies, "give her to Oden. He'll know what to do with her."

"Hey baby," Penelope greeted with a wide smile as they walked through the door that led into to the full dark red bedroom, that belonged to their youngest, Oden, "guess what your father and I got for you..."

Oden peeked up when he heard that. He was sitting in the corner on the floor, lost in his thoughts of severed body parts. He didn't say anything, just stared at his mother and father as they approached him with something wrapped in a little blanket.

He stood and peered down at it in fascination, but he wasn't expecting a small face to look at him. His eyes scanned the side of her face and he wondered why her face was half pink and half brown, but he'd never seen anything quite like her. 

She looked up at him and smiled, speaking in baby tongue and something in him went off, "doll," he uttered as he touched her face and she tried to grab his hand and place it into her mouth, "my doll."

"Yes, son," Xavier agreed, happy to see his son so excited, "this is your doll."

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