Chapter 58: 43|How dare you hurt my sister?!

Alex's POV (after Astrid's kidnap) I wiped my forehead with the back of my shivering hand as I paced around the hospital lobby. Shrugging Crystal's hand off my shoulder, I put my head in my palms. "It will be alright, Ced." "I failed, Crys." I fell back on a chair in defeat and she crouched in front of me. "I failed." I cried. She took my hands and removed them off my face. "N-No. You didn't." she blinked her tears. "It wasn't your fault, Ced. It wasn't-" I let out a cry and hugged my bestfriend tightly. She is the one person who has stood by me in my lowest. She is my sanity. Rubbing my back, she sobbed in my arms. I felt a hand on my shoulder and I looked up to see Asher. "H-Hey." I nodded in acknowledgement, completely at loss of words. He licked his lips and took a seat next to me. "W-We didn't know that you-" he sighed and I squeezed his shoulder. "I-I am sorry." I hugged him and soon, Crys joined us. I was so scared right now. I wanted to go back and beg Cygnet for mercy but I had no courage to face her. I broke her. It is all my fault. I should have never taken the bait or better yet, I should've died. They would have left her alone if I died. She would've been happy. I ruined her happiness. I ruined her. The padding of frantic footsteps echoed in the hallway, forcing us to look up. Aiden. Angry Aiden. He stopped when his eyes fell on me and Crystal. "What are you both still doing here?" he sneered and I opened my mouth to speak but Asher beat me to it. "Aiden, calm down." he walked towards his twin and held his shoulder, which were eventually shrugged off as Aiden marched towards us. "You and your sister, destroyed our life!" he grabbed my collar. "She sent him here and now you're trying to finish her task?!" "A-Aiden-" "What the hell is wrong with you, Aid?!" Asher yelled and tried to pry him off me. Aiden turned and towered over Asher. "What's wrong with me?! What's wrong with you, Ash?! These two took away our mom, our sister and now our dad. I will kill him." "You don't mean it! It's the anger speaking. Calm down, Aiden before you destroy someone with your words!" Asher yelled. "He already did that." Crystal whispered and every head snapped to her pale, defeated form. I stepped towards her and held her shoulders. "What do you mean?" my eyebrows furrowed. She didn't look up. "Crys, look at me." I shook her. "Crystal, you're scaring me!" "Liam called." She looked up with fear in her eyes. "They tried to stop her but she ran away after Aiden left." "And...?" I wished so hard that my intuition about something more happened was wrong. "They lost her and when they s-searched along with X-Xavier..." she broke down and instead of holding her tight, my hands fell of her shoulder. "Crys...?" "She is t-taken. X-Xavier is shot." My shoulders fell. My mind went numb. Every hope burned into darkness. They took my sister. They took my Cygnet. I wasn't there to protect her. I failed. Again. Anger overpowered me and I growled in madness as I kicked the chair hard. "W-What-?" I looked back at paled Asher and Aiden. And that's when I lost it. Grabbing Aiden's collar, I slammed him on the wall. "How dare you hurt my sister?!" I yelled. Déjà vu? Yes. But roles have turned drastically from the night in alley. He opened his mouth but I punched him. "How dare you leave her alone when I was saving your dad?! You knew she was in danger yet you broke her! You knew I wasn't there to protect her, yet you let her go!" I punched his stomach in fury as tears welled my eyes. "I bit my tongue every time I saw her with you. I let my heart shatter every time she called you both her brothers. I choked my tears every time I saw you doing a big brother's duty instead of me! Why?!" I jabbed him in jaw and shrugged Asher's hand off. "Because I thought that, at least she isn't alone! Maybe they aren't her blood but they are her brothers!" I punched him again. He didn't even fight back. "I thought that maybe she is my family but you are her family! That maybe you took away my rights as a brother but I can't do the same!" I kicked him and he fell down. "Look what you did! You took her away from me! You took my sister away from me!" Asher grabbed my arm and Crystal held my waist. "If s-something happened t-to-" my anger melted into helplessness and Crys was quick to engulf me in her arms. "I-I just got her back. I can't... I c-can't-" "Y-You won't. We won't. We will f-find her, Ced." I shook my head as tears fell freely. Three times. I have only cried this bad, three times in my life and it was because of Cygnet every time- when she was declared dead, when I found that she doesn't even remember me and right now. I Have lost every hope. It's been such a long fight from accepting my sister's death to believing the rumours to finding her and now losing her again. I can't do it anymore. "H-How? How are we-?" "I know how." I looked up to see Liam approaching us. At the same moment, a doctor started walking in our direction. We rushed towards him. "Family of Henry Parker?" Asher and a bruised Aiden nodded. "Is h-he okay?" "He is." We all breathed in relief. "It was a minor attack. He is expected to be kept out of stressful situations." We nodded, despite knowing that stress is a short words for what we are feeling. "Who is Astrid, here?" They looked away and my heart broke at the idea of my sister being taken away. "S-She isn't here." "Mr Parker is asking for her." he informed. "If you can, then please call her." He nodded and walked away. "A-Cedric." I looked at Liam and everybody immediately towered over him. "We called Xavier for help as we couldn't find her. After some time, he called us and said he was shot. When we reached the old bridge, he was bleeding badly as he was shot in leg. Astrid was taken away in front of his eyes by Neal and Ryder." My fist clenched in fury. "This is not all. He was deliberately shot in leg so that they can take Astrid away easily and deliver a message to you. He wants to talk to you." I gulped and nodded. "I-I will stay with dad." Aiden muttered guiltily. "Asher, go w-with them." I didn't looked back. I just followed Liam to Xavier's ward along with Crys and Asher. "How is he?" "He lost some blood. Thankfully, he blocked it with his shirt so he is alright. He said that..." he ran a hand through his hair just as we entered the elevator. I knew it was bad. "He said that, s-she was... she was t-trying to jump off the bridge." I froze and blood drained off my face as Asher and Crys yelled a 'what'. My sister tried to kill herself.