YOU CAN'T RUN FROM DEATH
ZARYA'S POV
My phone was ringing for the whole day popping up the name of Bram Jenkins. It was weeks since I did not come to the office. Surely, they were finding who killed Caspian. I had no care at all if I lost my job. Sooner or later, we would come back to the Alpha King's World because of Khal's mother.
When my phone rang, I looked at it for the last time. This time, it was Rozella. They were not informed of what was happening here. I wished she was here, so at least, I had someone to talk to. I tapped the answer button.
"Zarya! I miss you so much! I want to go back to the High Wood City!" Even if I could not see her face, I knew she was sad. The tone of her voice revealed that.
"Almost. You can go back here." A smile was formed on my lips. "I miss you, too."
"How's everything there?"
"Fine nothing more happens." I prevented myself to say the details, so she would not worry. It took us an hour to talk to each other. She told me how beautiful the other country was. She went to different places and met random friends. She also talked about her new boyfriend and so on.
"Are you busy?"
My eyes went to the door. Khal was standing there. My gaze went back to the phone. "I'll call you again. Bye. Take care."
"No." I sat on the bed as it bounced up and down.
He grabbed the comforter and covered my lower body because I was just wearing shorts, my thighs were revealed.
"How are you?"
"Not fine." When I remembered the real problem, it made my eyes produce tears.
The silence filled the air. It took us a second to talk again. "Do you know what I feel about you?"
"Sister?" I scoffed in sarcasm.
A tiny smile slowly grew on his lips. "I thought I love you… as a woman."
I was shocked, I found a response in his lines, but I found nothing.
"Last night, I was thinking of that, feeling my heart if that was true. I realized I felt that because we are blood-related." He paused and grasped my hand tightly. "The love that I feel for you. It's not infatuation. It's love for a sister."
"Do you believe that my father raped your mom?"
"I hope not." He placed something on my hand. When I looked at it, it was his pictures, a little album from the baby Khal until getting an adult. "I found this in my mom's things."
At first, I had no idea what was the relevance of this little album, but when I looked at the back of it, my heart destroyed.
For: Zakan Wixx
That was written on the back of it. I covered my mouth as I sobbed silently.
"Perhaps, Mom was about to give this to our father."
The pain in my chest was unacceptable, it caused me to be hard breathing. Khal touche my cheek."Look at me." I shook my head. I was too guilty for what my father did to her fifteen-year-old girl.
I was about to leave him when he hugged me so tight. I cried with my heart out. "Have asked yourself? If Zakan raped my mother? Why would she bring these photos to him?"
My body was frozen. His words put confusion into my head. He was definitely right. She would not care about my father if she was mad at him. Probably, there were hidden stories behind them. I was afraid to know that my father was cheating on my mother. If that was the case, Mom died without finding out the truth.
"I'm scared," I whispered to Khal's ear.
"You don't have to. I will be here for you at all times." He kissed my hair in a gentle way. I hated my feelings. I could sense his brother material by his gesture. Destiny was a fool, it made us meet each other and then meant to break our hearts. Meant to bleed with our parents' past. If only I had a choice, if only I died with my family. Probably, I would not be hurt right now. Perhaps, the secret would just be buried in the ground. I wished I did not know.
*****
I went out to see Bram Jenkins. I almost forgot that he was a son of the Mafia, include to Hali's enemies. He was Serenity's brother after all. I trusted him so why not? He told me that there was something that he got in Serenity's room. It was urgent that I needed to know, therefore, I escaped from the guys who were busy making a plan to take Khal's mother. That was not the issue that I must solve. My friend's death should be rest in peace after their death.
"Zarya…" Bram's lips grew a smile when he saw me. He had a white bandage on his upper arm. Possibly due to the biting of Hali's wolf. He opened the door of the car, gesturing to me to move inside, so I got in.
"Where is it?" I got my purpose to the point. "I'm sorry, Boss. I do have not much time. I'll go back after thirty minutes."
"Oh, sure. By the way, it locates inside our house, in her room."
"Okay, bring me there." I viewed the scenery coming from the window. I was sitting in the backseat.
After a few seconds, our travel was getting long, therefore, I got curious about where would be our destination. "Sir, where's the place?"
I heard no response from him. I started to hesitate if I would go with him. How dare he? I trusted him so much.
"Stop the car."
"No, it won't take lo一"
"Stop the car!"
I saw his eyes in the mirror. He seemed no care about me. This was not good and if he thought that he could harm me. Over my dead body.
I was about to attack him when suddenly there was a rope wrapped around my wrists, prohibiting me from moving. Then, a smoke and release. Little by little, my vision was spinning.
"Get me out!" I gritted my teeth as I glared at him. I tried not to inhale the smoke, but it only hurt my head until I was gradually suffocating. He had oxygen in his mouth which made him breathe. Before the darkness consumed me, I heard him talk.
"Serenity wants to be with you."
Wait for me to open my eyes again. You can't run from death.