SWNOVELS Chapter Warrior 73
Chapter 73 MIRO
The air I needed suddenly turned to me getting on my bike and heading out of the estate. I rode fast and furious, not sure where I was going but just wanting to be free. Images from that day played at the back of my mind, haunting me.
"Can I come with you?" My litle sister of ten had looked up at me with hope in her blue green eyes and a little bit of mischief. "I want to see Theon fight"
"No." Fifteen year old me had told her. "Dad will kill me if he finds out you followed me to watch underground fighting. That place is not for kids,"
Her cute little nose had scrunched up in what she must think was anger. "Tam not a kid." She said, folding her arms across her chest in defiance. "I am a big girl" "Still. Sorry." I said, hoping on my bike. "You can hang out with Dad okay?"
"But I don't want to" She pouted, giving me the cutest, saddest face. "He's boring and he suffocates me."
I stared down at her with a bitter smile. "You really don't know what you're missing out on. You're the only one who gets to enjoy this side of Dad."
But I want to be like you and Theon. Strong and formidable and feared by everyone."
I smiled. "I really wouldn't wish that on you, Nora. Now, I have to go. Stay safe and stay out of trouble. Okay?"
Nora squeezed her face and pouted. "What's the name of the place!" She asked.
"Why are you asking?" I sighed in frustration.
"Just curious.
"Fine. Theon is fighting at MapleBee's Bar. Now, for the last time, let me go."
"Okay, bye." She waved at me, while I rode my power bike out of the estate. I wish to the gods that I did not tell her the name of the place. I wish I was strict with her. Not long after I arrived at MapleBee's bar, seated and watching my brother Theon fighting in a cage. I notic when I saw that she snuck in..
Grabbing her by the scruff of her neck, I led her out of the bar and was in
the parking lot, scolding her when a car parked and before I knew it, some men came down to nab us. I was able to take down three of them before something was placed on our noses and I lost consciousness.
I increased the speed of my bike, going at a dangerous speed. I just didn't want to feel. A tear ran down my face as more of the past played in my mind.
After my sister and I were kidnapped, I gained consciousness and found Nora tied to a chair while I was suspended upside down. I was tortured for information but she had
been spared. She had cried for me and I had tried to get out of my bondage to save her. Dominic had bartered our return for the release of his father but unfortunately, Dominic's father had died from an injury in war
When Dominik found out, he made my father choose between me and my sister, whose life he wanted to save. A bitter smile encroached on my lips as I remembered my father choosing Nora without hesitation
But it was a trick. Dominick wanted to know who my father loved the most and in the blink of an eye, Dominick threw her
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in a room full of wild mutants.
Her screams still haunt me to this day.
Eventually, I ended up at the one place I strangely find some semblance of peace,
The cemetery.
Carrying a bouquet of lilac flowers in one hand and a bottle of tequila in the other, I made my way under the moonlight into the country of the dead. Finding my way through the numerous gravestones, I found the one belonging to my sister and lowered myself to my haunc "Hey kid." I said, brushing away the dead flowers from last time. Then I carefully placed the new one on her gravestone before sitting down on the grassy floor.
I sat there in silence, taking swig after swig of alcohol, wondering what to say. I suddenly felt like a sinner who hasn't been to confession in months.
I sighed. "I miss you." I said. "Most importantly, I miss the life I had before you died. I miss being free of guilt and regret and 1 am sorry I couldn't save you. You were the one good thing that kept Dad sane and happy and now that you're gone, he's fully given into the darkne I took another swig and swallowed the burning liquid. I have done drugs, smoked, drank everything under the sun, fucked many women and yet, I can't escape the guilt eating me up inside. I can't forgive myself for what happened to Nora until I
get revenge.
You know Dominic's in town, right? I hope gossip happens in the land of the dead." I smiled bitterly. "I'm going to kill him, Nora. I promise you. I will kill him for what he did to you. I will do anything to get revenge. Anything."
Suddenly, my phone buzzed and when I checked it, I realized it was my Dad.
"Yes Father." I said into the phone.
"Be at my place in the next hour." And with that said, he ended the call.
I looked at Nora's graveyard and sighed. "I guess it's time to go. See you later kid."
I got on my bike but before I could turn it on, my phone buzzed with a text. Pulling it out from my pocket, I checked the text message and discovered it was my test results.
My mind began to race.
Turns out Ryn was right after all. My father's diet was poisoning me.
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