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Chapter 8
Arashi ran a hand through his hair as frustration slammed into him like a boulder. “You do realise that you are the one I have been talking to all these while, right?” he snapped. There was a harsh bite in his voice, and even though speaking made him want to wince in pain, he made sure his expression remained blank. Selene crossed her arms over her chest as she deadpanned. “Who I am is none of your damn business! So stop whining like a kid and sit your ass down until Rue gets here.”Her words became increasingly condescending towards the end of her response, and it rankled Arashi. “Don't be rude. That's unbecoming of you,” he quipped in response. Selene narrowed her eyes at him, but decided not to dignify his words with a response. Selene knew a spoilt kid when she saw one, and to her, Arashi was most definitely a brat. He expected her to answer each and every one of his damn questions when he didn't even thank her for saving his life!“Where is this place? Why did you bring me he
Chapter 7
Arashi was halfway through his meal when the alarm blared, a single, loud and annoyingly piercing note that made him flinch. His brows furrowed into a frown as he tried to decipher what it was about, but almost as sudden as it started, the sound stopped. Arashi’s stomach twisted as he stood up and made his way to the door. As soon as he opened the door though, he came face to face with Rue. And the old man was holding a gun. “What's going on? Is this another test?” he asked, but Rue didn't respond. Instead he turned around, and fired a shot at a masked man Arashi had not noticed until now. “Come on. There are more of them in the building. We need to move fast,” was all Rue said.Arashi matched his pace as they ran, feet pounding against the floor. “Who the fuck were those people?” he snapped. “Intruders. Assassins hired to kill you, obviously.”A snarl ripped past Arashi's lips. Rue's lips parted with a response, but before he could say anything, more masked men who seemed to
Chapter 6
Arashi felt anger and irritation burst in his belly. Cassain was not stupid, so he must have clearly known this would happen.And he had let himself die. Dumb, annoying prick. Rue muttered under his breath. “Damn it.”His reaction told Arashi this was the first time Rue must have watched the recording, then he remembered that Arashi was the only way the recordings could be accessed in the first place.Great. Just fantastic. Arashi leaned forward, rubbing his temple. “So people are looking for me now? Because my old man was a troublemaker.”He was too fucking young for this.He had to be, right?Rue pursed his lips, staring off into the distance with an odd expression. “To tell you the truth, boyo, people were always looking for you. The search started after Cassian died. Despite how the government wrapped it up, people were still searching. Of course, some believe the empire was destroyed but they were wrong.”Arashi looked at Rue again, but the man wasn’t looking at him. He instead
Chapter 5
They didn’t give him time to recover from all he'd learned.Arashi noticed that immediately. Rue escorted him straight from the old room into a place that looked like a lab. Harsh sterile lights, clinical white coating. The machines beeped. The walls were a stark gray, and Arashi stopped at the door. “If this is about cutting me open—”Rue didn’t interrupt him, simply waiting for Arashi to finish talking.Arashi exhaled through his teeth. “You should’ve asked first.”Rue met his gaze. “You would’ve said no.”Of course. The geezer wasn’t as dumb as Arashi originally thought.“Yes.”“And we would’ve done it anyway,” Rue replied, his words dry in their inflection. “This way, you’re conscious.”Arashi fought the urge to slam him into something, and laid back on the medical table without protest, even though his muscles were tight and his jaw was locked. The restraints slid into place automatically, holding him in place. Great. Fucking great. The medical staff moved around Arashi with
Chapter 4
Arashi couldn’t relax when the tests ended. For one, he had failed.Failure wasn’t a foreign concept to him, but it was something he had never liked.That was the first thing he noticed about himself. His body refused the idea of completion. If there was no sense of finish to him, Arashi had no relief. All he would be left with is just a constant tension, like a hand hovering inches from his throat.So Arashi was still tense even when Rue told him it was over and he should get rest.What the fuck did the man mean by rest?Arashi still had blood pulsing behind his eyes and his knuckles throbbed where skin had split and re-sealed badly.They had taken him to the medical bay, but there were things not even medicine could solve.Arashi was about to finally close his eyes and sleep when Rue walked back in, this time sans black box or anything else, and his expression was unreadable.He didn’t need anyone to tell him Rue was simply here to deliver some news, but Arashi had other plans.“Yo
Chapter 3
They kept him restrained for six hours. Six hours. Arashi thought he would go crazy. When they finally released him, Arashi's first instinct was to run. But the door was locked and the room had no windows and his back still ached where the bullet had gone in and he'd just been told that there were a bunch of rich and powerful people trying to kill him. That kind of thing tended to make even hotheads patient. So he waited.Rue returned with breakfast. Eggs, toast, coffee. Real food, not the processed garbage from the group home."Eat," Rue said.Arashi didn't move. "What happens now?""Now we begin testing." Rue sat across from him. "You'll undergo a series of evaluations. Physical, cognitive, psychological. We need to establish baseline capabilities.""And if I refuse?""Then you confirm you should have been the one cremated, not the sorry sack that tried to steal from me.”Arashi picked up the fork. His hand was steadier than he expected. Would you look at that. "What kind of tests
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