Avenging Renegade: Hassassin's Vengeance book

Chapter 11

“Do you think it is a good idea to sent Byron into a building surrounded by law enforcement?” Raine questioned gazing around. Her shoulders tense with suspicion.

Kayla followed Byron’s mind throughout the building making sure he is fine. “He’ll be fine.” She noted. No one has sensed his presence yet. He kept calm and alert. A bit hesitated, not knowing how Rick Kendrick’s was going to respond when he sees him.

“Are you going to tell him?” She was referring to Kayla and Byron’s bound.

Kayla didn’t know how Byron would take it. He was already on edge and acting uncomfortable around her and Raine. At this stage, he was taking things with a big of confusion.

“How did you get here on earth? Or even survive?” Kayla asked her sister, showing her that she wasn’t ready to share it with Byron.

“Do you want to know what happened after mom handed me off to dad?” Kayla nodded.

Raine sat quietly next to her staring at the hospital building. “Dad rounded up survivors and opened a portal where he ordered us to go. He told me that he will be back after finding you and mom but, the portal closed and none of you made it through. For fifteen years I thought you were dead.” Raine looked at her and Kayla felt her pain.

“That’s why you never tried to reach me?” Raine nodded.

“Where were you these fifteen years?” Raine asked.

“SilverAngel glades. Our mom threw me off the roof. The impact of hitting the ground broke my back. Edna saved me and in return, I protected the Wizards kingdom against the dark creatures. From time to time, checked in on Byron and had some fun with the head wizard’s son.”

 Raine’s mouth curved into a smile. “Anything serious?” Kayla shook her head.

“It’s always been Byron, hasn’t it? Keeping you back from starting something serious with him?” Kayla shook her head.

“No, I just find Byron more fascinating than him.” Raine kept quiet. Kayla knew it had to do with her bound that was cut due to the council that banished her powers. Raine was bound to another sorcerer until like her who was bound to a human. She physically met him once but never again. Kayla didn’t know if sorcerers still exist. She hasn’t seen or heard about another sorcerer in twenty years. She was five years old when she last saw the sorcerer’s tribe.

“You said that there were survivors? Where are they?” She asked Raine.

“They set camp in the mountains where dad opened the portal.” She answered gruffly and looked uncomfortable.

“Did they reject you once again?” Kayla asked. She picked up on Raine’s troubled mind.

“Yes.” Her answer was filled with hate and hurt. “They told me that I’m not welcome and that I am still a traitor. I was chased into the human world where I had to live on the streets, fight for food and clothes. Until an old man took me in and raised me.” Kayla’s heart broke for her sister. “His daughter died from some kind of incurable disease. He had all the money in the world but could do nothing for her. As I grew up, he learned that I have certain skills that were valuable. I started working for him until a man came into our house and killed him.”

“I used what I was taught and took vengeance on the man. He begged me not to kill him because he has a daughter and she had no one else besides him. I just looked at him and didn’t feel an ounce sorry for him. I wanted to rip out his chest and made him feel how I felt.” Raine’s voice was stone-cold.

“I tried to go back to the tribe but they threatened to kill me. Told me that I am not an Atarneae from the day I broke my oath.”

Rage boiled in her veins. She couldn’t believe that they would treat her like that. “Even when our father is the reason they survived.” Raine nodded.

“Why did you stay close to Byron?” Raine shrugged.

“I hoped that you were alive and somehow you would sense my presence to come and take me home. I guess there is not much of that because I have this traitor mark in my neck and everyone will reject me.”

Kayla rested her hand on top of Raine’s arm. “I will never reject you. No matter what you did. You are my sister and you are an Atarneae.” Their people were going to pay for everything they did wrong to Raine. Sending her off alone into an unknown world when she was only just a child.

She frowned when she felt Byron panicking. “What’s wrong?” Raine asked, immediately alert.

“I’ve never witnessed Byron being this worried.” Kayla stood up from the bunk when she saw him exiting the hospital. His face was covered in sweats and he looked mad as hell.

“Cops.” She whispered to Raine when she noticed them recognizing Byron.

“Hey, you! Wait!” s**t.

Kayla reached for her magic and made them stop chasing Byron. She got them to turn the other way and wiped any memory of seeing Byron or them. Raine pushed Byron into his car once he reached them. Kayla followed pursuit, sitting on the backseat while Raine was sitting behind the steering wheel. Raine pulled out of the parking lot and drove off.

“What happened in there?” Kayla asked Byron who was seated next to his sister.

“Rick knows about Terence being the leak and dirty cop. He sent Rick this a few minutes ago.” He handed Kayla his phone and recognized the photo of the woman on the screen.

“Your sister, Monica,” Kayla whispered.

“H-how do you know her?” Byron asked, looking at her.

She caught Raine looking at her in the rearview mirror with a questioning look. “I think you pretty much realized that I am not from your world and that I’m different.” Byron arched an eyebrow.

“What my sister is trying to tell you is that she is bound to you since she turned ten years old.”

“Bound?” He seemed a bit dumbfounded. “Does it even exist? I thought it only existed in movies.” Kayla ignored his remark because she didn’t even know what he was talking about.

“The gods joined our souls from the moment we are born. Our bond is almost like we are destined for each other. We are given extraordinary gives of communicating with each other. Sense each other’s emotions and when you accept the bound, the feeling of completion overwhelms you.” She used the words her mother always used to explain a bound.

“I don’t know why I am bound to you or what the god’s thought when they bind my kind with a human.”

“Your kind?” He was looking directly at her.

“Our father was a sorcerer. Our mother, assassin. Because I have both of their blood running through my veins. It makes me an Hassassin.”

He looked at Raine. “You are sister’s which would make you both Hassassin’s?” Kayla knows how Raine felt about her humiliation and rage. It bothered her how her sister was degraded and how the surviving people of their tribe mistreated her.

“My power is banished.” Rained answered. “I’m just a human with skills I’ve mastered over a period of time.” Byron seemed a bit astonished and she didn’t have to guess what he was thinking about.

“Are you going to tell us why Kendrick’s has a photo of Monica sent to him?” Kayla asked. Changing the subject because she knows it was hard for Raine to talk about what happened to her. They were separated for fifteen years and it killed Kayla to know what her sister had to go through in order to survive. She always thought her life was harsh but Raine lost people she cared about more than ones.

“Terence is keeping my sister hostage in order to draw me out and wants all the information we have on Matthew and Evelyn’s murder that could lead back to him.”

“Do you know where he is keeping her?” He shook his head.

“I have to call him in the next twenty minutes or he will kill her.”