CHAPTER HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN
With each word that came out of his mouth, my heart broke further and further
“I know you're seeing this and I know you think I'm incapable of doing it but I have to,” he said as he cleaned up a knife, my father's muffled cries in the background.
“Please don't do this,” I whispered with tears streaming down my face as though he could hear me.
Anna came closer to me as though closing the one-inch distance could stop this horror show we were in the middle of.
I was hyper aware of everyone’s breathing, the sound of the forest and the people who were coming down from their tree houses to see what the fuss was about.
In the video, Xavier finished cleaning the knife and walked to the back.
“I have given you as much time as I can. This mother ship must leave tonight and I can't leave this planet without you. You're more than an asset, okay?” He said and put the knife on my father's throat.
He struggled as much as those tight ropes could allow him to buy there was no point to it. He looked so different, malnourished and tired.
Because of me, he had seen so much pain in the last few weeks and being the reason why he was going through this again hurt me so badly.
Xavier paused, his stance rigid as he stared directly into my soul from the other side of the camera.
“This is all your fault Tessa,” he said as he slit my father's throat.
The phone fell from my hands and me along with it.
***
Two hours later and I hadn't been able to say a word or respond to anything.
I couldn't even cry.
“This is all your fault Tessa,”
That was all that rang through my mind and the more it came, the words were more sinister than the last
I was carried into the tent by a frustrated Jamal and they played the rest of the video where he said my mother would be next in six hours.
Anna had packed up our bags and insisted on us leaving but all I could think about were those words.
“This is all your fault Tessa,”
Suddenly my phone rang and I jumped, the foreign sound piercing through my hazy mind.
I looked at it and it was Corbin.
“Take this to Jamal,” I said to Anna who was sitting next to me on the ground, “I can't speak to him,”
She complied and I was once again, alone with my thoughts.
It really was all my fault.
I'd slept with the man who killed my father.
How do I proceed from here?
I couldn't believe this was actually happening to me.
Maybe I had dreamed of this, I mean, those dreams felt real until I opened my eyes.
But then, it has only ever been me and him in those dreams, no one else. He didn't have that connection with anyone else.
I pinched myself to be sure and yep! I was wide awake and my father was dead because the alien that didn't give me a choice but to fall for him wanted me to come back to him.
But then my thoughts turned darker. He had no right to do this.
Maybe I'll go back and find a way to kill him. How on earth did he expect me to come back to him and things will go back to normal after this? This was the dumbest move ever, I mean what did he expect would happen now?
I realized I was just going through the motions of grief instead of going out there and figuring out a way to make that asshole pay for what he did to me.
I wish I could actually control myself in those dreams he dragged me to. I would have hurt him as much as he hurt me.
It definitely meant I wouldn't be sleeping anytime soon.
I got up from the bed and walked out of the tent and just as expected, all eyes were on me.
This wasn't the way I expected the resistance to be.
There were so many of them and yet, they did so little.
I looked at them, a bubble of anger lightning up in my chest.
“Why are you all looking at me like that?” I snapped angrily. “I just lost my father to that asshole and not a single person feels the need to help me find revenge. All you're bothered about is gossiping about it as though this is some soap opera,”
“You have to calm down, Tessy. Corbin said he's got this under control, just –” Jamal said to me and his words made me livid
“Are you stupid?!” I screamed at him, my eyes narrowed in irritation, “he just literally showed you how much of a control he doesn't have over anything and you're here licking his fucking ass!”
“But what do you wanna do? It's not like we can just storm into the capital and do anything,”
I can't believe I was once attracted to this pitiful guy for a second. I was irritated by his calmness in that moment.
“I mean, why can't we?” Kane said, his voice low. Everybody turned to him in shock. “I mean, all we do is hide our here and everyday, they are getting away with their actions. This is a chance to hit them hard. With her as a distraction, we can actually do real damage,”
“You're not using my sister as bait!” Anna hissed at him.
“And Corbin hasn't approved this,”
“If I hear that name one more time, I'll lose my shit!” I screamed in Jamal's face. “He's a fucking Alien! What on earth makes you think he's going to give you the keys to his kingdom?”
He stepped back, obviously shocked at my sudden change in demeanor.
It was obvious his head was deeply buried in Corbin’s ass that he won't be taking action any time soon so I faced Kane who was ready to actually do something.
“Kane, if you can, draw up a plan. We need to leave very soon before he kills my mother too,” I said and he nodded then I turned back to Jamal. “It's your choice if you want to sit here and wait for Corbin but I'm leaving here and making actual change,” I finished and took my phone from him and went back to my tent.
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