In Control (SLOW UPDATES)

Ch 27: Reality

Azrael pov:

I grunted with each hit I gave to the man bound in the chair. I stopped when he gasped for air. Pissed and irritated with him I take a few steps back and pull out a cigarette. Lighting it up I let the smoke fill my lungs, the familiar feeling rushing back to me.

I lean against the metal table while I wait for him to talk. I wipe the blood off my hands with a rag near me, my eyes still staying trained on the man. It's been three months since I heard anything from my family and a week since I heard the worst news.

They took Athena...

I've been hunting Midnight down since he took me hostage. I couldn't trust anyone, not my friends, not my family, or myself so I stayed by alone. Since I've been hunting him down I've been picking off his men slowly. It was during an interrogation session that I heard they took Athena.

I wanted to find her and take her home but a part of me screamed that she wasn't real or that it was a trap. How could I know it's really her? How could I tell that it's really my daughter and not a trap? He could be trying to get me back into his grasp.

On the other hand I needed to take the risk. I couldn't risk it really being her and not going. I know what he can do, I know what he has done. If anything happened to her and I could've stopped it... I would never forgive myself. She's just a child.

So here I am trying to find the location they took her to. I've been bouncing around state to state, surviving off stealing and killing to get by. I missed my family but I still didn't trust myself around them. If I did, I'd be there and not living motel to motel and scavenging for food.

"Listen cunt, I don't got all day. Either you tell me what I want to know or I put a bullet between your fucking eyes." I let out a puff of smoke and moved towards him. He looked up at me through bloody eyes.

"You'll kill me either way... might as well withhold it from ya." He spat out a mouthful of blood and smirked at me.

"Right..." I pulled a knife from my waistband and moved closer to him. He flinched when I got close to his face.

Taking the tip of the knife I dragged it along his jaw and cut into him. He yelled in pain and tried to move away but I held his hair in my free hand and worked on cutting his face off.

"I'll ask again. Where is she?" I dug in deeper and enjoyed the way he winced and shed a couple tears.

"You'll just kill me!" He cried and tried to move away to no avail.

"I won't so long as you tell me where she is." I loosened up my hold on him. He seemed to think it over before caving in.

"Michigan. Detroit Michigan. In a warehouse near Southgate." He panted, fear radiating off him. Happy with the reply I let him go, moving away.

"As promised, I won't kill you." Going to the metal table I grab my leather jacket and toss it on and zip it up.

He struggles and looks at me, yelling at me to let him go but I don't. Exiting the hidden room I slip a hat on and go towards the car I've been using for some time. Taking off I press a button on a little box and hear an explosion erupt behind me, killing the man and torching the place I was just in.

I'm coming Athena...

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