EXCHANGE OF HEARTS [BL]

CHAPTER 19

"I'll quit," the room went silent. "I can't do this anymore." Atlas added and everyone is shocked, shacking their heads like they are disappointed.

"Atlas," his father said in a warning voice.

He gaze his father who's glaring at him-mad and disappointed.

He's hurt to see his family's eyes full of disappointments, but he doesn't care. All he wanted is to get rid of his job, he doesn't want this at all.

"What makes you want to quit, Atlas?" His mother's voice fills the room that makes the hair on the back of his neck stand.

He face his mother-seriously staring at him with a suspicious look.

"I don't want this job anymore," he said. "I am tired of killing people. I am not a murderer-"

"You are," his mother cuts him off. "Have you ever forgotten how many lives you killed? How many families lost their mother or their father because you killed them?"

His throat bobbed, fire grows in his system. "You wanted me to kill them. I did it because you told me so!"

His mother arched her brow, "really?"

"Mom, you know from the start that I don't like this-"

"Is that the reason why you want to quit or their's other?"

He goes still. He sniffed and looked away.

"Atlas, you know what will happen if I find out the reasons why you want to quit right?"

He's well aware.

Atlas meet his mother's eyes. "You'll find nothing, mom. There's no other reason why I want quit. I am tired of this and I don't want to slaughter people."

His mother stared at him for a minute but Atlas didn't looked away, he wanted to prove that he's telling the truth.

Then his mother break the stares and shrugged her shoulder.

"Even I found that you transferred university because of this certain person? I also heard from your siblings that you like someone,"

His eyes snaps to his siblings, glaring at them, but they only shake their heads like they are telling him that they didn't told their mom about it.

"That's not true-"

"Then, let me investigate if it's true. If I find out that you have a lover..." His mother slowly looked at him with no emotions in her eyes-dangerous. "I'll kill that burden myself. I'll kill that hindrance myself, son. Remember the rule, Atlas."

His heart is pounding inside of his ear.

"Once you are in you can't go out. Whoever the burden or hindrance will get kill. Relationship is no room for this job, you should committed yourself in this job. Since the day you stepped in the Underground, you are married to this job and you can't let go and quit that easily like a regular job."

His mother's eyes narrowed at him-her bloodshot eyes and its look dangerous. Dangerous to stare.

He knows that his mother didn't lie. He already witnessed some of the Underground employee's lover killed because the Underground thinks that it's just a hindrance and burden of their job.

Once you are in, you are already married to this job.

He thinks of Race, his safety. If his mother find out that he likes someone and that is a man, for sure his mother will get mad and probably kill Race, but he won't let his mother do it.

Yes, he likes Race. He admitted it the other day. He admitted to himself that what he feels toward Race is not just for a friend. The strange feelings he felt when Race is around is not just a feeling of excitement when you saw your friend but the excitement when you saw the one you like.