CHAPTER 15:
THE WOMAN YOU said you fought, who's running this operation...it's his Mom and she's out for blood on all Bees because of what...what our family did to theirs...reports from over two decades ago. They used to be other legacies at the academy. The Dragons and the Wolves.
Ender has the moon cycle on his spine.
Bees helped the other groups annihilate the dragon and wolf factions in our society. All legacies with blood of either of those were targeted and exterminated. Bees were involved in doing so, first tracking them and Bees had used their bodies like lab rats. Poison picking, experimenting on new products to them, they were subjects
If we attack now, we wouldn't win this battle. We need to think smarter about this one. Apparently Bees might have had something to do with changing Ender's father. Mom's analysis on a drug, Andromeda, which might of been used to make him into what he became. It didn't make sense at first, early reports of Robert Millennium showed that he was a member of some brotherhood that turned out to be Good Samaritans back in the day. He had no criminal record, he grew up with a rich, but loving family and he loved Lolita Millennium. He protected his family the night they took him and when he was released back, that's when he changed over time before Ender had to kill him at fourteen-years old.
Is there ever a right way to learn more about someone who's betrayed you?
The answer is No. at first, there's never a right way to understand betrayal when you first line about it. The moments you recall every conversation, every romantic and platonic gesture, every conversation, every second you'd spent with that one individual who violated your trust is recorded, remembered and stored in your memory. Your brain is powerful, it is.
But nothing is fully healed.
Astrid noted down every article we could find while I received numerous reports on a celebratory ball citing Ender Millennium and the rest of his entourage by his side, untouched and unknowing to what I now knew about the man I'm supposed to marry for land, for resources, for wealth. Something that was in play long before I even knew.
"He's after revenge." I state what Astrid won't.
"But it was only his mother who attacked you? They interrogated you. They detailed a kidnapping and faked his kidnapping, but there is a lot more to this story. Robert Millennium, he died via gunshot wound on June eighteenth. The crime scene showed none of Ender's prints on the gun-it was ruled as a suicide and a note was found later in a diary his wife, Lolita found. His reactions to the serums injected into him could only have been possible because of what was injected." She murmurs, wiping the corner of her eyes as she stares at the scenes of the women hurt only after Robert had been tortured.
I grab the laptop and move to the desktop in the lounge we're in, next door to where Lauren was still lying in her comatose state, "I'm using the academy database to hack into the system that will pinpoint Ender's credentials." I mutter, shoving a photo into the system and within ten minutes, it gives me the same damn file I'd gotten when I first looked him up.
I purse my lips and lean back, it gives me the same shit.
"He knows what we are, why was he shocked when I showed him snippets of my position? My kind of job? Was he just acting then, too?" I ask slowly. Astrid looks up from where she's ransacking information from the drive she'd copied over.
She studies me, narrowing her eyes, "You're not falling for him, right?" Her question doesn't make me waver.
"No, but do understand he's pretty much the first man to look my way. I don't need to go getting sentimental to remind you that you remember your crush, just as he remembers you-otherwise he wouldn't have come to me worried sick after you met him in Japan." I point out and she clenches her jaw. I'd hit a nerve.
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