Runaway Love

Twenty: Not What I Thought

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Jett
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I listen to Tambre's steady breathing mixed with the sound of rain beating against the window and eventually drift off to sleep, holding Tambre.

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I jolt awake to the sound of a large bang. I sit up as my eyes begin to focus in the room.

"Well look who we have here." A maniacle sounding voice taunts. My eyes focus to 3 dark figures in the room. I check the bed beside me.

Tambre is gone.

"Where is she?" I spit out.

"Awh. Rowan has feelings." The British accented voice taunts again. I stand up and look to where my backpack is.

"Don't move." The man states.

"Rosco. Where is the girl?" I ask.

"She's fine. Just come with us." Rosco says.

"Are you taking me to where the girl is?" I question.

"We might be. Or she might be dead." He tries. I know she isn't but it puts a jolt in me.

"Come on." Another voice invites. Colton. The dark room only gives me voices to indentify the intruders.

"We need to hurry before anyone finds the kicked down door." Another voice informs.

Oh shit.

"You. You have to know where Tambre is." I say. The dim lights coming from the hallway light up a concerned face.

"She's safe. For now." He says adding the for now, more or less for the people around at the moment.

"I want to see her." I walk towards him.

"She's already been taken away." He turns his back to me as we keep walking.

"Eric please. Let me see her." I plead. We enter the hallway. Eric leads and Colton and Rosco are behind me.

"I can't. She's already been taken away." Eric says again.

"Then take me there!" I shout. He turns around and straps a piece of tape over my mouth. I let out a growl and keep following. We make it to the lobby and Rosco walks to my pace and rips the tape off my mouth to avoid suspicion.

"Ouch." I grumble. We walk out of the hotel and I'm shoved violently into a waiting vehicle.

"Eric-"

"Shut up, Jett. Just shut up. You got her into this mess." Eric's eyes shine in the light. His features are harsher since I last saw him. Then again the last time I saw him was 7 years ago.

"I didn't mean to." I say.

"Then why did you bring her here?! You where safer than ever in New York, Dammit Jett. Fuck you! Now she's going to die and its your fault!" Eric shouts. Everyone remains quiet. Including Rosco and he's the boss.

"Eric you are her brother can you help he-"

"No." He drops down to sit on his heels.

"No one can help her. Not anymore. This was supposed to be done seven years ago." He states.

"You were supposed to die too." I remind.

"I know." He says bitterly.

"I wanted to but they took me and now I'm here. And so is the one person I tried to keep safe." He stares at me with dark blue eyes. I stare back, my green eyes probably seeming intimidating.

Rosco stands and moves to the front of the vehicle in the passenger seat and Colton leans to the front as they start a small conversation.

"Why did you leave?" Eric whispers.

"They were going to kill me." I reply.

"A gunshot doesn't hurt. It's quick." Eric says.

"They wanted to put me in the electro shock chair, Eric. I had to run." I snap.

"Why did you come back?" Eric questions. I glance out the back window.

"I want to kill Rosco. Tambre lost her life because of him." I turn my attention back to the black floor.

"Lost it? She has a better family now then she ever did. She got you and Tyler and Walter-"

"You know Tyler and Walter?" I ask.

"They work for us." Eric says. I clench my fists in an urge to punch him but remember that Tambre would be dead without those two.

"Did you guys turn soft?" I ask. Eric chuckles quietly.

"We were never bad. You just thought we were." Eric explains.

"You killed innocent people." I state.

"We killed people that were wanted. We are like a god damn exterminator team but for humans. We'd find old reports and if they were reported as never found we would hunt them down and kill them. You just seen the killing and did the killing. You never saw the rest." Eric offers.

"And I wouldn't call us soft." Rosco adds.

"You wanted to kill me." I remind again.

"That's cause your twin brother is stupid." Colton scoffs.

"He's dead though." I state. The three laugh.

"You believed us?" Rosco says.

"You said he was and you were holding a bloody knife, Ross I couldn't really come at you about the subject." I protest.

"No. He's not dead. We threatened you with death to see what you would do. And you did good for 7 years. We couldn't find you. Then Tambre came along and Tyler recognized you." Colton has a lopsided smirk set on his face.

"Where's Tambre?" I ask again. Rosco sighs and pulls a piece of paper out of his pocket, handing to me. I take it and unfold it.

It's a wanted report.

Wanted: Tambre Arriette
Wanted for murder, several speeding and vandalism accounts and fraud.

"Fraud?" I ask.

"Identity fraud. Her known name that we can find her by is Tambre. And that is her real first name. Her last name is not Arriette." Eric says. Eric's last name is Kalidas.

"Tambre Kalidas." My breath hitches. Everyone nods.

"Oh." Is all that comes out of my mouth.

Tambre isn't what I though. Tambre is a murderer. Tambre is a criminal.

Tambre is a fraud.