An Assassin's Priority (Book 1 of the Cole Series)

7

"Sweetie..." Fidel tries to get Owen from me but he resisted and hugged me tighter.

"Owen, turn around." I ordered, which he followed while he wiped his tears. I slowly lift up his shirt, seeing the scar I have at my back.

"How do you not know what he's pulling through?!" I say angrily to dad. "You're not doing anything about this curse?!" I clenched my fist as my back aches in pain and I winced in pain.

"Scarlett!" Trey steadied my posture.

"You didn't protect Owen from Venus." I whimper in pain and dad looks at us completely clueless.

"I didn't expect that she would do this." Dad says, looking down.

"Owen is not the only one suffering this. I am too and Venus will target any of us anytime again." I say as Owen hugs me and I caress his cheek.

"Protect my little brother." I begged at dad. "Venus is powerful." I say in a whisper as Owen cried.

"Tell me what she did to you and Owen." Dad demands and I sigh.

"Can we take this in the living room?" Trey says and we nod as Fidel washes the dishes.

Carrying Owen's weak body and sat on the couch and put my finger on his head and I close my eyes as I felt Dad and Trey's gaze at us as I grab the information of how Owen got the curse.

"While Fidel is busy at her job in the pictorial and dad is at work, Owen got kidnapped then he.." I try to say it properly but I felt uncomfortable telling this.

"Where was I?" Trey asks.

"School." I replied.

"What happened?" Dad listens at me intently.

"Owen got kidnapped by Venus and chained on the wall. Slashed his back with a sword; more like an katana and raped by the same lesbian hoe who did the same to me." I look down and look at Owen's weak sleeping form.

"I got the curse at the age of 12." I added as dad hugs me.

"I tried studying and finding what kind of curse they had given me but none of the information I got is in there but luckily, I overheard Venus said it was from a demon's blood infused in the katana." I state.

"So do you mean..." dad says.

"The demon's curse. Infused with a dead person's blood, and a demon's blood." Owen states weakly.

"Yeah that. You feel better now buddy?" I ask him and he sits up straight and nods.

"How bad it is?" Trey says as he looks at me and Owen with worry.

"Dead serious." Owen says as he rests his head on my shoulder.

"Here." I say, giving dad Venus' evil plans a few years ago. Dad scanned it and he took a deep sigh.

"Those are a few years ago. The new ones are hidden." I state.

"Listen Scarlett. When I say this command, I don't want to hear any excuses or decline this offer." Dad says in a stern voice.

"Go on." I say.

"Owen is moving at your place. Me and Fidel are always busy and Trey can't do anything to protect Owen. I trust him on you Scarlett. Venus can come anytime." Dad says and I nod.

"Sure." I say as Owen smiles at me.

"Trey's going to go there often to check on Owen." Dad added and I nod.

"Finally a little one to spoil with ice cream." I smirk and Owen's eyes lighten up.

"Yay!" He says happily.