HIGHWAY

32

JON

I looked at the ticket kept in front of me. London to New York.

No wonder, Janne was making me head back there to drop Diana home and then take a plane to go away from her forever.

A task which if I'd to do a few months ago I'd have been more than glad but now? now things were different. I wanted her with me, by my side, riding shotgun when I drove through the highway, her sent lingering in the car way longer than it could, her sleeping peacefully in the backseat, that habit of asking too many questions and those hazel eyes which did something nobody ever was able to do.

They made me feel at peace.

Whenever she looked at me, it was never fear which lingered in her eyes it was a satisfaction, that she was not in this alone. I still couldn't wrap it around my mind how she had been able to kick a perfect life away without feeling an ounce of regret in it. I, on the other hand, had always been living in the feeling of revenge. A feeling of hatred that I never got a life I should have been given. I wanted a life like Diana, I envied her so much and I hated her for leaving her life, for taking everything for granted. I wanted a family but all I ever had was a sister who was an assassin. I loved my sister but the fact that she would go to any extends to keep her position strong and remain to her title of REGINA made me feel alone. I felt like I was here because she needed me for her own, which was all.

The day Diana told me about her sister was the day I realized no world was perfect. There were cracks everywhere; all we do is judge everything by its shiny surface, we never see what's beneath it. It is rust.

I found Diana a little like Janne, they both had that fighting spirit, they both were fearless, they both never regretted their decisions, the only difference was that anger and hurt fueled Janne and love fueled Diana. I couldn't blame Janne for it. She was bought up in a different world than Diana, a world that I was lucky enough to be taken away from but she wasn't.

The night I beat those guys was the night I was captured by a man who dealt with smuggling. That was the night when I was sold to a man. A man who I thought would ruin my life making it a living hell, little did I know, he saved me. He was the one who took me into his world and trained me only to give me an option in the end, whether to stay or leave, yet serve for him whenever required. I accepted his offer and chose to leave yet agreed to serve him whenever it was required. He didn't adopt me; I guess nobody knew he was training three guys for his business. He was ruthless but never did he ever raise his hand on us. Once we were done with the training, the other two guys chose to stay. I would have had too if I didn't have to go and look for my sister.

The man told me where she was and helped me get to her, till that time, she had already conquered half of the New York and her reign started to begin. She started to go by the name Regina.

Despite everything that happened in my life, the funniest or call it the most cliché thing that happened was me stumbling to meet that man's daughter which chasing Reece.

Diana.

I didn't know back them about the fact that she was indeed his daughter. I knew Mr. William was a lawyer yet I failed to believe her. The moment I found out the truth, I contacted him and told him everything. That was I moment I started falling for her but my respect for Mr. William was bigger so if he said I had to get her back, I'd have done it. To my surprise, he told me to take her as far as I could from London till everything was fine. Janne helped me.

And now nothing was helping with me leaving her.

I was destined to leave her, I told her we'd have to part ways then why was I not able to do it.