Chapter 18

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"Confidence is silent. Insecurities are Loud"

Leaders qualities

Today. How I dreaded today.

I couldn't push back the fact that my dad knew who I was. And more importantly he wanted to find me. If he did succeed would that make him a good person or bad?

I wouldn't be alone anymore thats for sure. I would have a parent to lean on. But why after all this time? What changed that he wanted to see me so bad?

It was Saturday which meant I had to go back to the DOJ for another weekly meeting.

With not even the argument sorted out from yesterday, I didn't know how I was going to cope. I knew he would be abnormally harsh to me today.

I did that to myself but I knew that if I was ever going to break out my bubble I needed to handle being shouted at a little longer.

I took off my bra and put on a sports one instead. I didn't know what we was going to be doing so I had to be prepared. I put a tank top over it and a sweater over that too. I pulled on leggings and I wore my Airforce 1 trainers that Delmira bought for me.

Being out in the fresh air instantly cooled my hot skin. Everyone else was still at home snoring away. I needed some type of pace raiser to get me through the day so i resulted in a morning jog, despite how much I hated them.

Sooner or later sweat was trickling down my skin. I instantly felt the rush of the run. From there I decided I was going to jog to the base. I normally had Kye drop me off but I didn't think that would have been happening today.

I was familiar on how to get there though. It was very secluded and empty but I guess that's what made the base indiscoverable. As I did the very boring knocks on the different parts of the walls they began to spin. Revealing every member.

Kye was looking depressed as always and didn't even flutter an eye when I walked through.

The boys looked lost...scared? I didn't know what word I could have used to describe their faces. Not only did a slight wave of relief wash over their face but they seemed scared for me too.

Not to mention their bodies were wrecked. They looked restless and tired. Kye must have overworked them till they looked like they were about to drop.

Maybe Kye was even worse today than I thought he was gonna be.

"Sit down" He said which pierced through my ears by the time I realised I had been standing there for 2 minutes.

I hesitantly opened my mouth to say something but as the boys looked at me to shut up, the fire that I once felt...sizzled out. I no longer felt like I could handle him. His ordering demeanour, his scorching frustrated face scared me.

I had never seen that a-looming aura from him. I didn't like it one bit.

I forced myself to bite my tongue and I sat like a dog being ordered by its owner.

"It's training week." He echoed from the back before his loud steps could be heard approaching us "Which means you guys will be in the training ground facility today."

It was my first time hearing about this. Normally we would plan and dig deeper into any new leads we had but this was different.

I had a few questions I wanted to ask but i wasn't ready to dive in head first to this scary head biting version of Kye. I was going to wait in hope to hear my questions answered in his talking.

"Boys gear up and go down to the shooting range. You gotta fix up your aiming in any situation" He said with a glare.

All of them nodded their head, accepting what they were told and headed off. None of them dared to be friendly with him today. Did I piss him off that much?

"Wait so what am i doing?" I asked a little too quiet.

He bore a heated stare back to me. If looks could kill I would have been dead alright. Complete putty in his hands.

"You are with me" He said crossing his arms

"What?!" I objected. The universe was sending me signs and now I had to do training with him. Where was the luck?

"I swear to God...if you give me problems today I'll kill you" He added, pretending to shoot me with his fingers.

I was Frozen. Who was this?

I dropped my head and stood there like a coward. What was this trembling sensation I felt at the tips of my fingers. No wonder he was the leader. No one could make someone tremble like he did. As scary as it was to say.

"Ok" I simply said, stiff "What are we doing?"

"I've got to train you somehow" He huffed " We'll start with self defence"

I nodded following him to the boxing room.

He got straight to it. Showing me how to balance my weight, stopping the opponent from having the upper hand. He requested me to take of my sweater but I rejected him.

He grunted holding back his frustration.

Most of my scars were under it. I would rather burn in heat than to let him see that part of me.

"Hold out your hand like this" He said moving my hand with his fingers. His voice was softer. Maybe he calmed down by now? "Now punch me"

"What?" I laughed but he wasn't laughing

"I said punch me. Now"

He wasn't serious. Maybe he was crazy now.

"O oh ok then" I hesitated and I held back before hitting him with all my force from what he'd taught me.

He got pushed back a bit and he nodded.

"Better" he plainly said.

As excitement took over me I started blabbering on about how I had been practicing so much and how I was grateful with how much I had approved.

Before I knew it he was grabbing my wrist and locking me onto the ground.

"You see" He stated with a frown "In this world you must NEVER take your eyes off your opponent. Not even for a second."

He glared, pointing his fingers at me and pretending to shoot "Bang. You'd be dead by now"

"Sorry" I smiled in embarrassment. It was hard to even continue with my training with the immense sweat under my sweater.

"Take it off"

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