The Heiress' Duty

Prologue

"Put down your gun." Babala ng isang di kilalang lalaki na nakatakip ang mukha at tanging mga mata lang kita. May hawak itong baril na nakatutok sa kanya na maaring pumutok anumang oras.

But fear's unknown to her.

"You're not the boss of me." Mga katagang binitawan ni Guerlain nang makalabit nito ang gatilyo ng baril na hawak niya sa ulo ng lalaki. Mabilis ang naging kilos niya at agad namang napatumba niya ito.

Pagkatapos ay mabilis na nagtago ito sa isa sa mga sasakyan sa parking building kung nasaan siya. Binibilang niya sa isip kung ilan na ang napatumba niya at kung ilan pa ang naka-abang sa kanya.

Kailangan niyang mag ingat. Nasa pampublikong lugar siya at maraming CCTV na nakakalat sa bawat sulok. Bukod doon ay kailangan niyang makasiguro na walang sibilyan na madadamay dito.

Nanatiling alerto si Guerlain at pagkuwan ay humahanap ng tyempo para makapuslit sa lugar na iyon nang hindi namamalayan ng mga kalaban.

Her life has never been the same ever since she turned nineteen. Never in her wildest dreams did she imagined herself holding a gun, and ending lives after lives of people who try to harm her life and the life of the people she needed to protect.

She was trained to fight and protect. At an early age, her family has been preparing her for this. Wala siyang kamuwang muwang na sa batang edad ay nagsimula na pala ang paghubog sa kanya bilang isang miyembro ng Stratos— the Vasileion empire's Central Intelligence and Security (CIS)

Her family was known to be one of the greatest leaders who established CIS few years after the Vasileion empire was founded during the early middles ages. Its main duties were to supervise all intelligence activities inside and outside Vasileio as well as to investigate crimes and possible threats to their empire. In short, she inherited the duty to protect Vasileio's people and it's a duty she must carry out at all cost.

Since then, she's been living a life she never would have chosen. Ngunit kahit choices ay hindi siya nabigyan. She didn't made this choice, fate chose her. She was raised to be a skilled warrior. She was trained since she was a little girl. Sa murang isip ay hindi niya inakala na ang pagsasanay na ginagawa niya nuon ay hindi lang pala para sa pansariling kapakanan. She was trained to be a weapon. A deadly one.

She grew up in a home different from her brother. Lumaki siya sa piling ng lola niya na walang araw na hindi nito sinabi sa kanya ang kahalagahan ng pakikipag laban. The fight for your safety, the fight for your loved and the fight to protect.

"Lain, you need to understand that we are living in world where everyday, there are battles. Your mind is a battlefield, your heart is a battlefield, people will try to destroy you and bring you down and that becomes a battlefield...

You can win or lose, but do you know what's the worst?"

Napako ang tingin ng batang si Guerlain sa kayang lola.

"Not wanting to fight. And I don't want to you to do that. You have to be strong, but you also have to be wise. You have to fight with a good heart and with the good intention, my dear."

Naalala niya ang paulit ulit na paalala ng kanyang lola. Bata palang siya nuon at kaunti palang ang naiintindihan niya.

She had always thought that it's just her granny's way of raising her. Hindi niya naisip na may dahilan pala ang lahat. Nagbago ang lahat nang malaman niya ang katotohanan nuong ika-labing siyam na kaarawan niya. It's just too much of a responsibility for a nineteen year old girl.

Kahit hindi parin lubusang matanggap ng dalaga ang naging kapalaran niya ay ibinigay niya ang lahat para magampanan ang tungkulin. Ito ang tadhana niya at wala siyang kapangyarihan upang baguhin iyon.