Trusting The Treacherous Renegade

Part 7

There are too many files, I've been searching for days. Kayn has been giving me suggestions on where to look and I hate that I listen to him. He dragged me into this and there's just something about the way he speaks that makes everything he says sound like a good idea.

My consions is a complete mess, a part of me just wants to break him out of that hell hole he's been captured in but another part is reminding myself of what he really is, a manipulative monster. He told me over the last few days, about his work as an assassin for the ruler's Andromeda.

Their world seems so sick and twisted but he talks as if it's nothing weird about it at all. It's just the way they handle things.

I sigh loudly to myself, this would run much more smoothly if I could ask Carter for help but we haven't talked since that night I caught him kissing someone else. He hasn't brought it up and neither have I. It hurts but there's just so much going on that I can't deal with it right now. Feels better to just push that stuff aside for now.

I squeeze my head in between my hands.

"Hey, you okay?" I hear Carter behind me and stiffen. When you think of the devil...

"Ye, ye I'm fine." I close down the pages not wanting him to find out what I'm doing.

"What are you looking at?" Carter sits down at the chair next to mine letting his hand rest on the neck of my chair.

"Why are you crying?" He straightens up and pushes away the drops down my cheeks. I didn't even realize tears were streaming down my face. "I hate that."

"It's just the anniversary," I say instead of starting a fight, dragging my face away from his touch. "Since she pasted." I miss her every day, every year. This day brings up so many memories.

"I'm sorry."

"She was in an accident right?" I play with the buttons of my shirt, trying to act normal.

"Yeah, why?" His fingers are gripping my chin, making me meet his eyes. He's searching for answers in my face.

"No nothing, if something did happen, and you knew, you would tell me right?" Carter furrow his eyebrows. "You wouldn't lie about something that big?" I continue as I'm not getting a reply.

"Of course, I wouldn't." He looks down at my fingers. "Why, did the alien say something?"

"No, I'm just asking never mind." His hatred towards Kayns is relatively strange which just makes me believe the alien more.

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"I can't keep doing this," I yell at the self absurd alien. He's wearing a wide grin, not taking me seriously. I don't know why I keep putting myself in these situations with him. Somehow I can't just shake him or the accusations of. My entire being is craving answers.

"And yet you keep running back to me." Kayn snickers while a loud grunt leaves my throat.
He's making his way closer to me. "Got you wrapped around my little finger."

I was sent to the examination room for some blood tests, or I convinced Stacy to let me do them for her. Hoping he would give me information. There's no point though, he never tells me anything useful, a bunch of riddles is all I get. Then he assumes I will follow his every lead.

"Fuck you Kayn." I turn away from him, deciding to leaves this situation. He can't keep asking me to betray my father without any answers.

"We'll do that later." He says casually making my blood boil. "Now you need to get me out of here."

"I won't help...." He holds up his palm stopping my rant.