Trusting The Treacherous Renegade

Part 15

The whole ride back to Area 31 consists of me trying to calm down and make sense of it all. I need to speak to Kayn again, Carter has proven he's not interested in giving me answers. He sold me out to my father, that's how much he cares for me. Talking about love and this is how he shows it. I don't need protection, I need honesty.

I'm alone in the car with three black-suited men, all armed as usual. They watch me with ice-cold eyes like I'm not even human, more like a bomb that could explode at any given moment now. I don't blame them, I'm pretty fed up with anger and confusion at the moment.

Nothing makes sense, nothing.

I've started a thunderstorm of problems and all I can think about is ending it all. Ending Area 31, burn it to the ground.

I've been a prisoner all my life, stuck between those stone-cold walls. My hole being wants nothing more than to be free but I also want to make sure the rest of the world is safe as well.

As we're getting closer, my eyes go up to the building I once called home. It looks marvelous if you didn't know the awful truth that hides in there.

A fine architect designed this place several years back, before I was born, it has been renovated numerous times. My father enjoys bragging about his fortune and success.

All I see now is a prison, decorated with poisoned letters spelling the label, Area 31.

The sky is dark and the lights surrounding the building gives away the feeling of it being a haunted house.

"Gianna Clermont." I hear my fathers voice as I'm being dragged out of the car by two men. I cast them a furious look as I'm disgusted by their way of dealing with me as some sort of felon.

The icy wind hits hard on my face leaving my body with goosebumps.

The whole garden is filled with armed security guards, there's no way to escape this time around.

"Tell them to let me go!" My body starts to tremble as I spot the gun pointed at me. My heart skips a beat.

"Do you even care what your expedition has caused me?" My father lets out as his grasp around the firearm gets tighter. I swallow carefully. "Your attention-seeking actions are costing us our empire! Why? Cause you want to be a hero?" A cold-hearted chuckle escapes his lips as he's moving towards me.

I turn my gaze to the security guards with hopes of them saving me but they act as if I'm not even there. Just holding me in place. Preventing me from fleeing.

"You want to save the world, Gianna? You think you're better than the rest of us?" The words are drowned with hatred.

"I.." My voice is too unstable to even attempt to come up with justifications for my actions.

Mr. Clermont wouldn't understand either way. He's to brained washed by his work to be bothered with human emotions. Maybe he's already got a hold of those emotion-numbing-pills Kayn was talking about.

"At least we have the guts to go out of our way to protect humanity, while you sleep around with the enemy." I inhale sharply as it feels like he just stabbed me.

"I should kill you, for your betrayal." His eyes are filled with darkness, it's like I'm nothing to him. I've never seen him like this before. "Your mother would be disappointed in you." Father shakes his head.

He doesn't have the right to do this. He doesn't get to throw that in my face every time a slip up happens. He knows how it affects me.

"Yeah, cause you really did care for her," I say between the sobs as I'm unable to hold them in. "You're the reason she's dead. She drove that night because you asked her. Because you needed something for your disgusting, inhuman experiments. Because that's all you've ever cared about. Torturing people in your secret dungeon."