Chapter 167
MIRO
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I think I have experienced every pain known to man the pain of loss, the pain of abadonment, the pain of rejection, physical pain, mental and emotional pain and so on.
But now, the kind of pain searing through my body, burning me straight to the soul, I…
I have no words for it.
I took a sharp intake of breath and that jerked me awake.
For a moment, the only thing I could hear was the fast thudding of my heart, then the beeping of machines joined in.
But I couldn’t see a thing.
I tried to move but I felt some sort of resistance holding me down, so I tried my best to channel my wolf. After a moment, I was able to jerk my hand free and when I touched my face, and realized I was wearing a blindfold.
Yanking it off, I was immediately assaulted by a bright white light
Groaning, I shielded my face with my arm before trying to get an awareness of my surroundings.
Then a sharp pain seized my neck just as my eyes landed on what seemed like a hospital bed, a few feet away from mine. Seeing the blood stains on it, memories of my father shooting Theon and me flashed through my mind like lightning.
I looked down at my other arm, and realized I was bound by a leather strap and maybe it was the adrenaline coursing through me, but I was easily able to yank my hand out. I tried to move and again, I realized both feet were also bound and that made me mad.
With one swipe, I clawed through the leathers and got out of bed
Dressed in nothing but a hospital gown, I staggered, feeling woozy.
The ache in my neck intensified and I gripped it, biting my bottom lip to endure the pain.
Leaning against the wall for support, I let my brother’s scent guide me out of the room, and hoped he was still alive.
The moment I stepped out I saw about a dozen security guards, then I saw my brother in the distance but he was in a transparent vertical pod that looked like a box and he was unconscious. Then I saw my father with Dutton standing not too far away with some scientists explaining something to him.
I primed my ear to listen.
“Once the sequence starts, the serum will be turned into gas and it will be released into the active chamber. Then his memory will be wiped while he is infused with all the benefits of the serum.”
My heart pounded faster. My father is going to wipe Theon’s memory?
Is that even possible?
“Start the sequence.” My father nodded and I stepped forward.
“No!” I yelled in rage and that’s when security turned to me. “Don’t you even dare!” I warned my father, taking steps forward.
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As security approached. I swing my claws, catching some by the throat and some on the chest. In a matter of minutes, seven men were dead and then there were five, with their gune aimed
“Stand down.” My father snarled via mindlink and the essence of his power made my knees buckle. Still I willed myself to stand erect and face him. “Start the sequence.” he ordered a scientist and when I took a step forward, he raised a finger.
“I can give these men the authority to shoot you again. It took days for you to heal, would you like to start again?”
I realized I was in a tight spot, so I surrendered and two men forced me to my knees and pointed their guns at my heads. The scientist went to a sit at a desk filled with computers in a corner and after typing on the keyboard, I heard a beep.
“Sequence started.” A computerized female voice said. “Procedure will occur in ten minutes.”
Fuck. I need a miracle. I can’t let my brother be turned into a mindless machine.
“Why are you doing this?” I asked my father., and he turned to me.
“Because I realized you both will never take my side as long as that girl is alive. She’s done something to you both. Made you weak!” My father sneered. “I didn’t raise you to be pathetic dogs under the leash of a woman!”
“You didn’t raise us at all!” I countered. “You simply tried to turn us into killing machines!”
“And is that such a bad thing?” He sneered and I blinked in surprise. “How else are you going to serve my purpose? What is your existence for if not to do my bidding?!”
Looked away, feeling the weight of my father’s words crush my spirit. “Was that what Nora was for too?”
My father’s eyes glowed red. “Don’t you dare mention her name?” His voice turned demonic. “Nora was different. She was special!” Then his eyes came back to normal and he had this pain on his face. “She was my everything.”
I exhaled hard, grounding my jaw to keep out the tears threatening to spill.
Wasted years trying to prove myself and all along he saw me and Theon as nothing but tools. I wasted years being jealous of my brother not knowing, no, not hearing my twin when he warned me that there was nothing to be jealous of.
I didn’t see it. I didn’t know but he did.
He knew our father had no regard for us. No wonder Theon pushed us to build our own wealth from scratch and become our own men. He hated how father controlled us with his money Now I see all the sacrifices Theon made on our behalf and I was nothing but an asshole to him.
Gods, Theon deserves an apology!
The most reverent one! And I pray that the Goddess will hear me this one time, and give me the opportunity to save him. Just then a loud sound occurred, like a gunshot and it seemed to come from behind the main door leading to this open space. Everyone stilled and then it happened again.
Two gunshots and then a cry.
“What’s happening?” My father asked flustered, and then he signalled my eye, I counted three security men left.
Ma
to some men to go check it out. From the corner of
Dutton’s face hardened as he seemed to be in the middle of a mindlink. “We are under attack!” He snarled, pulling out his gun, and aiming it for the entrance in the distance.
My father’s head snapped to him. “By whom?”
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Just then a loud growl pierced the sir, vibrating the flowshenray me and all the other mutant captives hosted to the ting and began to struggle again their bende.
“We need to get out of here” button said, and my father looked as areas of men pierce the air accompanied
jar by multiple gunshots. The chopper is waiting
He
“I am not leaving withou my sons?” lle snarled and I realized the was my moment to do something
“Seven minutes remaining.” The computerized voice said and fm the corner of my vision, I checked the men behind for any sign of weakness. They both seemed to be focused on the ongoing chaos, so I moved quick and sharp
The guy to my left got a full hand stab of my claws in his stomach and when I pulled my hand out, his intestines followed. Before his partner could react, 1 rose to my feet and disarmed him, before turning to the other guy
His partner hesitated to shoot me, but I didn’t. A bullet through the eye and he was down like a pile of cards.
Now there was one security man left plus Dutton and my father
“Don’t shoot!” My father exclaimed as an order to the others. Maybe I was mistaken, but I think I could hear panic in that voice as well. “He can’t survive another one.”
I aimed the gun at him, and it took everything within me not to shoot him. Dutton stepped forward, blocking my shot, and f didn’t hesitate to fire.
To my utter surprise, he moved within the blink of an eye and caught the bullet between his thumb and forehead. Raising his hand up, he showed it to me, before flicking it away with a smile.
How in the sweet goddess?
“Surprised, eh?” My father smirked. “This is what the super serum can do and this is just phase one.”
“Five minutes remaining.” The computerized voice sounded, and the chaos grew closer.
“You can also be this strong, Miro. Let me make you and your brother into the strongest the world has ever seen.”
I sighed realizing this man will never stop trying to turn us into a weapon.
I raised my gun again. “Release my brother.”
My father blinked in surprise. “Miro-”
“NOW!”
