•Ivy
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"You were happy yet You ran away. What is it that you have to hide from?" He asks, his gaze pinning me to place.
He was intense, Like I am the mission he has to do.
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I knew it's his group he would want to protect first and if I don't tell him how will he know whom to protect me from.
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It was a burning feeling since I started there. I had watched people die I associated with, made plans for another night. But when I saw dead and blast figures, bypassing me everyday,
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I stopped. I isolated myself. Like others.
Work and me.. that was it.
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"There ain't any story, mister." I say.
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I hardly gave any expressions.
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"I just want to be free. Feel the freedom. But since they nourished, cultivated and trained me till now plus I'm the one among a few. They don't want to let go. They hunt me down and will still try. I've been groomed to serve them till death comes to take me since childhood. I've signed a fuckin contract." I fall back on the chair in defeat and speaking rapidly and rising in spirit.
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I showed my anger.
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Weakness.
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I need to recover soon. I can't go on like this. I take a deep breath.
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"Hmm." folding hands over the table he leans back, his chest muscles define more as he stretches, I looked away.
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"You have a copy?" It's the root, so that's what he asked. I knew it was coming.
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"No." I say. I was simply made aware of my boundations. I was never given a proof.
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"I was exposed to the truth of my situation when I tried running away the first time." I reason.
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I strictly focused on his death stare. Because if I go down, it's a rough valley of thick tanned muscles.
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I shouldn't be salivating when I've seen many before him who were nearly stripped to nakedness. But..
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This man is different, something about him makes me thirsty.
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I just want to touch him. I blink, blink and Blink again.
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"That's the barrier." He says more to himself.
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"All right! Until we figure out something for you. Carry on doing as you were told." He says dismissively, I stand. Leave. Head down.
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"Derrick! Come out!" He barked and I stiffened. I didn't suspected someone else was listening to us too.
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Was he evesdropping ?or he was a part of this and I didn't knew.
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I turned again and faced my Interrogator as Derrick came into view, He had been outside the door! "Was he supposed to be a part of this?" I seethed pointing my finger at the intruder and focusing on Marco.
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He does works for him, but that doesn't mean he has the right to come in and leave on me on his own accord, no one does!
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This is my story!
My part of life!
My emotions!
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It doesn't matter they already know. But what I tell in person, I need to know that person or a number of persons.
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Someone from the back comes to me and says he knows what I didn't tell him, when he ain't part of the group he knows what he shouldn't. It fumes me.
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"I heard him just as we were finished." Vettorio reasoned and I searched his face for the truth.
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He isn't lying.
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"Ivy, as a bodyguard it's my duty to protect my boss at all times. And for complete security I have to keep an eye on everything, especially an outsider." I heard Vettorio jaw tick but I didn't move, my wild stare was fixated on Derrick's.
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He was right on his part. He definitely should'nt trust a trained assassin alone locked in a room with his boss.
But I felt exposed.
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Vettorio broke the hot silence. "Ivy, until you are in my care, you are a part of this family.." Derrick eyes narrowed and broke from mine to meet Vettorio's in disapproval and I stared into the darkness acknowledging what he just said.
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This man can say something so important to an outsider like me.
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From what I see, His decision is only based on the truth I gave him.
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If I had lied with the same seriousness, he'd be helping me the same, but only on the basis that he believes me.
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I met him nights ago and he already put his trust on me.
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I have no rightful words to utter.
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Vettorio and Derrick closed in on each other, their eyes in a silent battle. I was left alone for the moment. The information was heavy. It had it's consequences and benefits, it is, in a way, similar to my previous life.
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"..So, Ivy," This time his tone of voice was even more serious, commanding and deeper. I swallowed because This was Heavy and, I wasn't sure was I ready yet? "You Devote to serve this family. You vow your trust, loyalty and blood to this family. This Family that protects you, name you and define you." His eyes pierce into mine. There was gravity in those words. I didn't Blink away, it was my turn to show I am worthy of being a part of this Family.
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Derrick shoulders dropped, he shaking his head sighed, he raised his head again and look deadly at me again. I understood his concerns.
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"I, until am alive, pledge my life only to You my Lord." I declare bowing my head.
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Their stares completely changed to disbelief. I for a second thought I did something wrong.
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But I was serious.
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So I started for the table, their shoulders tensed, I know believing me so quickly is out of question.
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I will build that trust.
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I grabbed a knife from the penstand and ran it digging on my plam, I bled and... that blood... I offered in his name.
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I knew the whole process, I saw it a number of times and I knew this was not the place. But for the time being, to show my feelings, I had to.
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Our eyes met and Vettorio acknowledged me but it wasn't all acknowledgment, there was something else too.
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No, not betrayal,
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not guilt,
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no mischief,
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neither regret,
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It was something else..
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I can't decipher.
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