Chapter 3

"The family will be what Alec?" Eden demanded. She was now sitting in the car, and that scared her a little after what she heard, but she knew Alec wouldn't hurt her, would he? 

"How much did you hear?" Alec asked. He sounded defeated and rightfully so. 

"I heard enough." Was Eden's vague response. 

"Eden, I know I can't hide it from you anymore and if you want to hate me, I wouldn't blame you. But..." Alec began but it was a little difficult explaining something like this to his girlfriend. 

"It's my job. I'm ordered to kill people and I get paid in return." He finally said and Eden's eyes widened. He didn't know what to expect, but it wasn't this. 

Or maybe it was but he just didn't want to admit it. 

"What the fuck Alec? What the actual fuck? This is why you wouldn't tell me." Eden wanted to burst and scream but she he held herself back. 

"Eden please, I didn't tell you because this is how you're reacting and- and I didn't want to lose you. I knew you'd leave me if you knew what I did." Alec tried explaining himself, but he knew it was probably in vain.  

"Were you ever planning on hurting me?" Eden had to ask. She needed to know. 

"No, of course not. But... I was ordered to one day. I refused though I promised. It was a test to see if I would listen or not." Alec always hated that day. It was the day he first told Malakai about his relationship. 

Malakai asked him if he was ordered to by him, would he kill Eden. And Alec, for a split second, was about to reply yes, and Kai knew it. It was a test to see if Alec would follow all of Kai's rules and adhere to his orders. 

Alec passed but replied no, he wouldn't hurt Eden. But what mattered to Malakai was the hesitation with which Hyunjin answered. The hesitation was the truthful answer.  

"I... I need some time, Alec. I need to wrap my head around the fact that my boyfriend is a killer, a serial killer who kills families and anyone else his boss orders him to, even me." Eden felt tears in her eyes, but she didn't want to cry in front of him. 

"Of course. All the time you need Eden." Eden didn't let Alec say much else and exited the car. She looked back once more and kept going. Alec never knew that was the last time he would see the blond. He also had to let her go, there was no other explanation that would justify what he just told her. 

Eden walked into his room and slid down the door once she closed it, finally letting her tears fall. Her boyfriend was a killer and that admittedly scared the shit out of her. He was a criminal who took lives, innocent or not, like it was nothing because it was his fucking job. 

She wasn't about to get through this alone so she called the one person who she knew she could count on apart from Astrid. 

"Hey, Sienna. Can you come over?" It was noticeable in her voice that Eden was crying. 

"E? What's wrong? Why are you crying? Actually, scratch that I'm coming." Sienna asked question after question and even though it was close to 1am, she still got in her car and drove to her best friend's apartment. 

Sienna was Eden's cousin’s girlfriend, that's how she met Eden and the two clicked right away, especially since they're birthdays were literally a day apart. 

Sienna arrived at the complex and had an emergency key on her just in case anything happened. Eden was unpredictable. She walked in to see Eden curled up on her couch with a blanket and immediately ran to her. 

Sienna to Eden became someone she could trust, rely on, and know the other was there for her no matter what. Astrid was too, but she wasn't around as much as Sienna was. Eden trusted Sienna a little more than Astrid, she didn't know why but it was just a feeling. 

"Oh, my baby, what's wrong?" Sienna gathered Felix in his arms, her cries now in small sniffles but as soon as Sienna's arms wrapped around her, she started crying again. 

"H-he he..." Eden couldn't even get a word out, her mind a mess and that was affecting her heart. 

She thought she could trust Alec, she used to feel safe around him, protected. But it turns out it was him that Eden needed protecting from. She hated herself for thinking that way about her boyfriend, but she was scared. 

So many questions ran through her head like, did he always have weapons on him? How many people has he killed? For how long has he been doing this? For what reason? Did he ever plan on hurting Eden? Or anyone close to her? 

There were so many unanswered questions that in all honesty, Eden didn't want the answers to. 

"Alec wasn't who I thought he was S. He... he was a killer. A murderer." And Eden went into explaining everything to Sienna. 

She explained the phone call she accidentally overheard and then what she heard his boss say before he hung up. She told her about what Alec told her and how he tried to explain himself. She told Sienna everything and together they came up with a solution. 

It was a solution that would break Eden's heart into pieces, but it was for the best. She wouldn't be able to live by herself if she stayed with Alec. She wouldn't feel safe anymore. 

"Here. I'll be right here if you need." Sienna said as she handed Eden her phone. The other took it with shaky hands and laboured breathing. 

"Am I doing the right thing?" Eden asked and Sienna looked at her with sympathy, which she didn't want but Sienna was her best friend. 

"Of course. Eden, you can't be with someone you feel unsafe with, someone who kept such a big part of them from you. I understand Alec thought you would leave him and that's why he kept it hidden, but it doesn't change the fact that now... now you're scared. Of him. Around him. Trust me." Sienna looked dejected, like she was regretting something. 

"In high school, I had a boyfriend. I was pretty much in love with him like you are with Alec. But then he started following me home, and other places. He basically use to stalk me, he thought I didn't know. But when we were together, I used to be scared and I hated that feeling. It was always a feeling of paranoia when I wasn't with him. It's the worst Eden, so trust me when I say you're doing the right thing." Eden felt sad hearing Sienna's story about her being stalked, it must be horrible.