4

RAFAEL

Am I losing my fucking mind?

Maybe that would be the reason I am so disturbed by her.

How many times do I have to remind myself that she is the enemy and the plan is to destroy everything she holds dear?

Maybe she wasn’t the enemy but the apple never falls far from the tree and her father was my nemesis.

Imagine my surprise when I had learned about her identity and the fact that she was the daughter of the man who had kidnapped me as a child.

The man who had ruined my life and who still plagued my dreams.

I sunk into my chair in the study, not wanting to be around her any longer.

I had almost let down my guard today at the restaurant.

For a brief moment when I felt the baby kick, I had been reminded of Rachael… so full of life who had been pregnant too at the time I was kidnapped.

She did not tell me how she came about being pregnant but she was also experimented upon and died in the process.

Athena’s father is a doctor you see, one of the most top performing surgeons in the country but behind that facade and dainty life, he was the devil… an animal who experimented on kids and scarred them for life.

I had escaped but what about the other children who did not?

People like Rachael who could not leave no matter what?

Meeting his daughter had been a stroke of luck but I could only tell that God was somehow telling me something… that maybe it was time for me to get my revenge on them all.

I was going to start with her… daddy’s little princess.

He loved his daughter, that much was sure.

She and I had met before when I was strapped down on her father’s experimental table. She had come into the room as a child not understanding what was happening but her father had turned her away immediately.

I did not think she would ever remember that moment but her name had been engraved on my mind ever since.

My phone trilled, interrupting my thoughts.

“Hello mother” I grunted.

“Rafael, how long has it been since we last spoke?” My mother reprimanded.

“I was busy, mother but I promise to visit you soon”

“You make so much promises but never keep them”

“I will keep this one, this time” I reassured her.

“Hmm” She commented

She had a ting of sadness in her voice and I could understand but this was far important. After so many years, I was finally going to get back at the man who had hurt me as a child… that is if I could find him.

Hermes King had disappeared, you see and somehow no one could get in touch with him anywhere.

I wanted to humor my wishful side and think that maybe he was dead on one of his silly experiments or someone had decided to put us all out of the misery of seeing him still alive and killed him but the practical part of me knew that was a lie.

People like Hermes never died like that.

It was left to people like me to kill him.

The man had done just one thing right and that is the training he had made us undergo.

He had wanted to make super humans so we could do his dirty bidding but had merely turned us into scarred and emotionless children assassins.

If there was one person who would know where he was then it would be her… his daughter, Athena but every time I tried to bring up a conversation about her, she always blew it off.

I grunted in frustration, rising to my feet.

I could almost taste the victory on my tongue but it was here yet.

Like I was saying earlier, the meeting at the bar was purely by chance. She had only told me her name after we had the first round of sex.

Athena King, she said.

Her name had sounded very familiar and so I had asked who her father was.

Hermes King, she answered.

It had taken all of my will power not to reach for her throat and strangle her where she lay beside me and also because it felt so good to fuck her.

She had touched something inside me that had been dead for a very long time.

Instead a plan had taken root in my mind… I was going to keep her and then use her as a bargaining chip to lure the old bastard out but before I could return from taking a shower and getting my plan in motion, she was gone.

It had taken me a full month before I located her in some dingy apartment and kidnapped her.

Then I realized she was pregnant which was even better.

Of course she would think the child was mine but she knew nothing.

Her father made sure during his experiments that we never had the facility to birth children in our lifetime.

He took that choice from fourteen year old boys who knew nothing of life then.

So her child was most definitely not mine but what did they say about a son for a son?

The door to my study creaked open and Athena’s head poked in.

Speaking of the devil.

“I did not think your business involved you sitting in the dark” She commented, walking in.

She exuded sunshine and why wouldn’t she?

She wasn’t the one that was strapped on that table night after night.

“What are you doing here?” I asked, ignoring her question.

She walked around the study, her eyes taking in all the pictures on the wall.

“Wow, you are pretty impressive” She commented again.

I rose to my feet, walking in sure strides until I was standing behind her.

I leaned forward

“I asked you a question”

She yelped, spinning around with her eyes wide.

“I did not hear you move. How did you do that?”

“I have light feet” I responded, almost knocking myself in the head.

I should not make her suspicious and she would only know the truth when I was done breaking her.

I needed her to get to her father.

“What do you think your father would say about you being pregnant?” I decided to take the bull by the horn.

The light left her eyes replaced by something akin to dread or fear

What was she afraid of?

“I am sure he would disown me immediately” She chuckled slightly.

“He is your father, he would never do that” I countered.

“You know nothing about what my father can and cannot do” Her eyes flashed.

“And anyways, he would never find out because I have absolutely no idea where he is”