Chapter 25: Lies and Betrayal

Kyne

My legs were going as fast as they possibly could; I could hear sirens and I knew the cops or whatever would be there soon. Jake phoned me and said that Gabe and Reaper were on the move toward the mansion and that was my shot. 'Cause see...With Reaper out of the loony bin my plans had to change, I needed to target Gabe before Reaper could make her move against me. I was getting more paranoid about her, but something wasn't feeling right as I saw them talking outside the mansion. Aiming my gun I had taken the shot, two shots…one at Gabe and the other at Reaper. There wasn't enough time to take another shot at them, so I started running.

Someone was chasing after me and they were freakn' fast. Suddenly whoever it was jumped on me and pushed me to the ground.

"Get the hell off me!" I shouted and turned around to find out it was my father, Hunter. "How the hell is this possible? You're in a coma!" I pointed at him, the gun falling out of my pocket.

"The bigger question here is what are you doing with a gun shooting at your family?" His voice sounded pissed beyond belief.

"He put you in a coma! It's his freakn' fault you got jumped and hell, I didn't even know you were awake! No one ever tells me these things; they just expect me to know them like I'm some freak." I got up on my feet and he snatched the gun away from me.

"Your brother is NOT responsible for what happened to me…Really Kyne?" he held up the gun to me, "That doesn't mean you can just blow him away! What about your mother? Has she taught you anything?...never mind that.." He realized that was a touchy subject and backed away from it. "Can you agree that you made a mistake on this one?"

I looked at him and didn't really know how to respond, "yeah…"

Now that my father was okay and he told me that Gabe wasn't to blame, I still felt deep hatred for my brother, but he wanted me to say yes. I started to wonder if this was really about our mother loving him more and just my feeling alienated from the family….hell they didn't even tell me that dad was alright! To be honest, I just wanted to run away but my dad didn't seem like he was going to let me.

"Listen to me…if your mother ever found out about this…I don't really know what she'd do, so let's keep this between us. You gotta promise you'll never do this again; just leave your brother alone and stay away from Reaper like I do."

He patted me on the back.

"Ok dad, but I'm still worried about her…what if she tries to kill me?"

Hunter shrugged, "then fight back. You're stronger than her, don't forget that."

Together we left to the hospital to see Gabe. Hunter said it was a good idea, so they wouldn't suspect that I was the shooter. Before we went in he reminded me to just keep my mouth shut and act concerned. By the tone of my father's voice I obeyed, if there was one person I knew not to mess with it, it would be him.

My mother looked at Hunter, "Did you find who did this?"

He shook his head no and apologized, "they got away..."

Gabriel looked sick, he was pale and his eyes looked hollow.

Tabitha was holding his hand, "don't worry Gabe...that bastard will be caught and he'll be punished for what he's done."

Inside I was on fire, wanting to just attack her right then and there. Not the place. My cell phone started ringing, "Hello?" I stepped aside for some privacy. It was Ivan, he wanted me at the bar now and that it was important.

"My boss…he wants me at work, Get well buddy," I said to my brother and left to find out what was so important, however I was thankful that he called 'cause I was getting sick being around Gabriel and didn't want to be near my mother.

When I got to the bar the guys were all waiting for me in the back. "What's going on?" They told me to have a seat and the big boss stood in front of the only door out.

"You've been lying to us Kyne…we trusted you."

I was confused; there was no way they could have found out my secret.

"You're buddy Jake called, he told us the truth about you…that you're one of them!" he pointed at me in disgust. "Yeah…he told us all about you. Did you think we wouldn't find out? That we wouldn't care?"

A sly grin came up on my face, "nah…he didn't tell you everything."

These guys were even more stupid than I thought; they really thought five against one was in their favor? My body started to change...I was becoming a monster, the beast that was inside of me. One of the guys pulled out his gun and held it at me. In a swift movement my arm went to take the gun out of his hand, but the force was so intense his arm was pulled from its socket. His cries of pain made the others in a hurry to leave; they were too late for that. I lost control on them. All that built up anger I had for missing my mark on Gabriel was taken out on them. I changed back into my human form and took off out the backdoor. My hands were covered in blood and my clothes were in shreds from my transformation.

"Damn...I should have taken their clothes."

By the time I got to my place someone had reported me to the cops. Quickly I changed into some fresh clothes and headed back out, this time to deal with Jake. His car was parked outside his place, "bingo."

This killing spree was giving me an incredible adrenaline rush; there was nothing that could stop me, nothing! Jake was going to pay for his betrayal of my trust. I went upstairs and kicked in his door to see him sitting down at his kitchen table with a cup of coffee, "Hey…man don't you knock? You better be payin' for that door." He got up from the table but started to back away when he saw the look in my eyes, "Dude...you owe me money, and I thought…if I told them then you'd take me seriously. I need that money to pay my rent." True, I did owe him a lot of money for keeping tabs on my brother. "I don't need you anymore Jake, and rent money is the least of your problems right now." At first he didn't seem to believe that I'd harm him, but slowly that was changing.

"I bet they weren't too happy with you," He was trying to stall me.

"Yeah, they weren't till their brains covered the walls. Like yours will in a moment."

Raising my hand his body flew across the room to the wall and held there, "Goodbye Jake…" I smiled seeing him start to cry and plea for me to let him go. After releasing him to the ground I looked at him, instead I decided to shoot him with a high voltage of electricity and he was dead. "I'm loving this."