Chapter 124: Aware of the truth
Raine let out a frustrated sigh as she continued, "This is getting frustrating. I can’t delay Father’s health any further. Janus said it would be too risky if he didn’t take those tubes out of him once his body was already in full condition to wake up. And I won’t risk it..."
"Do you think your father will also try to kill Xander? Or would he ask you to do that instead?" Tyrone asked.
Raine did not answer.
Tyrone asked once more, "Would you kill Xander if your father asked you to?"
Raine looked at Xander’s photo, and Tyrone saw the clear distress in her eyes. He should tell Raine the truth that Marcus wasn’t her birth father!
"In the eyes of many, my father is a villain. And I can’t blame them for it since my father has done many an evil deed in the past. I witnessed all of that as I grew up. But... he had been so good to me. You saw it, right? That big scar he has on his face? I was six when he got that scar. I was young at the time, but I still clearly remember what happened back then."
There was a pause before Raine continued, "I know that something’s wrong with me. Everyone considers me as a jinx. Wherever I am, trouble was always bound to follow... Not everyone likes my existence, and one of them is grandfather Philip. I know, and I can tell even at my young age, that something must be wrong with my real identity."
"No one liked me in the family except for my father, Marcus. No one treated me like family as he did. He got that scar from grandfather’s whip. It should’ve hit me, but father shielded me by facing his father even as his face bled from the wounds."
She continued her tale, "I saw how he bent on his knees, crying hard, pleading for my life... I really didn’t understand it, but I still clearly heard the words they constantly threw at me. Abomination... Chaos... My grandfather called me all these things as I grew up. I learned to understand so many things... Including how genuine a father’s love for his daughter can be. He trained me so hard, not just to use me against his enemies but also for my own good so that I can protect myself welI. I vowed that I wouldn’t listen to anyone but my father at that point. I would protect him in the way that he had always had while he was watching over me."