Chapter 55 The Revelation

"Marco Baron is a ruthless tycoon, he is using the strongest students to work for him and we belong to them." Xenon started as he looked deeply into my eyes, "We're working for him." I heard Drena and Cassy gasped from what Xenon revealed. Then Xenon looked at Adrian telling him to continue.

Adrian looked down on the floor "Three years ago the four of us became famous in street fighting and it reached him." He sincerely turned to Drena "Two years ago, exactly the moment of your... father's incident, he threatened us to work for him. And it was effective."

"How?" I can see curiosity in her, she began to soften. So this was one of the reasons to caused her distance towards him.

His eyes are turning red "He-he have my sister." He looked down. So it was really her sister.

"But, you don't have a sister..." Drena is trying her hard not to cry, confusion is written on her as she stares at Adrian and then glances at me for a moment, and back to Adrian when he started talking. She must have remembered me asking before.

"I do, my father secretly had a mistress and they... had a child, my sister. He hid her from my mom, from us, I just found out three years ago." He looked away pulling back the tears that wanted to come out.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Tears are already flowing down on Drena's eyes feeling his pain.

"I can't even tell my own mom... two years ago my sister got kidnapped and mom discovered everything and..." A tear flows down from his eyes "She decided to leave us, the reason mom and dad separated." Pain is all I sensed from him.

"Oh no..." Drena walked fast towards Adrian and hugged him tightly "I'm sorry. I-I don't know..." She cried in his chest and Adrian hugged her back. When they both calmed down,

"It's fine," he said softly while pulling out from the hug and kissed her forehead. I can hear Cassy's sobs.

"Marco Baron called only the four of us saying he has my sister. We went to him and he proposed a job for us in exchange for my sister's safety..." Adrian explained but Lucas sensed that he can't handle talking more so he continued.

"We were forced to go to this school for the job. We worked for him for over 2 years but he still did not give back Adrian's sister. We can't call for cops, so the only way is to act behind his back and looked secretly for her sister." Lucas explained.

"How sure are you she's still alive?" I asked plainly which made them looked at me.

"Marco assured us her safety for our continuous successful jobs and for assurance he let us talk to her in a video call for a minute once a month." Xenon explained while looking at me.

"We tried tracing it but he's wise. We couldn't trace the call, it was always in error... He has an expert person working for him in the field of technology." Sadness is written in Lucas' face.

"The last conversation we had was just a month ago and we saw that she was uninjured and in good health," Coby stated. So the girl is alive.

But, why is her status saying she's dead?

But we're losing out of time... he thought we're failing our missions and he wanted to destroy us." Xenon said while playing with my hand. I looked at our hands, they perfectly fit together. What?

"He wanted to kill our leader first to destroy us," Lucas added.

I immediately looked at Xenon, he squeezed my hand softly calming his self. The girls gasped again.

"Are you saying that the poison on Xenon was because of Mr. Baron?" Drena asked.

Adrian nodded and Lucas continued talking "It was not just the moment that he tried killing him, but he always failed."

Adrian faced Drena "That was the reason I can't call you even if I want to, I can't come to you even though I was going insane not having you at my side. I wanted to protect you. I want you safe, I-" Adrian explained but he was cut off when Drena holds his nape and pulled him down in a kiss.

Adrian froze for a moment but responded to her kisses and kissed her deeply holding her waist, pulling her closer. Are they really kissing passionately in front of us!?

We were all frozen on our spot. Then, I felt someone playing with my hand again. I looked at him to see him looking at our hands. I like it, I like him playing with my fingers. Does he... really love me?

He suddenly looked at me as we're both staring at each other's eyes. Lost in our world. "I'm sorry I got you involved in this..." he said softly in guilt.

"It's fine." I simply stated.

"It's not fine Claire! It's my fault you got in this condition." He exclaimed in anger and I can feel everyone immediately looked at us, but his face suddenly changed in sadness and guilt "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry Claire." he said realizing what he had just done "It's just that, I'm so mad at myself, I hate seeing you like this, I can't forgive myself for putting you in this kind of situation. It hurts seeing you wounded. I-I can't lose you..." I can sense pain and sadness in him as he stared at my eyes.

I raised my free hand reaching for his cheek and caressed it "You won't." He smiled and hold my hand that was on his cheek and kisses my palm, I can feel tingles coming from it... why? Do I like him? Or... this is love? I don't know these feelings, it's too... complicated. Undefined.

"I told you! Stop calling me!" Zoey exclaimed with anger that turned all of our attention to her. She's talking to someone on her phone.

"Stupid!" She yelled and ended the phone "Agh! I don't wanna see his face!" She stands up and stomped her foot as she marched towards the door.

"Going out?" I asked blankly.

"Yes, but I'll be back." She stated with a smile but frustration is seen in her. I nodded. A mission for her hah. A hidden smirked crept into my face.

"Is she really your cousin?" Cassy asked in curiosity.

"I'm afraid yes," I answered.

"You two are the opposite of each other." Lucas walked towards the couch and take a seat.

"If he was trying to kill Xenon and destroy you, why don't you run away?" Cassy asked facing Coby who's now beside her.

"If we'll run, he might do something to her sister or worst kill her. That's why we're still in this school. One wrong move and she's gone." Coby explained looking straight. Their friendship is strong and inseparable...