“You wouldn’t understand. Because the way you live, it’s likely all you’ve known. You’ll never have justice reprimand you for your actions… Not until me of course.”
I stand, turning my back to him as I take a couple steps away. His blood will coat invisible stains on my hands; I don’t need it splattering on my clothes.
Anger seems to pierce through the fog and allow him to find his words.
“You’re so f-fucked… You won’t get away-y with this… Who are you?” he slurs, head weaving around as he fights the darkness.
I don’t have much time; he’ll succumb to it soon, because he feels so tired. The adrenaline coursing through him has allowed him to stay lucid enough to talk to me.
My gaze stays locked with his unfocused one, raising my gun and aiming it right between his eyes.
He’s the devil’s problem now, and I want him to suffer, I really fucking do.
But the fear in his eyes is satisfying enough, knowing he’ll never torment another living being.
“Just a girl with a need for vengeance.”
Bang.
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Indie
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“Anotheronebitesthedust,” Regina—my best friend—sings horribly as I open my en suite door.
Her continued out-of-tune tone makes me laugh, along with risking my eardrums bursting as I walk into my bedroom.
I snicker. “He was definitely the hardest one yet.”
None of the others have been this difficult; sure they weren’t a walk in the park, but what home has a need for so many damn security cameras?
He lives in thesafestpart of the city.
I tuck the gun away in my bedside table, and the answer blatantly stares back at me as I catch my reflection in the mirror, making me scoff to myself.
Maybe there was a trickle of paranoia for the crimes he’s committed, and rightly so.
Karma’s a bitch, and her name is Indie Kent.
Regina screws her face up. “Tell me about it. That backup firewall? I’ve never had to reset a system to its factory so fast in my life.” She falls back on my bed and stares at the ceiling.
Regina is the technology god of our duo; I’m the deceiving exterminator.
We’re both as morally corrupt as each other at this point.
Where she causes havoc behind screens, I’m conjuring it on the ground.
We weren’t always like this; it’s been quite the darkened path that brought us here. One we were forced upon six years ago.
The fork in the road led to two ways of life.
Try and move on as if nothing happened or do something about it.
We chose the latter.
Our company, Egnever & Co, presents itself to the public eye as a regular auditing firm. But its moonlighted purpose is what it was really created for.
