introduction

Where am I?? Where the fuck am I??

I gritted my teeth as I pulled against the chains binding me to the chair.

The last thing I could remember was walking down the dimly lit road back to my house last night, and now, I was tied down, with a hood covering my face.

I groaned, forcing myself against the restraints, but the harder I struggled, the tighter they became.

The air tasted metallic, and it smelled of danger, the type that made my heart race.

I knew I wasn't safe.

I knew I had been kidnapped.

But trying to escape was the only thing I had in mind now.

"Welcome Jason Brooke..."

A detached female voice cut through the silence, followed by sharp steps

"Welcome to Soul Run.."

And then the hood was finally removed.

A woman stood in front of me. Her eyes were dark and empty, her short hair framing a face that felt like a warning I shouldn’t ignore..

She held a pistol on her right hand, and the look in her eyes told me she could kill me at any moment.

"I won't work for you..." I said.

She laughed, low and menacing. "And who told you that you could make a choice..." She said as she raised her pistol.

"Kill me if you want okay! I won't join Soul Run! I won't kill people for you!"

"Like I said Jason Brooke," her eyes darkened. "You don't have a choice."

"And I said you can kill me"

A scowl crossed her face, and she struck me so hard my head snapped to the side..

"“You idiot,” she cursed. “You want to die that badly? Why don’t you see your brother before you die, Jason?”

She circled me, her footsteps slow and deliberate, until she stopped behind me..

"What??" I whispered, my voice barely steady.

"You heard me." The corner of her mouth formed a smirk. "Alex Brooke, does that name ring a bell?"

Alex??

No....

No...

There's no way...

There's no fucking way....

He got missing five years ago, there's no way he's been here all this time, working as a Soul Runner..

"That's a lie, that's a damn lie…" I snapped

"Suit yourself…."

Before I could breathe properly, the door slid open.

He walked in—wearing the Soul Run uniform, a gun hanging loosely in his hand, his face cold and unchanged.

Dark hair. Blue eyes. That same familiar shape I thought I had lost forever.

My brother..

"Fuck you!! Fuck you Alex!!!!" I screamed. "I spent five years of my life looking for you Alex! Five fucking years! And you've been here working for Soul Run.."

"Quit your nonsense Jason... Join Soul Run or die.."

For a moment I didn't speak.

"I would rather die....." I finally said.

"so be it..."

And just like that he pulled the trigger, without a single trace of hesitation in his eyes.

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