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His hand grips the door handle. “They won’t be an issue for you. Cassia will retract her claws.”
He’s about to leave when I hold my hand up. “Wait!” Why am I about to ask this? “If you can have them, why do you want me?”
He smiles from over his shoulder. “Who said I wanted you?”
Ouch! And then he’s gone. I exhale a long breath that I didn’t know I was holding. Why is he so cold?
The gusts of wind whipped through Raze’s hair as he ran in circles around the large tree stump which sat outside The Army base. Raze was turning four today and Courtney told him they were going somewhere special for his birthday. Raze didn’t understand why he wasn’t allowed to run around usually, but he guessed that that was what normal kids did because he had never been around kids his age. Kurr’s jeep pulled into the high monitor gates of the base and Raze leapt up from his spot to run towards his dad. Raze looked up at his dad like any boy did. Kurr didn’t live where Raze and Courtney lived at the volcanic base. He lived at The Army’s other base. Raze walked towards Kurr and looked up at him through bright eyes. Kurr looked down at him.
“Daddy?” Raze said.
Kurr dropped down to eye level with Raze. “Son, where’s your mom?”
Raze shrugged his shoulders. “I don’t know. Why do I never see you?”
Anger flared over Kurr’s eyes for a brief second. “Why don’t I show you why Daddy’s busy?”
Kurr scooped Raze into his arm and nudged to the men he brought with him. Kurr bounced Raze in his arm as he walked back towards the jeep. “Wanna be a big boy, Raze?”
Raze nodded his head with a wide smile on his mouth. “Yes, yes! I want to be a big boy!”
“Good,” Kurr grunted, placing Raze into the backseat of the jeep. “Because you’re going to need to be a big boy today.”
The drive to where Kurr was taking Raze wasn’t long. It was just over twenty minutes later when they were pulling into an industrial alleyway.
Kurr pulled up the emergency brake and turned in his seat to look at Raze. “Come on, son.”
Raze jumped out of his seat and pushed open his door. He quickly fell behind Kurr’s large steps. There were two men in front of Kurr and two men following behind Raze. Raze wasn’t sure what was going on but he was excited. Maybe now he could see what his daddy did for work so he could be just like him when he grew up. Deep down, Raze loved his dad and his mom, but he hated how unhappy his dad made his mom. Sometimes when Kurr would come to the base, he would leave with his mom crying. One day, Raze walked in on his mom because he wanted to see if she was okay. He pushed open the door and saw his mom’s naked body bent over a table in the laboratory. Her pants were around her ankles and Kurr’s hand was gripped firmly around her mouth. Raze froze at the doorway and Kurr looked right at him. Raze raised his eyes to meet his mom’s, and that’s when he saw her red eyes laced with tears that spilled over Kurr’s hand, which was wrapped around her mouth. What little makeup his mom wore was now smudged from the pain of her cries. She panicked. She didn’t want Raze to see this, to see that Kurr only came every week so he could rape her, not to actually visit their son. She swore that one day she would be the one to end him. It just had to be her. Raze quickly ran out and never looked back. After that, every time Kurr arrived at the base, Raze knew what he was there for. When Raze heard the muffled cries of his mother, or the banging of the desk in the lab, he would drop his head and walk away.
“Come on, son, this is a quick in-and-out job.”
A job! Raze’s eye widened as he followed behind Kurr, walking through the large open doors of an overly large shed.
Raze paused when Kurr stopped in the entryway. “What do I need to do, Dad?”
Kurr lifted Raze off the ground and placed him on his shoulders. “You see that man there?” Kurr pointed towards a man who was hanging from the roof with rope bound around his wrist, naked from the head down and his head hunched between his arms.
“Yeah?” Raze answered, a little scared, but he was a big boy today, Kurr had told him so.
“He’s a bad man, Raze. He needs to be dealt with so you can have a future. You think you can handle that? Or should I get another big boy to do it?”
Raze nodded his head furiously. “I can do it!”
Kurr chuckled and the motion jiggled underneath Raze’s butt. “Good, son.” Then, Kurr handed Raze a heavy black knife.
Raze took it and looked down at it in amazement. “Wow, this is a cool knife!”
“Ahhh, boss? Courtney is calling— “
“—Ignore it!” Kurr interjected. “This is important. It’s what is going to put in motion my plan, so shut the fuck up and let this happen or I’ll slit your fucking throat right where you stand.” The soldier nodded his head, stepping back to where he was standing. “Now, son,” Kurr continued, stepping towards the hanging man. Once they were directly in front of him, Kurr wrapped his hands around Raze’s ankles to steady him on his shoulders. “You see this?” Kurr pointed to the side of the man’s neck.
Raze nodded, swallowing past the fear that was rising up his throat. “Yeah, I see it.”
“Good. That is where I want you to start your cut, and here,” Kurr ran his index finger across the man’s throat, right to the other side of his neck. “Is where I want you to end the cut.”
Raze nodded again. “I can do it. I want to do it.”
Raze wasn’t sure, but he knew adults knew what was best, and Kurr was his father. Anything he said to Raze must be right.
