EXCHANGE OF HEARTS [BL]

KABANATA 13

“We gave you an easy job, but you can't do it properly! Pumalpak pa talaga kayong dalawa! Ang dali-dali na no'n! Nasa labas na 'yong target niyo tapos hindi niyo pa napatay?!”

Umalingaw-ngaw ang boses ng Ina ni Atlas. Galit na galit ito dahil sa hindi nila nagawa ng maayos ang kanilang misyon.

But Atlas can't focus. Ang isipan niya ay palaging lumilipad patungo kay Race, he is damn worried. Walang minutong hindi niya iniisip si Race, he can't breathe properly because he is worried about Race.

He kept blaming himself of what happened. Hindi niya alam kung ano na ang kalagayan ni Race dahil hindi na siya binigay pa ng pagkakataon na bisitahin ang binata. It's too dangerous para kay Race and Atlas won't let himself endanger Race because of his stupidity.

His mind didn't function properly after what happened, kung hindi siya pinigilan ni Sebastian ay baka liparin na niya ang distansya mapuntahan lang si Race.

“Pabaya kayong dalawa! Ni madaling misyon hindi ninyo magawa! I can't believed this na pumalpak tayo at nasira ang plano natin dahil sa inyo!”

In his peripheral vision, he saw his father nodding at his personal guard.

“Hindi ko ito papalampasin, kailangan niyong magtanda. You should learn from your mistakes para sa susunod kapag mangyari pa ito ay alam niyo na kung ano ang dadanasin ninyo.” His father voice echoed. Lumapit ang ama niya sa kaniya at mahigpit na hinawakan ang panga niya.

He jerked his head but his father pulled it back harshly. Atlas frowned.

“You disappointed me, Atlas. I thought you are good enough, I thought you can do more, but you disappointed me.”

Atlas narrowed his eye to his father. He doesn't care about his thought about him. “I already know th—fuck!—” Atlas screamed, screamed and screamed and screamed to death.

His father buried the kitchen knife to his shoulder.

Fuck!

“I never allowed you to speak, Atlas. Don't try to speak until I told you so,”

He squeeze his eyes tight, feels the burning in his flesh.

It badly hurts.

Lumapit naman ang ama niya kay Sebastian and then Atlas heard his friend screamed.

Mariing pinikit ni Atlas ang mata niya at paulit-ulit na umiling. He can't hear this, he can't stomach this. It makes his body numb, he didn't want to hear his friend scream in pain.

“Remember, Sebastian that the next time you fail this is not just you'll get.” His father smiles sweetly at them, it makes Atlas cringe.

Hinarap ng ama niya ang taong nasa loob ng kuwartong ito kung saan sila panaparusahan.

“Sila ang palatandaan na kung sino man ang papalpak sa misyon ay mapaparusahan. May hihigit pa rito ang gagawin ko. Watch closer everyone, manood kayo kung ano ang mangyayari sa inyo sa oras na papalpak kayo sa misyon ninyo,” his father goes on. Face them and nod to the man besides him. “Whipped them.”

Agad kumilos ang dalawa at pumuwesto sa kanilang likod. Atlas tried to moved and fight peto humigpit lang ang mga kadena sa kaniyang kamay at sa kaniyang paa. He can't move, can't fight.

“500 whipped for each of them!” His father command and the man behind them take the action.

Sunod-sunod ang paglatigo sa kaniyang likoran. Wala siyang suot na kahit anong saplot man lang kaya baon na baon sa kaniya ang latigo.

Atlas bite the screams, he won't scream.

He won't scream.

He won't scream.