Nameless_A Renegade Star Story by J. N. Chaney

Author:J. N. Chaney [Chaney, J. N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Variant Publications
Published: 2018-10-16T04:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

I stared at the screen, watching the minutes tick by on the security footage. I’d been playing it at three times the actual speed, but even at that rate, five hours had passed, and I’d barely made a dent in my workload.

Every mission required long hours of preparation, review, and research. At no point had I ever realized just how much of this the job required or just how boring it could be.

I never expected the life of an assassin to be so tedious.

I was on my third coffee and still struggling to stay awake.

It wasn’t my fault that things had changed. I never wanted to push Clementine away. I didn’t regret it, but it really hadn’t been my intention. She had changed over the years, but I always hoped I could get her to change for the better.

She had her demons, but who didn’t? None of that was any excuse for what she’d done on our missions together.

Maybe it was therapeutic for her. Maybe she was just a sadist. I honestly couldn’t say, because the girl I once knew had become someone else.

I had hoped that standing up to her might wake her up to how she was behaving. Maybe it was vain of me, but I thought I could fix her. I was wrong.

After that mission on Epsy, she had demanded she be given solo work from then on. No more cooperative jobs, and when Mulberry had asked me what I thought about it, I agreed, requesting to work from home.

Clem had been sent off on assignment after assignment, barely spending any time at the complex anymore. Sometimes, she didn’t even come back between jobs. Her life had become a cycle of death, and I simply couldn’t be a part of it anymore. Not with how she’d chosen to do it. Not with those hungry eyes, so desperate to inflict pain. It was one thing to kill, one thing to take the lives of murderers, rapists, and terrorists, but it was something else to take joy in it.

I paused the footage, taking a note on my pad of a couple of people entering the building, and then resumed the footage.

I had acquired an identity of my own without Clementine—one focused on intelligence gathering and analysis. It had taken months of additional training, and the pay had dropped significantly, but I was fine with all of that. The only reason I’d chosen this life in the first place was that I didn’t want to leave her, but with her always away, I saw no reason to continue taking contracts.

Now, my friend—my sister—had made it abundantly clear she did not want me around anymore, and it hurt to know that. And it hurt that I was the cause of that, by snapping at her on Epsy.

Was it my fault?

I paused the video, rubbing my eyes as I leaned back in my seat. I had done what I thought was right at the time, but I hadn’t done it for her. It hadn’t been out of concern for her, but rather for my own sensibilities.

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