Taking Command Book 2 (Kylux)

Chapter 43: Setting Fire to Ashes

Hux PoV

"The target is dead. Kylo Ren is no longer living." The bounty hunter who had accepted my commission had commed me about a week after taking the job. "I shot him down over Tatooine. His ship is smoking rubble. Do you need a DNA sample?"

"No." I replied, gripping my table to keep my hands from shaking. "Good work. The remaining 100000 credits will be transferred to your account. Thank you for doing business for me." I disconnected then collapsed into a chair. He was dead. Kylo Ren was dead, shot down by a stranger over a desert planet. I had as good as killed him myself. I had sent a hit man after my husband to ensure that he would never be a threat to me, but I already regretted it.

Stop it, I told myself , you're going soft. He would have been a threat if he had truly wanted to defend the Galaxy from the new order. The First Order comes first. I wished that it had not come to this, but it was over. Kylo Ren had died before he was thirty. It was fitting, given how many people he had killed.

"I'm sorry, my love. But you couldn't have been allowed to live. You threatened everything we both worked for. I don't know why you betrayed us. We had it all, and you turned on us." I let a couple tears drop down my face. It was a loss, enemy or not. I had loved him once, and I allowed myself to grieve for all the memories we had had and the love we had shared. They were all gone now, one man's laser cannons had ripped Kylo Ren's body apart the way the our union had been torn apart.

"Oh Kylo," I whispered. "May the Force be with you."

I was done grieving. I had given myself time to be weak. Now I needed to resume restoring the Galaxy. I had started to receive replies to my galaxy wide demand for senators and representatives of planets to gather at Naboo to form a senate.

It was a step towards a new world, and I guessed I would have to rule alone. I was not scared, however. I had originally intended on being alone. It was amazing how much one man could change you.

"It's time to set fire to the ashes of this memory." I smirked a little bit as I took a lighter and lit the paper wedding photo of us. I watched it turn black and crumble into dust on my desk. "Good bye, Kylo Ren."