It wasn't easy to look away from her full breasts, but the boy did it."You're crazy," Leon muttered, looking away, trying to keep his composure in the face of the uncomfortable situation.Sasha laughed, a sound full of malice and triumph."Crazy? Maybe. But you can't deny that it's tempting, can you?" she teased, leaning forward even more, her eyes shining with a dangerous intensity."Well... yes.""Well?"As if to tempt him further, Sasha removed her long skirt, showing off her red lingerie. Leon felt a trickle of sweat running down his back.It could only be a trick, something to unsettle him. But..."Sasha, stop it," he said, his voice sounding firmer than before, although his expression betrayed a certain nervousness.The woman smiled like the devil, as if amused by his discomfort."Why resist, Leon? You know you want this as much as I do," she said, taking a few more steps towards him.The boy's body betrayed him. A heat seized inside his chest, spreading to the rest of his limb

"Many of you are already expert invaders," Sasha's voice sounded. She was again showing images on the giant screen, her voice serious and captivating at the same time. "Trained to sneak in and out of places as discreetly as possible. However, today you will need to be seen. Seen and heard."None of the men and women in the room said anything. The silence was such that you could even hear the sound of the woman's heels."As I said before, you will have to infiltrate key places in the city. You'll obviously be very well disguised, and if you don't do anything stupid, you'll be able to fool everyone. Remember, of course, that the people you're about to see don't tolerate spies. So even if they make the mistake of trying to ask for help, just by being there, they'll be killed immediately."Leon, standing in one corner of the huge room, looked to one side. Alex wasn't looking at him, in fact, he seemed to be purposely ignoring him. Brittany was nowhere in sight and neither was Christina.S

The chief of police was exactly as Leon had imagined: polished, polite, somewhat reserved and not very willing to smile. He shook his head to indicate something, drank little and was always attentive.Leon, sitting in front of him playing the role he had been assigned to play, just hoped that the man wouldn't doubt his intentions.If the boy had been a little more impulsive and inconsequential, Leon would probably have thrown everything away and told him everything he knew about Sasha, asked for help and even promised resources after it was all over - an alliance between millionaire and policeman would have been a great help.But he wasn't. He could be a monster, as he had told Brittany, but even monsters know their limits.So instead, he just smiled in a plastic, vulgar way at Mr. Paxton and asked, following the script that Sasha had ordered him to follow if he was approached:"So you've never posed for a police search? I'm surprised."The chief of police, Mr. Paxton, looked at Leon

"Bombs?"Christina, with her arms crossed and her eyes slightly wide, didn't seem to believe Brittany's words."Exactly. She's placed them at key points in the city, and she intends to set them off, but I don't know when or how.""That's suicide. Sasha wouldn't make it out of the city in time, she'd die too."Alex, who was leaning against the iron door of Christina's dormitory, agreed:"That's true. But something in me says that Sasha's ego is the size of the world, and even if this plan is crazy, she must have some leverage to survive in the midst of the chaos.""So what should we do?" asked Christina."We should find out about the operation in minute detail. We're in the so-called second phase, as the bastard told us, which gives us only a short time before we move on to the third, which I believe is the execution of the explosions.""And how, exactly, are we going to do that?"The redhead sighed thoughtfully."We need to use Sasha's own strategy against herself."What do you mean?

At first, Brittany couldn't say anything. In fact, she couldn't even move.Then, when the air finally returned to her lungs, all she could say was:"No..." she whispered, her voice almost lost in the air.Leon stared at her, his eyes reflecting a cold, implacable determination."Yes," he replied simply, his voice calm and controlled."Leon, you can't do this," she pleaded, her voice trembling. "This isn't what your mother would want. It's not the path to justice."He looked at her for a moment, his eyes revealing a mixture of pain and suppressed anger."Let me get this straight. You think you have any right to talk about what my mother would or wouldn't want? Just you, a dirty little bitch who betrayed me all the time? Pretending to be a good Samaritan might even fool Alex and Christina, Brittany. But not me.""Leon, I... I know I made a mistake," she mumbled, struggling to hold back the tears that threatened to overflow. "I know I have no right to talk about your mother, after everyt