Aubrey grunted as yet another one of the ceilings came crashing down and dust came spraying down on her.She coughed out the white powdery substance and blew her nose so she could get it cleared.The man beside her simply watched her with mild fascination and walked over the fallen beam of the ceiling that had collapsed."I'm telling you again now Miss Aubrey, I feel this sort of...... activity might be too dangerous for you. Are you sure you don't want me to help you find what you're looking for?"Aubery found herself genuinely considering that but she shook her head all the same. It would be in her best interests if she was to continue this journey and end it herself.She had done this a million times now, there was now way that she could still be unused to the dust and the traps. Sometimes there were very deadly snakes along this journey too.But one day all her work would pay off and that was what kept her going. The hope that one day all of the effort she was putting into all of
"It's only going to get tighter Mr Aer. It would be better if you relaxed more."Derek could feel his heart pounding and the metal-like object around his arm seemed to squeeze even more with each passing second, but he took a deep breath and calmed down all the same.The band around his arm was beeping and the little girl beside him seemed to be taking note of everything all at once. Her eyes flew from the monitor at the corner of the room, to the screen just above them, then to the machine at her side, and then finally landing back on him.Derek could tell the smile she gave him next was a bit fake but it looked pretty all the same."You're doing really well Mr Aer."He felt like chuckling and running a hand through his hair but he couldn't move so he only chuckled instead. "I can tell from your expression that you're lying Lisa, and please, call me Derek."Lisa stared at him for a while before finally nodding and looking over to her father. For a little while Derek could see somet
Jane stared at the man in front of her and she pressed the red button below her desk. Two guards came in to escort the model in front of her out and she sighed."Send the next person in."Her assistant was almost pale faced right now and Jane couldn't help but chuckle at that a bit.She hadn't expected anything less than him being pale faced really. It was a pretty normal reaction.Today was an important day and it was also a busy one. She had been in her office as early as 6am and she had asked for the modeling room to be prepared.So far she had spent over six hours on her seat and it was really hard to sit in one spot for over six hours.In the space of six hours she had rejected over sixty men.Well seventy to be honest but who was keeping count anyways?Lancer walked over to the door and nodded to the man outside. He turned back to look at his boss and he could feel the color returning to his cheek at the look on her face. In a way, it seemed she was more exhausted than he was,
Xavier stared at the lady in front of him and stepped back a bit. He had known it would be hard asking Jane to leave her workplace and go out and have lunch with him.She literally took this building as if it was her personal child and she would literally do anything for it. Asking her to leave work was like asking her to leave this world all together. This was how she coped with the stress life threw at her and so far she had made something good of herself.As Xavier looked at surroundings of the building to avoid looking at the lady herself, Jane found herself short of breath. Xavier was asking her out for lunch!This had never happened before. Usually she was the one who sometimes came over after work to invite him for dinner and he always refused.She sometimes had to get Lisa to force him, and she did, but this was different.Jane scrunched her eyebrows up and stared more intently at the man in front of her.He was still looking at her, seemingly waiting for a reaction. She woul
Aubrey groaned and let her hand fly to her head as she tried to stand up from the cold floor."Urghhh, my head."Her voice came out raspy and her hand came back slick, with blood.The memories of before came rushing back and she felt a cold chill race up her spine. She looked around as slowly as she could and the sight she met made her feel goosebumps race up her skin.The snake was still around them, spurting blood from its now split open head. Along with brain matter and a lot of other things.Nausea took hold of her immediately and she found herself hurling out the contents of her stomach. It wasn't like she had eaten much before coming on this expedition, so she didn't really have a lot to hurl out, but the little she had is what she did and boy did it hurt like hell.It was almost like her insides were also trying to tell her that coming out here had been a bad idea from the start and anything she got was what she deserved.Aubrey felt another wave of irritation hit her as the sm
The Frost mansion had a very rare occurrence happen in it.For the first time in ten years, four people were actually together under one roof.Xavier felt sort of nervous having all of them under one roof, but all the same whatever would be, would naturally be.He would take this as a sign. The way things had been developing lately would have led to this front ultimately, though seeing Aubrey's son publicly make advancements towards his daughter was a bit disheartening.Xavier cleared his throat and picked up his cane again. He dropped it again and cleared his throat once more.Jane and Aubrey burst out laughing.They laughed so hard that they almost toppled out of their seats and that just made them laugh even harder. Xavier had to be the most cautious father in the entire universe.Clay hadn't even done anything yet. He was just casually flirting with Lisa and Xaveir was looking like he would have a seizure."Is it really that bad that my son is showing some initiative Mr Frost?"X
Aubrey could feel her world spinning right before her eyes.Right before her very eyes, everything she had known threatened to crash down and not make sense anymore.Con was standing in front of her. Right in front of her! With a smile on his face and those perfect features she had been so engrossed with in the few months she had known him. He was standing right here, as real as the cutlery she had dropped on the floor.He frowned at their stunned expressions and raked a hand through his hair."I'll take it that no one really missed me then?"Aubrey felt her consciousness fading in and out. Jane felt her throat closing up for lack of a better thing to do.They were both speechless, but on another end of the house something else was happening.Derek Aer gripped his head and screamed.It hurt!!!It hurt so much!!!It was like every bone in his body was being broken and remolded again. Like a million and one bombs were going off in his head and all he could do was just stand there an
Xavier took his eyes off the wall and blinked.Using that part of his ability always tended to make him phase out for a bit and in all truth, he really wasn't supposed to use it.But anyways, what did he miss?The sight of one man standing and the other on the floor was the first thing that caught his eyes and Xavier found himself moving out of his seat just a bit.Sure enough, the man on the floor was half clothed, lean and well built, but still not the real Constantine Easton.The real one stood in front of them now, donned in clothes that weren't his, and smiling at all of them sweetly, almost kindly even.Jane moved and the next moment, there was a gun at Con's neck.She had been the one in the chair closest to him anyways, but still for her to move like that, Con could feel something like amusement and pride warming up in him again. Jane looked downright furious and her eyes had a deadly glint to them."Move and I'll shoot off that head for you.""Jane....."Xavier's voice cause
Xavier stared at the files in his hands and tried not to get too scared by them. There was information on them, more information than he would have felt comfortable ever knowing but he could see what Con was so scared of now. He might even be sure that he had managed to see the things Con had not. To begin with, this world was not what they thought it was.At least it was not all they thought it was. It was much more than they imagined and the fact that Con had somehow managed to stumble on this clearly meant the cosmos was seeking their help, or rather Con's help. Somehow somewhere there was someone or something pushing Con towards making these decisions and he could feel it now. He was sure if he told Jane and Aubrey that they would plan to eat him up alive. Both him and that thing he felt was guiding Con into making the decisions he was making. Their world was under threat, and he would be damned if he just sat back and watched it all crumble.Xavier reached for his phone and tap
Con watched the hackers he had hired work and he came to the conclusion that he had undoubtedly made a very huge mistake.There was little he could do in terms of making them more coperative and oddly he got the feeling that they wanted to make him frustrated. One of them full on refused to listen to his commands and Con felt the urge to give the man a sound slap at the back of his mind. He had to resist it because the others were already working and from what he could see, they were doing what he wanted them to do. That was enough for him, but what he truly wanted was their total cooperation.From the way they had abandoned their jobs to go chase after money, he knew that he couldn't use them for any of the jobs he would have wished to. Since they had the basic knowledge he would need in the people he wanted to recruit, it would have been better if they had behaved and not messed up that way. It was not like he was that desperate that he would hire them despite whatever they did, but
Jake looked out his window and tried to assess his surroundings. He could tell people were trying to hack into the cyber security of the the hotel. The alarms had gone off the moment the breach was noticed and he had spent the past one hour trying to calm himself down and not fly into a rage. The fact that whoever this was thought he could mess with him and get away with it felt funny to him.The only problem right now was the issue of intention. The hackers seemed to be aiming for the security controls to switch them off. That was what they had been trying to do in the first place and he felt they might have done it sucesfully if they hadn't diverted to start hacking away at money. If they were petty thieves then he would make them pay. He would make them pay badly for having him all worked up for nothing, but if they posed a greater problem than than that then he would have to solve that problem, probably with the aid of some thugs and torture. He just bought this hotel. It was on
Xavier watched as Lisa and Clay kept their eyes on him like he was performing some kind of magic trick just sitting down there and doing nothing. He could already tell that it would be a long time before they left him alone and honestly, now he was up to the challenge. There was no way he was going to let them keep him in when he already had something he wanted to do.Lisa could be dealt with. He could persuade her with treats and make her feel he should be let loose to do what he wanted because he was her father and even he would have to admit that he let her loose to do what she wanted too sometimes.Lisa would let him do what he wanted to do because he also let her do what she wanted to do at times. It was an agreement they had both reached and he was sure she would honor her part of their agreement. The one was really worried about was Clay. The fact that the younger male just stood there watching him gave Xavier a funny feeling in his stomach. He and Lisa should have done off t
Con could swear that he had thought there was a chance of Xavier calling him on the phone and offering his help.He had been expecting that for a day plus now but yet nothing had happened and he was getting skeptical. Was he wrong to expect that his comrade in arms would come to him at this moment? And was he sure that he could pull off this operation with Xavier?Con stared at the building in front of him and turned to look at the others in the car. Two of the maids had revealed themselves to be hackers specially trained by the Black family. It seemed his uncle had also believed that one day he would need the help of such people so he had gathered them, from all walks of life, which to him probably meant the prisons. The man was a cheapskate. He couldn't hire professsionals who would get his job done for him, so instead he went to the prisons and got men and women who had been arrested and convicted of various internet crimes .He had bailed them out, paid the men behind the desk eno
Lisa stared at her father and tried to assess the level of damage she had done.She had one hand over her mouth and the other helping her prop that arm up.'"When the heck did my father become ebony haired?""Language Lisa.Lisa rolled her eyes and walked over to go stand near Clay."We did this didn't we?"Clay couldn't help the chuckle that escaped his throat. Somehow he had imagined that Lisa would have more information than he would on what was happening to her father. She had asked him to promise that they would both take the fall for whatever happened and when this happened, he suspected she knew about it. No just knew about it but expected it. He would not have been surprised if Lisa expected this to happen, but it seems she had not. She was just as surprised as he was, or she was now a great actress and she was faking all this, but he could tell there was no talent for acting in Lisa so he was sure it was the first one.Lisa was shocked, the same way he had been and it was fu
"What exactly did Lisa put in to make your hair this color?"Xavier could see Jane was getting distracted already. Her eyes were gleaming as she fingered his lock of hair and he could already see the longing in her.Jane wanted to cut his hair and take it in to be studied. He could proudly say that he had taught Jane as much as he could in the art of detectiving in a science lab. He had taught her how to determine how long a piece of fabric would retain its color if dyed, what mixture of dyes to use and what colors seemed to have an affinity for each other. In part he was a fundamental aspect to the success of Jane's clothing brand and he had felt a bit disappointed when she had abandoned their lab meetings to focus on leading her company, but now he could see that the spark wasn't totally dead yet.She looked at his hair with a clinical eye, from a scientific point of view. Lisa was asleep and he had asked Clay to leave her so she could take the rest she needed. Lisa rarely slept
Clay left Lisa in the room and descended to the lab beneath her to check for himself how her father was doing. Maybe it was because he had been there when the man collapsed or maybe because he had been just as scared when it had all happened, but he had a deep feeling of worry for Mr Frost. There wasn't much for him to do concerning the cure Lisa had administered to her father. She seemed sure of it and it seemed the cure had worked the way she said it would.The ice core had been repaired. By a bunch of black petals. It still surprised him as to how that happened but as long as Lisa's father was out of the danger zone then he would be happy. They were in enough confusion as things stood already and more confusion was not something he wanted for any of them. What he wanted at the moment was to confirm that Lisa's father was okay, and if he was then maybe he could ask if they could run a brain scan on Lisa. She had lapsed off into thought again and it was making him feel a bit scared.
Lisa could feel her heart slam into her chest the moment she heard the question. Her face turned red and she looked away, not because she was ashamed but because she was embarrassed."How the hell can you pop that kind of question on me so casually? Do I look like I have someone on my mind?""You look like you've been hella distracted and when girls are at your age they tend to think of boys twenty four seven. Can you see the reason for my curiosity now?"Lisa rolled her eyes and noticed how close she and Clay were. Closeness between the both of them had never bothered her, Clay was like a brother to her and she was like a sister to him, but he had grown these past few months and she wouldn't say she had failed to notice the changes in herself too. They had both grown a lot and somehow this kind of closeness made her extra aware of that.Everything around them was changing. Not just the climate or global warming, but mostly a lot of the other things, the more important things, the peo