Aubrey walked through the hallways of Xavier's home and tried to keep the look on her face neutral. She could already tell that she wasn't going to be able to do it. It was too hard to keep a straight face in this kind of situation.She had to talk to Xavier.Ever since he had come back from seeing Con out he had locked himself in his room with his daughter's laptop. It was sort of expected that he would do something like that.Jane didn't seem too bothered by it because that was how Xavier behaved sometimes, locking himself out from people and from the world in its entirety. She would have let him do that if she could, but now that this matter concerned Con, she couldn'tTo begin with, she was very sure that Xavier had known Con was in the Black mansion all these years. He had spoken of Con having a wife and a child. He had spoken of Con having a life and that infuriated her for some reason.She had spent the past ten years of her life waiting for him!She had spent ten years of her
Aubrey felt her head spin again but she could tell that she now had Xavier's attention. Almost ironically his hands were still flying across the keyboard and he was still tapping away, but he was looking at her which was at least a step in the right direction."I said," What is it about Con that makes you love him so much? " We still don't know how the hell you two know each other."Xavier scrunched his face up at that. Sure he did love his boss, but it was only in the boss and worker kind of relationship. He wasn't even sure if Con would still consider him an underling. They were more or less friends now, associates even. They were partners, yes, that was it.He was Con's partner and he naturally couldn't help but show...... love?Xavier shook his head and stopped tapping on the keyboard. A file was downloading already and he could see it was the one he wanted. Still he had to answer the drunk lady's questions though."I don't really love Con that much, at least not in the way you
The locals of Destiny's island had a legend they passed on from generation to generation.A legend about gods who walked the face of the earth, defending it from a great evil and maintaining the fabric that was time and space.In those days, no one was safe. Demons popped out of portals and snatched random women from the side of the road.Fathers went off hunting and came back either dead or turned into beasts.Some would have called the powers behind this magic, and in a way it was.But at the same time it was not.Con snapped out of the trance he had fallen into and he stepped back from the wall. He could feel the way his body was vibrating and he could tell that something wasn't normal here. The average human couldn't hear a wall speaking, but that was exactly what he had done. He had heard a wall speaking and he couldn't believe it.What was that story he had just seen all about?It felt so real and life-like.Con felt the budding need to touch the wall again but before he could
Xavier took a deep breath and he rolled his eyes as he looked at the ladies on his bed. They had both fallen asleep after he had opened the folder for them to take a look at it. Aubrey had said she recognized the image on the front page. It had been branded onto the head on the file. Once the file was opened, that image would be the first thing anyone saw. Aubrey said she recognized it, but she couldn't really recall where she had seen it while in her drunken state so she had suggested sleeping and resting for a while to clear her mind. Jane had also suggested she would do the same thing, she had also been drunk and the bath she had taken didn't really help to dissolve any of the alcohol in her system. All in all they had both slept on the bed and they had been sleeping since then. It had been about 10 on the clock when they hit the stack, but instead of sleeping for an hour or two they had slept for about five hours going onto six now. It would soon be morning again and they
The sun broke through the clouds the next day in Glover city and Con smiled to himself as he stood up from the bed.It was a new day and a new dawn and he was ready to wreak some random havoc. It all depended on how well the opportunity presented itself though so he would do well to make sure he looked out for it.Last night's discussion with John had ended on a very pleasant note and he was very proud of how he had handled it. He was now the heir to the Black family and he would be taking over the family affairs today.To any random person, the smile on Con's face would have looked delightful. Some would have considered it heartwarming even. It was as bright as the sun shining in the sky and as warm as a hot bath, if anyone looked closely enough, they would even be able to notice a slight sparkle in his eyes, like his life was finally making some sense and he was elated to see what the world held for him next.Of course there was someone else in the room. Someone who had his hands
Janette Argon looked at the man on the cover of her magazine and she released a dreamy sigh."Xavier Frost."The only man her heart ached after with so much passion that she would give anything to be near him for just a few minutes.Her new husband was by her side. Ray Finland. The son and heir to a major aviation company in all of Glover city.His family had resented and refused their affair because of the fact that she was already married. They were all her father's associates before he died and they were aware of her marriage with Derek.Just the thought of the bastard was enough to put a frown on her face and she rolled her eyes.That was why she had gone through all that stress to get rid of him. It annoyed her to no ends that she had to think of him sometimes.In the area of looks he wasn't lacking, he had a strange handsomeness to him and maybe that was why she had tolerated his rubbish so much. She had given her father the illusion that she was happy with the marriage he had a
Xavier felt the ice core in his body responding to something but he ignored it. For now he had an even bigger problem.One that was standing right in front of his gate with a league of lackeys and a foolish, stupid like grin on his face.If Jake could hear the thoughts rolling through Xavier's mind he would have wiped the lustful look on his face right off.No one could really tell if his gaze was directed at Xavier, or if it was directed at Aubrey, or Jane who stood beside her. They could all just tell that he was looking very lewdly in their direction and as such a brimming hate for him was already in their hearts.Jane could already feel her hands itching for her to get her gun and grab a hold of it. She always kept one on hand now and one of the reasons she did that was because of this clown right here.Jake. The fool whose guard had slapped her once. She had thought that he would have died by now. He never really did have good survival instincts, actually having the guts to run
Jake went down like a block of ice. He stumbled and crashed into one of his men right beside Xavier.Con nodded and smiled at his work. He had always wanted to do that.Still this whole situation was leaving him quite confused. He had been in his car all this while and he had watched how Xavier slammed the other man against the bars of his gate. He had also watched as Jake foolishly ordered his men to shoot the lock on the gate open and he had gotten down at that point.When he saw Jake actually slap Xavier, he made his decision."Should I cut off one or two of his arms?"Xavier took Con's hands as the other man extended his to help him up and he cocked his head to the side in thought."Just one, preferably the one he used to hit me."Con nodded and walked over to the still fallen and dazed Jake. It was a wonder how one person could be so annoying every time they met.First Adeline, someone he had been specially asked to protect, and now Xavier.He must have a death wish.Con offered
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