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
For the rest of the day Con spent time catching up on all that happened while he had been away. Aubrey had become a risk taker, going on adventures and exploring ruins to find long lost artifacts. She could have gotten her own tv show but she refused saying that the crew would only hinder her progress.Jane had become a fashion designer, and not just any fashion designer but a very successful one, even more successful than the brand she used to work for before and whenever she spoke you could practically hear the passion she had for her work.Xavier had gone back into the real estate business even though he didn't plan to.All in all, they were doing very well and it brought a smile to Con's face. They also didn't look at him like he was some ancient monster so he felt comfortable around them.Xavier on the other hand was fiddling with his fork. His heart kept on beating rapidly and the ice core used to neutralize the poison in him kept on revolving at a faster rate .The animal that
Talesein's cave was a small site right outside of Glover city. It was located in a very watery area of the island and as Xavier scrolled through some of the pictures he was seeing, he couldn't help but feel worried.Aubrey had woken up this morning and promptly forgotten all that she had intended to say about the seal used to lock the file he had pilfered from the island's database. He was half expecting some military officials or the CIA to break into his home and arrest him for being a national threat to cyber security, but that would only happen if he intended to get caught and he didn't intend to.Right now his biggest problem was this expedition Con had taken half of his household on.The cave they were going to was one that was half above ground, and half submerged in water.Lisa could take care of herself and Con could take care of all of them if anything happened, but his main reason for worrying was Con's reason for wanting to go to this place.The God of Mercenary never did
Jake looked at himself in the mirror and he could feel rage bubbling up in him at the sight of his broken arm. It hurt like hell.The skin had been directly ripped off and the bone had been pulled out of its socket. He lost an arm!A freaking arm just like that!Jake felt his temper rising and he had to control his emotions so he didn't burst into tears.Why the hell was life always like this to him? How many years had he even spent enjoying the pleasures of his new life? It wasn't even up to twenty years!In the past ten years he had run amok in Glover city. His father had left him a secret on his deathbed.It was the details on how to contact a secret organization named Horizon. They were a covert group that had gained fame and power in the past few years. Their advancements in the field of modified and altered humans was commendable and they held extreme power.More power than any government could ever wield. He had been fortunate enough to make sure that he pursued that contac
Con could feel something weird in the waters surrounding this place. Talesein's cave was half underground and half above the water.They had to wait for a speed boat to come before they boarded it and ventured into the cave. In truth, it wasn't really a cave. It was more of a huge cavern and the way it was almost fully lighted gave it a sort of magical feeling .The sun was high in the sky. The sea was reflecting the light of the sun through its waters and the water was crystal clear.The cave had many parts of it's roof that had been broken off and the sunlight came in through there too. It didn't look anything like a scary cave or a cavern.Con smiled at that. In truth he had actually wanted to just come here on a cruise, but after he had felt a strange presence in the water, how could he just leave without checking out what it was? '"Can we stop here please?"Lisa's voice cut the silence they had been in a few moments ago and Con quirked his eyebrow up at the little girl. She wasn
Lisa Frost sneered at the boat of the young man approaching them in his own boat and the frown on her face deepened . She would naturally not have anything to do with someone like him, but he attended the same college she did and she couldn't help but have a few altercations with him.Con noticed the irritated expression on the young girl's face and he directed his eyes back to their incoming visitors. He would have felt better had they not been in a cave but rather on bare ground and he would have loved to know what gave this young man the right to stare at Xavier's daughter so lustfully. There was someone else with him in the boat though and that was the real reason why he had become attentive to this boat all of a sudden. The other occupant of the boat was an older man similar in appearance to the other one who was looking at Lisa so brazenly.This guy was the main reason why he felt interested in the incoming boat. Abdel could feel the smile on his face about to break. He felt l
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