Con frowned at the information he was being given and he tapped on his table.He had forgotten all about the old man he had locked in his room and now that man was dead. His only link to getting to know more about the man he had called his father suddenly dead and there was nothing he could do about it because he had been the one to cause it in the first place. He had locked his half uncle in the room and he had forgotten about the existence of the other man completely.He wasn't only a bad nephew but now he had actually managed to kill the man.Well the caretaker said he wasn't dead yet, just heavily starved and somewhat maniacal. Like a cat on the hunt for lost mice.Con found himself chuckling at that and he almost laughed out loud to himself. That man was the same one who had forced him to touch that star, killing millions in the process and making a ruin of the lives of most on the land of Orion city. The man deserved a worse death than starvation.If not for anything then for
Lisa walked in on the most peculiar scene of her life. Her father had been hugging someone else."I'm telling you, there's nothing more bizarre than that. I mean my father, hugging someone?"Clay noticed the slight high pitched tone of her voice before she paused and he watched her scoff before she shook her head again. It seemed Lisa was having a case of the hysterics and he, for one, was enjoying it to no end."You're scared your father is hugging another man. Why if i may ask?"Lisa had been muttering to herself earlier on but the moment she heard Clay's words she turned to look at him with glassy like fury in her eyes.She for one, would not take lightly to being treated like a lunatic."I know what I'm talking about Clay. I mean I saw them with my own eyes!""And what is so bad about that?"The mirth never left Clay's eyes as he spoke and he never tried to stop holding in the chuckle that was right on his lips.Lisa could be a lot of things but the one thing she really failed at
Lisa took a cursory look around and she nodded her head immediately after. Clay had always been the more perceptive one between them and she wasn't surprised to hear that he was feeling something weird too.She had been getting that exact same feeling for a while now, especially when she was alone in the hallways.Miss Aubrey was with the rest of the gang so it was only her and Clay in her lab. The fact that he was also feeling this in her lab unnerved her but she kept her cool all the same .She also had something she wanted to show him.Lisa could feel her heart pounding in her chest as she handed the eyeglasses back to Clay. He hadn't really mentioned what they could do or what they were meant for. Knowing him, she wouldn't be surprised if he hadn't decided on what to use it for.Mass destruction was out of it so she could already tell that she would be ruling that out of the pile, but apart from that, Clay could find a lot of other ways to use his creations and she could be sure t
Adeline looked at the huge building ahead of her and she gave a subtle nod of her head. The driver who sat at the front of the car was looking at her strangely, more like leering to be honest, but she could deal with that when she had gotten this out of the way first.Anyone looking at her right now would probably want to give her a very sound slap and ask her what the hell was going on in her head, maybe even try to force her to say what she planned, but she didn't believe in being forced to say anything.She would do what she wanted to do and she would do it today."Take me back home, please. I'm not feeling too well."The nasty driver only flashed a smile at her and nodded his head. As expected, just because his boss had lost an arm didn't mean the man had lost his prowess in the battlefield of the bedroom. Some of the other drivers always said that whenever Jake took a lady home, the next day, it would be almost impossible for her to walk well again. They all admired him for the
Her documents were the first thing she burnt down.Jake had helped her get all her information back from the city's citizen database. She had never really been an indigene of any of destiny's islands. She and her brother had migrated here with their parents when they were six years old. Their parents had been unsuccessful people, but maybe that was what killed them at the end of the day. Mark had to send her off to fashion school with the money left behind for the both of them and then go on to seek fortune for himself.Adeline felt her heart shattering with every detail she remembered about her brother now and tears were forming in her eyes.If Mark had been here then there would have been no way that she would have had to face all she was facing. Her brother had been a mercenary soldier, working hand in hand with the international defense services of the whole nation. Even if he didn't look rich or powerful, he was still someone that could have helped her dispose of the minor bugs
"We're being watched." Xavier looked up from the news article he was reading and he squinted at his daughter. Lisa seemed frazzled, and he couldn't think of one reason why that would be. Maybe except for the part where she said they were being watched? Xavier's face scrunched up in confusion as he thought further about it and he cleared his throat to stand up and go meet his daughter. Lisa was growing taller by the minute and thanks to Jane and Aubrey she already knew what stage of her life she was in. She didn't seem too clothes-conscious though. "Come again, Lisa." Lisa cocked an eyebrow up at her father and she sighed. This was not how she had imagined this playing out. Where was all the anxiety they were supposed to be feeling? "I said we're being watched, father." Xavier smiled and cocked an eyebrow up at her. "Is that why you look gloomy?" Lisa felt like spitting blood. Was her father serious right now? "I said we're being watched, father, in real-time! Some creepo
Jake woke up to blaring rays of white light over him and the sound of far-off beeping. His head ached, his eyes burned, and his mind was fogged. The last thing he could remember was.......... a shot! Jake jerked out of the bed he was in almost immediately and he felt a hand hit his chest back down. The sound of bones breaking and the way pain bloomed from his chest made him rethink standing up again. Obviously, someone was standing over him, but he could not see or feel them. He could feel the force in the hit he had been delivered though and he could tell that he would not survive another hit like that. He was down, and there was no way he could stand up without killing himself. "Reset the bones." A high-pitched whirring floated into his ears and Jake felt his back arch at the shock that passed through him. His brain seemed to be dormant now because he couldn't summon up the thought to scream. Everything was a blank and foggy white for a few moments before it stopped. The las
Con stared at the small box in his hands and he frowned slightly. Xavier had come into his room shortly after Aubrey had left, and he was feeling like shit right now so he didn't really know if he was in the mood to do whatever experiment it was Xavier had planned out for him. He had engaged in........... sexual stuff with Aubrey and to be sincere, it wasn't something he really wanted to think of right now. There were a lot of thoughts running through his head at the moment and he had to make a decision. Not look at a box and keep on looking at it while nothing happened. Con sighed and looked up to meet Xavier's gaze. "What exactly am I looking at here?" Xavier cleared his throat and looked around for a while before he diverted his gaze to the man sitting in front of him. Con looked beat up. It was more like bummed out, to be honest, but all the same, he wasn't looking like himself. He was looking tired, and not tired at the same time. He didn't look like he was in the mood to t
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