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
"What's in the box, Dad?"Xavier turned his head to see his daughter walking towards him and he smiled at her as he dropped the box in his hands.He sighed.When the hell did talking to Con become so hard? He could tell that whatever was bothering Con had something to do with Aubrey and Jane, maybe it even surpassed them for all he could tell, but still........ what was his point again?Xavier scrunched up his face in confusion as he tried to recall the conclusion he had mentally arrived at a few minutes ago. The look of confusion on Con's face had shaken him because that would be the first time in a while that he had experienced something like that.All through their days as military soldiers, he was fairly sure of the fact that Con had never really been that confused before, not so much that he could barely gather his thoughts and speak.The God of Mercenary didn't seem so much like the God of Mercenary anymore. It suddenly felt like some things had changed even with Con.That last
Con stared at the house in front of him and he smiled. It was time for him to pay the Argon's a visit.At first he had almost decided against it, but then he had remembered that he wasn't doing this for himself. He was doing this for all the women he would ever love and the two he actually loved right now.Breaking the marriage with Janette would be the best thing to do. He would show her that she was the one who did not deserve him, not the other way around.The driver at the front of the car directed his eyes to him and Con nodded. The young man walked over to the Argon family gates and he knocked on the metal construction. A gateman was always at the gate.This particular one was a man he didn't like at all. Jennette Argon's mother, for all her talk of being one hell of a classy woman and above a good amount of the women in the whole city, did not act like she knew most of the things she did in secret places were actually more or less common knowledge.A classy woman would proba
The gate to the Argon home was wide open by the time they began to drive in and Con smiled to himself. He had always wondered how the Blacks came to know the Argons. Janette might consider her family one of the best in the area, but in the whole of Glover city, they were more or less not so impressive. It would have been best if they had stayed as a low-key family and not gotten themselves involved in the schemes of his half-uncle, but they failed to do that and they made the mistakes that came with it. Janette had the eyes of a hawk, always looking for what to grab onto. Her mother was even worse, she would kiss ass for as long as it took, regardless of if she looked bad doing it or not. They both had similar mindsets so it was no surprise to him that Janette's mother somehow managed to turn her daughter's heart, she had always been that way, her mother just helped unleash that potential. Ray Finland was their latest catch, but what would happen if he was to come back to the scene
"I don't want to divorce." Con blinked and chuckled under his breath, "I'm sorry, what?" Janette simply sat up in her seat and stared at him more boldly. "I don't want to leave you. I want us to keep on staying together." The laughter that bubbled up in Con's throat had a dangerous edge to it and he leaned forward a bit to look at who was speaking to more clearly. It was Janette alright. Janette Argon, the same lady that had set him up for sexual assault and thrown him into some prison to live the rest of his days as a convict. The former him would have been unable to cope with living in that place, at most he would have gotten a life sentence because his mother-in-law would have certainly pulled some strings to keep him there. Derek Aer would have died in that place, and his wife had been ready to let that happen, so why the hell was she saying no to a divorce then? Had it not always been her plan to get rid of him? Janette looked at the smirk on the face of the man in fron
With his visit to his former home done and dusted, Con found himself feeling quite alone for the rest of the afternoon. Xavier had asked him to sort out whatever was bothering him, and he had thought this was that thing. Janette and her family had been a distant matter at the back of his mind, and he had addressed that today, so he should be at peace right? No. he wasn't. Almost like the world was trying to show him how gravely mistaken he was, Con heard his phone beep and he picked it up. Aubrey was on the line and the message she had sent him made his heart palpitate a bit. "You're leaving?" Aubrey was on the other end of the line and the sound of her voice made Con feel like his heart was shattering. "I'm not leaving Con, I'm just moving somewhere else." "Why?" Con found the word slipping out of his mouth without him even knowing it did. The way this matter seemed to have taken a turn was surprising to him. Why was she leaving? Was it because of what they did? Aubrey on t
"So this thing is connected to your mind now dad?" Xavier nodded and looked at the intricate pattern on his cane. "It's now directly linked to my brain and programmed to carry out whatever task I want it to." Lisa looked incredulous and a bit stunned at the same time. They were still in his office and they had spent a good amount of time in here by now, but Lisa didn't seem satisfied with her thirst for knowledge yet and he had to indulge her. She still wanted to know what the box had been made of, and what he had done to make it unfold and merge onto his cane like that. He was also sure that she would want to know what the design meant, but all of this would be better explained outside. He had a lot running through his mind. Lisa on the other hand too had something else running through her mind. The pattern looked so pretty, like flowers in full bloom. "Let's go outside Lisa. I'm tired of standing in here." Lisa nodded and watched as the pattern pulsed with each clack he
"Lisa?" Xavier found himself standing to the side and looking at his daughter as Con tried to call out to her again. He had met the both of them in the courtyard, Lisa had passed out a few minutes earlier and he had stood there, frozen and unable to think of what to do. Luckily Con came around, but he still couldn't tell if that would be considered lucky or not. Con had come to meet them in the courtyard and the ice core in him had flared and reacted so strongly that it had covered half the floor in solid ice. Jane and Aubrey were still shooting him wary glances and Con straight up looked amused, but this wasn't amusing, none of this was. "I don't think we're in the real world guys." Con turned to look at Xavier and he frowned. What did he mean by that? "I think you might want to calm down a bit Xavier. Lisa will be okay, there's no need to panic." "I'm not panicking. I'm being serious here." Jane and Aubrey both released sighs at the same time and Con simply watched him with
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