Jane and Aubrey shared joint looks as Xavier went on with his work like nothing had happened. If it was ten years ago then he would have been the first person to go after his boss, riding his car into the darkness with guns, like a knight out to save a damsel in distress. Time had truly changed them but it was not surprise that it had changed them. Ten years ago they would have both gone after Con the minute they noticed he was missing. That was what had brought them to Orion city and after the collapse of the city and Con's disappearance, they had relented for a while, but they had never given up on him. They always kept hope in their hearts that they would find him, and they did. Xavier was probably just calm because he knew where Con was. Xavier raised his head up to meet the gazes of the two women staring at him. A slight smile spread on his face as he cocked an eyebrow up. "Why the glowering?" Jane peered at him through fine and delicate lashes. "You know where Con is d
Con stared at the file in his hands and the message Xavier had sent to him.The file was much more important than the message. He had gotten it. The information he had been searching for all this while.Horizon was bigger than what he had imagined. This world they were was one of their creations and the plans they had for it was much more evil than the plans he had tried to foil.The plans that had cost him his life and the plans that had made him feel like he had not a clue what he was doing in his career. There was much to do, too much for him to ignore it and act like nothing was happening.Xavier had sent him a message detailing their recent decisions.It wasn't really a message, it was more like they were trying to convince him of something.Xavier was saying they ought to relax and see what the future held for them as individuals, not just because of them but for all the people around them too.There was nothing after them and they ought to believe it and see that nothing was i
"He's not picking up is he?"Xavier shook his head and turned to look at the two ladies watching him. Jane and Aubrey were super worried about Con, and the fact that he was acting like a dickwad and not picking up any of their calls was something that had made them come to him.How they reasoned that Con would pick up his call when he had not picked theirs up baffled him, but he agreed to call the man all the same.Now that he was calling Con over the phone he was getting the same response. Static indifference. The call would ring and ring but no one would ever pick. Con would never cut a call directly, even when he didn't want to take the call. Instead he would stay back and watch as the call rang and imagine those on the other side panicking because they could not get him.He had done it to a number of commanders while they had worked as the military defense personally hired mercenary soldiers. He had done it to members of the team and he had done far worse to his uncle, it was ju
Jane could already feel her nerves scraping against each other as the drive continued. She had already decided on the fact that she would not be giving Con any smiles or warm looks.The fact that they had phoned him repeatedly and he had refused to pick up his calls annoyed her, and more than that it made her feel unwanted.She had been the one who went out to bring the package in and she had seen the threat embedded in the box. The delivery man had said the package had come from Con's wife. They all knew there was something else Con didn't seem to be telling them. The fact that the woman he had said he would divorce still seemed to see herself as his wife meant that the divorce papers had probably not been signed and Con had not told any of them that.Maybe he would have told Xavier, but Xavier wasn't in any way concerned with that.He claimed to love them but he didn't even talk to them or tell them anything he was planning. It didn't make her feel very loved.It didn't make her fee
Con was barely getting his new work space assembledd before Jane and Aubrey appeared in his line of vision with Lisa in tow.Well Lisa was the one who lead at the head while the two women followed behind, but unlike Lisa, they didn't seem too thrilled to be around any of the things they were looking at. Him included.Jane's glare would have incinerated a lesser man and Con didn't know if he was to feel happy or hurt at Aubrey's melancholic but utterly relaxed look.She seemed not to give a single eff about whatever he had been doing with his time and it hurt. Yes, he had decided on it now. It hurt.What hurt more was the fact that they had every right to be angry at him.Lisa was the first person to throw herself at him in a hug and he caught her. It would seem the little girl had missed him."Where are the black roses at?"Con rolled his eyes and placed her back on the floor."Out back, you can ask one of the maids to take you there. Be careful with the thorns."Lisa was nodding but
Xavier knew that Con would probably have a hard time facing Jane and Aubrey.And he had expected it. It wasn't that he didn't want to see them together, he had even imagined that Con would give up all his heroic antics for a settled life with them, but that had been a botched plan from the onset and even he knew it.If Con had wanted to live the settled life he had imagined for himself he would have never gotten himself involved with Mark's sister.There were a number of things that action alone had set into motion and maybe it was because of that they were in this situation today.They all had things they had to be responsible for. In Adelaide's case it had been one of the things that would have made her company a great one. Her employees. =But she had failed in that aspect.It had been one of the only things he had seen that clearly ruined her run. If she had put faith in herself and ensured that she solved her company's issues herself, there would have been no need for her to sell
Clay only blinked back at him and Xavier could tell that he was not getting through to the boy.Or Maybe Clay just wanted to act like that even though he clearly understood all that been said. In whatever case it may be, he was here because he had done the things he had to do and this had been something he had to do.He was only spying on this one room, the other rooms were left unmonitored and he doubted he would ever have the urge to monitor them. The only thing he wanted to see was this conversation. Now that he had seen it, he was quite done with it and he would rather focus on something more important, or rather something more pressing.Clay stood there, almost grown into a full grown man though still retaining his youthfulness in the brightness of his eyes and in the way he seemed to always be distracted by one thing or the other in very short spans of time.Lisa was almost also like that, so he was glad that his daughter would not be the odd one out, but at the same time, it c
Con stared at the ceiling in front of him.He could tell that the position he had been placed in was an intentionally difficult one. Jane and Aubrey were giving him ultimatums. Them or the world. It was hard for him to decide on something like that. It wasn't he wanted to leave them, and it wasn't like he wanted them to feel like they didn't have him anymore.But even they would have to admit that they lived in this world. And they didn't just live in it, they survived in it. Them and countless others.If Horizon was the kind of world threatening organization he could feel they were, then no one would be safe. Not him, not them, not their kids. They would all be at risk and in danger and that was the one thing he did not want for them. He wanted them to still stay in this world.If he had the power to stop whatever was coming now, then the right decision would be for him to stop it. There would be nothing to hold him back now that they were all like this.If Jane and Aubrey were to le