Miranda couldn't seem to come to terms with the fact that Con still wanted to go get the map.Especially after what she had told him.She had stared at him blankly throughout the whole time he put on the clothes she set out for him.Con actually liked the clothes. The pants felt like leather pants but he could tell they were just wool. The shirt covered his arms and the jacket had no arms. It was sleeveless, and made out of a tough material. Probably bullet proof. Everything was snug and tight and it fit him perfectly.Even thieves had to look good and that was what he would be tonight. A thief."Drop me off here. I'll find my way in myself."The man in the driver's seat nodded and Con could tell that he was one of the men that had brought him to the Olsen mansion.The man looked at him with some sort of respect.And it was respect that he didn't deserve really because he didn't have any penny to his name.Miranda had informed him of the new development with his assets. All the mon
"Don't break. Don't fucking break."Con was muttering under his breath as he stood on the single wire that stretched from the building he was on to the Sector 8 building.He was currently in the shadow of the sector 8 building and he was trying to get into the bathroom window on the eighth floor.That meant he was a good number of feet above the ground and looking down was not an option.The wire he was standing on breaking too was not an option.A fall from this height would leave him with a broken leg at least, and he would be ashamed if he broke his leg on such a simple mission.Con stood for a while on the line that was now stretched taut because of his weight on it. He was standing on a single long coil of wire, it could either be aluminum or steel, but he really didn't care about that.Whatever it was, it was holding his weight nicely. He felt like a tightrope artist in the circus, except there was no safety net beneath him, just a long fall and the endless chasm of black that
"Is she in there?"The sound of the receiver cracking on the other end filled Jake's ears and he sneered at the sound."No boss, she isn't.""Is that guy in there then? The one that was at the party with Jane?"Jake heard the line go silent again and then a beep sounded as the call was cut.The sound of the whooshing cars muted his frustrated groan and he felt like hitting something.Adeline wasn't in her house. She didn't even live in the building anymore.He had only come to confirm and his intel had been accurate.She had either gotten herself a new place, or she decided that she had gotten enough of his constant stalking and she had moved in with someone else.Jake knew Adeline HIghton. They had been lovers once when her brother was still in the military and she was yet to start her shitty little business.They had argued and broken up but he still couldn't forget her."Do I have to endure that look on your face or is there an option for me to avoid it?"Jake sneered as he heard t
Con blinked at the head in front of him and he found himself shaking his own.To begin with, how had Xavier found him?He had known Xavier would find him, but the real question was how had he gotten in here?Con felt the glare of a flashlight on his face and the moment the rays hit him, he glared at Xavier and with a fast click the light went off."Sorry boss. I didn't know it was you."Con scoffed and grinned."How many people do you normally expect to be in the air vents of a military base Xavier? And what are you doing here?."Con heard Xavier take a deep breath and he found himself frowning at how that breath sounded.It didn't sound too healthy."I have something I need to tell you, boss.""Tell me and get out of here."They both spoke barely below a whisper, but Con still didn't feel safe, even with that.This was a military base, a dangerous military base.If Xavier was in here, then he had come in from another entry point and that wasn't good. Xavier was capable with guns. Con
"Is the sector 8 building on fire?"Con turned to look at Xavier and then at then at the sector 8 building.The golden glow of the flames made him feel nostalgic and he swallowed the smile that was about to spread on his face."I think it is Xavier."He shrugged."I wonder how that happened."Xavier couldn't help but feel a new level of fear for his boss. He had heard the sound of shooting as he made his way back to the entrance he had used to get into the building. He had also snuck in through the window of a toilet but some guards had almost caught him, so he decided to take the route Con had taken in and see if he could manage an escape from there.What he met confused him and confounded him at the same time.To begin with, there was only a single rope stretching out at the window. It was also on the eighth floor and he had been more than surprised to see some bolts discarded on the floor of the lavatory.He had gone back into the grates, determined to go out the way he came and n
The feeling of the sensors on the wall as they scanned Con's palm made him feel relaxed. The wall slid to the side and he stepped into the room to see Miranda seated on the bed. He tossed the small ball to her and she caught it in the palm of her hand. "I believe that is your map Miss Olsen." Con watched as the lady tapped the small black ball and a hologram popped up immediately. It showed the coordinates to an area. Con was impressed, and he could tell Miranda was too. He watched as she tapped on the huge red X that was being displayed on the hologram. It responded to her touch and zoomed in on that spot almost immediately. He could see a building. An old building that looked abandoned and dilapidated. A green circle pulsed around the house. That was probably where the sigil and scepter Miranda was searching for was. "Thank you Con. I am one step closer to living now." Con nodded and walked over to the table in the center of the room. Its top was made with glass and as he
Miranda couldn't quite look Con in the eye again and Con found it amusing.He could tell the lady probably didn't. She still seemed shocked, and maybe shy.Con wiped the smile off his face and wore a more serious expression.He had given her the flash drive, not to make her feel ashamed or trashy, but to make her find peace within herself.Whoever put that hologram in the toilet of the eighth floor was probably sick in the head, and they would have their name on his enemy list when he finally got it, and he would get it.He would, but for now they still had to get the three cards and two artifacts.He had only retrieved the map to getting the sigil and the scepter. Miranda would have to still get them from wherever they were being kept, and since she didn't seem inclined to tell him the whereabouts of said artifacts, he would assume she already had that sorted out and she didn't need his help.She needed his help in getting the cards though, and to do that she would have to look at
Con could tell he was off to a bad start."Man slut.""Dick whore.""Ass kisser.""Cock for hire.""The shameless male escort?"Ironically, he actually felt a bit impressed by how creative social media netizens were. They all had one thing or the other to say about him.Multiple images and photoshopped memes of him in various stages of ecstasy had popped up.The internet had turned him into a man whore."A cheap prostitute with the face of an Adonis but the sexual manners of a brothel sex."Who still used brothels in this time and age?Some women had accused him of trying to lure them into bed and then acting out when they rejected him.Them.... reject him?A chuckle managed to escape his lips as he thought of that and Con simply smiled as he shook his head.'"Is this what you all were so afraid of me seeing?"Miranda and Xavier stood dumbfounded on one side of the room.Miranda more so.She had been scared last night when she heard that the sector 8 building was on fire. Her brother