Jane scrunched her face up at what she was seeing."This can't be right, can it?"She watched as the lady behind her simply shrugged and collapsed on the chair behind her.Aubrey seemed tired. She looked tired too.If she was to guess, she would say Aubrey Van Damne was tired of looking for Con, but so far she hadn't shown any hints of that. Something else was bothering her at the moment. Jane suspected she already knew what that was."You ex husband is back isn't he?"Aubrey only nodded her head and let out a sigh. For the past week now, John had been paying regular visits to her house just so he could threaten her again. According to him, his parents wanted his son back, the same son he had disowned and called a bastard.Aubrey could feel tears welling up in her eyes as she thought of that but she tried to swallow them back and focus on what was at hand first.Con was still missing. Even more so now.The news article that went viral on the internet a while back had revealed that h
"I'm sure it's him now."Jane nodded and couldn't help the smile that spread on her face.She wasn't really sure what the feelings she had for Con meant yet, but she couldn't just stand around and watch him get into danger because of Adeline."Sector 8 is controlled and run by one of the members of the Olsen family. I heard my uncle talking about it the day the building went up in flames. If Con was there, and if he was the one who set it up in flames, then it's only safe to assume that he did so on the orders of Miranda herself."Aubrey hmmmm'ed."You think he was being sent on missions by her?"Jane nodded."I personally don't feel there's anyone who can trap Con against his will. I've seen the way he behaves at work, he has the mind of a criminal and the heart of a god."Aubrey chuckled. She remembered when had locked the front door once and forgot to put the key beneath the rug where she usually kept it. After a long day at work, she finally remembered and rushed all the way home
"B..bb....Boss?"Con ignored Xavier's words and kept on advancing towards him."B..boss. Hey it's not nice to scare me like this y'know. I could have a heart attack.""What did you tell the ladies we're living with about me?"The sound of the samurai blade as it dragged on the floor pleased Con and the way Xavier seemed to be quaking in fear pleased him even further.Oh, this was going to be good.This was going to be really good."You're not afraid of me anymore, are you Xavier?"The sword came down with a clang just beside Xavier's head. "If you did, you wouldn't go around spreading such vile rumors about me."Xavier saw the sword in Con's hands go up and his life flashed before his eyes again.He was going to die.He was going to freaking die!The ring of the blade as it lodged itself into the wall just beside him made him almost pass out.Hells. This was getting too scary!Con looked at the sword in the wall and noted how Xavier had his eyes closed in fear. He nodded contently an
The sound of cars and people made for a weird sort of symphony.Con let himself bask in the feeling of that before he finally sat down on one of the chairs by the side of the road.There was a stream flowing where the chair faced. Away from the road and backing whoever had been following him all this while.He would watch the water for a while, and if whoever was trailing him didn't come to him with a knife to his neck or an explanation, then he would walk over to them and get an answer the good ol' way.Con felt movement behind him and he smiled.He turned around to see a surprising sight.He wasn't being followed by a man, but by a woman who had a veil on her face. Her dress wasn't much too and it revealed flashes of her skin.He could already tell just by looking at her."You're the one who was in my room last night weren't you?"The veiled lady simply nodded her head slightly and walked around to come sit beside him.She was barefooted and Con found that strange.After she sat dow
It was a sunny day and Con could already feel the need to stay in bed rising.He hated what he would have to do today, but he would have to if he ever wanted to break the mystery of who was trailing him.She had come again last night, the veiled lady, and she had dropped yet another velvet fabric on his bed.The fact that this lady still got into his room even though he had made sure to lock that night bothered him. She couldn't have walked through the wall could she?And she had walked into his room unclothed again. It bothered him. He had to find out what the address on the paper she had given him meant. If it was a location, then he would have to go there, but if it was some secret code he was meant to decode then he would do that too.He had to get some of his questions answered and he had to get this irritating itch at the back of his mind taken care of."Couldn't sleep again?"Xavier cocked an eyebrow at his boss as he walked into the room and the look on Con's face was enough
"Why do you think it's turning that sickly green color?"Aubrey found herself panicking the more she held the pentagon shaped object in her hands. It had been pure black a few days ago, now it was this sickly green and it was scaring the shit out of her.Jane was behind her, with a question mark on her face and Con was still missing. The fact that she had found this object among his belongings didn't make her feel relaxed either.The sudden color change made her feel worried. What of this thing was connected to him somehow?Jane could see Aubrey was panicking, and not a mild sort of panic but evident and prominent panic. She was freaking out because the thing in her hands had changed from its deep black color to a sickly green one.All established information, but at the same time it was the sort of information that caused one to feel confused. To begin with, why did Con have something like this?She could swear she had seen this object somewhere, maybe somewhere in a book or in a n
The Dramain museum was a massive hulking structure.It stood two storeys high and almost two acres long. Relics adorned the walls and artifacts stood in glass cages.So far, Jane didn't look impressed."How long do we have to keep on searching for this thing?"Aubrey simply chuckled to herself and shook her head."We haven't even been here for an hour yet and you're already tired."She watched as the other lady let out an exasperated sigh and turned back to looking at the artifacts on the walls.The Dramain museum had been around for as long as anyone could remember. It was a building that was open to the public and which housed all manners of strange and odd materials.Like the golden eye on the wall and the ram's horn inside a glass case. The museum always had a steady influx of people coming in and going out.Such a place would have been robbed blind under normal circumstances, but nothing about the museum was normal really.No one could steal anything from it. Not even some of the
Con got out of bed to feel the edge of his eyes hurting and swollen.Was he really sick?He scoffed at the thought.He had never fallen sick in the past twelve years of his life. His body was stronger than that.No, this was something else.Con stood up from the bed and walked over to the door.This sudden sickness had hit him the night before and only one thing had happened that night. The rains had fallen and he had been visited by that lady creep again.He could feel a headache coming on.Thinking about that strange lady always gave him a headache. His head was banging, almost as if someone had taken a hammer to it and set to hitting his head with said hammer.The severity of the pain surprised him, but they wouldn't keep him from achieving what he wanted to achieve today.Xavier had gone out to find what the object from his dream meant. He had seen that in the dream he had on his first day in the city and after that, last night.The object had flashed in his eyes almost like deja
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