"Are you sure you want to do this?" Con watched as Heather nodded and he grabbed her from behind, pulling her close to him. He could almost feel her relaxing under his touch and he scoffed internally. She squirmed a bit in his arms before she turned back to look at him. "You can leave if you don't want to help me with this. I'll find someone else." Con shook his head and cleared his throat. He would go through with this, and when he was done, he would get as far away from here as he could. Back to Glover city and back to his old life. Heather found herself frowning at how desperate she was coming off. She could hear the way her voice cracked as she spoke. She was Heather Bloom for crying out loud. Her parents had the largest building in the whole of Orion city and her brothers were known CEOs. She would have wanted to make her family proud by getting married to the man they had chosen for her, but she couldn't because she didn't want to. Lance seemed satisfied with the deal
Jane smoothened the folds of her dress and looked across the room to locate the man she was to wed.She was nervous as fuck, but she had backup so she was a bit relaxed too.Aubrey had insisted on accompanying her and getting to see her suitor.For some reason, the slightly older lady seemed to be very wary and negative when it came to the matter of arranged marriages.Jane chuckled silently.Aubrey had proposed that they run away and fly out of the country, but she had refused.Her uncle had done a lot for her and he had respected her wishes not regarding some of her suitors. The first suitor he had brought was some rotten middle eastern scum who gave her orders on sight and said he would treat her the way he wanted once they were married.She had punched his teeth out and he had screamed so loud that it brought a smile to her face just thinking of it.The second suitor had been someone on her enemy list. He was a piece of trash who went by the name of Clark Gable. He was the one wh
Con could feel the back of his throat closing up but he still stood in the same spot he was.He had known that this day would come one way or the other.His family was a loose end that he would need to tie if he had any hopes of getting rid of them, and to do that he would have to see them.One of them at least.The spotlight was still on him, the dirty ragged street urchin in the midst of remarkably dressed people. Everyone was looking at him, and the ladies around him.Con felt himself feeling more confident with the reality of the fact that he had some people around him. Even if they were exceedingly pretty women, they were still people and so far, none of them had moved away."Tell me you haven't gotten yourself into more trouble, Mr Easton?"Con chuckled subtly and let a small smile bloom on his face ."Nice to see you too, Lana."All three women seemed to have their attention on him and on the people around them at the same time.They looked around and Con found himself doing t
Xavier could feel a million eyes on him and he stepped back, carrying the cane he had blocked with him. He could see everyone looking at him. He could see his reflection in their eyes even. The man who had done the main deed of blocking stood to the side. He had handed the cane over to him almost immediately after he had blocked the crucial hit this dead man had been aiming at his boss. Xavier could feel his eyes harden as he looked at the man in front of him. Con had never really spoken about his parents much. In fact, he had never said anything about his father. He only ever spoke about his mother and even then whenever he spoke of her, his eyes always seemed sad and dark. He had mentioned the fact that they had been abandoned once, but after that time he hadn't mentioned it anymore. The man standing in front of him though was definitely the trash piece of a father that had been beating his boss up. Xavier raised the locked canes up and in a swift motion he pulled backwards
Con woke up to the feeling of the object in his hand burning like hot coals.He threw it to the side immediately and looked around at his surroundings.He couldn't fully remember most of what had happened before he passed out, but the more he thought on it, the more it came back to himSandy blond hair and purple eyes,Con sighed and slumped back on the bed.Why had he frozen up like that?He could have snatched that cane from his father and used it to beat the old man silly. The man had never been a father to him anyways.Not once had he shown concern for him or his mother and not once had he ever seen him as nothing but a stain on his name and a disgrace to his family.He wanted nothing to do with that man, and he wanted nothing to do with their name.He was Constantine Easton, not Constantine Emmerson. He should have proved to his father that he was now his own man and that he would do what he wanted to do no matter what he said.But he had frozen up and received the most sound b
Xavier chuckled at the man in front of him.Surely he wasn't the only one seeing how ridiculous all this looked."I'm sorry, but what you mean to tell me, is that you want us to get out?"The dark haired man in front of him only nodded and looked at the time on his watch."I have to clean the room and get rid of your presence."That sounded really rude, but Xavier decided to ignore the tone and focus on what was happening at the moment.They had arrived at this house a few hours ago, and Con had been taken to one of the other rooms. The man who had brought them here had been the same one he had met at the Dramain museum. He had been in there looking and inspecting the masked lady's statue more closely. Con's lady friends had reported seeing something that matched the strange object they had found in his room on the mask of the masked ladyOn closer inspection they had seen that it was actually the shape holding the mask of the masked lady to her skin.They had told him they wouldn't
"On the 20th day, in the sixth month of the year 2897, Orion city experienced one of the most massive earthquakes to ever rock its foundations."***********************************Adeline mixed her tea in a cup and handed it over to the man beside her.A tear could be seen rolling down her cheek but she ignored it and kept on looking at the TV instead.The day the earthquake had hit had been just like any other. She had been in her office, considering yet again, if what she had done had been for the best or if she had just been fooling herself and giving up something she should have held close to her heart.She knew she shouldn't have used Con in that way. He was an asset to her and a caring man, one that she would have been happy to have in her life if she hadn't ruined all her chances with him.She would have been glad, elated even, but that was in the past. When she still had money and when he was someone she paid at the end of each month.Now she manned a cafe in a backwater par
Xavier could feel blood running down the side of his head.He didn't care.He had to get the ladies out of here.The house was crumbling around them and the reverberations were spreading out into the whole city.It would have been a surprise to him if it didn't, but it did and soon............ even he didn't know what would become of Orion city.Just breathing in this room had become a massive problem and they couldn't just step anywhere.The world was changing around them, and along with it, the very fabric of what they termed their existence.Xavier heard someone grunt beside him and he turned to see one of the ladies lagging behind.Con would have carried all of them in some act of bravado and gotten them out of the house the very minute it began to crumble, but he wasn't Constantine Easton. The other man had the resilience of a bull and the stamina of a dragon. Someone like him would crash before he even got to the front door.Xavier watched with wide eyes as the space behind th
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