Zach looked up when he heard knocking on his office door the following day. He saw Elise outside, and he nodded, gesturing for her to come in. He stood up and was about to pull the blinds closed when she shook her head at him subtly.
“Mr. Montgomery, I know it’s too bold of me, but do you want to have some coffee at that shop at the other side of the block?” She stuttered slowly. She was clutching her Ipad tightly. “There’s this cousin of mine waiting and wants to ask you some questions for her thesis research.”
He looked at her intently and finally saw that she had the screen of her Ipad faced towards him and he read the message silently.
“Not safe to discuss here,” the message said.
When he nodded, Elise immediately erased what she wrote and walked back to the door and opened it. “I made her promise that she won’t take too much of your time, sir,” she said casually as she stepped out. &ld
Alex made one last review of the summary she had gathered with regards to Stefan Malkus and Saood before deciding to submit her report to Montgomery the following day. She checked the locations she was able to gather over the server of the places where Malkus and Saood had met overseas.After her review and to her satisfaction, she finally emailed the document to Montgomery and had it printed out on the printer by her desk. She shuffled the pages, making sure that all are in order before she finally inserted them on the file that he had returned to her earlier.“Here you go, Anne,” she said a few minutes later, handing the file to the secretary. “I also emailed a copy of the report to him as well.”She then went back to her desk and listened over the handheld radio on her desk. Zach and the rest of the team had responded to a hostage incident in one of the town markets. Since she is still recovering from the injury, Alex had sat this one out although a major part of her wanted to join
Elise Reynolds rummaged through her bag when she heard her phone ringing that Friday afternoon the following week, after clocking out from the office and walking towards the bus stop where she usually boards to head back to her apartment, However, instead on getting on her usual bus route, she waited for another route that will take her to a restaurant from another side of town where she’s going to meet her contact. Her contact who has information about Alex that Mr. Montgomery had her do secretly. “Are you on your way?” The voice came after she answered her phone. “Yes. Why does it have to be there?” Elise answered quickly. “It’s almost an hour ride.” “It’s a complicated one, Elise,” her contact said firmly. “Just call me once you got down the bus and I’ll meet you at the corner. It’s the only file I got and it’s not pretty.” Elise abruptly turned to her right and scanned the area in front of her. She found nothing out of the ordinary with employees clocking out from different bu
Alex turned when she heard the door open to the condo late in the evening, that Damon had gotten for her as back-up of her hideout. She frowned when she saw Travis Jamison, another agent she had worked with lounging on the couch casually.“You needed his help for a mere slip of a girl?” She taunted as she closed the door.“She was feisty,” Travis answered with a grin, for them as he reached for his beer and took a drink. “Scratch my face a bit but then, where’s the fun when she’s going to be timid?”“Where is she?”Damon reached for his own beer and took a drink.“Spare room,” he answered as he led her towards it. He pushed the door and leaned on the frame. “Hey, sweetheart. Your visitor is here. The mastermind of your abduction.”Alex shoot daggers at him with her eyes as she entered the room and stopped dead on her tracks when she saw Elise, bound to a chair, her hands tied and a gagged over her mouth. “What the hell did you do to her?” She demanded as she crossed the room towards E
Zach, looked up from the file that he is reading when he heard a knock on his door, Wednesday, the following week. He saw Elise outside and he immediately beckoned her to come in.“You called for me, sir?” Elise asked a bit louder before she closed the door, as what he had instructed her to do every time, she would come to see him. She approached his desk and stood, to Zach’s surprise, behind one chair. “Sir, is there something you need?”“Take a seat, Elise,” Zach instructed firmly.When Elise finally did, he looked at her quietly, observing her posture.“What happened?” He finally asked her. “You were on an emergency leave the past two days. I do hope that nothing serious had happen to you or your family. Is there something that you need to tell me?”Elise looked at him nervously for a long while, not saying a thing. She is gripping her fists tightly above her tablet on her lap, looking down at her hands for a while. When she finally looked at Zach straight in the eyes, he had noted
Borrowing one of his brother’s sports car, Zach slowed to a stop and park by the sidewalk when he saw from afar Alex getting off her bike. He watched as she took her helmet off and shook her hair and brushing it back with her fingers before slinging the helmet over her one arm.Making sure not to make any noise, Zach went out from the car, closing the door quietly and carefully. He then looked towards the direction that she headed.It’s been a week since he had his top agents monitor Alex and Damon and to his annoyance, the two reported nothing out of the ordinary. They reported that the two would usually meet during lunch and eat together at some restaurants near the office building and would then get together after office hours for a round of few drinks before parting.“Or it’s either that they know we’re on them and are playing along,” Gavin said darkly when he reported to Zach that Damon had been going in and out the supermarket a couple of times one time and buying one or two ite
“Lock the door!”Throwing the keys at one table as she entered her condo, Alex shrugged off her jacket and immediately proceeded to one room and retrieved one phone from a drawer, pushing the numbers hurriedly. She waited for her call to get through while she watched Zach do what she told him.“It’s Jade,” she barked when her call was answered. “Has Bucky made contact?”“Yes,” the one who answered responded. “Backup has already arrived and they already left the area. He will make contact again once he is already safe. I will send him the number to contact you.”Ending the call, Alex looked down at the phone and hope intently that Damon had quicken his pace so that he could call. She wanted to know the status of her parents, if ever they were able to escape.“Damn it,” she muttered and then walked out and saw Zach talking on his phone.“What the f8ck are you doing?!?” Alex shouted angrily and immediately snatch his phone from his hand and turned it off. “That was the one that led those
Zach gripped Alex’s hands tightly and pushed her back on the wall as he felt her struggling from his grip as he continued to kiss her hungrily. Pushing his body onto hers and raised her hands above her head, he deepened the kiss and started coaxing her to kiss him back. After a long while, he finally felt her body relax and slowly starting to return the favor by kissing him back. He felt her open her mouth and he immediately travelled his tongue inside, seeking hers to mate. When their tongues finally touched, Zach felt an electric shock going down his groin, starting to get hard for her. Alex had somehow gotten to him skin deep. In his entire life, all the women he had been with had always done what he wanted, bending to his will. There would be times that they would sulk until he would give in. But, most of the time, it is the woman in his relationship giving in. But not Alex. Even if he is the boss in the organization that they are working in, she had never bent to his will. In
Zach woke up to a bright and shiny Monday morning and could hear the TV sounds from outside the room. He sat up and saw the clock on the wall read six-thirty in the morning. His eyes then noticed his clothes on the foot of the bed, washed, dried and ironed.Grabbing his towel, he wrapped it around his waist and walked towards the door, opening it. He saw Alex at the kitchen, frying some bacon while the coffee is being brewed in the machine. She is currently talking on her phone and he managed to hear her mentioned his sister’s name. She is already in her working clothes and didn’t seem to have noticed him, watching her from the door.Turning back to the room, Zach immediately took a quick shower and put on the clothes that he knew she had washed and ironed for him. He went out of the room that he had been sharing with her for the past three nights and walked towards the kitchen.“I have to go in ten minutes,” she said to him as she slid to him his cup of coffee. She took a drink from