Chapter 6

In all honesty, over the years, Eden changed a lot. A lot more than she'd like to admit. Gone was the Eden who would never hurt a fly. She'll admit she had some murderous thoughts about people. Like her professors or people who annoyed her, she wasn’t serious, but a part of her mind thought she was.

That is why she regretted breaking up with Alec quickly. But at the same time, she fell out of love with him. She would always care about him, always love him but not so much romantically anymore.

But Alec hurt her too. He told her he would hurt her if his boss asked him to. She knew it was a test but that didn't matter. Alec lied to her and hid such a big part of himself from Eden and that's what hurt.

"No. Not anymore. Never again. Being scared is for the weak and I'm anything but." Eden answered confidently and Malakai nodded. Just the answer he needed.

"That's exactly what I wanted to hear. So, do you accept it?" Malakai sat down opposite Eden.

"What if I don't?" Eden knew there would be some consequence if she didn't since she kind of knows about all this now and could easily turn Kai in.

"Sorry to be blunt but I'd kill you." Malakai wasn't sorry, he would never be sorry for anything in his life, it's not who he was.

"You know too much now, and I don't know if I can fully trust you so yeah, I'd kill you." Eden saw that coming in all honesty.

She thought deeply and hard. What did she have to lose? Besides, it sounded kind of fun.

"I accept." Malakai smirked and removed his mask, there was no going back now, Eden's answer couldn't be changed.

"I'm Malakai. Or Kai. Whichever you prefer." Kai looked up after taking his mask off and Eden was sure she'd have a tough time not staring at the man in front of her.

"Are you from LA?" Eden asked and Malakai nodded. She was trying to find out as much as she could about this man.

"Been here almost all my life though. Since I was 10, you?" He knew Eden wasn’t because Alec told him.

"Moved here from Canada 4 years ago for university, which I don't know if I'd be able to continue anymore." Eden wasn’t meant to say the last part aloud, but she couldn’t help but think about her issues too.

"But aren't you studying on a scholarship?" Malakai let slip and Eden furrowed her eyebrows.

"How do you know that?" She asked and Malakai cursed himself for his mistake. He never makes mistakes so what the fuck was that.

"I mean, I assume. Since I told you I'd been watching you so I think I may have overheard from somewhere." Eden was still a little suspicious, but she still accepted that answer and Malakai mentally patted himself on the back for that answer.

Eden had never mentioned it at all, Alec did. Though she didn't need to know that.

"They said that the scholarship was for 2 years, I'm studying an additional 2. I mean, I've done 3 and a half and now I have 1 and a half left. That I need to pay for and then on top of that I might lose my apartment and... It's all a mess. I'm sorry, I don't know why I'm telling you all this." Malakai felt sorry for the girl, she was what, 22? And she already had money issues.

"What about your parents?" Malakai said and he might've asked on a touchy subject since Eden looked like she was about to cry.

"Disowned me when I was 16, because I'm adopted, and they were no longer getting child benefits." Eden really was about to cry though, so Malakai stopped with the personal questions. He didn't know how to comfort her, emotions and feeling became a foreign concept to him a long time ago.

So instead, he brought out the contract Eden would need to sign. It consisted of things Eden could and could not do in this business, rules about the killing, the part about the proof needed, all of that.

"I have one simple rule though, don't ask questions." Eden was confused about what Kai meant so she asked.

"I mean, you're not allowed to ask me why a specific person or people need killing, unless I tell you myself. If I don't, you can't ask." That annoyed Eden a little. She wanted to know why she was killing people.

"But why?" Eden asked further and Kai sighed.

"The clients don't want you to know. Only I know so I can act accordingly." It sort of made sense but that didn't annoy Eden any less.

"When do I start?" She asked and Malakai saw how determined she was. I guess she really wanted to stay in university.

"Whenever you want." Eden nodded and was quickly skimming over the contract before Malakai gave her a pen and he sighed.

"Oh, the salary is based on the kills. For example, if the client is paying $600,000, you get $300,000. Half." Eden's eyes widened. That much money for one kill, she could do that.

“One more thing. Don't get caught.” That was obvious.

"Welcome to The Bullet Agency Eden." Malakai said once she had signed.

Eden was walking home and thought about her interaction with Malakai. This was going to be one hell of a job. She was to kill, gather evidence, show Kai and get paid. Easy. Killing people isn’t hard, getting away is the hard part but the agency had that covered so she didn’t need to worry.

But it was her past that was bugging her. What she did to Alec. She felt guilty because she broke up with him for the exact thing she is doing now. But like she said, she changed. Eden used to be scared. She's not anymore.

People change and life goes on. But it didn't feel like it went on. For almost a year after her breakup, she was depressed. Alec was the anchor she needed to stay in this world and not in her head.

But that's exactly where she went back to. She missed Alec like crazy and was in love with him for so long. She was glad she had Sienna and Astrid to help her through it.

And a short while after that? She forgot him. As in forgot her love for him, and that's when she realised that love that's easily forgotten isn't real love at all. And she moved forward, concentrating on her studies completely.

And now here she was. On the verge of poverty, she had a shitty job and parents who couldn't care less about her. She wasn't about to call herself a murderer just yet since she hadn't killed anyone yet. But soon.

Eden didn't know how her life completely turned around in the space of 1 night, but it did, majorly. Maybe it was for the best and maybe it wasn't, there was only one way to find out.