Russell’s nose is obviously bleeding and he has some serious bruises on his face. Well, that is what he gets for almost choking me to death, but something is not right. He could have guards swamping in here the moment I attacked him, but he did not. The guards came in at the last minute, I feel like this was a trap and if it was, I fell right in it.“Jen, you heard them, get off him,” I hear Natalie say and I stand to my feet while keeping my hands raised in the air, for so many guns are aimed right at me by Russell’s guards.Russell begins to laugh as Natalie helps him to his feet.“She fell right into my hands,” He continues to laugh as if he has just heard the funniest thing in his life. Natalie looks happy also and she leads Russell out of the room to get treated for his broken nose and other minor injuries.My throat still hurts from when he choked me, for the first time in my life, I felt like I was going to die, and I was not thinking about myself. My mind was filled with image
What in the world is Cara doing here? I have played in my mind what I would do if I ever see her again, but seeing her right now, I don’t know how to respond. I don’t feel anger or rage, to be honest, I don’t even know how to feel about seeing her.“Let’s go, Davis,” Natalie urges me to move and I begin to move my legs. Cara walks next to Natalie and the both of them speak another language that I am not accustomed to, but it sounds like german.They lead me into the urban house and the interior looks as homey as the exterior. I can also smell food being cooked when I enter the living room. I don’t get why I am being brought here, maybe I should just accept the darn offer and do the job so all this can be over with.“Sit right there, Cara, and I would be right back. Don’t try anything stupid, your family is being watched and with just a call, I can have them killed,” Natalie threatens and I gulp.She and Cara then head upstairs and I am left alone in the living room. It is quite spacio
What am I getting myself into? It took me so long to finally be okay with not being an assassin anymore, I freaking chose the normal, ordinary life, so why are danger and thrill still chasing me? “You have no idea how happy I am to hear you say those words, especially now that I can see that you actually mean them,” Russell says as he stands to his feet. He closes the distance between us and he gives me a hug that I reluctantly give in to.“So let us get this straight, I do the job and I get to go back to my family. Do not freaking reach out to me ever again, not even to say hi,” I say to him in a very confident tone that captures his full attention.“Reasonable,” He mumbles as he goes back to the other couch so he can sit after his hug with me.“The food is ready!” Susan, Natalie’s grandmother says as she joins us with a tray of food. Everything on the tray looks so good and appetizing, but the bacon causes an emotional stabbing pain to arrest my chest, for it reminds me of James, w
“Natalie, I have made my decision, enlighten Jen here about the consequences of rejecting my offer. It has become clear that she is not a logical person,” Russell Marshall says and then he walks out of the house. “Is there some way that I could call back home?” I ask Natalie after a few moments of silence and she scoffs.“You still don’t get it, do you?” She begins.“You have a great offer and the job is simple, I don’t still get why Russell is adamant about you doing the job, especially considering that there is a world full of professional assassins out there,” Natalie tries to reason to herself.Cara sits next to her and comforts her by rubbing her shoulder gently and I watch them both. Trying to escape would be useless, but the thing is I am certainly not going to kill Rob’s father. Losing his sister was enough for him, I am not going to rain more trauma on someone that has helped me.Rob gave me properties worth millions of dollars, and without sleeping with me or even wanting t
TWO DAYS later and I am in a five-star hotel, and this is in no way my own money is being spent and I am grateful because this place is very expensive. I could afford it but my days of staying in fancy overpriced hotels are over.The room I am in right now has been booked by Russell. There are two guards stationed right outside the room and I am not allowed to leave until I am told so. I am currently staying out the window, enjoying the beautiful view that I have of the ocean.I can still remember Susan’s voice and her advice to me. She told me that killing Russell is the only way I could get out of all this mess and go back to my life, plus she told me that it would help her granddaughter to finally be free from the strings of Russell.So I took her advice, when Natalie came back into the house with Cara, I told them that I was ready to do the job and that nothing would change my mind. Cara was suspicious but Natalie did not care much. She just wants me to do the job and be out of he
My ears are ringing and I have to stop moving for a few seconds because I feel dizzy. I close my eyes also and it helps, for the ringing and dizziness fade away as quickly and abruptly as they came. I stand upright and I open my eyes, I don’t know why my body reacted that way, I have heard gunshots close to me over and over, and have even fired different kinds myself.“Jen, what are doing? Get over here!” I hear Cara say and I lock eyes with her, I don’t see Natalie and I suspect that she has already entered the room where Rob’s father is in. Cara is standing in the doorway and she is waving me over.I move my legs and I close the distance between us, the bodies of the four guards that were stationed at the door lay limp on the floor. “What happened? You froze up,” Cara tells me and I shrug, not knowing exactly what to tell her.“Let’s go, sir. This is for your own safety,” I hear Natalie say and when I look in the direction of her voice, I see her walking with a middle-aged man by h
Natalie, Cara, Ethan, and I are escorted inside the gigantic compound. It does not take us very long to meet Russell, especially after Natalie told his guard to tell him that we have a gift for him. We are all now in one of the three living rooms that this house has.“It’s great to have us all here, Jen, but I thought we agreed that I wanted the gift a certain way,” Russell says to me, trying to tell me that he thought Ethan would be dead right now and not in his living room sitting across from him.“You are unbelievable, Russell. You want to seal the deal so bad that you went as far as hiring trained killers to kill me,” Ethan says and we all watch him as he speaks. Russell laughs in response as if all that Ethan is saying are made up.“Come on now, you are not that much of a threat to me, why would I want you dead?” He replies as he stands to his feet, adjusting his jacket that matches his suit.“Natalie, and Jen, I would like a word with you two. And for the rest of you, I want you
As this Russian man advanced toward me with rage in his eyes, I thought I would have felt fear, but all I feel is anger. Anger fuels every part of my body and soul, giving me a strength that I can not explain or fathom.I dodge his punch and his fist hits the wall with a heavy force, giving me the opportunity to cause damage to him in the few seconds of advantage I have been given.I kick him hard in his abdomen and he doubles over in pain as a string of cusses escapes his mouth. Natalie is on her feet already and she has withdrawn her gun.“So this has been your plan, huh?” He asks as he tries to catch his breath, a look of disappointment plastering his face.“Do you think this is the life I want?” She avoids his question and asks her own. The gun is aimed at Russell and although he has gained his composure, he dares not to make any sudden moves, for he knows that he could get shot.“You ungrateful brat, you act as if I took away your entire life by locking you in a cage,” He replies