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
I open the door of the house and I walk in as Cara follows behind me slowly and tentatively. We are out of Russia and in Cyprus, though only Cara came along. Natalie took a later flight because she wanted to come with Susan, her grandmother.It took us a couple of hours to fly from Russia to Cyprus, especially because I did not have my passport on me. Cara had to pull some strings and call in some favors at airport security, and to my pleasant surprise, it all worked out smoothly.“Are you sure that they would want to see me?” I hear Cara’s voice as we walk further into the house. Everything looks pretty much the same, but I don’t see anyone here. “Where is everyone?” I say to myself in a low tone as I continue to explore the house.Suddenly I hear heavy footsteps and I look toward the source, someone is walking down the stairs. As soon as the person's eyes meet mine, they stop in their tracks.“Whoa, am I tripping, or am I seeing Jen Davis?” Chad asks me and he continues his descent
It is usually sunny here, but today is different, and besides, it is a Saturday. I think the weather chose the best time to be like this, I don’t have to drive Jake to school and I get to spend the entire day with him.Yesterday was so eventful, I had to explain all that happened to me in Russia to Robert, James, Carlos, and Chad about three times before they finally could grasp it all. I also had the responsibility of explaining why I have suddenly decided to trust and forgive someone that caused me so much trauma, Cara was quiet when I took my time to make them all understand that I have finally decided to bury the hatchet concerning what she did.I am not going to pretend like I don’t feel a stab of emotional pain when I look at her, but I am going to try my best to move on. I am currently sitting on the porch alone while listening to the beating of the rain on the ground and roof, it is very soothing and I have never felt so relaxed in my life. Everybody else is in the house and