Raymond was a little bit confused. This was the same bar he came that day with Stan. He moved closer holding Grace hand tight. The two couldn't leave each other behind.
"I count like a dozen armed men" he murmured. "Why would they upgrade security?" he was still battling his confusion.
"Are we in the right place" Grace asked after watching him. She must have noticed his cluelessness.
Grace wore a red little dress with some long stockings that ran high up under the dress. She had hair bound into a cool shape. Raymond was in a small jacket that couldn't cover the hem of his round necked shirt with a loose pants. They looked like some high school kid escaping from home to spend time together.
"This is the place. I just wish it's still the same occupant" he replied her gently. He wouldn't want her to be at unease.
They moved closer and was making their way in, ignoring the armed men.
One of the men jumped in their way holding a metal detector.
This was the biggest mistake and they have made it. The only thing left now was defeat served on a platter before them.Grace clearly had no chance against this hefty heartless emotionless asset. It was created to destroy.If Raymond was sure that Mr. Cypher would accept apologies. He would lie down flat on his face to beg for his mercy and forgiveness.It was true that luck wouldn't come when it was needed the most. Raymond was totally lost. There was no more tricks up his sleeves. He knew he was not that wise before. It was just funny how people used to think he was.Grace rushed to jump on the asset to probably attack him on the jugular. But she couldn't reach as the asset held her high after catching her neck with only one of his arms.She smacked his hand maybe he would drop her if the pain got to him. The asset wasn't feeling anything. It seemed he had been engineered to withstand pain or not to feel it at all.He rotated on the
No matter how much Raymond pressed down the accelerator,the car wouldn't move. Grace was so scared to go down and face him.Raymond stepped on the brake. The asset and the car jumped back unexpectedly knocking the asset off his feet. Raymond retook the control of the car and zoomed off quickly."I'm sorry for that, you went through a lot of beating today" Raymond said after driving fast for some minutes.Grace looked in his direction. She looked away again."I am still looking forward to the time" he talked to himself but loudly. "The time she will say something when she is like this"Grace looked at him again. She looked away, the same way she did before."Don't look at me if you are not going to say a word to me" he criticized her frequent stare. "And when did you take that syringe from me?""I'm sorry, I will ask you that later" he quickly added to avoid her incomprehensible glance.There were bangs against the trunk of the
"Stay calm and sit down" Mayor Mount implored Raymond.Raymond acted like he didn't hear him. He continued with his aimless movement up and down.Mayor Mount was not alright. He wouldn't have said that if he was. He could never calm down with what he just heard. Obviously, he didn't care about what would happen to Grace. That was why he could be calm and even made a great for them before discussing something dangerously important like this."Just sit down, please" he said again, now with a pleading tone. It seemed he had some more things to add to what he had already stirred up."Do you know what this means at all. That buyer would come after Grace and we will be helpless or what chances do we have against someone that was willing and ready to take on government" Raymond was embittered.He wished he could send them back in time and it would be the time when he was just an ordinary average mechanic. He would be prepared for any path Mayor Moun
Cover blown? To who. Even if cover would be blown. It shouldn't be this time that Grace was looking like Venus and lying beneath Raymond.That voice was obviously not Mayor Mount's. There were other people who knew about their presence here but none of them would contact them directly. That was the arrangement.Still fighting multitude of thoughts about what had just happened and what they could do. In that heap of confusions, Raymond noticed something about Grace. She was not disturbed.She remained calm and relaxed. Smiles seemed to be forming on her face starting with an emerging shape at the sides of her mouth.Maybe she didn't hear what he heard that threw him into sheer dilemma. She should have heard that. It was loud enough beyond something someone could deny.Raymond was about opening his mouth to ask for the reason behind her subtle happiness. She pointed her hands to the rear of his position. He turned to find a big TV that was on.&
That meant they had cameras and had been watching them maybe from the time they landed at the airport.For them to know his name, they would have known everything about him including what he had for breakfast.Grace pulled Raymond close and started kissing him all over his face voraciously. He wouldn't be able to think if she continued doing that. He tried playing by her rules to know what she was really planning to do."Raymond, any problem?" the man asked again facing the fierce looking man that opened the door."Oooh" Raymond moaned in relief. Raymond was the name of the man that opened the door."My bad, I thought you were talking to me. Raymond was my...." Raymond almost spilled before Grace cut in."His dog's name. Raymond was his dog's name. It was a good dog, you know and he likes it very much. He even wanted to bring it to our honeymoon here in Washington. I was like, dog, to honeymoon. A dog will be irritating me on my honeymoon. I
The only person who knew the whereabouts of the hard disk had no tongue. He even wanted to die.Since Grace and Raymond came back to their hotel room. They were the symbol of frustration."I have seen a lot of movies where cops had to punish criminals for them to open up. This is the first time I will see a situation where the suspect have no tongue. Can someone really survive without a tongue?" he was still not sure of what was going on."You saw it yourself" Grace said angrily. She seemed to be the most pained by the situation."It was just like a movie to me. He grabbed it like that and threw it to a biker appearing from nowhere. They are experts. I can't deny them that" he continued arguing within himself."We should tell Mayor Mount" he took his phone to make a call to him."And tell him what exactly, that we lost what we came all the way down here for, to a mysterious bike rider" she clearly didn't want him to call Mayor Mount.
"We lost the hard disk. we couldn't trace it anymore. It seemed it was taken underground somewhere" Mayor Mount explained sadly."We have a new lead into some basement of some mansions. I...we promise to bring it back sir" Raymond assured him."I am putting my trust in you. You are our last hope" Mayor Mount concluded."I think we don't have a choice than to save his little brother" Raymond said to Grace. He knew she wouldn't like that but that was the truth right now."They couldn't track it?" Grace asked the obvious. She should have known by what Raymond had been saying."It has been taken underground somewhere. I think their eyes couldn't penetrate earth's crust" Raymond joked.He didn't know Cale or his brother before. He just felt they should be helped and that, he felt was normal."So, what do we know about his brother?" Grace asked weakly like she had accepted, maybe she realized they had no choice."He will guide us the
"I still don't understand how this tunnel is going to lead into some basement of some mansion" Grace bent putting her hands on her knees out of exhaustion.They had been walking for some minutes in the tunnel using a map they got from Cale.It seemed she had gotten another thing to complain about. She had been whining about the weirdness of the solo policeman that came to retrieve the kids. After she already was not in support of saving the kids in the beginning.Raymond felt she was just complaining for sake of complaining. Maybe she had a personal problem she was dealing with. Dealing with a personal problem was normal, the issue therein was not sharing what it was and obscuring it with frequent complaints."Because you know nothing about architecture or civil engineering" Raymond replied waiting ahead. He was also exhausted. He gasped for breath."You know I've noticed you have been getting somehow bottled up since some times ago. What's i
"You should feel better now" Raymond put the cup back on the table smiling."You mean the wine is good?" Grace asked, she was pretending she didn't know what he was talking about."No. Not the wine. I am talking about the daughter of the city" he had opened up straight, she wouldn't have a chance of turning his words around anymore."She's good, but her judgement is somehow different from mine" she complained a bit."Two different people can't do the same thing same way. There will always be a slight difference" he explained."I have nothing against her but I'm just thinking operating like this. The Mayour won't be able to back her" she was right about that."She doesn't want it too. And this evil people give more respect to harsh treatment like such" he added."I'm sure we are not here to talk about the daughter of the city" she was becoming boring with their conversation. She stared at her cup weirdly.They had come out to a
The computers pinged as Grace had said. Laura had been waiting for some time to hear that.She couldn't believe it at first. The pinging was not that loud but it was noticeable. She dashed over to the ammunition side and picked up the sword.She started feeling weird. She felt like she couldn't do this anymore. She stood there in front of the weapon. She wanted to take more than just a sword.But it would be useless to take what she wouldn't use. The computer pinged again. Time was going. She wanted to go but she was very much in need of a little push.Maybe she could just make a call to Grace. She would be helpful. They had become something like best friends.She hurried to get her and make the call. Time was no longer on her side. The call took like eternity to get connected, maybe that was because she was calling from an underground."Laura?" Grace said excitedly.There was nothing funny about this. It was damn serious but she had
Protocols were now being duly observed. Raymond and his accompanies were not allowed in until Reyes came out to them.He waved at them to come over."I'm sorry for the delay. Everything has changed since the attempt on the Mayor's life" he apologized as they walked over to him.They all walked together into the living room to meet Mayor Mount where he was comfortably seated."Raymond, Grace" he smiled to welcome them."And you, your face looks familiar" he pointed at Laura.Raymond was a little bit afraid. He wished Mayor Mount had not remembered when she tried to kill him."We met at their base" Laura said slowly."Yeah, I remember. You are that little girl that was in their base. You know I forgot what you were doing there that day" Mayor Mount seemed to have really forgotten. He was visibly trying to recollect."Actually, we are here because of her" Grace broke in suddenly. She was going straight to the point.
Raymond was coming down the stairs. He saw as Grace kept changing the TV channels. She seemed not to find the one suitable for her present mood.He skimmed down to join. He sat by her side without saying anything. She obviously had a lot running through her mind but she was obviously not going to tell him anything except he incited words from her."Maybe TV isn't what you need right now" he grabbed the remote,took it from and gently placed it on the table."What do you think I need then?" she folded her arms. it seemed she was not pleased with that."A good company like me,that has always been working even when you are stuck on the Millionaire Island" he joked.Grace smiled subtly. She was not enjoying the moment as she wanted."What are you thinking about?" he asked."That's my problem. I don't just know where to channel my mind" she shook her head."You really need that before you could channel the TV" he chuckled.She
Raymond was seated by the side of the hospital bed with a newspaper in his hand He wasn't really reading it. He kept checking Grace If she had woken up from her deep sleep.She would wake soon. She had been slept for a long time. She opened her eyes slowly and closed them back immediately like the lights were hurting her eyes."Raymond" she whispered. "Are you there, is that you?" she asked with her eyes closed."Why don't you open your eyes and confirm?" he replied her casually."I'm just confused seeing that in your hand. A publication? Really?" she had not opened her eyes yet and she was already taunting him."Are you okay?" he leaned towards her and asked."I feel better" she moaned. She opened her eyes and sat up."No, no. You have to rest" he quickly retorted. He felt she should be down there on her back.Grace was just looking at him with surprise. She didn't yield to his yearning."I guess I am still alive" she l
"Are you okay?" Raymond asked Grace. lied down on the floor. He gasped. He was exhausted."I have never been better" she said despite all the obvious pain she was going through.She also laid on her back breathing slowly to relax. Hugh sat and rested his back against the wall. He was devastated. It was definitely his first time to kill a man.He was seriously having a conversation within himself. He was raising his hand up above his every now and then.Probably regretting what he had done or he was trying to encourage himself that he had to do it."They say that is how you feel after you have your first kill" Grace chuckled and pointed to Hugh."He will surely get over it" Raymond said assuringly. He was sure of that. Hugh was a person with some facets of a bad guy. It shouldn't be so hard for him."Which makes me remember, Ray. You never had a moment like this. You never felt bad after your first kill. You are not very human" Grace r
Jansen had already heard a series of gunshots inside the building. Not long later, another shots were fired. He wondered what was happening.These guests didn't look like people who could shoot except the city hunter and his guy. And these guns were actually the guns brought by him and his men.He could denote that easily from the sounds of the rounds. He wondered why Dray or Morton or both of them would have been shooting like that unless the situation called for it.He was in awe what the situation could be. He was also having negative thoughts maybe his mem had been overpowered and subdued. He had to do something rather than waiting for them here.He brought out his handgun and headed towards the room. He waited by the first room and listened attentively. It was very quiet. He moved over to the door of another room.He was still trying to catch a sound with his ears when he saw bullets casing right ahead. He walked slowly aiming his gun forward.
Raymond and Grace had gathered all the others in Susan's room. The guests were definitely expecting to see this device they claimed to have found."I don't think we need to show them the real thing" Raymond whispered to Grace. He had already seen the hungry looks on their faces. The hunger to see what the device looked like."Let's just show it to them, to boost their confidence and make them trust us" Grace assumed. She must be thinking the guests might get annoyed if they weren't allowed to see it."They will be on to us soon, if we spent more time here without giving them a feedback" Hugh complained. It seemed he was urging others to hurry them up in handing over the device.He had been staring hard at Raymond and Grace as they had been having mouth to ear conversation. That seemed to have stirred up his anger."I thought you brought us on the fact that you have found this thing?" Mrs Summers said in her old weak voice. She must ha
Raymond and Grace walked along the hallway after everyone had entered into different rooms.Raymond attempted opening a door at room but Grace stopped him immediately. He was stunned."Things like this are not kept inside rooms. Vaults are built to house them" she explained."These people are not looking for treasures and not gold bars. It is something, like a part of nuclear weapon as one of them told me" Raymond argued."No one keeps nuclear weapons in a room also. They are hidden underground in most cases" she was still determined she was right about her opinion."Underground like basement?" Raymond felt she was making sense with what she said."Yeah" she moaned."Then let's get to the basement then" he asserted and walked forward with fast paces and Grace following him. He stopped suddenly."We won't get there unless we are outside" he said in regret."They won't let us go out. And we have to get this thing before th