Three

Morning.

"Anything from Mae yet?" Omar asked as he paced around the room having some of his agents on their devices. He had been trying to reach Mae, the girl he sent to get information off Leo Vance but to no avail.

Her connection had been cut off since the night before. None of the agents in the room with him had being able to track her exact whereabouts; no one knew if she had successfully done the job she was meant to do or not.

"Not yet sir," someone came to him and saluted."The tracking device on her had been deactivated since last night, it's why we couldn't reach her but I just discovered that now."

"Fuck." Omar cursed in annoyance."What about the other things on her? The microphone? Camera?"

"They too had being deactivated since last night."

"Keep things in order here till I return." He designated to the man in front of him before picking up his suit jacket and leaving the room.

***

Omar stopped his car in front of The Vance Incorporation building and immediately got out. He took the elevator to the top floor and went it's door opened, he saw Leo about to get into his private elevator so he ran to him and stopped.

"Vance," he tapped his shoulder and waited for him to turn around.

"Are you Mr Paola?" Leo's assistant came to Omar when he touched her boss."If you're then I'm am sorry to inform you that we'll have to reschedule your meeting with Mr Vance as he has somewhere important to be."

"He's not Mr Paola," Vance snickered when he saw his old friend."He's Mr Troja, Omar Troja, you son of a bitch, I didn't know you were in City N." He put his arms around Omar's shoulder and smiled like they were currently best of friends.

He lied when he said he didn't know Omar was in the City. He knew he was and also knew why. He knew Omar came for him and he knew Mae was an agent of his field now.

"Is she alive?" Omar went on to ask, dismissing Leo's pleasantry. He knew the man in front of him had found out he was in City N and most likely knew Mae was from him so he asked after her.

"Who?" Leo leaned in to ask in a whisper voice like they were discussing something very confidential. He had a tone of humour in his one-word question but that humour was one sided to him.

Omar licked his lips and looked behind him. His assistant was there and able to hear every word they said. Leo turned around to look at his assistant after Omar.

"Excuse us," he ordered the assistant in a cold voice and they both watched as she quickly walked away from where they stood.

Leo stopped smiling the moment she left and pressed a button on the private elevator to get into it. Omar followed him into the elevator.

"Is she alive?" He asked Leo who was no longer smiling again.

"Who?" Leo put both his hands in his pocket and maintained a straight face as he asked. Surely, he knew who Omar was asking about but he wanted Omar to admit to sending her to him first.

"Mae, the girl."

"The girl, what girl?"

"Come on Leo, just let me know if she's alive or not. If she is, we can make a deal for you to let her go."

"I have to tell you, she's the most whacky agent you've ever worked with."

"She's new."

"I figured. It's why she's not dead yet. And also because she's beautiful. Did you really think I would give into her beauty just like that?"

"It was worth the try. You used to lose yourself to women when we were younger, very beautiful women like Mae."

Leo chortled to himself when Omar reminded him."We were in a goddamn isolated camp with no women anywhere around the place. I never missed the opportunity to enjoy being around beautiful women when we were off camp. That doesn't automatically translate to my likeness for women."

"I guess I miscalculated this time." Omar bit his lips."Is she alive or not?" He had to ask again before the elevator got to it's destination.

"I have no idea of her whereabouts. She could be at her house or back at your office to report." Leo gave an unmatched answer for what he had been asking him before walking out after the elevator opened.

Omar stood outside the elevator which had taken them to Leo's private parking space and watched as Leo got into the car which was opened by one of the men waiting by the car before they arrived.

As soon as Leo's convoy drove out in a line, Omar took out his phone to call the person he left in charge at the agency office.

"I was going to wait till you returned sir, but Miss Yrote is back to the office." He was informed as soon as the call was answered.

He looked on as the last of Leo's convoy cars drove out. He sighed. He didn't need be told that Leo was expecting his presence at his office before he came. He didn't regret coming and meeting him in person after so long because he came for Mae.

He had been hearing of all the dirty but miscellaneous things Leo had been up to since he was earlier dispersed to another part of the country but now he was back and he would stop him.

****

"Where is she?" Omar asked after he returned to his office and everyone around knew who he was asking about. He was led to the witness safe room in their office, that was where Mae was kept.

Mae stood up in salute when Omar walked into where she was. She looked down in shame when some of the other officers also walked in.

Omar noticed so he dismissed the others that just followed behind him."Leave, all of you."

"Yes sir."

When everyone had left and it was just him and Mae alone in the room, he closed the door and went to take a seat. Mae didn't join him in sitting. She couldn't unless he permitted her to.

"Tell me all that happened with him," Omar rested his back and loosened his tie. He wanted to know what went wrong in her mission yesterday.

Mae swallowed when her superior asked to know what happened with Leo Vance yesterday. She felt ashamed and moreso, useless. She knew how much she was trained for yesterday and she had fucked it all up without even getting a single information from the target.