All Chapters of Our Secret Identities: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

“Where exactly are we?” Richard asks, pushing on the emergency hatch above them. “Are we close to any of the floors or are we in between levels.”“I don’t know” Lester says, wondering how he could be slumped in the corner unable to breathe one minute and looking for a way out the next. ‘He has the same look in his eyes as Emmett when he gets pissed off with someone’ he says to himself. ‘Maybe that’s a good thing.’Glancing at Lester’s expression; “I’m too pissed off to worry about it. The hatch is sealed; probably done before we got on. There is an emergency override for the doors. If we are close to one of the floors, we may be able to get out.”“There’s a bomb or something” Simone gasps; as Richard looks at her confused.“What do you mean?” he asks, concerned the whole elevator will drop the two stories or the three of them will be killed in an explosion. Shaking his head to get those thoughts out of his mind; he calls Emmett; “where is the bomb situated?” he asks, not letting him a

Back at the Lester Drake Media building; Emmett and Lester had head of maintenance, Mario in Lester’s office. Lester had received the police report on what happened. Once the explosives were safely removed; the control panel had a stalling device on it. It was triggered when the elevator opened on the third floor.“All we are asking is why, you weren’t at your post yesterday?” Lester questions. His voice may have been calm; the piercing glare he was giving, made Mario nervous.“Nobody was here in maintenance” Mario states; looking between Emmett and Lester, not wanting to stick around if one of them cracked.“That much we know” Emmett scoffs; shifting his position on the sofa. “We want to know why there was nobody here.”‘For two CEO’s; they really don’t know what happens in their company’ Mario says in his mind. He would never say it out loud; but he often thought it. “Because there was a scheduled maintenance on the private elevator” Mario informs the pair.Lester starts rubbing his

“Yes Mrs Murphy; since I have taken over the business, I had noticed a discrepancy on the books for our current clients. Since I wasn’t allowed to view the bookwork previously, I dug a little deeper. I got the invoices for the building materials we used for your establishment and wanted to double check; you were invoiced correctly” Richard states over the phone as Emmett walks through the front door.“He’s been on the phone since he got home” Simone informs Emmett, who raised an eyebrow at her. “Sandy has a modelling gig out of town; he came back here.”“Mrs Murphy; Your invoice would have been itemised. If you were invoiced incorrectly, Dad will need to rectify his mistake. I will be willing to stand in court; clarifying what I found and how Emmett, Lester and myself went about to ensure the mistake was fixed. We don’t want to have a bad reputation because my father didn’t do the right thing” Richard continues his conversation, nodding his head slightly to say hello to Emmett. “Thank

Emmett shows up at Peterson Properties a little under the half hour as stated. Walking into Richard’s office; “Why do I need to be here?” he asks, taking a seat in front of Richard’s desk. “You are doing Simone’s office space.”“I thought you preferred to be kept informed” Richard explains, picking up his phone and messaging Barry to come back to his office. “I’m informing you.”Shaking his head; Emmett knew there was something else going on; he just didn’t know what. As he was going to question further, Barry walks through the door. Emmett recognises him, but is unable to place where he knew him from. ‘I know him’ Emmett thinks to himself; ‘from where?’“Emms, this is Barry our building foreman” Richard introduces as Emmett offers his hand to shake.“Do I know you from somewhere?” Emmett asks, still trying to figure out how he knew Barry.As Barry was about to answer; Simone walked through the doorway. “We finished early; I came dow…” she begins to say before stopping her sentence; “

Waking up the following morning; Simone felt a large arm wrapped around her torso. Turning to face the perpetrator; she sees Emmett sleeping with a grin on his face. “You can stop pretending you are asleep” she states, trying to remove his arm from around her waist.“Nope” Emmett replies; keeping his eyes shut. “You are staying right here.”Needing to use the bathroom; “You can clean up the mess if I can’t go to the toilet” Simone huffs, trying to remove his arm again. Emmett gives her a peck on the cheek before releasing his arms and she quickly races to the bathroom. “What are you doing here?” she calls out to him.Emmett waited for her to come out of the bathroom before he answered. When she did, she stood next to him; tapping her foot. “I couldn’t sleep. I messaged Tiff after I got your message yesterday. She told me where the spare key was and what room you were sleeping in” he explains grabbing her around the waist and pulling her back into bed. “I held out as long as I could” h