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Chapter 8
Megan had expected quite a number of reactions from her question: shock, denial, deflection, even old-fashioned honesty, but those weren't any of what she got. Minutes after she had put forward the question, all Dennis did was stare at her with a neutral expression on his face like he hadn't even heard a single word she said.
She began to feel a little uneasy.
Thing is, it was starting to dawn on Megan that perhaps the man in front of her was someone she would never be able to pin down. One moment he was friendly, the next he was fierce; one moment open and ready to share, the next sealed off like a crypt hidden down in the very deep levels of the secret mountain base that was Olympus. Dennis jumped from one demeanour to the other like none of them was existentially who he was and that made her very apprehensive of whom he might truly b
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Fifteen minutes. That was how long Megan realised she had been sitting and tapping her foot impatiently.After the official job offer and acceptance, Dennis had suggested to her that she met the three teenagers- the Supermen, she gave them their proper time at that point- again so that she could get a proper feel of what she was working with now that she was in on everything- Megan preferred to think of it as "in on the relevant details" though. She knew without a doubt that Dennis hadn't told her everything concerning Project Olympus.Anyway, he put in the call and the meeting was arranged in one of Olympus's small conference room- small here meant that it was a larger than the standard conference room but smaller than the others on the mountain- and the teenagers were actually waiting for her when she arrived. Well, all of them except
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"Mum, watch out!"A blinding white light followed by the sound of glass breaking were the last things Megan recalled before her eyes jerked open and she shot up in bed, panting and heaving.A nightmare, Megan, she told herself.It was only a nightmare.Ten...Nine...Eight... She counted down the seconds till her heart calmed down and she looked at the digital clock on her bedside table.4am, it read; right on cue as always.Thing is, nightmares- the particular one she just woke up from, in fact- had been an eventful part of Megan's night for a very long time now. The scream, the light, the sound; they were as familiar to her as the bed she slept on; as familiar as the very incident which changed her life and brought them on to
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Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThe sun had begun to set when Megan drove a black McLaren up a long driveway to join the long line of prestigious vehicles already queued up there.Her heart thundered in her chest.How in the world would she make the mission work? she thought to herself, terrified. Chances were, she would be found out the moment she stepped out of the car, which didn't give her any comfort.Sensing herself almost a few secomds away from a panic attack, Megan forced herself to calm down, directing her thoughts instead to the events that had led to where she was."I still think a tact team's better suited for this, Director," she recalled her conversation with Dennis right after their meeting was ov
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The elevator came to a stop after what seemed like an eternity but was actually only thirty minutes of flight- Megan checked to be sure- and she stepped out of it.She looked up and all her breath ceased in her throat once again.God, how did they even think to create something like that?she wondered at the sight of the most incredible space she had ever seen.As it turned out, Astrodomo's giant dome was a six-floor glass mansion on the inside, but it was unlike any type Megan had knowledge of before.Thing is, while the building did have six floors, they actually only extended from the wall to a quarter across the almost stadium size length of the space in a semicircle that held what looked like three sitting rooms, three receiving rooms, bedrooms too nume
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The picture didn't do him justice at all, was the first thought that popped into Megan's head at the sight of Ricardo. While she found out that he looked very much like in the picture she had seen, she also realized to her surprise that some of his features had been greatly underwhelmed by it.His eyes for one, she thought. The picture had made them seem black but they were actually dark brown, with a little highlight of black that shone with intelligence not especially common to every individual, even some so-called geniuses that Megan had met during the course of her psychology career.It was like they could see much more than just the physical, she appraised; and on some level, she believed they could.She also noted that his hair had gotten an upgrade- sh
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Ricardo put out his hands and Megan took it, letting him lead her down the stairs to the party.To her utmost surprise, the room went silent as they came, all eyes on her to ignore Ricardo as if he was nothing more than a fly on the wall then.What in the world was happening?Megan wondered at the sight of the attention.Why were the people ignoring Ricardo to focus on her? He was the big shot after all.Out of nowhere, it suddenly dawned on her that being the big shot was exactly why they were ignoring him.Thing is, virtually everyone at the party already knew Ricardo. They knew his face and his personality. They had already seen where he lived and probably visited it more than once before that night.
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The shadow was a man, Megan realized just before the glass shattered and she dropped to the ground shielding her face on reflex, Ricardo dropping beside her to shield her body with his.The astrodome came to an abrupt stop, like everyone and everything- even the music stopped- in it was so stunned by the new entrant that they didn't know how to react.The man, dressed in full combat gear, landed in the centre of the floor with a rope that had apparently helped him drop from a chopper that Megan noticed then was hovering stealthily overhead. He took the room and its occupants in with a quick look-about, and then out of nowhere, he brought out a pistol and pointed it at Ricardo."Get down!" Megan pushed him just as the man pulled the trigger and they fell on the ground; she on t
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Just as Megan thought that she and Ricardo were home free, one of the assailants suddenly turned and spotted them. "Target acquired!" he shouted to his comrades and they turned, their guns immediately on the ready.They pulled the trigger but a glass panel slid up in front of the platform just in time to deflect the bullets away before they found home in Megan and Ricardo's bodies."Down," Ricardo commanded and a tube extended down from the astrodome towards the ground, the platform descending speedily through it.Megan caught a glimpse of Adolf flying up to one of the assailants to give him an uppercut before the party disappeared from sight and she forced herself to relax.He would be okay, she assured herself. She, on the other hand, still had some things to attend to.
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