LOGINWalking towards the exact spot I'd informed Elena to stay in, I cracked my knuckles as I heaved a deep breath. I had prepared for whatever reaction she would exhibit as soon as she heard from me. But it wasn't as easy as my mind believed it was. Wouldn't she begin to doubt my motive to expose this secret to her? How could she really trust that I cared about her and I didn't have any selfish intentions of revealing it?Would she believe I'd hidden this secret for a long time and was only exposing it because it no longer paid off? As soon as I arrived at the spot, I glanced around to confirm if Elena was already on her way, but she was not in my line of sight yet. She must have been held up in traffic. “Goodness gracious.” I murmured to myself as I kept my head slightly lowered before sitting down on the settee. That was exactly the plan on my mind. Sit on a settee together with Elena and expose this secret to her. The heaviness of the compilation of the evidence that backed up thes
I was already packing my stuff, ready to drive home to my apartment to see Maya again after a long day at work when I heard the door to my office open. Gently turning towards the direction of the sound, I saw someone stepping inside. I paused everything I was doing to make sure the person coming in didn't have an harmful intention. And then I saw Adrian's face. A mix of happiness and worry filled my mind, and I didn't truly which one I could best cling to. I heaved a deep breath, dropped the stuff in my hand as I walked up to him. The fact he came to say a word to me, all by himself, showed he was reddy to open up and I wasn't going to jeopardize this chance. His mood looked even more serious than earlier. He seemed to have gotten into a big trouble. The expression on his face showed how much he wanted to speak but he was reluctant to. I let out a deep breath as I gently took his palm in mine, giving him the opportunity to say his mind, even if he had been hesitating to say a word
Some of the files sat on my right-hand side and the rest sat on my left hand side. I needed to check through for one last time to be sure I wasn't speculating or making a risky assumption. Falsely accusing someone like Dominic could get me into big trouble. I checked through the files one more time, verifying the information that I'd already concluded were correct. I could have exposed a lot of them to Elena when I came across her path. We were in the same room together and I could not even tell her what was going on in my mind. She was brilliant enough to notice that my mind was not settled, but even though she took the bold move to ask me what was bothering me, I couldn't say a word to her, not because I didn't want to. I badly wanted to. But I had to verify the information that was passed to me. Through The process of trying to bring the breakers of the law to face the wrath of the law, I wouldn't want to be affected adversely. The more I checked the files, the more the conclusi
It was another day to be at work. Even though my mind was not as calm as it used to be, that wasn't an excuse to be away from work. Marcus had told me, weeks ago, that the threat has been finally neutralized and to be honest, I hadn't received any threatening message nor have I noticed any suspicious movements in the hospital premises since he gave me that information. I wouldn't care about the accuracy of it. As long as no attack or threat would come my way, I would believe the update from him. Together in one of the hospital rooms with Adrian standing at the far end, accomplishing his own tasks for the day, I couldn't help but think about how moody he was. Each time he wanted me to find out he was moody, he would not respond to my greetings and the expression on his face would clearly show that, but that was not the case now. He happily exchanged pleasantries with me when he came in, and we even had a little gist time together before we returned to work. Despite that, I noticed
As I sat down on my chair, my fingers instinctively drummed on the table as I patiently waited for my phone to beep with a call notification. The caller I'd given the task to find the missing piece of the puzzle had not given me the feedback yet. My mind couldn't stay blank. Thoughts on what I encountered while reading the book returned, forcing me to pick up the same book to have another look. I could have concluded that he was involved in those shady deals, but would I not be getting myself into deeper trouble for doing that? I glanced at the screen of my phone when a notification came in, but it wasn't a call or message notification. I continued to read the details in the book, as my heart thumped each time I came across a gruesome act that Dominic allegedly committed. He could decide to contact me through social media if he didn't want to give me a ring. I'd given him alt of options to reach me already, so I totally understood if he wasn't giving me a ring yet. I could distract
Building a team of investigators to work on Dominic's case was one of the easiest way to get a solution to the problem at hand, but my mind didn't approve of that idea. No, not yet. I needed to find out the most important secrets, collate them, and work on them before handling them to anyone else to work on. That way, I could be sure of a successful mission even if one of the team members become compromised. My mind couldn't stop thinking about the missing piece of the puzzle. Something wasn't adding up. Even though I'd heard from the caller about how his family must have been involved in dangerous deals, including kidnapping and aiding illegal activities, I needed to find out more about why that happened, or how that happened. Something was not complete yet, and it seemed like though Dominic had the missing piece of the puzzle in his hand. “To hell with Dominic.” I whispered to myself as I grabbed the cardboard to inspect the diagram on it once again. “To hell with you, man. I'm g
The dinner was at the Meridian, which meant the usual crowd.Old money and new money in the same room, pretending they had always been comfortable with each other. Hospital directors and research heads sitting alongside the kind of businessmen who wrote cheques large enough to put their names on b
The drive back was quiet.Not the comfortable kind of quiet that sometimes settled between Elena and me after a long evening. This was the kind that had weight to it. She was sitting in the passenger seat with her face turned toward the window and her bag in her lap and her hands folded over it,
I was at the hospital by seven thirty.Not because my shift started that early. It started at nine. But the apartment had felt too small that morning and Maya had still been asleep and I had not wanted to sit at the kitchen table with my thoughts for another hour and a half, so I had dressed quiet
The three of us were standing in a triangle and the space between us felt very small.The sponsor had already quietly removed himself, which I was grateful for, because the tension coming off both Adrian and Dominic was enough to manage without adding a third person to it. Around us the party cont







