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Chapter 51

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The week ended but it still feels like chaos was still present.

Isabella stood beside me, close enough that I could feel the warmth of her even through my coat. We were waiting in line at the bus terminal where our shuttle will fetch us to go to the venue of the seminar. Everyone around us looked painfully normal, and we tried to look the same.

“This would have taken me ten minutes if I used my private jet…” Isabella murmured under her breath, seemingly making sure that I was the only one who heard her.

“And the chance to cover up your humble and responsible manager image?” I shot back. She grimaced and turned her back against me, making me chuckle for a little bit.

I let my gaze drift across the busy terminal. We know no one here. Two representatives from each company in town had been invited to a private resort near the seaside for this so-called seminar. For most employees, this would be a coveted opportunity and a one-week paid break they would dream of. It was a perfect escape
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  • Enemies in Disguise    Chapter 51

    The week ended but it still feels like chaos was still present. Isabella stood beside me, close enough that I could feel the warmth of her even through my coat. We were waiting in line at the bus terminal where our shuttle will fetch us to go to the venue of the seminar. Everyone around us looked painfully normal, and we tried to look the same.“This would have taken me ten minutes if I used my private jet…” Isabella murmured under her breath, seemingly making sure that I was the only one who heard her.“And the chance to cover up your humble and responsible manager image?” I shot back. She grimaced and turned her back against me, making me chuckle for a little bit. I let my gaze drift across the busy terminal. We know no one here. Two representatives from each company in town had been invited to a private resort near the seaside for this so-called seminar. For most employees, this would be a coveted opportunity and a one-week paid break they would dream of. It was a perfect escape

  • Enemies in Disguise    Chapter 50

    By the time she got back, she was already holding a medical kit in her arms. She saw me in the same position as she left a while ago. The pain on my back is starting to take a toll on me. Her eyes narrowed and made me straighten my back. “Sit.”I blinked, looking at her with full disbelief. How dare she command me with just a word?“I’m not a dog.”“I know, dogs are a lot more charming and cooperative.” She rebutted. She knelt behind me and the next thing I knew, my shirt was torn by her dagger.“What the—” I groaned as she pressed an alcohol pad to the raw skin along my lower back. The cold sting made every muscle tighten. She noticed that. She worked quietly yet, annoyingly gentle whenever the pain made me flinch.“You know how to treat wounds?” I asked out of curiosity. “Adam.” She straightforwardly answered. “I learned because I had to patch him up all the time.”Before I could respond, the handler approached with Daisy still in his arms. “Done quarreling, love birds?”“We are no

  • Enemies in Disguise    Chapter 49

    I woke up to a light snickering from above. For a moment, I was disoriented, unsure if I was dreaming or if the noise was real. My eyes fluttered open gradually as the soft sound echoed from my place. It took a second for my brain to register where I was, why my neck hurt like hell, and why something warm was pressed against my shoulder.Isabella.My arm had somehow wrapped around her waist while hers was at my chest without permission from either of us. Close call. If Isabella woke up before I even had the chance to open my eyes fully, I’d be done for.The snickering came again.I blinked upward.A familiar silhouette leaned casually over the edge of the hole, one hand holding a phone towards our direction, and another carrying Daisy.“Ki!” Daisy’s little voice called.“Well, good morning.” the handler greeted in amusement, hiding his phone in his pocket. “Hope you don’t mind us sticking around… or above.”I groaned and showed him my middle finger. “Fvck you.”“F-fak?” Daisy echoed.

  • Enemies in Disguise    Chapter 48

    “So, were you and Adam close?”Both Isabella and I were sitting on the ground, dust clinging to our clothes, and the face of defeat sitting across our faces. We tried stacking debris and soils, digging the walls as stairs, using me as a ladder, but all ended up as failures. Isabella rested her forearms on her knees, her crimson hair sticking to her cheek where sweat and dirt mixed. She isn’t the type of assassin who would sit still, not even for a second. But here she was, curled on the dirt as she’d finally run out of reasons to keep pretending she wasn’t exhausted.Her finger played on the dirt, scribbling random shapes. “Close?” she repeated. “I don’t think that’s the right term.”I waited. Isabella carefully chooses her words before answering. It’s part of why she made it as both a manager and an assassin. And if I rushed her, she’d probably rush a dagger straight at my face.“We weren’t the type of siblings who hugged or said ‘I love you’ every hour.” A humorless breath left her

  • Enemies in Disguise    Chapter 47

    As stupid as it sounds, we went back to the place the big boss tipped me over. Yeah, the base of the fallen ones, a graveyard of a war long done, but apparently not done enough for us. The handler was right. If Adam Moretti’s name had resurfaced, and if Daisy’s clan was dragged into this again, this place was the only place we could start. Still didn’t change the fact that being back here felt like walking into an enemy’s bait.But I really don’t care. They can do whatever they want, and I’ll still tear down every trap they set. If they want me dead, they’ll have to try a hell of a lot harder. “Can’t your connections identify which clan this symbol belongs to?” I asked Isabella who was walking way ahead of me.She didn’t slow down. “They couldn’t. It cost some of their colleagues’ lives.”The ruins of the fallen clan’s base lay quiet. Before we entered, we inspected the areas nearby just to be sure no one was hiding and waiting for us. Isabella made me drive an armored car that sh

  • Enemies in Disguise    Chapter 46

    “Handler! Have you heard—”“Yeah, yeah…” He cut me off without looking away from his monitors, fingers flying across the keyboard like he was trying to outrun time. “A f*cking scientist who’s after this innocent baby for no good reason.”He cursed under his breath and wore his anti-radiation glasses; something he only uses when he planned to stay awake until dawn. Beer cans littered the floor around him, a clear indication he had already started stress-drinking. He was pissed, for anyone had the courage to target Daisy.Luckily, Daisy is already fast asleep in her crib. Sometimes I wonder if she’s used to heavy noise because a while ago, she didn’t even flinch or cry despite the gunfire ringing nearby. I watched how her chest and round stomach rose and fell in slow and steady breaths. Part of me wanted to stay there, just watching, making sure before she can speak properly, she’s living a normal life.But I couldn’t. The people after her weren’t finished, and sitting beside her would

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