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His. Chapter one
It is unfathomable what the mind is truly capable of.When born, a child has the ability to remember and recognize faces. They develop this ability to remember who they should trust, who to feel comfortable with and whose presence should calm them.That same ability to remember can create memories that can scar them, making them scream in agony every time they see that face that they wish they couldn’t recognize.As toddlers, we ran around looking for answers to every question we had as infants but never were able to ask. Our imagination can ignite such an intense flame of interest in the smallest things. We look, and observe, and ask, and touch.That same curiosity gets toddlers their scars.As teenagers, we believe we are invincible. We have already heard the disappointing truth about life and realized that everything is not as shiny and dreamy as it seems. We become more careful, that’s for a while at least. When the carefulness takes too much control of our life, we become what we
His. Chapter two
C H A P T E R T W OShe could not believe that it was that easy, neither could Loris. She could tell just by looking at him that he had a thousand different questions running through his mind, but he could not ask her any right now. Instead he showed her to a room and told her that this would be hers and that Mr. Mancini would probably announce her as a guest of his soon to the people here. Until then, she had to keep her head low and get familiar with the grounds.He walked out, closing the door behind him as she started exploring the room. This whole place was breath taking, fully aware that she was in a mansion belonging to the mafia, she could not help but admire the earthly tones of the room making her feel warm. Carpet covered the whole floor, and paintings caught her attention immediately. There was a huge mirror right beside her door, almost the size of the wall. She stared at her reflection and took a deep breath, looking at the eyes that were looking back at her. She could
His. Chapter three
C H A P T E R T H R E EOnce they all sat down, Elvio Mancini looked at Athena, leaning back in his chair and speaking, “I am assuming Loris told you a little bit about your job?” he asked.“He told me what you looked for,” she replied, but still not completely aware of her task.“Rumour has it, Ms. Vaccarelli, that we have a man working on the inside and giving out to information to people who should not know certain things. We need a fresh pair of eyes and someone skilled to find out who.”“How exactly do you plan on letting me in on everything though, are women even allowed in any meetings?” She asked.“That is for us to decide, and now we are saying yes,” Elvio Mancini spoke. “You will mostly be working from the house, searching for data and information, sometimes you might need to finish some jobs for us and work undercover where ever we need you to be. That would mean that you would have to be willing to do anything in order to get a hold of information. Do you understand what
His. Chapter four
C H A P T E R F O U R“You got everything you need?” Loris asked Athena as she took one last look around her room. She was travelling to New York today along with Giovanni and Elvio Mancini, but Loris would be staying in Sicily, which truth be told kind of scared her. But all these years of training told her that she did not really not Loris to hold her hand every step of the way. He had gotten her in, and now the rest was for her to handle.“Yes, the rest I will get in New York.”“Good, remember, if you feel like you’re in way too deep and need to get out, you have the phone. Just send the signal and agents will contact you.” He said almost whispering as she nodded.“I’ll be okay, we should start going.” She spoke and Loris nodded, opening the door, and leading her towards the exit. Once standing at the mansions door, she hugged him as he whispered a quiet “be safe” to her. Elvio and Giovanni Mancini were standing outside, near the cars waiting on them. They were in their usual suit
His. Chapter five
C H A P T E R F I V E Giovanni had made his way back to his seat after a few hours. Elvio was scrolling through his phone last time Athena checked. When Giovanni had made his way back to where she and Elvio sat, she quickly closed her eyes and relaxed her body, pretending to be unaware of her surroundings. She heard footsteps coming closer to her but then did not hear a shift in the air indicating that the man who walked up to her had walked away. It was crazy in her mind, but she could literally feel his eyes on her. She did not know that it was possible for her senses to detect someone looking at her without even seeing them. “She asleep?” she heard Elvio ask, but no reply from Giovanni. She assumed that he had gestured his thought to Elvio, by either nodding or shaking his head. Either way, she made sure to not move a muscle and made sure to breath as normally as she could. She counted 4 seconds for her inhale, and 4 for her exhale, knowing that if she started overthinking her
His. Chapter six
C H A P T E R S I X “You’re certain that someone else is tracking him?” “Yes.” “Do you have a copy of the data?” “I can get it.” “Does he trust you yet?” “Not fully, but he will.” “Great job agent.” She got up and walked back towards the car, considering if this was the first time in her life that David Menendez had praised her. He knew her since she was eighteen, well actually before, but he introduced himself and brought her in to join the bureau at that age. She knew that Mancini he had his goons watching her, so they both made sure to not look at each or give any sign of acknowledgment for each other once they sat on the park bench, but hiding her smile now was a slightly difficult task. That man never praised anyone, not even his own children.. she felt a sense of accomplishment that she had not felt in years. It would be a lie however to say that this all did not feel like too much at times, she could get caught any moment, and god knows what would happen to her. She
His. Chapter seven
C H A P T E R S E V E N “Don’t let it get in contact with water, I don’t have time to play doctor.” Maybe you should not have shot me then, was she wanted to say, but she dared not. He crossed a line today that she did not expect to be crossed unless she was discovered as an FBI agent. Yet here he was, cleaning the slight wound he gave her on her arm with the grazing bullet, telling her that if he had actually known she was FBI he would have sat here and helped her. Yet he shot her.. She dared not look at him anymore, she felt like the fire inside of her had been extinguished. She wondered how her mother must have felt when she was in Athena’s position. Was she also not expecting to be shot, or did she know it was time? Had she gotten a warning? She wondered what is worse, knowing that you’re about to be killed, or not knowing that this is going to be your last second.. “go get dressed Athena.” he said, calling her by her first name for the first time and it sent shivers down he
His. Chapter eight
C H A P T E R E I G H T “How does that even work? I thought you needed some high class equipment to hack into someone’s business?” “Not really,” she laughed at Elvio’s complete disbelief of how little was actually required to steal someone’s information. “I was 14 when I did my first ever job, if you can call it that” she laughed, as she went on to explain, “I stole 127 dollars from the mean social workers account and gave it to this sweet old lady who’s cat had died. They could not even trace it back.” She sipped on her whiskey, that she grew to appreciate the taste of. The elevator doors opened, making them both look up at the man walking in. His white shirt was dirty and stained. His knuckles bloody and his hair soaked with sweat and rain. Sage stood up from beside Athena and ran up to him. But Giovanni did not look at him, he was not expecting either of them to be there, his eyes looked at them both before looking back at Elvio. “You look like you need the drink more than the
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