...Asher POV...I was happy to see that Sienna had returned to normal. She seemed a bit torn and upset with herself. But was otherwise fine. I was sure she would return to her normal self after more rest and something to eat. She's been running full force for far too long. We've been in this war with Silvio for over a year. Sienna has been put through more than anyone else. Not only was she tortured mentally and physically, but she was in a constant state of survival. Forcing her mind to do whatever it needed to help whoever she could. She was forced to withstand high degrees of physical torture so that no harm would come to Tomás or Hunter. Then when that wasn't enough, Silvio took things up a notch by capturing me. Using me against Sienna in his quest to bring down Hunter. When none of that worked, he used her family. If anything, I'm surprised Sienna hadn't suffered a mental break long before now. She's been pushed harder than anyone else I know. Even warriors in battle go throug

...Sienna POV..."I think we need to treat both of them as possible candidates. I would like to believe Eli is innocent in all of this. But I can't deny all the signs are pointing towards him. Let us sit and think about how to proceed before we do anything further. We need to make sure no one finds out about this. For all we know, one of them or both of them could be in on this. If either of them finds out before we have a chance to catch them, all of our work will be for nothing. We finally have a lead for the first time in a long time." I suggest making sure no one, including the FBI, attempts to proceed further.I want to look into this more. I want to find out for myself if Eli or Everett are behind this. But in order to do so, I need to keep the FBI far away from this."I understand your cause for concern. But I think it would be safer if we worked together on this." Jace comments. However, little does he realize that I refuse to back down."No, you don't. You wouldn't even sugge

Over the next week, Asher and I worked tirelessly to form a plan so that we could dig up intel on Eli and Everett. We did as much as we could from overseas, but now it was time to go in person. So far, I managed to deduce that Eli was, in fact, giving intel to Everett, but what we didn't know was whether Eli was aware of this or if Eli was the mastermind behind it all. From the information I found, it would be easy to point fingers at Eli, but part of me still had doubts. I wasn't sure if it was because Eli was close to my family, so I didn't want to think that he could be the one behind all of this. But the more information I found, it was growing increasingly difficult to prove otherwise. I was able to find a deep hack in the FBI system that sent confidential information directly to Everett. The problem though was that we didn't know Eli's involvement in all of this. Was Eli the one who had set up the hack so Everett would get the classified information? Was Eli trying to frame Eve

...Eli POV...Today was turning out to be just any ordinary day. But I couldn't deny the feeling in my chest that something was going to happen. I couldn't put my finger on what, which only made my unease all the more. Perhaps it was Everett's meeting with this new investor? I did a background check on him before allowing Everett to agree to the meeting. Even though the results came up with nothing, I couldn't deny that something seemed off. This new investor's profile seemed clean, too clean even. Anytime we ran into people like that at the FBI, it was only ever because of one thing. It meant the person wasn't who they were claiming to be.I had told Everett of my suspicions. However, he decided to accept the meeting. He felt that if the person weren't who they claimed to be, they would make their reasons known during the meeting. As his head of security, I didn't approve of this way of thinking. But I knew I had no choice but to let it go. Everett was just as strong-willed as his f

"I... uh.. have to take this..." I state, choosing to stick with our original plan."Sure." Eli comments, but remains motionless. I step out of his office and quickly search the map to see where Ash is. When I see that he seems to be in Everett's office, which is close by, I decide to go back to see Eli to make up an excuse—claiming that I had to go to the bathroom or something. However, Eli seems to have gone missing when I step into his office. I frown, knowing that he has to be in here. There's only one door into this room, and I was standing directly in front of it."Eli?" I call out, wondering how he could've disappeared so easily.I take a few cautious steps into the office, reaching for the gun I had hidden in the back of my waistband, only to find it's missing. My eyes go wide as my nerves run frantically."Looking for this?" I hear a voice call out behind me. I spin around to see Eli lurking in the shadows, pointing a gun towards me. My gun specifically."Eli?" I call out,