The Bodyguard's Secret
My hands shook off from her grip, rubbing the area where her nails dug to ease the pain.
“Tell me why” I said, wanting to know.
Secretary Lee closed her eyes, counting to five, trying to calm her breath.
She opened them, then explained.
“While Mr Nikolai is an assassin, he works under an organization. They are very secretive and precise about who gets whatever information, and how beneficial it is to them…”
She glanced at her shoes, and back at me.
In simple terms…
“The person who sold this information to me was murdered.”
My heart dropped. Everything stopped for a second. The breeze seized, but my mind kept racing. My peripheral vision blurred, and my body stood numb.