SADIE.I thought Emmett would at least make it tomorrow before the public announcement but judging by the looks I am getting as I walk through the house and the approaching footsteps of my dad as well as that of his sister, I do not need to watch the news or read some online article.As soon as my father hit his walk cane on the tiled floor, everyone within sight scurry out. Leaving me with him, Aunt Kitra and Matt who looks more hurt than I imagined.“You were sent to kill a man but you are getting married to him instead?!” My father’s harsh tone comes out octaves high enough to cause him a stroke if he does not calm down.“I am just making it easier for you to get rid of me.” I respond as I share my gaze between him and Matt as well as Aunt Kitra.“Qetsiyah Sadie Dawson!” Aunt Kitra shrieks as she reverberates.I just need my father to get so mad he starts to spill much without realizing. I need him to make me beat up myself for believing Emmett over him.“Mister Dawson, I believe y
EMMETT.I do not need to be the Alpha to know my office hours today will not be utilized for office purposes but to explain to more than just my close ones, Hoffman’s daughter, Sarah and the entire pack as to why I will be getting married sooner than not even expected.“You are a sly and cunning bastard!” Sarah yells as she walks into my office unannounced at the same time with Jasmine who passes me an apologetic look.Making a sign for Jasmine to leave us, she shuts the door after herself as Sarah proceeds towards my desk; “I belittled myself. Threw all of my advantage to beg you to marry me. I did not beg for a permanent bond, I only wanted something temporary. Something you could give to me. I am not a whore but I let myself be one for you. I cannot go around sleeping with a man I do not have potentials with. You are worth the husband material and I am also worth the wife one, yet you chose her. Where did she even come from? She was never there, at least I know that. I know you. Yo
“Assassinate the Alpha.” His instructions were clear and easy. Easy because it was me. I had taken down strong men and powerful women. Men who never thought they could be taken down. Taking them down was not easy either but again it was because it is me.Men stood no chance where I stood. There are older men and even women in our club. Yet I joined six months ago and I have taken down more than each has in the last thirty years since my father founded the organization. I overheard people in the organization murmur and gossip among themselves that my father trained me differently, but that was where they missed it. My father never trained me. In fact he did not want me anywhere close to the organization. He said multiple times that he wanted a normal life for me. That I am a happy girl with the nature of a sunflower – I was always happy. Which is an absolute contrast to my name if you take out the two latter words.The keyword is WAS. My happiness is a thing of the past now. Every feel
SADIE.“Your father is waiting for you.” My aunt, Kitra informs me as I walk in.Fu.ck the fact that I know every single word he is about to spew, and although I regard no one. He is the only person I respect and take orders from. I am about to be questioned on my first failure and I think I owe nobody an explanation. Not even the person I respect the most.“Okay.” I respond, and walk past her as I head straight for his tacky study which he refers to as his best part of the large house.Taking off my gloves, I drop them on the floor and knock before entering without his response. Super annoying how this man in his late sixties still has women messing around him. Not a surprise because he plays a better sugar daddy than they could imagine. And his looks are a hundred and ten over hundred. “Get out.” I say to the wench who is seated comfortably on his desk. “Who is she?” She asks, as she runs her red manicured nails from his Adam's apple to his exposed chest as she eyes me. “You hear
SADIE.Three Hours Earlier.In my six months of experience, the top people never live in an easy area. They live in either a suite in a penthouse, or some villa seated in the middle of a large area of land covered in forestations to hide themselves properly. Some live in maybe neither a villa nor a suite in a penthouse, but at least a nice house – some building close to what you can call a mansion in a likely neighborhood. Some had to be killed in the middle of their pleasures in a hotel room, but from the building across. You should know the drill but in any case not, read on.Just because they lived in a suite somewhere in one of the floors of a penthouse, or even the penthouse itself. Or some villa in the middle of nowhere. Or maybe some kind of mansion in a likely neighborhood with tight security, did not make it easy for them to be killed. Each time for any of the supposed person destined to die, I had mapped out and planned all on my own and succeeded. All I ever had to hear
SADIEFOUR HOURS LATER.It always, like it always has to rain this day of every year. And I in all honesty, I have never minded but tonight’s feels like I am being punished for coming too late. If this heavy downpour is my punishment, it is not enough. No it is not. I should be struck by thunder or something more. I got carried away by my loss today. Him causing a raise to my heart, adrenaline aside. Not only is he the first person I failed to kill, but he made me feel something I hate to admit.“I brought flowers. I am sorry.” I whisper-cry as I kneel on the wet grass.Placing the flower on her name engraved on the stone, I pull the weeds around her grave with my hands. “I wish I was the one six feet under and not you.” I mutter as I continue plucking out the weeds.“Not only did I almost commit the gravest sin by forgetting to come here, I lost today. I failed to kill the Alpha guy. I do not know why he is being called an alpha. He is just some ordinary man. I could snap his fuck.
SADIE.Love?The most misused word. A word that invokes unnecessary bondage and responsibility. Might be hypocritical of me to say it since my drive to every successful kill and being the best agent in the organization is the LOVE I have for my sister. What is the very point of getting into something more when nothing lasts forever? Why waste so much time falling in love and trying to please a partner in the name of love? Why are people willing to get married with the intention of starting a family? Children are great, but why bring them into chaos and also create a weakness for one’s self? Say they were unbreakable before, now with just a mere threat to their lives the parents switch to more than a broken glass.“Get out.” I say as calmly as I can let out, my head is currently like it is about to split apart. “Sadie, please.” Matt pleads.“Get out.” I can feel myself twitching from my irritation, but one more credit to the list of too many things I can do is control.“You are one
THIRD PERSON’S POINT OF VIEW. Alpha Emmett sits in his study with his business partners who are also his Beta and Gamma respectively as he requested their presence. His anger, less prominent than it had been initially after he felt deceived. He is a man of peace. A man who hates to be lied to. A man who loves his people and respects them as much as he can because no one can beat the respect the members of the pack have for him. “Who could have sent her?” Cullen, his best friend asks as he paces back and forth continuously. “Should the question be who sent her or why Emmett let her go? He could have easily killed her right from the moment he saw her and Shell did not bark.” Liam, the Gamma replies. The latter question makes Emmett groan internally, he knew he kind of messed up but he has no regret whatsoever that he did not kill her. He knows he will be lying to himself if he says he never wants to see her again. He in fact wants her at this event. “Was she that beautiful? Were her