"We lost the hard disk. we couldn't trace it anymore. It seemed it was taken underground somewhere" Mayor Mount explained sadly.
"We have a new lead into some basement of some mansions. I...we promise to bring it back sir" Raymond assured him.
"I am putting my trust in you. You are our last hope" Mayor Mount concluded.
"I think we don't have a choice than to save his little brother" Raymond said to Grace. He knew she wouldn't like that but that was the truth right now.
"They couldn't track it?" Grace asked the obvious. She should have known by what Raymond had been saying.
"It has been taken underground somewhere. I think their eyes couldn't penetrate earth's crust" Raymond joked.
He didn't know Cale or his brother before. He just felt they should be helped and that, he felt was normal.
"So, what do we know about his brother?" Grace asked weakly like she had accepted, maybe she realized they had no choice.
"He will guide us the
"I still don't understand how this tunnel is going to lead into some basement of some mansion" Grace bent putting her hands on her knees out of exhaustion.They had been walking for some minutes in the tunnel using a map they got from Cale.It seemed she had gotten another thing to complain about. She had been whining about the weirdness of the solo policeman that came to retrieve the kids. After she already was not in support of saving the kids in the beginning.Raymond felt she was just complaining for sake of complaining. Maybe she had a personal problem she was dealing with. Dealing with a personal problem was normal, the issue therein was not sharing what it was and obscuring it with frequent complaints."Because you know nothing about architecture or civil engineering" Raymond replied waiting ahead. He was also exhausted. He gasped for breath."You know I've noticed you have been getting somehow bottled up since some times ago. What's i
"No, you are not going to kill anyone for him. He can do all he want, I don't care" Raymond protested. That meant this would be going to another level. They shouldn't get involved more than their original mission and that was retrieving the disk."And do your Mayor also care not about the disk? It is a good deal, girl. Raymond and the hard disk for an assassination. Two for one" Jackson laughed. He stretched his hand out. One of his men put the disk in his hand."I knew about everything in this piece of junk but I do not care. I don't need it" he added."Don't bring me into your personal feuds with anyone. You have a lot of men to deliver your wish. And we can pay for the hard disk if you will sell, which is the best deal for you" Grace explained.She was right. Mayor Mount would pay, even overpay, to get that. It would even be easier for them"You don't understand what is happening here. I don't have a personal feuds with anyone and th
Raymond had become distressed in the big iron cage. He turned his view to the side where some clanging sounds came from. Someone was coming into the cage with a plate of food.He hissed loudly. He wasn't interested in the food. He was hungry but a food being served to him like a prisoner, would kill all the appetite in him.The man who came dropped the food in front of him."I don't need your damn food. Take it away" he kicked the plate hard. The plate flew up to hit a side of the cage and the food splattered through the bars right on Jackson's body.He didn't know he was there before. As it turned out to be, it delighted him. Jackson brushed off the food that had already stained his shirt and stared at Raymond wickedly.Raymond grinned loudly. That hurt him and that was how it should be. Jackson turned and was walking away."She won't come back!" Raymond exclaimed and caught his attention. Jackson came back to his side outside the cage.
The alarm went on and on, blaring loudly all over the building. Everywhere was a chaos. People rushed outward as they were being evacuated by the security personnels.Grace stood breathless, glued to the wall on the staircase. There were bruises all over her body. She watched the whole event unfolding like cinema before her.She wanted to sneak out. But she hadn't found any way possible to do that. She didn't really have a good escape plan. She thought she would mingle with the crowd being evacuated but that was no longer possible."Lock down the building" the little Wong screamed running around followed by some armed men.He knew what happened and knew Grace's face. Grace wasn't sure if he could trust him. He might turn her over. Someone that could conspire to kill his own brother.The alarm that went off instantly might even be his doing.She should have been long gone before anyone could notice."She is still in the building, a slim
Raymond heart skipped a beat. He held the part of his chest where the bullet would hit him, where Jackson had aimed. His hand wouldn't stop the bullet. He would still die anyway.Jackson pulled the trigger. The gun clicked. It was empty. He threw the gun at him, but it the iron bars and fell to the ground.Grace came in. It was her normal self. She couldn't have been the one beating Jackson up like this unless there was something Jackson didn't know."Grace" Jackson yelled happily. She rushed to the cage and held his hands. She cried and kissed his hands."It was a trap" Raymond said. He was happy to see her again. Grace nodded and checked for a door around the cage where Raymond could come out through."There's no door. The switch is over that side" he pointed to direct her. He saw Jackson crawling outwards."He's getting away" he notified Grace."He can't go anywhere" she replied without looking back. She flipped the switch an
Raymond and Grace walked out from Newland Airports. They waited for a cab."That was quite a long story" Raymond whispered into her ears. "But I am more interested in the run away helicopter" he emphasized."Why are you making it sound like it was a load of fun. I was very scared. Dead scared" Grace growled. It seemed she didn't like how Raymond had been lauding the ride in the helicopter."Fun, scare. They are related in some ways. Isn't that why people watch horror movies?" Raymond asked cunningly with a comeback. He would make Grace spilled out all what was inside of her."Scared of dying is very different from sitting down in some big cinemas, munching popcorn, watching some big screens showing some exclusively owned movies. You get scared in there and you hold tight to your seat or your partner that took you out on that special date you are trying to memorialize with some scary things" Grace gasped. That took her some time
Few weeks later.It was dark at night. Grace, in her zombie form, climbed up on the glass surface of a penthouse straight to the top pest floor. She hanged on with both hands and swung her body back, brought it back on the glass.The glass shattered and she made her way in. She got out of the room she entered into the hallway sneaking through. Bright lights glowing enough to blind came on suddenly.Alarm blared all over the penthouse. She turned round and round in amazement. Some gunned rushed to the hallway down from where she was."Stop right there" a man screamed. The zombie Grace took to her heels. She was trailed by gunfire.Eight hours earlier.Grace and Raymond strolled hand in hand in the cemetery. Grace was carrying some flowers. They stopped at a headstone which read 'Emily Brunt, 1973-2009'Grace put down the flower. She knelt beside it. He looked at Raymond's face above. Her face was clouded with tears. R
Grace took some steps backward. She ran towards the opening and jumped. She flew past all the buildings and landed somewhere very far away.She turned back into her normal self after groaning and shaking in pains. This was a part she really didn't like. She smiled satisfactorily and headed home.Raymond woke up in the bedroom. He stretched his hand to his side. He wanted to touch Grace but he didn't touch anything. Without looking up. He moved closer and stretched his hand again, much further. He ran his hand forth and back searching for her.He jumped up after he discovered she wasn't by his side. He got out of bed and went into the bathroom. She wasn't there.He checked the time. It was past one in the night."Where did she go?" he muttered. He was becoming impatient. He calmed himself to be at ease and checked her in the living room. He could fret if he didn't find her by then.He walked down the stairs to the living room to m