"So who is Rufus Pale?" Raymond read playfully from the small book. "The name is the funniest name I've ever heard" he stared into the laptop Grace was working on.
"We should be more concerned about the legal consequences for overdosing someone" Grace shouted. Raymond was not letting her think straight.
"Overdosed to death? I think that should rather be a murder case?" Raymond asked. It should be easy if it wasn't complicated as it was.
"No, there was a clear cause of death that wasn't connected to him. So for now it's only ODing another person" she explained.
"I guess this man use to take class of how to get away with murder" he joked. Grace stared at him with dark eyes. She was angry with him for his lack of seriousness.
"Sorry" he apologized as he saw her darkening eyes.
"I need to be focused, please" Grace told him. It seemed like he didn't know when to be serious or not.
"That is very easy. Visit a search engine. Punch in what yo
"Seems like my name has popped up on your screen of targets" Mayor Mount was amazed to see Grace standing aloof in his living room.Grace walked slowly over to him. She dropped a document she held on the table before him."I am visiting you as Grace, one of your your secret agents. It will be better if you let us keep it as that" she sat down without being offered a seat."You cease to be my ally the moment you started killing the citizens of this city" Mayor Mount said furiously. "And you would just take your papers and yourself out of here" he said,closing his eyes and pointing to the door."I should warn my guards against allowing you into this premises anymore" he opened his eyes. Grace was still calmly seated and she had been waiting patiently for him to open his eyes."I told you to get out!" he yelled at her again."I heard you the first time. I am not just ready to take my leave" she smiled."You know I can just get you arrest
Raymond woke up, he tried separating his eyelids from each other. He wondered why that seemed so hard. He couldn't remember how long he had slept that made them stuck to each other so tight.He couldn't move his hand and his body. He was tied to a chair. The ropes used were robust. It seemed unbreakable and whoever had tied him was angry when he tied him. It was too tight to allow shrugging.The place was very dark. It was like hell. It reeked like a waste site. Nothing was visible. The darkness could affect one's sense of reasoning.He groaned hard and tried to get off the chair. If he kept groaning that hard all day, only one thing was obvious. His throat would hurt while the ropes would still remain so tight.The door of the place cracked open. It yanked to a side. It creaked like it has seen many days more than it should.Lights flooded in through the doorway. It didn't get to the side but it ended right at his feet.Palmer walked in. He
Grace came into the house. Something was wrong. The door was opened ajar. It seemed Raymond left for somewhere in a hurry. And that was not very Raymond-like. She checked all over the house to detect any suspicious happenings. She couldn't find any.Raymond had gone out. There seemed to be no problem. But her mind was not at ease. The feeling of something was wrong loomed badly on her mind. She called his phone.The phone rang behind her,on the sofa. She became more confused. That confirmed her impression of something being wrong.She rushed outside and looked around. She found something like graffiti on the wall. It read 'Palmer'."No, no" she screamed aloud. She closed her eyes and opened it again. The writing on the wall was still there. It was real. Palmer had taken Raymond away. He had done that to poke her. He must have wanted her to come.He already vowed he wanted to kill her. That was what he wanted to do now. Grace also wanted him o
Mayor Mount was looking at Reyes once in a while as he opened through the file he brought for him. Reyes seemed to have known he was displeased as he kept avoiding his eyes.Mayor Mount started opening the rest of the pages faster than before. The files made noise as he was doing that."What the hell is this?" he threw the file right into Reyes face. It hit him on the nose and the file scattered all over the floor."I'm sorry sir" Reyes bent down quickly and was picking the scattered files,arranging them back together."I said I want a file on them. Not a list of silhouettes' pictures with giant question mark" he retorted breathing heavily.He had been looking at the files for some time and there was no single picture of someone. The names mentioned were even nicknames not real ones. This didn't look like a file from an intelligence office. An intern shouldn't do something to worse like this.He had requested a file on a group he just discov
Raymond removed his hat and scratched his head wildly. It had been hitching him for a while and he had been resisting to scratch it. But he couldn't hold it any longer.He checked the hat out again. It was very big. If not for what they had planned. Nothing would have made him chose this kind of hat as an outfit."He's coming" Grace whispered quickly. Raymond looked at his side. A waiter was coming with the food they ordered."Put on your hat" Grace whispered again. That was obviously what he wanted him to do earlier which he didn't concur."No. You still don't understand what we are doing. I can take it off. All we wanted is to......" Raymond held the hat in his hands. He wasn't going to put it on."I understand everything very well" Grace cut in. "Just put the damn hat on" she implored. She shook her head often. She was angry Raymond was not complying with her."The hat looks good on you. You should put it on" the waiter put their food on
Raymond and Grace were on queue at the airport. Raymond clutched her to his body weirdly. Almost everyone who passed by were looking at them.Grace was uncomfortable. She groaned everytime. Raymond didn't care about her groans."You know I don't see how putting me in pain is a part of this plan. Can you just release me for a second?" she complained after she must have discovered Raymond wouldn't leave her no matter how she groaned."Actually, your questions only make me think you don't understand what we are doing here" Raymond said without releasing his grip. He smiled at people who stared at them."If you can just smile at them the way I am doing. I think you will reduce the levels at which they stare us down by eighty per cent" he suggested she copied him. He did not also like the way they were getting attention but that was the main theme of everything they had been doing."You want me to smile while suffering. I'm in pain. You understand that,
The plane took off. There were some uneasiness as the plane banked before finally balancing in the air. The passengers heaved sighs of relief as they became settled in their various seats."We should be saying our last prayers. And this is unnecessary" he removed his seatbelts and attempted to do the same with Grace. Grace blocked his hand."Why, last prayers. What are you thinking?" Grace looked at him. She looked disappointed. Raymond was confused."You are the one talking about a soldier with a grenade launcher on his shoulder" he winced angrily."And you said something about being optimistic" she retorted quickly. She was just being very confusing."Then what do you suggest we do now?" he asked. He had surrendered to her. He wouldn't be arguing over that with her."We are on a plane. We are going to land for sure" she repeated his previous words. Raymond gasped. That was all he would listen to. He didn't want anymore of it."Could
"I can't get off this thing!" Raymond struggled with his parachute. He couldn't get out of it."Somebody get me of this thing or get this thing off me right now" he yelled.He heard someone laughhhhhing at him. It was definitely Grace. He couldn't see her but it seemed she was out of her own parachute. He wondered how she quickly figured it out.A hand assisted in getting the chute off his head. He looked up as the chute had completely fallen off his body."Mayor!" he was very surprised. It was Mayor Mount that had been helping him with the chute."I got that" he said awkwardly. "Thanks" he murmured.He moved closer to Grace. Grace was still amused and full of smiles probably from his struggles with the parachute."How did you get that damn thing off easily?" he whispered to her."Just ran a few steps after landing" she shook her head.That was even harder than getting off it. It was almost impossible to run with that bi