“OPEN THE ENVELOPES in front of you.” Calix said as Sven looked at him. He then stood up from his chair and went in front. Sven gave him the remote before he stepped aside, giving the floor to him to continue. All of them did what he told. True to what Rune thought a while ago, the envelopes contained information about a certain person.Calix then pressed the remote and a slide came up the screen. A familiar black-haired woman with round, emerald-green eyes appeared along with all the information about her. She was beautiful albeit the gothic type and although smiling, her gaunt face and pale complexion gave her a mysterious aura. But the woman was not really a mystery at all. In fact, her face was on posters and billboards all over the State, making her familiar to anyone.“Valentina Craventus, the first Omega who is running for Nyx’s Head of State,” Calix continued as he looked on the screen.Every six years, Nyx held its election and the Head of State would be its highest elect lea
“BUT that’s not enough to point your finger at him as the mastermind behind the burglary.” Rune said as her eyes went back to Sven.Sven then stood beside Calix. “You see, Ms. Navarre, Damien has been eyeing Rosworth Pharmaceuticals for some time now. When the economic crisis hits us ten years ago, he offered to buy the company from my grandfather but was refused. We survived the recession and ever since then, Mr. Montford has been on our trail. He didn’t build his own pharmaceutical company per se, but he, unknown to many even to our own industry, is a major shareholder in Medicina Laboratories Inc.”Her frown deepened because the company that Sven mentioned was Rosworth Pharmaceuticals’ number one rival in the pharmaceutical industry.“In these past years, he didn’t make any drastic move, so, it’s true that we couldn’t just say that it was him. But a source informed me that a few days ago, he was at Nyx Central Police Station and seen leaving the Commissioner’s office. After that th
AFTER A FEW HOURS, Sven was now again outside Tactica’s Base two. Calix and Wren accompanied him while Eugeny, Calvin and Rune followed along with Brenner, who became rather somber. Alistair went out of the car when he saw them and waited.Sven then turned to Brenner. “You can go ahead.”The poor guy just nodded and thanked Calix and the rest.Rune faced Calix. “I’ll take him to the car,”Calix nodded and the two left. He briefly met Rune’s eyes and that same inexplicable feeling he felt when he first saw her was there again. Rune then put her arm over Brenner’s shoulders as they talked in hushed tones while walking away. Calix already mentioned to him in one of their night outs that an employee of his were friends with one of his chemists, but he didn’t expect that it would be these two. Admittedly, this woman had caught his attention more than he expected. True that he heard a lot about her from Calix and Wren, but his interest on her was just passing. He was just thankful that his
“IMPRESSIVE.” Rune looked at Sonja when she heard that. They were in front of a tall, black building accented with gold. Sonja had been working with Tactica for four years now. Her long, black hair was in neat ponytail, a light make-up dusted her face while her eye make-up highlighted her chocolate-brown eyes. At five and ten inches they were of the same height but she was taller than her now because of the heels she was wearing. They were also of the same built except that Sonja had a more womanly body that hers.“Damn the rich.” Barty commented sarcastically.Rune couldn’t help but smile as it was common for the big, burly, older man to let out crass remarks. He and Calix dropped them before they would go on their way and meet up with Sinna later. She returned her gaze back to the monolith in front of them. They stopped in front of the stairs leading to its lobby. From where they were standing, she could see shiny, black, marble floors, glass doors and windows. The golden letters th
SVEN COULDN’T hide his amusement at Rune’s obvious discomfort. He almost smiled when she scrunched her nose and grimaced as she tried to loosen the tight collar of her black, long-sleeved shirt. Despite that, she tried to focus on what was happening in front of her to the point that she scribbled something on the small notebook she was holding.Her black-rimmed glasses occupied half of her face and with her black, knee-length, pleated skirt, black stockings, black ankle boots and her neatly combed hair, she looked like this gothic, nerdy, young witch who was out to curse or cast a spell to everyone with her gloominess. Hell, he almost laughed when she entered his office on her first day here looking like a dowdy old maid in the peak of spinsterhood. It was all part of her disguise, he knew that and it was supposed make her invisible, to blend in with the background as one of his secret bodyguards but damn if he could ignore her existence. He didn’t mean to but now, he was aware of eve
FROM THE car window, Calix eyed the two-story, gray and white building on the other side of the road where they parked their car. The silver letters near the top of the building spelled its name. Duskinrose Medical Center, it was a suburban hospital in Moontown, another town in Nyx. Barty was with him but he was outside having his cigarette break while Sinna just went inside the hospital and would be the one to confirm the information forwarded to them by Mavis Grace. According to Mavis, Jonathan Goldbloom, Johann’s fifteen year old younger brother was confined here just before the break-in happened and was in a coma.As per Johann’s records, his brother was his only remaining family and ever since their parents died when Jonathan was ten, he had been his guardian. Based from the medical records Riven got from his previous hospital in Ivslight, Jonathan had always been sickly and developed a rare blood disease. His condition fluctuated to better and worst over the years. One thing tha
“GET IN.” Said the man who was driving the black car that picked up Johann just outside the third street in that part of Moontown, the guy was wearing a black cap, a black mask and an all-black outfit.He grinned when he recognized him. He hurriedly went inside and sat beside him. This was the same man who called him up a while ago and told him that there were people looking for him around that medical facility. He had known this man for about a year and even if it wasn’t in his nature to trust immediately, he sure had no problem trusting this guy. It was because in the short period of time that he knew him, this man showed him what loyalty means.“Thanks for the save.” he uttered.The man just gave him a cold glance and kept on driving. “I told you to be careful.” he said after a while.“Who are those people anyway?”“Private investigators hired by Rosworth.”“Huh. Is he that determined to find his precious D-15?”The man didn’t even look at him when he replied. “If I were you, I’d l
FROM HER computer screen, Rune let her eyes roamed again inside Sven’s office; she had been doing this for these past days in order to familiarize with his environment and to rest her eyes from reading business documents which tire her out after only a few paragraphs. She was guarding Sven alright, but she would die of boredom with just sitting and doing nothing, so she told him to treat her like she was really his assistant.It was also her way to distract herself from only looking at him and having weird thoughts about them since they were all alone in this huge office. Anyway, no one would fault her if they knew. She was just a normal woman after all who couldn’t help herself fantasizing about the gorgeous man, who was unfortunately, just a few steps away from her. But hell yeah, she would chastise herself for being distracted by him every day that they were together alone. Argh. This was the very reason why she declined to be put inside his office in the first place.She was actua