“Really? Are you willing to do this?” he heard a voice ask shakily and on turning, he stared at Kathryn who was staring at him, shocked.
“Kathryn I…” just as he made to move closer to her, she put her hand forward.
“Please don’t, don’t come any closer to me or you might make me regret what I’ll do” she told him and made to leave when he spoke
“So what do you expect me to do? Stay in the dark without any knowledge of why you put your life on the line? Without any knowledge of why my own bodyguard was willing to die for my enemy?” He asked and she turned, folding her hands against her chest.
“You know what your problem is? I’ll tell you, you’re just too inquisitive. Why do you want to know? It’s my life is it not? And besides, I chose to make that decision after carefully thinking about it. Didn’t you hear the man? He was only doing so to save his mother’s life but then….”
“But then what Kathryn?” He asked her as he stared at her angrily. The anger in his eyes this time around was different from the ones he had the first time she’d crossed paths with him. The first time she’d crossed paths with him, the anger in his eyes were as a result of defeat. They were as a result of the fact that she had defeated his well trained goons but this time, the anger was from betrayal. She was feeling so bad and for two reasons, she made him angry and he wanted to hurt her so he could trust her.
“What do you even want to know? You could just ask me you know. You could just ask me instead of going behind my back, planning to hurt me” she said in anger
“If I ask will you tell me?” He asked her as he stared at her and the anger in him was drastically reducing.
“Yes” she told him and he was about to speak when she spoke again. “I would have told you… if and only you had asked me before going behind my back to plan an attack on me. I’d never forget this Daniel Lopez” she told him and walked out of the room, slamming the door behind her.
Before he could turn to go to the window like he’d planned, she opened the door again and spoke to him. “I’d have answered because I’d know you’d trusted me but if I’m to answer now, my pride would be hurt as you’d only be answering because I forced you to” she said and finally walked out of the room.
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As she crashed into her bed, she closed her eyes as she tried to let herself fall asleep. Had he really become that suspicious of her? Was he willing to go as far as hurting her just to get the truth?
Yes, she had to agree that he’d told whoever it was on the phone that they could only hurt her one percent but then she knew how dangerous one percent could be.
She’d worked with many mafias in the past and hence, she knew the severity of each mafia’s one percent. With a previous mafia, before his demise that she caused, his one percent meant stabbing and he wasn’t as dangerous as Daniel was so she could only imagine what he wanted to do to her.
She sighed as she got off the bed to pour herself a glass of water, why was she thinking about this so much? Why was she hurt that he wanted to hurt her? This wasn’t the first such a thing had happened to her. It wasn’t also the first that she had gotten badly hurt so why did Daniel’s quest for her hurt just make her sad?
She inhaled deeply, why’d she care? She was only a bodyguard and a seductress to him wasn’t she? Why would he value her? Why would he not want to hurt her?
It was amidst all these that something suddenly popped in her head. For their first encounter, had she not planned to kill him, they would have never met. Was he trying to avenge that? Why would he even trust a hit girl? Shè chuckled, how foolish she was.
“Wow Kathryn, it just seems you’ve become a fool by spending so much time with that Daniel of a man have you not? You’ve worked with so many other mafias have you not? Mafias that didn’t know you were after their lives yet they didn’t trust you and you didn’t have a problem with that so why would you have a problem with someone that knew you wanted to kill him not trusting you?” She spoke to herself.
She sighed, he wasn’t worth thinking of. Not in the least!
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Grumping, he rolled on the bed. He was just too tired to get up and since he had a fight with Kathryn, for some reason, he had found it hard to sleep and had only being able to get rest when it was already morning.
Daniel took the telephone, whoever it was had to know he was here because he was sure Kathryn didn’t tell anyone their location… or so he thought.
“Speak!” He commanded coldly.
Even though he had just woken up, his voice still carried that authority, that aura and that coldness a mafia had and the person at the other end of the call had to inhale deeply before taking the call.
“Mr Lopez? So sorry to disturb you but I have gotten news for you ” the feminine voice at the end of the call said and he furrowed his eyebrows.
“Good or bad?” He asked her and she inhaled deeply.
“Bad news sir” she said
“Tell me about it” he told her. He didn’t like waking up to bad news but as a mafia, he knew for a fact that bad news was inevitable and most times, he just seemed to like the bad news that came his way.
On hearing what the female had to say, he hung up. He had to leave this place, ASAP! With Kathryn or without her.
“I’ll be there ” he said and hung up.
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Kathryn inhaled deeply as she walked in with a tray of food in her hands. So what if he’d planned and conspired to hurt her? She was still his bodyguard and hence, it was her responsibility to take care of him.
She kept the food on the table as she walked to the bathroom door, knocking as hard as she could. “Daniel? Are you in there?” She asked but couldn’t hear anything. She inhaled deeply before speaking again, “Mr Lopez?”
She twisted the knob of the door and walked into the bathroom but couldn’t find him either.
She gasped as she rushed out of the room after looking around, trying to find him. She was not scared but something in her was telling her that he’d gone to make plans for her attack…. She wanted to catch him in the act.
Unluckily, as she rushed down the stairs, she twisted her ankle and went crashing to the floor.
“Aaaah ” she screamed as her head finally made contact with the floor.
Her eyes closed immediately and she lost consciousness!