FLASHBACK - The mystery around Susie's death

Since people from the black market were not supposed to show their faces to their clients, they could not meet them physically. Also either of the parties couldn't reveal their real name, hence the code names. This was for their protection. This meant that Kate couldn't meet with the person from the black market as well. All they knew about each other was their code names; Kate's - 666 and the other person's code name - Seven. The next day, Kate acted as usual, all those cheesy talks with Ashton, while at the other side, Seven was working to create Ashton's iris pattern. Simultaneously, Ashton had also deployed people to find out who had tried to hack into his phone. He was still living under the fact that he had erased all the data before anyone could get anything.

{Author - Darling you are so wrong!! XD. Sorry for the sudden comment, I just couldn't control myself }

While Seven was working for the iris pattern, Kate was logged onto her laptop and paying close attention to Ashton's phone activity. Since she didn't have the iris pattern she couldn't forward her malware application to Jennifer's phone right now. But she could still see what Ashton was doing even if not the details. The day passed like a normal day. The next day, Seven informed Kate that Ashton's iris pattern was completed. Kate immediately settled the payment. It was all her money she had saved during her school time, doing odd jobs. After a few hours, she received the iris pattern. She decided it would be best if she did it during the night time, since she used to change her IP address. So if she did it at night time, in any other country in the southern hemisphere, it will be morning. She ensured that she wasn't leaving any traces for someone to catch her.

At night, she had her dinner and washed up. She always felt as if she never had a mom, since she never spent any time with her. She then went to her room and turned on her laptop. She lit up the room properly and then put on the Ashton's iris pattern contact. She checked the mirror and it looked normal. She then logged on to Ashton's phone's downloaded content and opened the contacts section. It immediately asked for an iris scan. Kate placed her eye close to her laptop's webcam and then stayed still for a while. Just as she was thinking that it wasn't working, the screen immediately flashed and Ashton's contacts opened up.

'It worked! Yes! Finally I can find out what is he cooking up.'

Much to Kate's surprise Ashton's directory had only five contacts, amongst them only Jennifer had a proper name, rest all were probably code names.

'This guy is much smarter than I thought' Kate thought to herself.

Suddenly her laptop screen changed and it showed that Ashton was calling Jennifer. Kate immediately plugged in her headphones to listen to their conversation.

'How did it go?'

'He said he can't wait this long. She will be turning 18 soon, so she can be a threat to them and their country.'

'hmm.. I see. Try to talk to him again, offer him a compensation with an assurance that she'll be delivered to them safely and shortly. Don't give them a time span. Just say shortly.'

'Got it.'

'Okay, then..'

'Ashton, will you never accept my love?'

'Can we not talk about this now?'

'But I did so much for you, I even called myself your sister for that bitch. I stuck by your side for so long. Why?'

'Let's talk later.'

~ Beep

The call had ended.

Kate was simultaneously, transferring the malware application from Ashton's phone to Jennifer's phone, and as soon as she was done, Ashton had hung up. Kate was now blanked out. 'What just happened? Who are they talking about? Turning 18 soon? Threat to their country? Compensation?'

And wow, Jennifer isn't his sister.' She couldn't digest everything.

Even though Kate didn't find out anything about Susie's death, she deduced that Susie's death wasn't so simple.