Chapter Twenty Two: The Pros and Cons.

Kimia's POV 🖤.

Lorenzo sobered up pretty quickly at the sight of Mario.

" You know I do enjoy a good game of hide and seek." Mario started.

" And you Lorenzo, you are a very hard man to find. But, I found you. I always find people who try to run away from me. Isn't that right boys?"

His men nodded in response and Lorenzo gulped.

" But you challenged me. And I'm impressed. Maybe I won't kill you right away."

He looked around and finally saw me.

" And who is this?"

I had two options, I either blow my cover or keep it. I thought about it weighing the pros and cons.

Dropping it

Pro: I can drop the accent and go back to regular Kimia.

Cons: i) Mario might probably kill me cause I'm an agent.

ii.) If he doesn't kill me, he might hold me hostage.

Keeping it

Pros: i) I might get to live since I'm not involved in Lorenzo double crossing him.

ii) I'll probably be underestimated.

Con: I have to keep the cover and accent.

I decided to go with keeping the cover since it had more pros.

" She's a..... friend." Lorenzo replied looking at me.

" Friend huh?, She's a pretty little thing isn't she?" Mario asked touching my face.

Once again I had two options. I either act scared or I keep a blank face.

Scared

Pros: i) I'll be underestimated.

ii) Mario might probably get annoyed by how terrified I am and let me go.

Cons: i) Mario might probably get annoyed by how terrified I am and kill me.

ii) I might have to fake it.

Yes I'm a little scared but not enough to show it.

Blank

Pro: i) He might be interested in why I'm so calm a let me live or take me as his play toy. ( Hopefully Damien is able to stop him.)

Cons: i) He gets away and Damien can't rescue me.

ii) I had to be incredibly calm.

I decided to go with the blank look.

" What's your name?"

" Isabella." I replied.

" A beautiful name for a beautiful lady." He said stroking my cheek. I maintained eye contact with him and it seemed to have intrigued him.

" Tell me Isabella, where are you from?, You sound Russian but you don't look Russian."

" My father is Russian. My mother is Cuban. I spent most of my childhood in Russia but I spend holidays here in Cuba."

" Interesting, I'll come back to you later." He said smiling cruelly. He turned to Lorenzo and smiled.

" Now that I found you,what should I do with you?"

He snapped his fingers and one of his men punched Lorenzo hard in the gut. Lorenzo fell but they roughly pulled him back up.

" I'll be lenient since you challenged me. Where are the documents?"

" I don't know what you're talking about." Lorenzo replied. Mario snapped his fingers again and his men punched Lorenzo in the gut again.

" Don't waste my time Lorenzo, I'm a very busy man."

" I swear I don't know what you're talking about."

" Alright then. Boys!"

Lorenzo was pushed to the floor, was punched and kicked severally times by Mario's men.

I wanted to do something but some of Mario's men were behind me.

" Are you ready to talk?"

" I already told you I don't know what you are talking about." Lorenzo wheezed. His face was bruised and blood was trickling down his nose. He coughed a couple times then spat blood onto the floor.

" You are wasting my-"

Mario was cut off by a knock on the door.

" Who is it?"

" It's the bartender sir. You mentioned that you were a light weight but you had a lot to drink so I decided to bring you some aspirin and water to help your hangover tomorrow."

Smart move Dam.

" Send him away." Mario whispered.

" Thank you. But I'll be fine. You can go." Lorenzo groaned.

" Are you sure sir?, Cause you don't sound okay. Maybe I should call for help."

" Oh for the love of God just open the door!" Mario exclaimed and one of his men opened it and shoved Damien in.

" Woah!" He exclaimed as he was shoved in.

Woah indeed.

He was made to stand next to me. He looked at me discreetly and raised his eyebrows as if asking ' Are you okay?'

I nodded slightly not wanting to give our silent conversation away.

It seemed the men meant to guard us were more interested in watching Lorenzo being tortured than in us. I discreetly picked up my clutch and rummaged through it as quiet as I could. I felt a ray of hope when I touched my tube of lipstick.

I brought it up slightly out of the clutch to have a better look but was crushed when I saw the shade. It was nude. Yes I was wearing nude lipstick but my taser disguised as a lipstick was a bold red.

Then I remembered Carlos putting some things into my clutch.

Dammit!, He must have switched it out!

" I don't have time for your games Lorenzo. Tell me where those documents are or else your friends get it." Mario stated.

Lorenzo looked over at us and gulped.

" You wouldn't dare."

Mario chuckled and brought out a knife.

" Try me."

" Alright fine!, I'll tell you. The documents are in this room." He said and Mario smiled.

" Excellent. Men, search this room."

" Now that wasn't so hard was it? Now that I have gotten what I wanted, I no longer need you." Mario whispered raising his gun to Lorenzo's forehead.

Damien passed me a small orb the size of a Mentos and a small spray bottle the size of a pepper spray.

" Okay now this, is what I call a mission." I said dropping the Russian accent.

They turned to me shocked at the sudden switch and I smirked.

" Wow!, I really had you fooled."

Damien passed me a pair of goggles which I put on to protect my eyes from our next move.

We sprayed the contents of the can onto the orb and threw it one the floor and almost instantly the entire room was fogged.

There were groans of pain from Lorenzo, Mario and his men and I smiled.

Damien and I just made a pepper bomb. It was one of the gadgets were given. The gases from the can mixed with the contents of the orb produced an fog with the similar stinging effect of pepper spray it was not lethal to the respiratory canal or the eye. It just stung. Really badly.

Then we got to work.

Damien went on shooting them in the arms and legs and knocking them out. I wasn't ready for the impact of a gun so I stuck to my knifes and daggers.

One of the men tried to sneak up on Damien inspite of the pain he was experiencing.

Dedication, hmm I respect that.

I threw a knife with so much force it hooked his shirt and nailed him to the wall.

Damien turned to look at me with wide eyes and then grinned.

" Nice job." He said and I smiled.

" Thanks."

Another guy tried to sneak up on me but Damien caught him.

" Duck!" He yelled and I did as he shot him.

He managed to find Lorenzo and he brought him over to me.

" You okay?!" He asked panting.

" Yeah. I'm fine." I replied trying to even out my breathing.

" Back up is waiting. I don't know how long this pepper bomb will last for so we better get out of here. We might not have gotten all of them." He said and I nodded.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Mario raise his gun towards me.

" Mia!" Damien yelled.

Then I heard the gunshot

And then another one.

I waited for the impact to hit me.

But it never did.

I turned and saw that he had taken the bullet for me.

" No!"

***

Dun dun dun!

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