Twelve

As if the cloud listened to his plead, it covered the sun automatically after they got out of the car. They followed a man to the insurance company building that Becca owns, difference is, they have to enter at the back.

Assuming that they are being followed, four guards assisted them to an elevator where they entered together with them. One of the man pressed his thumb through a green fingerprint scanner and entered the number nine as the floor.

Diego expected the elevator going up, but he felt it going on a different direction.

"Are we going down?"

One of the guards nodded at him, Alexis remained looking at his reflection on the door, traces of tears on his cheek. Diego pulled his coat to cover his slightly opened chest, though useless, he ignored it, Alexis scoffed, "Maybe this is the payment that I have to make for all of the bridge that I constructed between those psychopaths and murderers."

Diego did not answered, but looked at him at their reflection. He was processing if the feeling that he had all this time on his chest was anger to Becca for taking two innocent lives, or he pity her for having to decide that cruel act. Besides, he is not that different from her, he had taken lives before, tenths, hundred lives and called it a collateral, without even thinking what kind of lives he quenched of their existence.

He realized, he was the same with her after all.

The elevator opened into a mezzanine, just like that of Becca's house but there was a television attached to a mount connected to the ceiling of the place. It shows the interface he used when he was guiding Becca back in Berlin.

"What is this place?" He asked.

"Central office of the search." one of the guard answered as they walked out of the elevator. Slowly, the floor under them was revealed to have six people on it, all of them are seated in front of their PC's in their cubicle.

Lisa must have heard their heels slapping the tiled floor above her so she turned her head to the mezzanine and saw what she was waiting for, "How was Berlin Alex?"

"Fuck you."

Lisa smiled despite his answer and proceeded to the stairs to approach her guests, "Follow me."

She opened a door near the stairs to lead them into a huge meeting room where a long table and chairs waited, "Sit."

The two men complied, the guards remained standing. She pulled a phone from her back pocket and gave it to Alexis, "Call Maddie."

"Why should I? You already killed my family?"

Lisa sighed, she leaned both of her hands at the edge of a metal table in front of them and looked at Diego, hoping some comments from him, "Do you have any questions for me?"

Diego looked back at her, "Just tell us what we need to know."

She was surprise by how calm he was, despite the fact that he stormed out of the room after Becca shot the two. Yes, she was monitoring everything, "Okay."

"Let me introduce myself, Lisa Park is my name. I am friends with Becca since we were in college, and failed in life," she walked across the room, to the side where a white screen starting to unroll.

"I am very different from her, " she looked at the screen and reached for a remote resting on the table, "If you think she is ruthless, how would you describe me?"

A picture of a girl with her messy hair, together with a green mixed with violet bruise on her cheek was displayed, "Arrested for killing famous leaders of cartels in Mexico, murdered five civilians—not innocent ones but those who have a close family that would like them dead in exchange of a fortune and a drug addict for a good two years during and after college."

Lisa smiled and kept both of her hand in front of her, "Her name is Lani Ropvoc, a russian serial killer. She was killed during a fight inside a prison, and reborn as..."

"Lisa Park." Diego smirked.

"My mom is korean, so..." she pointed out.

"Anyways, I was dragged out of the institution by Rebecca after she got in. I never got to finish college with her, but I spent a good time here, one year to be specific, to heal myself from all of those but in return I get to train her after she got out."

"Wait, what do you mean 'got in' and 'got out'?"

"She was arrested for killing her sister."

Alexis smiled, "Then you both bitch are monsters."

"It was framed you jackass, you should know that." Lisa gritted her teeth, "You should call Maddie now, or I'll finish what Becca should've done."

The door of the room where they are opened revealing two familiar faces, one of them smiled at Alexis. The kid ran towards her father with a chocolate candy on hand.

"How... how are you..." Alexis weeped again. The two persons, whom he thought are corpses already, are here. Their body are warm and they can smile at him, they can hug him back.

"They assumed that Maddie was watching us already by the time they got off the plane. So, they needed to fake our death in order to protect us. Alex, that girl saved us." his wife smiled at him and walked to squeeze her husbands shoulder.

Lisa looked at the floor and back to them, she smiled, "Becca needed justice to be served. Her sister was killed by one of Maddie's people, so she would like to arrest the killer herself. Calling her would be just cover story for her to assume that she's one step ahead of us, but we know she's watching."

"You and your family are just here to be protected, if I am the only person who would decide, I would've left you in the cold." she continued.

She walked to them again and pushed the phone in front of him, "Diego, come with me."

All the time, Diego did not realized that he was smiling and looking at a happy family in front of him. They are alive, and they will continue to live because of her, "Hey? You stoned?"

She called him again, Diego sucked air on his mouth before standing up and tapping Alexis' shoulder. He followed Lisa outside, and closed the door after, "That is a hell of a stunt."

She looked up at him, but her eyes are not as confident as earlier, "Is there a problem?"

"No, uhh. There's someone who needs to talk to you in private." Lisa shrugged and walked to the other side of the floor where there was another room. She opened it for him and they were welcomed by a huge screen showing a horizon full of stone buildings on a window. There was a girl drinking her wine on the side of the screen.

"Becca." he muttered out, she slowly turned her head to the laptop in front of her and saw two figures by the door.

"We could use some privacy, close the door please." she talked not putting her drink down.

They walked inside as Lisa closed the door beside her. She crossed her arms on her chest and looked at the screen where Becca started to move the laptop to face her fully, "Starting the day with a glass of wine?"

"A bottle." they both giggled, cancelling Diego out for a second.

"I'll go back to Alexis, see if he will do it. If not, well, I have to go there and 'push' her out." Lisa walked to the door, "You should tell him everything."

With that, she's gone, only the two were left.

"Sorry about yesterday."

"For what? Chickening me out?" she giggled, "I understand. I will also hate myself if I do that, but I guess you're wrong. Again."

"You're giggling in the middle of this, you know that you are trying to find a group of assassins right?" Diego crossed his arms.

"Well, if you want to help, stay where you are."

There it is again, the smile that is so genuine. Her teeth are not showing but her eyes are slightly closing, together with the way her dimple was being pushed out of her cheek.

He sighed, "I am not a prince that will be protected by a damsel."

"Who said you are a prince? You look like a cartel leader for pete's sake!" she laughed.

"Is it true? You got imprisoned before?" Diego ignored her answer and asked her. His eyes solely focused on the screen, his lips were pursed and his voice was coarse in the end.

Becca sighed, "No jokes? okay."

"Yes, I was a prisoner. Lisa must've told you my biography, why ask?" she continued.

"Just want to verify that you are the person whom I am supposed to help." He scoffed and walked to the other side of the table closer to the screen where her face can be seen. He leaned on the edge of the table still arms crossed, "Did you hired me just to get me away from those people who wanted to kill me back when I was inside?"

She was not able to answer the moment he finished his question, she put her glass down, "Wow, you figured all that out."

"Yeah, your eyes are pretty much the same with the girl who snapped open the murderers neck that night." he smiled.

"You remembered." she smiled when she remembered her first encounter with him, how she quietly wandered towards his prison cell.

Yes, she was already out of the prison around that time but that was the first time they received an intel that someone might be working under Alexis' to assasinate the hunter, planning an attack for that night.

"You found anything?" she talked, pressing a finger on her ear.

"Not here." Keith answered.

She did not replied back, not that she was being lazy, but there was something or someone making a door move on one side of her peripheral view. She stepped back, hiding at the corner, slightly peeking through the edge of the wall.

"Someone's naughty." she smirked and saw that the guy was walking towards Diego's cell.

She only followed him with her glance first but after he dissappeared on the corner of the hall. She emerged from her hiding place and walked after him, the guy only have a white cloth on his hand, probably have poision in it, she concluded.

Grabbing the hard thing on her left waist, she walked closer after him. The hall was dark enough to hide her small frame with the shadows, her every step did not falter to be quiet.

The guy started picking on the lock, Becca held her breath. She thought that the guy was an idiot for only bringing a white cloth and only himself to kill the guy, when everybody knows he can be deadly at times.

The door swung open without creating any sound and the guy picked the lock only for just five seconds. Her eyebrows created creases between them, 'He has keys.' she thought.

She ducked when the guy looked left and right, she stepped closer when he dissappeared inside and she ran after some seconds.