20

'Sometimes the truth hurts so much that one can barely feel their presence'

Rahul Naik

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-Kara-

"Cocopop."

I turned my attention from my homework to Tyler who was looking at me worriedly.

"What?", I asked.

"We have info. ", he said.

"About the murders? ", I asked.

"Yeah"

"But what's with the worried expression?"

"I'm not worried exactly....", he explained. "I'm kinda confused if I should be worried or not."

"And why is that? "

"That's because the info we found has a connection with Polemistés.", Jared said as he entered my room from behind Tyler.

"Polemistés? What do you mean?"

"Santiago was going through the database and hacked into Polemistés by mistake. When he searched in there without knowing into where he had hacked, he found an email.", Jared said.

"What was in it?", I asked.

"Here read it yourself. ", he said and handed me a tablet.

One look at the receiver's address and I recognized it immediately. It was the address of the Polemistés. Which had only one meaning.

"We have a mole.", I said."Have you informed them?"

"Yes. They found who he was. Unfortunately, he's dead. But, we just tracked the last location of his cellphone. It was traced to a warehouse.", Tyler answered.

"Warehouse? The address from the email! Get some people ready we're going there. Keep the rest as a backup. Don't get the trainees. ", I ordered and sent them out of the road and hurried to change.

As soon as started stripping, I saw Caden come in through the window. He looked up and grinned seeing me in my sweatshirt and panties.

"Like what you see? ", I asked with a smirk.

"Very much. ", he said in a dangerously husky voice as he neared me.

As I glanced at his lust-filled eyes, my pants slipped from my hands and fell to the floor. Anticipating his next move I raised my hands, just as his lips came crashing down on mine. I instantly buried my hands in his hair and returned the kiss with the same fervor. I felt his one hand buried in my hair and the other roaming towards my ass. I lifted my legs as he gripped my ass and wrapped them around his torso. I felt him moving and then my back hit the wall. My hands were roaming all over his bare skin under his shirt. Our tongues were dancing the fiery moves of tango and we didn't want to stop. But it was getting hard to breathe so we let go and gasped for air. Then his mouth trailed kisses down my throat and in a moment's notice my sweatshirt came off.

Kissing my neck hungrily he took me away from the wall and pushed me down on the bed. The love in his eyes sent electric shocks coursing through my veins. He took his shirt off and I remembered my duties.

"Caden. No. We can't. We have to go.", I protested, just as he bent down give me a kiss.

He withdrew and I saw hurt evident in his eyes. Then he smirked.

"Of course baby. When we're done with everything else we'll have all the time in the world. ", he said.

He was faking. I got up from the bed and hugged him.

"You don't have to act in front of me, Caden. I love you. I know you better than you know yourself.", I said.

I took black skinny jeans and a black tank out of the drawers and changed. I put on a black jacket and felt Caden's arms encircle me. I leaned against his front savoring the sweet gesture.

"I know that Kara. I love you too. Thank you for coming into my life. ", he said.

I turned back and gave him a kiss. Then entwining our hands we went down to the basement where everyone was waiting. I tucked a gun and a few daggers wherever I could and got into the jeep. Caden drove us as I directed. We went through a long tunnel that connected us to one of our warehouses which was near Calwar street. We left the vehicles in the warehouse and walked to warehouse 143. We left some people as backup and then slowly entered the warehouse with our guns raised.

It was empty. We turned on the lights and found the place almost completely bare except for a few broken laptops and a broken briefcase. We took them back to the basement. Our techie Harley told us he could salvage the data from the laptops and it would take him a day or two. I took the briefcase to my room and tried to open it. It was stuck.

Caden used his hands and wrenched it open and I stood there in shock seeing the contents of the briefcase. Pictures of my mom and older sister Mallory were on top. Both had large red crosses on them. Target obliterated.

My eyes warmed up like I was going to cry but the tears didn't appear. I had dried out my supply of tears crying for my dead mother and sister.

But the embers of a dead fire lit up in a fiery blaze in my heart, my thirst for revenge and truth reignited.

"What's under the photos? ", I asked Caden with a slightly shaky voice.

Caden took the photos out and picked up something from the briefcase. He turned and held up a set of papers.

"A contract. ", he said.

I took the contract and leafed through the pages. The contract was to kill every one of the Snow family. My breath hitched in my throat but I continued reading. Grace, Anthony, Mallory, Killian, Emily... Wait why is my name not in it?

"Because they wanted you alive.", Caden said, startling me. He had been reading the contract over my shoulder. I realized I had spoken out loud.

"Why do you think they wanted me? Did they think I would work for them after they killed my family? ", I asked.

"I don't know but I'm sure you were of some importance."

I looked down at the contract.

Who the hell is R. S?!