Chapter 9

"die Waffen legt an,"

Dylan shouted making everyone draw their gun and point it at me.

Everyone in the room was currently pointing their gun in my direction, I shriek as my breath hitched and my heart pumped faster as I hid behind Zero, who sighed and raised his right hand

"Treten Sie Zuruck. "he stated in German

"But—"

Dylan protested who still had a tight grip on his gun

"Don't make me repeat myself."

Zero commanded in a dark tone, Dylan hesitantly lowered his gun

"Treten Sie Zuruck. "

he commanded in German again and everyone lowered their guns, I let out a breath as calming my heart.

"I expect you all to welcome Midnight with open arms,"

Zero stated back to his merry tone, Dylan gave him a confused look

"Wait, she joined?!?" he exclaimed

"yeah just a while ago, she's the new; informant." Zero explained sighing, he grabbed my wrist and dragged me to the stairs

"Oh by the way; the boss declared as of today that 'whoever dares to kill her, will answer to her personally'." He announced and I could see some people flinch and shivered as we arrived upstairs Zero led me to the first door at the right

"Here."

He handed me a key and motioned me to the door, I pushed the key to the slot and slowly turned the knob.

When the door opened I was met with a room full of computer screens like literally, at the far side monitors littered the wall along the walls in the sides, below it there was a simple rectangular brown table with a keyboard, mouse, and stack upon stacks of paperwork on it. There was also a mini-fridge the table and an office chair was left abandoned at the side

"So this will be your office for a while and if you need any help about things and I'm not available at the moment, you could ask Miya."

He instructed and pointed to the 3rd door where I suppose was this Miya person is, I nodded and he waved goodbye after he left through another hallway; I finally decided to go into my office

'for now, I guess.' I thought and shrugged, switching on the lights along with the Ac from the little panel at my side. Closing the door making sure it was locked, I sighed as I took my sit on the discarded chair, Just by looking at the stack upon stack of paperwork; I could feel myself pout.

"That's a lot of paperwork,"

I went closer to the table and inspected a pile of paper, upon turning the first page it was mostly about people that I need to track down because they owe the mafia money and stuff. I put it down and decided to find the on switch for the computers, finding one beside the mini-fridge; out of curiosity, I opened the fridge only to see bottles and cans of beer. I grimaced; my predecessor was a total booze head, making a mental note to throw it away later, I closed the fridge and switched on the screens.

The biggest one turned on first followed by the 4 screens on the sides, I sat back straight up and saw a sticky note at the bottom part of the keyboard that had a username and password on it, I log in the account into Haloscope; an underground website where everything is illegal as I got into the main menu the first thing that popped through the screen was my wanted poster and at the bottom was the price bounty worth 10 million, my eyes widen at the amount of cash they were willing to spend just to find me

'How generous.' I thought while rolling my eyes,

my eyes shifted to the stack of papers and I sighed

"Better get to work, I guess." I mumbled grabbing one set from the stack. Hours pass; I finally finished all the stack of papers on my left side, rubbing my eyes before giving out a long sigh, there was still one unfinished stack on my right. I glared at the stack waiting for it to dissolve into thin air but no such luck, tapping my fingers on the table making a little beat; this is so boring

"I wonder_" I mumbled as I laid my head down on the table; suddenly an idea pops up making me spring up into action.

Logging out of the old account and logging in my own, there were like 100 new messages mostly threats from side extras. A lot were still coming but one message caught my interest; I clicked it open only to roll my eyes at the sender,

The message was short

"That's a big price on your head."

"What do you want?" I replied back

"Simple, just like everyone else; I want that bounty."

"Are you really that short in finances that you would waste your time on little me?!?" I typed before adding "Do tell enlighten me, what could you possibly gain from this?!?"

I sent the message only to receive one back after 3 minutes

"I'm glad, you're as charismatic as ever." I snickered

"For your information, I'm far richer than you'll ever be."

That statement made my eyes roll in irritation

"Show off," I grumbled but kept reading

"Well the very reason I would waste my precious time on a piece of shit like you is kinda simple really; I just want to see your crestfallen face as I hand you over to your own demise."

I stared at the screen for a while, debating on what to answer after a few more minutes; I finally typed

"I would like to see you try."

I could feel him smirking at my challenge, his reply was simple enough

"Death is coming."

I keep rereading the last message and shivered

'I hope he won't find me' I thought

"Who am I kidding? He already knows by now." I exaggerate;

it would only be a matter of time until he comes here, I'm not sure what would happen in the upcoming days but I knew one thing;

I'm going to survive.

A knock disturbed me from my thoughts, I log out of my account and went to the door

"Who is it?!?" I called out gripping the doorknob

"It's Dylan." a voice replied, upon opening the door I was face to face with Dylan who from my point of view was slightly taller than me, he kept fidgeting fingers and couldn't look me in the eyes.

I stood by the doorway waiting for him to state his business but he kinda looks nervous about what exactly?

I waited for a few more minutes until he finally uttered a word

"Sorry."

That got me confused

"Pardon?"

"For trying to kill you." He confessed making eye contact,

there was an awkward silence between the 2 of us until I broke it with a giggle; Dylan look at me confused

"Sorry about that." I waved him off

"It's just you look like a total gangster and all yet you're apologizing," I explained

"You're not mad nor phased at all?!?" he exclaimed and I shook my head no "After a long time working in the underworld you'll get used to it eventually," I answered making him chuckle

"to be honest, I was expecting this scrawny little girl." He teased smiling at his joke while I rolled my eyes at him "The jokes on you then." I sarcastically stated,

"Again I'm sorry we got on the wrong foot but let me make it up to you." He exclaimed, "My name Dylan, It's nice to meet you Midnight. To make up for my mistake, I'll gladly tour you around the HQ."

There was a pause between us until I burst out laughing

"Did Zero threatened you or was it blackmail; to push you to apologize?!?" I asked in a cheerful tone,

Dylan's eyes widen as his smile turned into a frown while taking a couple of steps back

"How?!" He asked in disbelief, his face was priceless making me giggle

"It's a typical scenario," I explained, "but I could take on your offer though."

Once he recovered from his shock; he faked a cough

"well then after you."