Dangerous mentors

Tom entered Neven's office after knocking briefly. He knew Miss Bogdan was home, sick, so he took the chance to inform the boss about a few details.

«While you were away, I asked Miss Bogdan about her relationship with Ethan Becket,» he said. «It seems that Becket had found her during his first mission - more or less what we read while skimming through her documents - but they later became sort of friends. He's close to being a mentor.»

«A mentor?» Neven repeated, scratching his chin. A mentor was someone very close, and it could easily happen for a pupil to fall for the teacher. It was a trope he had witnessed and heard of many times.

But his Vera wasn't exactly ordinary. Maybe, there was some hope.

«She forgave him because, apparently, the other people at the agency are worse,» Tom added when he saw his boss stray towards weird thoughts.

«Hmm... But why were you so curious?» Neven inquired. «Why now?»