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"No news?" Sam asked and his side aides shook their heads.

"Any oddities in Vance's routines?" Sam tried again and one of the aides shared, "We noticed that he has recently taken an interest in culinary arts. He has been whipping up his own dishes."

Sam nodded absent-mindedly when he paused, "Any desserts....?"

They nodded and Sam's brows narrowed, "Find out where they're sent to usually, that's our first clue," Sam ordered and his personal side aides departed swiftly upon orders.

"Aren't you a little too fixated with a tool?" Reyes asked as he sipped his cup of tea leisurely. His fingers traced the sides of Sam's cheeks and he smiled till his eyes crinkled.

Sam was unfazed and Reyes dug his fingers a little harder into Sam's cheeks, turning it pinkish red and Sam turned to look at Reyes, "Once she's found, I'll do whatever you need me to. You've always wanted me to take over your organisation. I'll do as what you've always wanted..."

"And you know what the initiation entails?" Reyes tapped his fingers on the table rhythmically. Sam nodded, "How could I? I was chosen out of that system. Wasn't I?" Sam smiled mirthlessly. 100 boy fighters and only one boy would survive.

Only to be the leader's pet. Sam was selected through such an unfathomable gruelling process that it honestly would just about break anyone. Except of course, if you could survive being that final one. It would probably take a lot more to break you.

Reyes nodded, "Very well, you've been my most favourite pet. You have no idea how vapid and dumb-headed the rest are! I've long fed them to the dogs, figuratively of course. I'm cruel but I'm not insane, of course I could, but ugh, the mess it'll create. And the stench!" Reyes scrunched his nose only to lean closer to Sam.

"Not like you, Sam, you always smell so divine, I'll have to ask you about it," Reyes sniffed Sam's neck and looked at him, "...tonight? I'm kid...kiding," Reyes said in a sing song voice and got up. He dusted his clothes and patted Sam's head like a pet.

"I'll make a move first, got a king to posion," Reyes said cheerily and got out

The cup that Sam had been holding cracked within his grasp.

The moment Reyes got out of the place, his face changed, "Kill her once she's out. Untraceable"

He ordered his elite guards.