Raziya took the elevator to the third floor, and after confirming that the security cameras were still down, she snuck up to the door and swiped the guard’s access card on the smart lock.The light blinked twice before turning a solid green, and the door clicked open.“Nice job trying to keep me out. I know my way around.”Smirking at their pathetic security, Raziya slipped past the door and walked across the covered glass skyway to reach the highly restricted tower B.Another door stood in her way, but she pulled out her hairpin and jimmied the lock open effortlessly.“I guess you guys ran out of technology. Must have been a tight budget,” she sneered, walking right in.A narrow corridor led her to a designated cyberspace. The cameras on the door were still blinking red, and it allowed her to get closer without raising any alarms.As Raziya carefully pushed the door open, she discovered the dark truth lurking under the consultancy’s fake business.It wasn’t a normal office on the oth

Herbert’s gray eyebrows lifted as the call disconnected. He was expecting a tamer response from the other end, but Alex’s defiant reply gave him plenty of reason to adopt caution.“Who was it? A handler from the rival agency?” Jack asked.“He says he’s not. He says he is a target we failed to eliminate,” Herbert replied, snapping Raziya’s flip phone shut. “Either he was lying, or we are dealing with a man who is out for revenge.”“If it’s a rival agency, we might need to be a bit more cautious,” Jack advised.“You guys are really thicker than a sack of rotten potatoes,” Raziya scoffed from behind. “There is no rival agency involved. There never was. It was just a neat lie to get you to meet Marcus in person.”Jack’s eyes widened at the mention of that name, and he instantly connected the dots, figuring out the whole picture.“It was you. That biker who raced past my car last night.”“And you led me straight to your base of operations,” Raziya chuckled. “I honestly thought it would be

Inside Herbert’s old cabin in Reddington Towers, Jack was ready to begin the second round of interrogations with Raziya.“I’ll admit that you are a tough nut to crack. But you are still just a woman with all your feminine frailties. You just need the right amount of pain to yield,” he whispered coldly as he laid out the instruments of torture on the austere steel table with the precision of a surgeon.Raziya glanced at the switchblades and pliers lined out like troops and scoffed, “That’s a weird fetish you got there. I am guessing you must be pretty terrible in bed. No wonder you are always skipping around like a frustrated bunny.”Jack merely smirked at her insults.“I am going to enjoy extracting every ounce of agony from you till you beg me to stop,” he said, picking up the pair of old pliers. “I am going to ask you again. Who do you work for?”Raziya rolled her eyes and grinned. “You are going to find out soon enough. Just be patient, darling.”Jack finally lost his calm and grab

Raziya’s muffled cries came from the other side as she tried to speak through the ropes gagging her mouth.“Do you hear that?” Jack asked. “The girl is in pain. She has taken quite the beating, and I am not sure she can take any more of it.”Alex stood there with his jaws clenched and eyebrows lowered into a heavy frown.“You shouldn’t have done that,” he replied coldly. “I had every intention of killing you quickly, but now you’re going to suffer needlessly.”Jack scoffed at his words.“You killed a few guards. What’s the big deal?” he continued condescendingly. “You are just one man with a death wish. But I still have half a dozen killers at my disposal. Think of this poor girl at least. If you continue being a pain in my arse, I’ll have no choice but to slit her throat open and dump her out the window!”A heavy silence hung in the air as Alex’s blood boiled in his veins.He knew he could take on a hundred guards with ease, but Raziya’s safety was his top priority now.“You got me, M

Once Alex got wind of the trouble brewing around the New Hope Medical Center, he understood Raziya’s presence at the hospital was going to invite all sorts of controversies, and it would only take a single misstep for him to get entangled in it all.By the next evening, the massacre at the Reddington Towers was on the front pages of every newspaper, and the same bold red headlines played on repeat on every major news channel.Even though Raziya was still recovering in the ICU, the cops had already visited the hospital thrice to get a statement out of her and the kind Samaritan who had brought her in.Fortunately, Captain Williams had been smart enough to fill in fake details in all the forms and sneak away at the most opportune moment.However, the cops were still on the lookout for him, and different media caravans were camped outside the hospital, eagerly awaiting the next revelation.Alex knew that as soon as Raziya recovered sufficiently to be moved out of the ICU, the cops would