With a smile on her face, Axel sat at her desk ready to see her dream come true.Her mind was already conjuring up the words that Ethan might have sent. The more she thought about it, the more she smiled.She ruffled through the bouquet for the card and her mind went wild again.The card was tucked delicately between the petals of the tulips. She pulled it free and unfolded it. ‘How did he even know about my favorite flowers?’ she thought to herself skimming through the content of the letter absent mindedly.‘Maybe he went through my social media and figured it out? Or was it Ava that did the digging for him?’She kept smiling at the thoughts she was getting, but then she realized that what she was reading wasn’t making sense.Not because it was gibberish, but because it was not resonating with anything her mind was expecting.She had been so occupied in her thoughts as she read that she didn’t even realize what she had been reading, even after reading it over and over again.She cle

After a while of thinking, Ava finally spoke, keeping her voice as calm as she could, trying not to make Axel panic even more.“Okay. Listen to me carefully.”Axel wiped her eyes again, trying to steady her shaking hand as she waited for the instructions..“Do not call the police,” Ava instructed. “Do not panic in public. Do not leave work early or do anything suspicious. Alexander might already be watching you.”Axel swallowed hard. “But… Ethan…”“And that is exactly why you must NOT do anything emotional,” Ava cut in. “If Alexander suspects for even a second that you are living with Ethan, he will send men to follow you home. And if they find him…”She didn’t finish the sentence.She didn’t need to.Axel felt her blood run cold.“Here’s what you’re going to do,” Ava said. “You will stay in that office and finish your work. Fix whatever your supervisor wants. Get through the rest of your day as if everything is normal. Do you understand me?”Axel nodded hard, even though Ava could

After a while of thinking, he made a decision in his mind.Once the unit was eventually formed, because he would make sure it was created, he would volunteer to join it personally.While on the team, he would investigate Axel himself.If she was from the sect she would try to steer the team away from her. He decided that he would make it his mission to investigate her himself.No traitor will escape my sight.~ ~ ~Back at the Bank, Axel had tried to get herself a little rest from her own mind.After the call with Ava, her pulse had still been erratic, and her palms clammy. She’d splashed water on her face in the restroom, and forced down three deep breaths, and tried to convince herself she could hold the rest of the day together. Ava’s instructions echoed in her skull like a beating drum: Keep your head down. Finish your tasks. Do not attract attention.She felt like a child that was in a military home, but she knew she at the very least owed it to Ethan. He had risked a lot to s