Chapter 9: She Is Dangerous
Katherine fanned herself with her hand, feeling hot and bothered because of that man's bold move. He was definitely a looker—a charismatic gentleman who appeared to be very confident about himself. Then she realized that she didn't even know his name.
'Wait… why would I want to know what his name is?' She rolled her eyes. That wasn't what she went there for. There were more important matters that she needed to do!
Clearing her throat, she composed herself and continued to scan the room. Not long after, she found the person that she was looking for at the other side of the hall. She leisurely walked towards the man and observed his every move.
Katherine had been very careful ever since she had been tracing leads and that night was no different. Covertly, she did what she needed to do to get some information without being detected. Listening… observing… and then when the man went out of the hall, she followed.
Meanwhile, Damien had just finished talking to one of his investors when he turned to look at the side of the room where he met Katherine. His brows knitted instantly when she was nowhere to be found. He was currently at the top of the stairs and was overlooking at the crowd below. His eyes scanned the event hall but there were just too many people.
He lost her again.
He lost her and he had not even gotten her name yet.
"Boss… I tried, but she was quick. This woman seems capable of getting in and out without being noticed. One minute she was just there and now… she's gone."
"Check the footage. See if you can find any clues." Damien casually drank the remnants of his champagne, a slight smile threatened to form on his lips and Markus saw it.
"If I may ask… why are you so interested in her?" Markus couldn't help but wonder. This woman was probably someone shady so why would his boss try to uncover something hidden?
Glancing at the empty glass in his hand, he placed the flute down and was deep in thoughts.
Exactly! Why was he so interested in her? It seemed like Damien thought that it had become a fun chase. The more that he came up with nothing, the more that he was eager to know who she was. This game that he created for himself gave him such a thrill and he wasn't even going to win anything… probably only knowing who she was.
"French fingertips, red lips… She–is–dangerous." A devilish smirk appeared on his handsome face as he turned to leave. "I like it."
"Boss?"
Markus who was following behind Damien tilted his head to the side when he heard what he said. Why did his words sound so familiar?
And did he just say 'She is dangerous and he likes it?' Does his boss have a kink that he didn't know about?
And with that, Damien Park was drawn to the woman whose identity was unknown.
Will he ever see her again?
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One year later.
A throbbing headache.
Katherine's head was pounding and curses lingered in her mouth. She instantly swore never to drink again. She slowly fluttered her eyes open and saw that she was not in her bedroom.
Where was she?
She closed her eyes once more and her face grimaced. She rubbed her forehead as she tried to see where she was one more time.
When she had fully opened her eyes, that's when she noticed that there was a man lying next to her.
Katherine brought her hands up to her mouth to stifle a gasp when she just remembered what had happened to her, seeing that she was naked under the sheets.
Careful not to wake the man up, she collected her clothes that were on the floor and slowly wore them as she found her way into the bathroom that was located across the bedroom.
The moment that she closed the door, her heart thrummed in her chest loudly; it was heavy. She did not know why she was feeling that way. Wasn't she supposed to be happy? After all… she had just spent the night with Chris.
Banging sounds were heard from the main door, bringing Katherine back to the present. She wasn't sure if she was supposed to go out but soon after, she froze when the main door opened and she heard Parker's voice from where she hid, scaring her a lot.
"Can you explain this to me?" Parker threw a load of pictures on the table.
Chris scanned the images and saw that they were all Katherine's while she was investigating the death of her parents. This was what he had feared – for Parker to know about her activities.
"Queen has been going around privately investigating! Alone! I thought you already took care of that last year! You gave me your word, Christopher!!!" Parker was extremely furious. His eyes were fierce and evil. He was infuriated about what he had just discovered.
"And I did! I gave her a dud. I made it so that she won't be able to go anywhere near Operation Scorpion. She told me she was going to stop since she found nothing and agreed on that but she went behind my back." Chris was also feeling unpleasant. He ran a hand on his face and sighed. "I will fix this."
"She is your f*cking responsibility! I shouldn't have agreed on your request that day years ago. You better fix this, Christopher or I will have to order her cancellation." Parker left the room angrily, banging the door on his way out.
"Shit." Chris was truly in a dilemma. How was he supposed to protect Katherine now?
Just as he was in deep thought, he heard the sound of the door opening from behind him. His eyes went wide when he saw Katherine standing there with tears in her eyes. But her expression didn't tell him that she was sad. Katherine looked like she was enraged. Like she was ready to kill.
"Kath… I didn't know you were still here." Chris was shocked. He knew that she had heard everything. "Let me explain." His eyes were full of concern at the same time that he was feeling guilty.
Katherine strode towards him. Raising her hands, she gave him a hard, resounding slap that threw his head to the side. "You lied to me!"
Her slap was painful but the pain was nowhere near what Katherine was feeling at that moment.
Betrayal.
"All this time you made me believe that you were helping me? You gave me a false lead just so that I will stop searching? I can't believe you deliberately—" She sighed and brushed her fingers through her hair in frustration. She couldn't believe that she was played. "You told me that you didn't know anything else! So what's Operation Scorpion? And what did Parker mean? What did you mean?" she yelled. There were so many questions in her head.
Chris couldn't look at her in the eyes and could only clench his teeth. How could he tell her something that she shouldn't know? No matter what it was, she was not going to like it.
Seeing that he wasn't answering, she became even pissed. She wanted to hurt him.
Katherine punched his arm and Chris allowed her to vent her frustration on him as she repeatedly hit him. "Say something! How dare you lie to me?!" She was crying and yelling and hitting him at the same time. "Tell me the truth!!!"
Chris managed to grab her wrists to stop her. He then pulled her into his embrace and tried to calm her down, stroking her head. "I'm sorry… I did everything to protect you."
"Protect me? You expect me to believe you now?" Katherine scoffed and pushed him away forcefully. She looked at him and felt even more pain in her heart and with trembling lips, she told him, "What happened last night was a mistake. I think everything is a mistake. Meeting you, joining Shadow…" She didn't know what else to say. She was done.
Katherine walked past him and left his apartment.
"Katherine, wait!" Chris called and tried to go after her but she was already gone.
Several minutes later, she arrived at her apartment and the first thing she did was strip.
She headed towards the bathroom and took a hot shower to calm herself down. Her head was a mess and she needed to do something or she would go insane. She was afraid that there was so much more than what she thought there would be.
Drying herself with a thick towel, she went to her huge closet and put on some clothes. Whatever the truth was, she needed to find out and she needed to find out stat!
She needed to know what Operation Scorpion was and the only way to do that was to go to Castle.
After changing into dark casual clothes, Katherine stared at herself in the mirror. Whatever she was going to find out that day, she was sure that it was going to change her life.
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P.S. Did anyone get what Damien said?
It's Britney, bitch. ;)
Chapter 10: Best and Worst Decision
Arriving at Shadow's base, Katherine kept her usual attitude when she got inside despite her troubled heart. She went directly to her own bedroom which was on the west wing of the base – every agent in Shadow had their own quarters even though they have their own places outside the base after they become full-fledged agents so going to her own room was not out of the ordinary.
When she entered her room, she locked the door, opened the ceiling vent and pulled herself up gracefully like she had done it plenty of times in the past.
Crawling her way through the small space, she pushed herself forward until she reached a certain office which was on the opposite wing. Reaching her destination, she stopped and peeked through the hole to make sure no one was there before she pushed the vent cover and climbed out of it. She was now in Parker's office.
"Sh*t." A curse escaped her mouth when her arm got scraped as she tried to get out.
Deciding to get into Parker's office was very dangerous for her but she had to do it because she was sure to get the information that she needed from his computer. It was impossible for her to do so in Chris' office because it had glass walls and the agents on the training ground would definitely see anyone who came inside his office.
"Alright, let's see what you're hiding in here, Parker." Katherine sat on his chair and started typing on his keyboard.
Every agent was taught a certain level of hacking, therefore, getting into Parker's security was not going to be a challenge — or so she thought.
Except, she did not know that to gain access into the confidential files on his computer just like Operation Scorpion, there was another security measure: Parker's blood. Her eyes darted to the side and saw that there was a small device beside the computer that had a tiny needle poking out of it.
"Son of a-" Katherine scoffed. "You sure are very meticulous." Resigning, she didn't have a choice but to leave. Hearing footsteps and noises from outside the door, she hurriedly climbed in the vent again and was able to close it just in time when Parker and Styles came in the office.
Katherine heard them talking about the next missions and how they were going to go about it. Hearing Styles's voice, an idea suddenly hit her.
'Time for Plan B,' she thought.
She crawled once again until she reached her bedroom. Fixing her things like nothing happened, Katherine put on her normal-looking face before walking back to the hall and headed towards the IT station.
Entering the room, Katherine saw that there were only a couple of people inside. One IT guy looked at her as if questioning her presence inside their domain. She flashed him a friendly and flirty smile and placed her delicate hand on his shoulder, subtly running her finger on his nape like it was unintentional. "Don't mind me, sweetheart. I'm just here to do some research." She winked at the already blushing IT guy, making him go red even more.
Katherine was doing it so casually that she seemed so natural but the poor IT guy almost bled his nose and peed his pants because a really beautiful agent with the softest fingers just touched his neck.
He didn't say anything and just faced his computer, trying to avoid Katherine's sticky gaze while she sat down at Styles's table very slowly.
As soon as her face was covered by the monitor, Katherine's serious look replaced the slutty one. Her expression changed in a split second and no one even noticed it. With quick fingers, she was able to get into her personal mission.
Her fingers danced across the keyboard like she was very used to what she was doing and in a matter of seconds, she had already hacked into Chris's computer remotely from Styles's desk. Because of her close relationship with Styles, he gave her free access to his computer. Chris wasn't in his office at the moment so she had the chance. Using Chris's login credentials, which she secretly got a couple of years ago, she was able to access the file that she wanted. Unlike Parker who had more secrets, Chris didn't have that friggin' blood security measure.
Without reading the file that she wanted to see, Katherine copied it to her flash drive. She had just closed the windows from Chris's drive when she saw a bunch of the agents' folders in Styles's hard drive including her name. Her brows furrowed when she opened it and saw hundreds of files inside. She wanted to read them right there but she didn't have any more time so she quickly copied those instead.
"What are you doing in here, my Queen?" Styles appeared in front of her when she had only managed to close everything that she opened.
Smiling like nothing happened, Katherine casually flipped her hair and acted nonchalantly as she stood up. "Nothing much, I just did a research about my next mission. Are you heading home already?" She changed the subject smoothly.
Styles didn't notice anything unusual from her so his response was also just like usual. "Not yet, I need to finish up some things first."
"Okay, well... I have to go. I need to do laundry." She rolled her eyes like it was annoying for her to do the chore. She patted Styles on the head before she finally headed out of the base.
...
Katherine's Apartment
Katherine was in her living room, painstakingly going over the file in her computer. She had just discovered the most heartbreaking thing after opening the Operation Scorpion document.
She could not fathom how that person could do that to her parents. Her parents were the most kindest people in their city yet they were killed cold blooded because of that wretched human being.
Katherine then swore to avenge her parents' death no matter who they were and no matter who was in her way—she will persevere.
But she did not stop there as she opened the other files that she found on Styles's drive and learned the disgusting and painfully distressing truth. Every file she opened was like digging her own grave in the darkest soil. It felt like she had reached hell after knowing everything, causing her to rush to the toilet and puke her guts out.
She was horrified and repulsed.
Katherine felt like she wouldn't be able to recover from the shock that she just experienced. Tears streamed down her face as her heart continuously broke into pieces as if that was possible to happen over and over again. The more she walked, the heavier she felt.
Unknowingly, she had already reached her large walk-in closet.
Seeing everything that Shadow gave her for her missions like the clothes and accessories, she felt sick.
"All those people… All those people died…" Katherine collapsed on the floor as she let out a sorrowful scream.
Katherine had just found out that among the people whom she had killed before, there were actually innocent lives who died in her hands because of the lies that Parker fed her. All the missions that were direct orders from Parker were actually "assassination missions". She was ordered to kill with no questions after telling her that this and that man did horrible things when the truth was, some of them were just innocent enemies of vile politicians or wealthy people.
Because she did not doubt Shadow before, she believed that everyone she killed or every mission that Parker ordered was for the good of the country.
Katherine had just discovered that she was not actually raised by Shadow just to be a secret agent but rather she was trained to be an assassin.
She was broken.
After some time, Katherine's tears had stopped flowing however, she was still enraged. Getting up from the floor, she pressed a button on the table and the center shelves in her closet opened, revealing her equipped armory.
She scanned the rows of weapons before picking out a few things. "You raised me to be an assassin. How could I ever disappoint you?"
...
Riding her Ducati, Katherine arrived at Shadow's base in just a few minutes. She entered it as per usual and went to some specific locations of each wing, secretly stashing something on inconspicuous places.
Katherine had just made the best and the worst decision in her life. She was already going to hell anyway... so why not go with a blast? Literally. To hell with Parker and his Shadow. She knew what she was doing was probably not the best idea there was but because of her hatred and extreme rage against Shadow, she no longer cared.
"Tonight, I will show you Queen's wrath. You must be proud."
Meanwhile, Chris had just discovered something on his computer screen when he sat in his office chair. Looking at the notification, his eyes went fierce and his jaw clenched.
In the IT station, Styles received a text message from Katherine in which he quickly responded.
Queen: [ You home yet? Wanna grab dinner? ]
Styles: [ Soon. 5m and I'm out. See you. ]
About five minutes later, Chris entered the IT station with a murderous aura. When he found Styles, he angrily walked towards him and without second thoughts, he grabbed his collar and dragged him out of the station until they reached an area where there were no other people.
"Hey! What's going on? Where are you taking me, goddamit!"
Chris pushed Styles against the wall and almost choked him with his hand. "Why the f*ck did you hack into my computer? Do you have a death wish?"
"What are you talking about? Why would I do that?"
"Then if it wasn't you, why would I have a notification that it came from your computer? Huh?!" He pushed harshly again and Styles winced in pain.
"It wasn't me! I swear!" Styles denied until his voice trailed off. "Katherine…"
"What?"
"Katherine was at my desk when I arrived."
Chris' face went pale and the two of them headed back right away but before reaching the main lobby, they saw Katherine leaving through the exit.
"Katherine!" Styles called out making her snap her head to his direction. Her eyes went wide as she yelled out, "What are you still doing here?!"
Before Styles and Chris could even say anything else, an extremely loud and groundbreaking disturbance cracked through the entire base.
And just like that, Shadow's base blew up.
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The chapter was long. oof.
Literal bomb this time? Hmmm.
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