"What's going on with you?" Matteo looks at me weirdly. "My sisters been acting weird too."
"Can we focus on this please, Matteo? It's important." I look at the map in front of us. We've narrowed down a geographical profile of where the possible next sex trafficking ring will be.
"Xena, you'll need to go undercover for this-"
"Did you two fight or something?" Matteo says again.
A couple other agents in the room sigh but he was not bothered one bit. He knows we rely on him, how he acts here we just have to deal with.
"Matteo." I look up. "Not now, please."
"Is it because she's going to Chicago?"
That's news to me.
I look at him blankly, then look down. "They'll be officers from the SVU there too, we expect this location to be holding at least 30 victims and 5 suspects-"
"It is because she's going to Chicago." He says quietly.
"I'm going to need somebody to go undercover with me as a fireman that needs to investigate a gas leak."
"What I'm going undercover as?" Xena asks.
"You need to wear revealing clothes and hang around that area. If the gas leak doesn't work, sure as hell you will." I say.
"She'll be back bro-"
"Matteo, please shut up." I stand up tall. "I'm leaving in an hour. There's surveillance there at the minute. Xena, you need to leave earlier. My father will tell you what to do." I walk away, knowing Matteo followed after me.
I walk into the office i've been assigned and he helps himself in. "She refused to answer me too."
"Why is she in Chicago?" I ask.
He's quiet. "You didn't know she was in Chicago?"
"No. Is she with Arturo?"
"Yeah..." He narrows his eyes suspiciously. "How do you know that?"
I sit down.
Interesting.
"What are they doing?"
"Romeo randomly gave her the okay to visit him instead of him visit her. So they're just... dating?" He questions it himself. "Now why do you look so mad?"
"I'm not. Do you know anyone in the area we're going?" I divert the conversation.
"None at all."
"Okay, do your disguise, you can come with me."
"They might know me."
"We'll be wearing firefighter costumes and have a disguise." I point to the door. "Go get ready."
He smiles, but just stands there.
"Matteo." I frown.
"I'm just saying that Ilaria didn't seem happy getting on the plane and you're Mr. Moody all day today so I'm putting two and two together, and I'm nosy... tell me."
"None of your business. Now, go and get ready." I walk out, jogging down to the FBI van where our disguises were.
I put the lighter coloured contact in, change into the firefighter uniform.
I'm Lopez and Matteo is Cruz. The two firefighters in the back of the FBI van teach me how to literally just check for a gas leak, how to change fire alarms and carbon monoxide alarms.
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ILARIA (book 3)
RomanceREIGN BOOK 3 (ILARIA focuses on the only sister in the Reign family) Ilaria is the daughter of the most known mafia, and she's looking for marriage. Asahi is the son of a federal agent, he's training to be like his father. They meet and sparks fly...
