"Do you guys get what you want?" Leora asks after they split to buy their things.
"Yup, so what are you going to do next?" Leona tries to balance her shopping bag.
Leora rolled her eyes and took her things in her hands.
"Gonna grab some groceries for dinner?" Mom jumps into the conversation when she sees her watch. It's already in the evening and they need to prepare for dinner soon.
"Mom, we already have the stuff for dinner," "Okay, Mom," Leora says at the same time as Leona.
"Just do whatever she wants. She won't shut up." Leona whisper in warning
"It's been a long time since we hung out together. I think it's a good idea." Leora agrees and smiles sheepishly at her mom after her sister's warning.
"That's right. Let's go, my babies." Her mom squeals in happiness.
"Just do whatever she wants from now. She missed stuffing you with the food she cooks." Leona pat Leora's shoulders and smiled pitifully at her.
"It's okay. I missed her too." Leora runs to her mom and holds her arm to her body.
"Mom, do you get scared when you are pregnant?" Leora looks at her mom's eyes to find the truth on her eyes.
"Of course, I got scared each time when I was pregnant with you and your siblings." Her mom looks at her and visions her as a baby when she holds her for the first time.
"You are so small back then and so fragile. I always get scared whenever your sister tries to hold you by herself. Even when she was a little, she always tried to be grow up." Her mom complains, but she looks at her sister with tender eyes.
"It's not a problem. You know I'm the most responsible of all of your children." Leona argues and catches her step with them.
"Yes, yes, whatever," Leora comments with a smirk on her face.
"Alright, just go take some frozen dumplings for me. And you, my responsible lady go take some soy sauce and flour." Their mother says and pushes them to go on their way.
"Fine. I'll wait at the cashier." Leora shouts at them.
After grabbing some frozen dumplings and another item that she thinks her mom needs, she goes to the cashier waiting for them. Leora finds her sister grabbing so many snacks and laughing at her.
"Grab some for me." She laughs and her sister laughs back at her and walks towards her.
"You know mom will get angry if she finds out," Leora comments when she sees so many snacks at her sister's trolly.
"The key words is if she finds out. With you here I'm confident she never finds out. Give me your card." Leona demands while pushing her trolly to the payment.
"Fineee." Leora rolled her eyes and took her card to make the payment.
"Somebody give you his number. He says if you want some pepperoni pizza date." The cashier says and gives her paper with the phone number.
"Haha too bad my sister hated pepperoni." Leona winked at Leora and continued unloading her snacks.
"I'm sorry but I already have a husband." She pointed at the rings on her fingers and smiled sheepishly at the cashier.
"You still attract someone's eye, little sister. Go call him, I'm kinda curious what will happen to your husband if he knows." Leona tease her.
"No words about this okay. No words. Not even to mom." Leora takes her arms and glares at her.
"Do you already grab what I ask?" Her moms ask right on cue. The sudden presence of her makes both of them surprised.
"Yes, take this card. I'm going to the toilet." Leora says running from them with the snacks in her hands. Leona cheered on her and dragged their mom to pay for the rest of the groceries.
Leora knows for sure that the one who contacts her is Charlie. She remembers the last time they were together she jokes about making pepperoni pizza as their secret code. She and Charlie both of them hate pepperoni to the point that their teammates make jokes about it. She never knew that he took those jokes seriously in this kind of situation.
Leora walks to the lady's toilet but changes her direction when she knows for sure that nobody is watching her, leaving all the bodyguards outside. Not long after that, someone comes in the janitor's uniform putting a broken toilet sign, at the male toilet.
"Can you show yourself if you are here?" She says when she is inside the emergency stairs.
"I'm not some kind of ghost," Charlie says walking out from the dark side of the stairs. He is standing at one level above her. He looks down at her and waves his hand to her.
"Long time not see Leora?" He observes her facial expression and laughs at it before walking down to meet her, while Leora still freezing in space looking at him with a bewarlding expression.
"What do you want?" She takes a step behind when Charlie comes close to her.
"I think you already know that I want the chip.".
"I don't have it on me anymore." Her words make him laugh at her.
"Like I'm gonna believe that." He takes her hand and pulls her towards him.
"What do you want exactly C." Leora sighs and breaks free from his hug.
"You know clearly that you won't get anything from me." She steps behind and sits on the stairs.
"I know, but it is worth it to try." Charlie drops his act and sits beside her.
"Why do you do all of this, knowing there a corrupt people in the agency." She looks at his eyes try to find some truth behind them.
"I'm dumb, to believe that they'll give me something in return." He avoids her stares.
"To the point, you hurt Taylor? I don't believe that. I know how much you love her and you will do everything for her."
"I'm not proud of what I do, but I need the chip to make all of this better." He pleads to her.
"And you think after all of this I'll give it to you willingly?" She asks flabbergasts.
"Tell me one reason why I should trust you. Why I should sacrifice my husband's trust and give you everything I have left?"
"Because you know me. You know me well enough that, everything I've told you is not a lie." His voice did not quiver, it held strength, and the way he held her sharp gaze, she could see from his eyes that he was not lying, his gaze told her to believe him.
"And why would you do that? Tell me the truth and I'll give it to you. I know you still not tell me anything."
"Fine, just stay silent after I clean the mess that I make. Don't even tell your husband." Charlie groans and looks at her desperately.
"Even Taylor?" She asks.
"Mostly her. I need to change my status from the betrayer to hero first before I meet her in person." He chuckled at his own sentences.
"I still need to tell my husband. I doubt that he doesn't know about this secret meeting." She says honestly.
"Your husband is too powerful. I know that. But I don't want to involve him again in my problem. It is enough that I use his brother as a chess piece."
"The only way I could give you the chip is by involving my husband. That's my bottom line. Take it or leave it." Leora says in a nonnegotiable tone.
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RomanceHis hands itch to grab her hand forcefully and make her unconscious in his arms. And he didn't hold the urge to grab her. He grabbed her forcefully, shut her mouth with his arm to keep her silent. She wriggles in his arm trying to break free. He can...
