Secret Agent, Counterspy (𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒅) | Rewritten From Chapter 51+

Chapter 30- Agent Astera

Inspirational quote: If it doesn't open... Then it's just not your door.

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For goodness sake, Agent Astera, Lauriel wanted to scream at her. If you hadn't shown up then I wouldn't have had to take this test so early in the first place.

Lauriel was annoyed.
And no, she wasn't prepared for this test at all, she hadn't revised.

Or known that there was a test in the first place, at least before Dr Kozak had forced her to read the contract out loud for him to hear.

Staring at her, Dr Kozak scanned her up and down, shaking his head in disbelief.

"Hey. Just because you're thinking stuff doesn't mean that I can't hear you. Literally. Don't badmouth my wife."

Lauriel was even more agitated than last time.

You're just showing off because you can read minds, she thought to herself, glancing wickedly at Dr Kozak.

Dr Kozak glanced at Lauriel maliciously back as well.

"No I'm not showing off. It's a gift, I told you. Don't wind me up intentionally."

Agent Astera was baffled, as in baffled on what Dr K and Lauriel seemed to be bickering about.

"What are you guys talking about?" She enquired, looking confusingly at Dr Kozak then Lauriel then Dr Kozak again.

"Don't worry," Dr Kozak answered, looking away from both of them immediately. Plus his wife had no idea that he was a mind reader after all these years of living with him.

He never brought up the subject.
He turned to face Lauriel straight afterwards.

"I'd like you to get to know Astera first before she takes you to your first test," he explained. Then he looked back. "I, in the meantime, have some tests to mark. I've got like fifty of them. Better start marking."

Looking rather tired, Dr Kozak walked away nonchalantly, as well as agent Astera because agent Arista had texted her to come and help her.

"I'll be back," she muttered, walking out of the room once and for all.

It was then that Lauriel had realised something. Dr Kozak was marking test papers... However there didn't seem to be a mark scheme in front of him, or even on his table.

"Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa," Lauriel echoed, when Agent Astera had left the room.

Dr Kozak was halfway through examining test papers and smiling when he read something.

He then stopped to look at Lauriel blankly, raising an eyebrow at her.

"What?" He snapped hostilely.

"You don't have the mark scheme and you're marking test papers. How does that even work?"

Dr Kozak shook his head, looking away, his eyes still focused on someone's exam paper that, for some reason, made him smile.

"Ever heard of photographic memory, kid?" Dr Kozak asked her, not looking at her once. "Yeah. I've got that. Side effects to the mind reading thing."

Lauriel was still intently watching him, absolutely dumbfounded.

"What? And you're ambidextrous?" She realised, gasping as she watched Dr Kozak mark one page of the exam with his left hand, then the next page right, then the next page left again, and so on and so forth.