The rain was showing no sign of stopping. The thunder was especially loud tonight.
*Crackle*
With another thunder, the elevator stopped on the fifth floor. The light, just outside the elevator door was flickering. As the door opened a food delivery guy came out.
"509! 509!" He didn't take long to find the address. He pressed the bell, but there was no response. He pressed again and waited.
He put his ear on the door and pressed again, "Could the bell be broken?"
*Knock*Knock*
This time he chose a more direct method. And now he could hear someone moving inside. The sound of unlocking came and a little gap appeared. A bald head with two ferocious eyes peeked from behind.
"Who are you? What do you want?" Being a professional he had expected this much of an unfriendly tone.
"Sir, your food is here." His professional smile didn't leave his face.
"Put the food outside and leave." He has to meet those types of introverts from time to time. He put his heavy bag down and started to take out the food.
"But sir, the payment." He took out one of the food boxes and asked.
"Huh!" The grumpy bald man snorted and closed the door, while the food delivery guy continued to take out the food baskets.
The door soon opened again. This time it opened a lot, still, the man was standing in such a way that one couldn't peek inside and the delivery guy had no intention to.
He had taken out all the food and was stacking them just outside the door. He received the money with a small bow and started to count it while the bald man started to take the food in.
*Crackle*
Another thunder and the bald man fell on the floor never to move again.
*Gunshot*
"Wow! They are quite sensitive." The delivery guy moved away and hid beside the door. There was a silencer on his gun. He had shot the bald man but the last shot was shot at him.
He crouched down and rolled by the door to shoot at the man inside the room. Looking at the scene inside he could only sigh. "Captain is too fast."
The man shot at him a moment earlier now lay dead with his grey matter and blood painted at the wall. He moved in with caution.
"You are very beautiful." That is what he had heard as he moved into the 1BHK apartment. A man in black was patting the head of a small little girl who was couching with her parents at the corner of the room.
There were three more bodies around the room. Two died with a headshot while the last was beaten unconscious. He couldn't help but take another look at the man in black.
The man stood up, puffed his chest and spoke loudly, "But my sweetheart is prettier."
*****-----*****
A Moment ago, inside the room.
The bald man closed the door and came in to take the money.
"What are you doing?" The man with the scar who looked like the leader of the five asked in a hushed tone.
"Boss I have to pay for the food." And he moved to pay.
The next moment the light flashed outside, but none of them noticed the shadow, hiding at the balcony. And then came the thunder.
It was the moment when the delivery guy had shot the bald man. But that wasn't the only bullet shoot under the veil of thunder.
Before one could understand what happened the man stood close to the hostage with an uzi fell.
Nobody knows whether it was due to panic or he had seen something, the man looking at the door shot the next shot towards the delivery guy. However, he couldn't pull the trigger the second time.
The glass crumbled under the stress of two bullet holes. The man standing close to the balcony didn't understand what had happened before he sprawled on the ground with a hole in the head.
At least the boss wasn't too slow and brought the rod down on the shadow's wrist. As the rod was about to touch his wrist, the shadow slid his hand along the rod to minimise the impact.
It happened so fast that the boss couldn't follow the hand movement with naked eyes and the next thing he felt was the butt of a gun hitting his face. Before he could recover from the shock a punch to his solar plexus knocked him unconscious.
"Looks like the wound has opened up again." The cloth above his right wrist was now wet.
"Three shots in 1 .245 second." The data is reported on his earpiece. Soon enough other voices chimed in.
"I don't even know why I am here."
"What are you talking about? I am a sniper and I had only shot once in the last 14 missions."
He ignored all the talk and moved towards the hostage and soon the delivery guy entered the room.
*****-----*****
"Sorry, but where is the patient?" Iris was the first one to ask and was about to say something more, but a pair of hands stopped her from behind and whispered a spell into her ear.
Looking at the blushing face Arya couldn't help but put on a smile, "I am Aiden's…"
"We know." Eva didn't let her complete the sentence, "Actually we are…"
This time Lily spoke. 'Speak' wasn't the right word, she shouted, "I know, I know. Ice hearts. You are a red heart, blue heart and pink heart."
"Lily, let the guest come in." Lily was reluctant to obey but still came to Arya.
"We are here to check Aiden's condition. It happened while protecting me." Eva was embarrassed, not knowing how she should react after the outburst of the morning.
"He is fine. It is his work after all." Arya smiled,
"Also I want to return this." Eva quickly took out the contactless card she had given her in the morning, "I shouldn't have taken this from you."
"No, no. It's okay."
"No, that was my fault after all." Eva put both the cards on her hand. "Please take these." With a bow, she was about to leave when someone stopped her from behind.
Lily was staring at her with her large blue eyes. After hesitating for a moment she asked, "Blue heart, are you ok? That bad guy didn't hurt you."
Looking at such a beautiful child a smile bloomed on her face too. She crouched in front of her, "No, your father saved me."
"Pa?" Lily was a little confused. But Eva confirmed, "Yes, your father saved me. He is very strong."
Hearing the praise, Eva felt that Lily's eyes were sparkling right now. She puffed up her little chest, "Yes. My father is the strongest."
Looking at the innocent face Eva didn't know whether to laugh or cry, 'Are all members of the family the same?'