Mother told me, her nephew Rumis was coming to Brecei today which meant that I had to get home earlier than usual. It was difficult since I had a preplanned mission today which was necessary to dig out some information on the Poison Tree.
"Okay, I'm in. Tell me, where's the staff's mess?" I asked Nyx through my earpiece as I entered The National University of Sydney (NUS).
Nyx gave me the instructions and I was practically running. I had no idea why, but I was running. There was a threat alert that one of the staff members in NUS was a desicle.
As soon as I took another right turn, I bumped into someone, and fell back.
"Watch where you're going." A deep yet soothing voice said, hovering above me.
"Excuse me?" I said as I looked up to see a man in his early twenties, holding a hand out for me. He had black hair and amber eyes. He looked like he was an Asian.
What's an Asian doing in Brecei?
He walks past me and for once, I froze in my spot. He was giving off a weird aura and something about him didn't settle with my senses. Pushing the thought aside, I went to the staff room.
I looked around to see many professors sitting and minding their own business.
How the hell am I going to find the suspect?
That was the only thought that came to my mind until my eyes landed on a handsome guy, sitting beside the window, making a presentation on his laptop.
"Nyx, search up the guy I'm describing." I whispered in my earpiece as I toom the random chair infront of me and sat down, not wanting to be noticed.
"Yeah, go on." Came the reply from the other side.
"Okay, he looks like a man in his thirties, brown hair and blue eyes."
"Wait, what?"
"What?"
"The hell do you expect? You want me to tell you if he's a desicle or not based on his looks?"
"Yeah, I mean..." It dawn's on me then, how stupidly I was thinking.
"You don't mean anything. You're supposed to find out about the desicle using a bait." She lectures me.
"What could I use as a bait?" I asked.
"I don't know. And why are you asking questions like you're doing this for the first time?!" She asked, probably annoyed by my questions.
I got up then, and walked over, pretending to act normal. I picked up some random papers from someone's desk and took it to his desk and picked up the stapler on it.
"May I?"
"Yes." He gives me a charming smile. If he was my type, I would've already fallen for him.
I pretended to get a paper cut as a took a staple pin to 'accidentally' hurt myself. At the sight of blood smugged on my finger, something in his eyes flickered. That, and the strong gut feeling I had been having since the moment I laid my eyes on him that he was the culprit were enough for me to quickly pin his hands behind him.
"Stay where you are, or you're dead." I warned him as I quickly took out a knife from my pocket, laced with poison.
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I reached home as early as possible, only to see Mother already waiting for me. She clapped her hands and pointed her finger to the kitchen.
"Chop, chop. Off to the kitchen. But first, clean the floors." She ordered.
"Yes, Ma'am." I had nothing else to do but to oblige.
Half an hour later after I was done making dinner, there was a bell on the door.
Abbigail flung from her seat and went to open the door and when I tell you I froze, I literally froze as I saw him enter and he was equaly horrified.
I had seen mother's nephew's pictures in her phone. In those pictures, he was thin, pale, and did not look good at all. But the man who just entered had darker than black hair and light amber eyes and he looked Asian. Him.
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🔸Tip: Here's a little timeline of Emery's life to make a little more sense:
• 15 years old: Adopted
• 16 years old: Joined DHO
• 17 years old: Nazira joined
• 20 years old: Rumis arrived