"Anything else you've noted about Selene, Des?"
"Her nickname is Lea from Zalea, the first name her adopted mom and dad gave her. They are not her guardians, aunt, or uncle for her, they are her parents, not by blood, but she said they were her parents nonetheless. Ah, Selene also apparently stole her mom's chef, called Véronique, and will bring her to Scotland when her manor is ready, I believe, her mom doesn't know that yet," interesting.
"What did you tell her we work with again?" Michel asked.
"I said you're a queer writer, Cael owns many night clubs around the UK, I'm the CEO of an automobilist conglomerate, and I just briefly told her Eric works with computer science. Like he instructed me," I nodded in agreement, "because if she knew he owns a cybersecurity company, she could avoid contracting them, which would be a disadvantage for us."
"Good, good. Better yet, near them, only call me Achilleas, or by any nickname that comes from it. If she asks, I'm Achilleas Montinari. For all that Ella told me, she knows her as Carla Montinari, so let that be. You too, only go by Michelangelo, Desmond, and Caelan, it's the name she knows you by, from what Des said. I'll take a while before showing up to her, as Achilleas, but as you won't, avoid crossing paths accidentally with her in MI6. Don't go there when she's out to London, that could fuck the plan up, and she might think we are spying on her!"
"We are spying on her, though," Cael mumbled.
"And part of the work of a spy is about not getting caught," Michel pointed, eating his 5th slice of pizza. "Did you see their cars, Des?"
Nodding, he swallowed before speaking again, "Sure did. Cassie was very happy to point it out to me, when I asked where we would park ours. Cassie's a forest green Mercedes-AMG SL Roadster, Sera's a baby pink Mercedes G-Wagon, and the one that was parked in front of Selene's was a black Bugatti Chiron," he gave us an amazed look.
The boys' eyes widened, "Bugatti?" Michel gasped.
"Yeah. But according to what Sera added when she told us about the fact that the huge mansion in front of the townhouses was Selene's, she keeps lots of cars in the mansion's garage, and also allow the girls to keep their other cars there too, as it's spacious. Sera said she also has a hot pink Jaguar F-Pace and Cassie has a navy blue Range Rover Velar. Cassie said Selene has an obsession with cars and has lots of it, and bikes. Man, the girl rides bikes, motorbikes."
I leaned my body back on the edge of the couch, sitting down on the ground, "Fuck off," I mumbled under my breath and when they turned to me, they all burst out laughing.
"It's all flowers now, but man," Des turned to me, sighing, "they made it very clear that she's extremely hard to approach. She's like a savage animal who's not used to society, she's hostile. That's the word! Hostile!"
That only makes me more intrigued.
Could she have tattoos? God, she already sounds like my ideal type, I'll have a heart attack if she also has tattoos.
Before we could talk about anything else, the speaker that I linked to the secret device Des hid under the couch of Selene's living room made a loud sound, startling all of us. Instantly, I grabbed it with my clean hand, and put it over the table in front of us, pressing the button that makes the volume go up. Sharing a curious gaze, we stared at the speaker, waiting for another sound, all dead silent.
A song rang close and soon came the footsteps.
"It's Heartbreak on Repeat by Olivia Lunny," Michel whispered as if she could hear us, which she can't. "I love that song. She has good taste."
Both me, Cael, and Des made a sing for him to shut up.
"This phone will drive me crazy. Wait a second, I can barely finish my Irish coffee, ugh," I froze when a feminine rich, deep, raspy, and sireny voice yelled from Selene's place, and when my eyes met Des, he nodded, silently telling me it's her. Fuck, just her voice got me feeling hard. "Wait a bloody fucking minute, damn it." She groaned at the phone as if it could answer her.
Then more footsteps came, followed by huffed male voice that got me instantly annoyed. Seems like she put on the speaker.
"Darling, it's on the speaker. I'm making an Irish coffee for me. I had hidden the phone in my room, took me a bit to get it. Did something happen?" She asked worried.
Who is she calling darling?
"Noona, are you in London?" The soft male voice asked teary.
"Noona?" Des whispered confused. "That's South Korean."
"We know, idiot, now shut up," I snapped.
"Jung-jin, what happened?" She asked more serious this time, all but confirming our suspicious that the guy on the line was Korean. "I'll be in London tomorrow morning, is it urgent? If it's urgent I'll get the jet and go to you right now. But you need to tell me what happened so noona can help you, Jung-jin."
"They… they didn't accept me, noona," the man cried. "I followed the advice you gave me in our mission last month, but they didn't accept me, noona. Omma freaked out saying she was already disappointed with me for not being a doctor like she wanted, and that she could never accept a homosexual son, that's I'm a disgrace." We all tensed up at the serious topic, "Appa… noona, appa punched me, he called me a monster, and-"
"HE DID WHAT?" She screamed, making all of us flinch. "I am going to murder him. I'll fucking murder him. Uncle Heath can cover up for me later, as he always does, but I'll kill that bloody piece of shite. I'll go to London right fucking now!"
"No, noona, please, don't. You've already gotten in problem with Phoenix because you almost murdered the guy I was last with, after he abused me, I don't want you to get in trouble again. You've been working hard to get him to hand you that mission. I just… need a place to stay!" Jung-jin gasped, hurrying up before she could do something drastic.
"I told you he's my Godfather, Jung-jin, uncle Heath won't do shite to me, yeah? Besides, if everything works out, I'll get the mission tomorrow. If he keeps delaying and running away from me, I'll just go fake-crying to his wife, she loves me, she was friends with my parents. She's his weakness and he can't win a fight with her. I'll get that mission even if I have to force him to give me. Which yes, would get me in trouble with him!"
"Phoenix is her Godfather?" Michel gasped, voicing our shock.