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Chapter 5 - Moment of Truth

A beautiful expensive villa is shown in a part of the city. Inside, we are shown an exquisite pavilion with beautiful glasses and flowers around. An elderly man in his early 40s is spotted in the pavilion, standing in uneasiness.

Bodyguards, all in black suit and dark glasses are found all around the house, even literally surrounding the pavilion. Another guard, who is the man's personal bodyguard comes from the main yard and goes up to the man standing in the pavilion.

"Sir!" he bows at him. The proceedings have ended!" the guard starts and tells him what happened in court regarding Allan Nolls trial.

"What the hell! Allan is out? All the allegations were fake!?" Arnold yells at him. "He really got out? He really got out!" Arnold yells again.

"They are out of their mind. The evidence was clear. How did he manage to escape it all so easily!" Arnold yells as he knocked the vase off the table, and then realizes. He giggles.

"The Z Agents! They are never going to give up are they?" He says softly with a cunning and dangerous smile. He holds his chin and looks up at his bodyguard.

"Get the car ready! We going to the capital!" He orders.

"Yes Sir!" the bodyguard replies and bows. He leaves to set for their departure.

"I never expected the Z Agents to get involved. This actually only explains one thing : Allan Nolls is a member, and not just any, a top official. What ever the cost, I'm bringing him down." Arnold thought silent and smart.

Just after this, his wife comes to him.

"Darling!" she calls him as she finds him drenched in thoughts. He turns and approaches her.

"Sweetheart!" he replies. "What are you doing here?" he asks her.

"I just got the news. Allan is out." she tells him.

"Yeah! I heard it too." he replies.

"What are you going to do now? That was our only chance!" she adds.

"Well, we keep on trying!" he tells her.

"How? We have no idea how he managed to get out clean!" she says.

"That's not a problem!" Arnold tells her. "We just have to render him helpless, in a state not even an army can save him" he adds. His wife doesn't fully get him.

"So what's next?" she asks him. But before he could answer, his bodyguard comes in.

"Everything is ready Sir, we can leave right away." the bodyguard tells him respectfully.

"Okay!" he replies and turns back to his wife.

"Where are you going?" she asks, confused.

"I was planning ahead. I suspected he might be able to pull this off so I was preparing something else, something bigger." Arnold tells her.

"You not gonna tell me are you?" the wife asks, expecting what was on her mind. He holds her shoulders calmly.

"Don't worry sweetheart, you'll know at the right time." he says, kisses her and leaves with his bodyguard. The wife stands there still, staring in the direction they left.

It appears she is a wife not for companionship and love but for public admiratiom as she looks a bit distressed and not cared for.

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Back at the Klein's mansion, we move to Henry's room.

"Maybell! I don't know how to tell you this but I like you. Your smile, the way you speak, your demure, your character, everything about you.

So, will you give me a chance to be your boyfriend?" Henry rehearses in his room, infront of his mirror.

"No! that won't do! I have to kind of give her a ring but I'm on a wheelchair I can't probably do that. I'll just have to wait to walk again." He corrects himself.

"I don't really think you have say all that! You never know." Chase tells him while pouring fruit juice for himself.

"I need her to know my feelings." Henry demands.

"She's been your secretary since you took over from your dad." Chase adds. "She's probably not thinking about that."

"You mean she doesn't like me, she just takes me as her boss?" Henry asks with a little bit of disappointment.

"Exactly! Just maintain your boss-secretary relationship." Chase advises him.

"I would have, but why do you think she's still here after my incident?" Henry asks. "It can't be because she's my secretary, there's more to that!" Henry insists.

"That's really unusual!" Chase says. "I expected you to fall for what I said. I didn't know you were determined." he adds.

"You were testing me right?" Henry asks rhetorically as Chase takes a sip.

"You know me that much!" Chase says. "So just get her over here and tell her in the face before someone else takes her." Chase advises.

"I'm on a wheelchair Chase, not in my best look or state. I can't do this now." Henry adds, referring to that.

"Who spoke about doing anything? Plus she can just ride." Chase teases and doesn't give him eye contact.

"Hey, what do you know about the Z Agents?" Chase asks with a straight face.

"Ahm... nothing much. It was founded by Chris Zane about 30 years ago, around the time my dad's company was growing. It started as a secret organization but one member rebelled and disclosed their identity and location. They quickly changed everything of theirs and killed that guy.

Years later they all of a sudden were interested in politics and started to place their members on top even to the extent of becoming the president.

Unfortunately, the FBI, CIA and my dad's company AHI teamed up and found their political agent. They tracked him down and killed him. The Z Agents got angry and since then have targeted the FBI, CIA and my company, plus more agents are in politics." Henry discloses what he knows.

"You mean they know about you and probably want you dead?" Chase asks.

"If they had the chance to." Henry answers.

"So why don't you have extra security? Who knows, probably one of their agents is around you?" Chase asks.

"Because I don't need too much security and also, you right!" Henry replies.

"What!!!" Chase gasps in shock.

"Yeah, she works in my company." Henry tells him.

"She?? You are aware?" Chase says.

"Why not?" Henry replies. "Did you really think I'll be that dumb not to know your true identity, Maybell?" Henry adds.

Chase is damn shocked and surprised. He feels someone approaching and when he turns he sees Maybell getting inside.

"Wait!!" Chase gasps again. "Maybell is a Z Agent?" Chase asks rhetorically in shock. Henry turns his wheelchair and faces her.

"How long were you going to keep hiding?" Henry asks her while Chase is still trying to get what goes on there.

"So you knew?" Maybell asks also shocked.

"I'm not a kid Maybell. I know of Hendrix too." Henry replies. "Seriously, this seat is uncomfortable." Henry says and gets up from the wheelchair. "I'm so tired of someone pushing me around." he adds.

"Slow down, you can walk? For real? You know Maybell is... are you sure you were really attacked?" Chase asks, doubting for a second.

"That one was real. You can ask her, she saw most part of it!" Henry adds.

"Hendrix said he injected you with a drug that made you paralyzed!" Maybell says.

"Oh Come on!" Henry sighs, "What does he know about drugs?" he asks, "He isn't a real Doctor anyway, just a nurse from the Z Agents."

"How long have you known?" Maybell asks.

"First day I set my eyes on you!" Henry confesses. "Plus, you and Hendrix arrived the same day."

"So why did you accept me?" she asks.

"I was curious to see how well you'll execute your plan. And how best you'll carry out your mission." Henry answers.

"You weren't scared?" Maybell asks and Henry laughs at her question.

"Why would I? Z Agents can't touch my family." Henry tells her.

"But we killed your dad!" she adds.

"My dad was killed by the SWAT. He was mistaken for a bad guy. Z Agents never had the shot. It was a lie." Henry answers a bit enraged.

"How do you know? You weren't there!" Maybell yells back.

"Go ask your dad, Chris Zane is it?" Henry tells her and Maybell looks at him keenly.

"Chris Zane is her dad!??" Chase yells. "It feels good to be lost here!" Chase says proudly.

"Won't you just end what you came here to do?" Henry asks.

"You... love me, don't you?" Maybell asks.

"I did, once!" Henry answers in a soft voice. "But that doesn't matter. You're a Z Agent after all." Henry adds.

"Then you deserve no sympathy!" Maybell says and takes out a gun, pointing it directly at Henry. But he laughs at her again.

"What are you going for do? Shoot me up?" He asks and laughs again.

"Henry!! She's gonna shoot you and the best you do is laugh?" Chase reprimands.

"Chill, she's not gonna pull the trigger." Henry says and she shocks him by triggering the gun.

"Maybell, you don't want it to end this way do you?" Henry asks, now a bit scared.

"Go to hell!!" She yells and finally pulls the trigger. Chase covers his ears while Henry stands still. Maybell pops her eyes open in shock when she realizes.

"You thought I didn't go through everything of yours?" Henry asks her and removes a gun from his bedside drawer. "This contains real bullets!" He adds. Maybell stands in shock and disappointment.

"Henry, don't do it!" Chase tries stopping him.

"Come on buddy! I would have died if it were real bullets she shot." he replies Chase and points the gun at Maybell.

"Now you go to hell!" He tells her and pulls the trigger. The bullet hits her leg and she falls down, screaming in pain as she held her leg. Henry walks over her and bends down.

"You know what, I know why you saved me!" he speaks to her. "Because your dad, wants me alive." he tells her.

"You don't know anything about my dad!" Chase tells her.

"You never liked me. You lied to Hendrix because you saw one of the maids passing, so you wanted to pretend positive." Henry adds and she quickly reflects.

[ ∆ "And that I, that I... love him" ∆ ]

"I shouldn't have let you live this long!" Maybell yells at him in pain.

"Uh-uh!" Henry sighs, "I, shouldn't have let you live this long." Henry tells her.

"If you meet my dad, tell him I miss him! I really wished he had lived long to watch me grow." Henry says and stands up.

"Hendrix will be joining you soon enough!" he adds and shoots her heart. Chase just watches, unable to speak.

"She... saved your life man!" Chase struggles to speak.

"She didn't, she asked for her death. She should have allowed me to be killed, but she wanted to do it herself, by torturing me till I beg for death. She was a fool to think I didn't know!" Henry adds.

"So your mum knows everything?" Chase asks.

"Well, she's smarter than I am!" Henry adds.

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"I think I should be leaving." Chase says in fear, after they carry Maybell and Hendrix's bodies away.

"Chase, we friends, you shouldn't be scared." Henry tells him.

"After seeing what you can do? I'm not scared, just not ready to compromise." Chase tells him.

"If you were against us, you wouldn't have lived to see this day!" Henry tells him in the face.

"I really got to get home. My wife will be worried." Chase tries convincing them.

"Oh yeah!" his mum sighs. "You should be pumping some babies in to her by now." she adds. "Hurry, leave!" she tells him, with a motherly affection.

"Don't be late tomorrow buddy!" Henry tells him.

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Chase goes home with the memories of what happened, unable to get it off his mind. He tries to hide it from Hayley but she notices something. She persuaded him until he said it all.

After dinner he goes to the bedroom to take a rest. Hayley comes out of the bathroom in a bathroom robe and still sees his mood unchanged. She thinks of something to cheer him up, so she goes over to him and lies on his chest.

"Babe, do you think what Henry did was right?" Chase asks for her opinion.

"Whether it was right or wrong, we can't change what's happened." she tells him. "And don't be this moody, please smile a bit." she begs him.

"It's hard! I watched her die right before my eyes!" he tries explaining to her. She gets up and stands.

"I've got you covered!" she says and drops her bathrobe, standing naked.

Chase gets up looks at her and then takes his eyes off. "I'm not ready!" he says, trying hard not to look. She comes and turns his neck to look at her, and takes his hand.

"You know what?" she says, "I don't wanna go to work tomorrow, so I need you to do it for me. Make me sick!" she tells him.

All along he was looking right there, imagining how he could explore. She puts his finger in there, moans softly and takes it out. She then licks them.

"Damn!" Chase gasps when he realized he was hard. "Looks like the little guy wants it!" she teases. He stands up and they get into action.