Chapter 20 - Life changing mission

"What do you mean you cant?"

"I've seen someone that look like her at Maple Villas but I don't think she is the same person." The robotic voice answered with certainty.

"D*mn!" Ace was agitated as he negate the fact that an amnesiac person could sneak out his radar. He hung up the call almost breaking the phone. When they reach the parking space, Riggs nonchalantly entered the drivers seat of the 4x4 RangeRover L405 not minding the ticking time bomb that might explode anytime soon.

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On the other side of the line, the man called X received another call in his spare phone not long after Ace hung up on him. Hearing the phone ring, his eyes lit up. Only one person could contact that phone. He specially modifyied it for that person alone. Without a second thought he immediately answered the call.

"Boss!?!" He exclaimed. Unlike the robotic voice earlier—he use his original voice sounding like an excited young man.

"Hehe" hearing a melodious chuckles of a woman from the other side of the line, X was mortified.

"Who are you?!" His original excited tone gradually turned cold and threatening.

"Code: Big Daddy." The woman answered nonchalantly.

"Boss? you're using voice changer now?" X asked as he was skeptical about the person.

"nu-uh. But atleast you now know what's the taste of your own medicine."

"Hehe.. Boss you're back?"

"Hmm. Before that... do me a favor. I want to enjoy the city breeze." That moment, X skepticism dissipated as he knew that it was definitely his boss—no doubt. The only person who could make his hair stand from thousand miles away in fear but also felt excited as his boss words sunk into him.

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Inside the Range Rover L405:

Ace and Riggs drove around the city aimlessly for 5 hours but even her shadow couldn't be seen. Ace was eerily silent as he was deep in his thoughts.

He was a proud person, thus, his ego couldn't accept the fact that —that girl could sneak out his radar. He thought hard to know how she did that and left with two possibilities. Perhaps he did lowered his guard this time or she is really good at it but the latter seems to be impossible.

Ace believe that only a few people that is as skilled as him could escaped his grasped as he was raised to be an assassin.

He was an orphan. hence, when someone took him in, as a kid he was beyond happy. Little did he know his life would circled around the dark. His only solace was atleast he had a family he could call. He did everything to be as excellent as his foster father expected him to be. Growing up,

He do as he was told.

Kill without asking why.

Be as inhumane as possible.

Eventually, he became a cold-blooded assassin. though he too find it silly that even his foster father wouldn't let his guard down whenever his around. He thought why would they call him cold-blooded as that what they're supposed to be in the first place.

But little did he know that would changed when he had a mission to assassinate a newly appointed mafia boss. For him, even if he would turned back time, he would take the mission again. For the first time in his life he felt what having family feels like.

He joined the organization for almost a year just to kill one person. But one day he was called out. For the first time in his stay in the organization, he finally met his 'big boss' —his target. Standing before the chubby young man who was leisurely sitting on the leather black sofa, he was about to execute his plan but was abruptly stopped by the chubby man in a suit as he speak.

"Uno is it? Well Kid, Do you want to make a bet?"

"Bet?" he asked skeptically.

"Even if you make it alive here.. I bet you wont make it from your so called family."

Just as the mafia boss finished his sentence, two consecutive deafening sound of a gun resounded through the corners of the room. Uno's both shoulder was shot. Regardless, he managed to pulled his gun that was clamped in his lower back.

"I don't think that is a good idea poin—" the mafia boss was abruptly interrupted as another defeaning 'bang' was heard. Uno pulled the trigger but due to his injury, he felt dizzy and missed his shot.

"DAMN IT! Cant you let me finish what Im about to say?" As if his life wasn't on the line, the chubby man complained. Uno on the other hand felt another bullet penetrate his flesh. He was numb and felt his world switched off.

When he gained consciousness, before he could think of where is he, Uno felt a stinging pain in both his shoulder and left leg. He knew he wasn't dead yet, but why did he let me live?