One last time

Aunt Liza raised her eyebrows when Kevin mentioned Morris' name. "His actual name is Justus. Morris is the fake name I gave him." 

Slamming the armrest of his chair, Matt cursed, "Damn I knew that man was definitely hiding something." A few days back when Matt, Chris and Kevin interrogated him, Morris refused to tell them anything saying that he had already told Kevin what he knew which was obviously not the truth. What Morris told Kevin was a big piece of information but not the complete truth. SPIRIT being a legendary organisation definitely had a high number of skeletons hidden in their closet. And it wasn't as simple as Morris claimed it to be.

Swirling her wine glass, Liza took a sip and smiled, "I wish to meet Justus." 

Matt nodded his head and readily agreed. "You can meet him whenever you want."

"Aunt you don't have to-"

Placing her hand on Matthews shoulder, Liza shook her head, "Don't worry about me son, I'll be alright. Your aunt is not that weak and I have to solve this for your uncle's sake." 

"I'll accompany you." Matthew firmly said leaving no room for negotiation. 

Understanding Matthews concern, Aunt Liza agreed. Matthew was like her son and there was nothing that he did not know.

Turning towards Chris, Aunt Liza asked, "Did you offend them in some way or do you have any connection with them?"

"My wife is the supposed future heir of SPIRIT and Janet is a competitor," Kevin calmly explained the entire situation to aunt Liza.

Massaging his temples, Chris sighed, "This isn't the first time something like this is happening and I don't understand why me? Even Rocky and Matt are involved in this so why are they just trying to threaten only me?" Yes, it was indeed very strange of them to do that. Shouldn't they be threatening Kevin or Rocky first because their woman were directly involved in it unlike him, who was just helping his friends deal with them.

Matt nodded his head and agreed with Chris. "Even I think that this is very strange. Why only Chris? Why not me who can actually help them gather much deeper information about them?"

Turning towards Chris, Kevin insisted, "I think you should stop involving yourself in this. Leave everything to us and we will deal with it. It's better to back out while it's safe." Kevin did not want to put his friends into danger. Yes, they were stronger while working together but they couldn't ignore the consecutive threats from the other side. 

Chris frowned and snapped, "Hey, I am not backing out okay? What does whoever sent this thinks that I'll get scared and back out? SPIRIT is also a secret mission that we have been appointed for Kevin and I cannot back out. I know that I shouldn't take these threats lightly too so I'll increase the number of men and also tighten up the security around her."

" Yeah even i think that running away or backing out is the solution for this. What if they want us to go separate ways so that they can take advantage of that and attack us?" 

Matthew nodded his head and agreed, "I think Rocky is right. I think that we shouldn't fall for this." 

"I think we should talk to Morris and try to extract more information from him." Matt suggested.

Placing the glass down, Aunt Liza murmured, " Leave that to me, this time Justus will only speak the truth."

…..

A few hours later.

After the party, everyone decided to take a rest in their respective rooms. They were staying at the resort for the night.

….

Jeren's and Amy's room.

"Are you sure you don't want to come?" Amy asked for the last time.

Taking off her makeup using her wet wipes, Jeren shook her head, "I feel tired so I'll take some rest and besides, I don't want to see you both getting or cuddly and cozy. It makes me sick."

" Hey, we never do that," Amy defended herself. 

When Jeren did not say anything, Amy sighed, " Alright, I am leaving then. Lock the door properly." 

After Amy left, Jeren quickly changed into the set of pj's which Amy had bought for her.

Grabbing her phone, Jeren decided to check it for one last time before going to sleep but again ended up getting disappointed. 

Tossing her phone aside, Jeren mocking laughed at herself. Was she still expecting that they would call her? Her expectations from her parents were still pretty high. 

Just then someone knocked at the door. "Jeren it's me, Silvia." 

" Coming." Jeen yelled before walking towards the door.

When she saw Jeren already dressed in her pjs, Silvia asked, "Did we disturb you? Were you sleeping?"

" No I wasn't, please come in." After inviting Kevin and Silvia inside, Jeren sat beside them.

"Steve and Amy were saying that you don't want to join the same college as them?" 

Startled by the sudden question, Jeren awkwardly scratched forehead inwardly wracking her brain to think of something.

When Silvia sensed her hesitation and awkwardness, she sighed. "That is a really good college Jeren and I think you should give it a shot. Didn't you come here because you wanted to study there? Then why did you change your mind?"

Jeren lowered her head and awkwardly explained, "That college is really expensive and previously grandpa had told me that he would arrange for everything so I had agreed. But now the situation is a bit different so I decided to join an average college. I am also looking for a part time job so that I can easily pay the fees and-"

"So you have it all planned." Silvia interrupted her. "Look Jeren, you just turned eighteen and this is the time you are supposed to enjoy life not work and focus on earning money. It's the time you only study hard so that after a few years, you can manage to get a decent job which will help you lead a comfortable life darling." 

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