The Devilish Assassin Meets The Angelic Detective

A week after that incident with Chlarice, everything was back to normal. Elle also learned what Charles and Phantom did that day to Chlarice.

Chlarice was humiliated in the national television. News regarding the evil things that Chlarice had done spread in the social media sites. She was destroyed totally that day, her reputation and her career. 

Now that actress was out of the picture, Elle's days became more peaceful and she was back to her normal daily routine, coming to the Cafe and doing the groundwork for her next target. Her relationship with James also improved. 

On the other hand, Erick was recovering very well and he would go to work after another week of rest. His parents already went back home to their province since Erick was doing fine and they felt assured because Elle was there to take good care of Erick.

After what happened to the police precinct, he became more protective of Elle. When Elle was out, he always made sure for Elle to give him updates about what she was doing, her location and anything related to her.

Elle was very cooperative with him even though there were times she would tell him a lie to cover up for herself when she was out to monitor her target.

And once Erick and Elle were at home, he tried to teach her some moves on how to defend herself. He taught her simple and basic self-defense in which Elle was able to learn easily.

Actually,  although Elle did not need to do that, she just went along with him to appease and make Erick at ease. Besides, she also enjoyed their training as one of their bonding moments.

She was just very careful not to blow her cover thus she was controlling her strength and speed every time the two of them would do a sparring session.

But her main reason for doing so was that she was afraid that Erick might get hurt even though his wounds were now fine.

However, their training session would always end up in a different outcome. Every time  Erick would pin her down, he would always steal a kiss from her.

And Elle would also find her way to get even with him thus their training session would always turn to be a passionate moment between the couple.

Erick was becoming more and more shameless these days but Elle was used to him acting like that. She also liked it.

They were becoming more intimate with each other as time goes by. They were comfortable showing their true feelings towards one another.

Meanwhile, Bryan visited Erick today in order to update him regarding the progress of their case.

"Chief, It seemed like Black Shadow went lie low. He did not contact Marie and they have not seen each other for a week now." Bryan informed Erick. They were sitting in the living room.

Erick continued to flip the doc.u.ments. He was reading the report and reviewing the previous and recent cases related to Catseye. He was silent as Bryan continued to feed him information.

"Another thing, Catseye made her move against the Assassin's Guild." his voice was filled with amus.e.m.e.nt.

"What did she do this time?" Erick stopped what he was doing and he fixed his gaze to Bryan, interested in what he was about to share with him.

"Marie's undercover work was really helpful. She heard that Catseye infiltrated one of the secret headquarters of Assassin Guild. She gave them a warning. She even killed another assassin."

"Members of that guild were terrified after knowing that Catseye was with them all along. Catseye is becoming bold and aggressive. Imagine Chief, she went there alone while she was surrounded by a large number of her enemies." Bryan said with amazement in his voice.

"She is smart. She just used her advantage that no one from that guild except Black Shadow knew her face. She just showed them how frightening she was. I guess she managed to accomplish her goal, she inflicted fears to her enemies." Erick shared his thought.

"You are right, because of that, the Command Kill Order issued by the guild became useless since only the brave one would accept that mission." Bryan nodded as he agreed with Erick.

Erick sighed heavily as he stared at the doc.u.ment in his hand. He was looking at the picture of Jefferson Gong.

Bryan noticed his expression so he asked him "What are you thinking right now?"

"I don't know why, but I felt like there is a story behind why Catseye killed this man." Erick showed him the picture of Jefferson. 

"I have a nagging feeling that there is a deeper meaning on this. It seemed like she was trying to give someone a message. I have a bad feeling about this. I think she is targeting a group of people right now. I believe this time it is not because of money or mission given by someone."

Bryan frowned after hearing that. "So why do you think she is doing this?"

"Personal grudge... this is some kind of revenge I think." Erick had his doubt and he was determined to unfold this mystery.

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***At Arison Holdings and Mining Corporation Head Office***

James just finished his meeting with some of the investors and clients. He was in a good mood for a week and the main reason for that was Elle.

Unlike before, Elle was treating him now as her friend. He was no longer the annoying arrogant wealthy guy in her eyes. He was grateful after what happened to them, now they were becoming closer to each other.

He often dropped by at Falcon's Cafe in order to see Elle with an excuse of just buying snacks for his employees. He became one of the loyal customers of that cafe.

As James arrived at his office, he saw Spike inside waiting for him. He sat down on his office chair and gave Spike a questioning look before he spoke up.

"Why are you giving me that kind of face? Is there something wrong? Speak." James asked him right away as he noticed that Spike's troubled face.

Spike spoke up without looking into his eyes since what he was about to report to him was not good news.

"Boss regarding the investigation of that necklace. We have not yet gathered a piece of useful information. We already checked all the jewelry stores in the City Z but none of them had seen this kind of necklace." Spike gave him back the box containing the necklace.

"How is that possible? How about the result of the investigation our men conducted outside the City Z?" James said with his unhappy tone, a frown appeared on his handsome face.

Spike shook his head as a response before he said "Same negative result Boss. Every store they visited they always got the same response, they had not seen this necklace."

"They said maybe this kind of necklace was personalized or this was not made here, probably from another country," Spike explained to him.

Of course, they would not see that necklace and jewelry store would not recognize it since Erick did not buy that in a jewelry store.

It had a specialized function for tracking someone's location in times of emergency. Erick bought that necklace to a store selling safety items and equipment for protection.

James sighed deeply as he realized something.

"Of course, Catseye was not an ordinary person so it is given that her possession will not be an ordinary item." James laughed dryly.

"As expected, It is not easy to track her using this. Alright, you just continued investigating this. If you still won't get a productive result within one week then stop wasting your time. I will let Black Shadow handle this. You may go." James said as he dismissed Spike.

James was left alone in his office, still thinking about he was able to catch Catseye. He opened the box and picked up the necklace inside.

He was staring intently at the necklace as he studied it very carefully. Troubled, he toyed with the necklace on his hands.

Thinking about his father as he missed his presence James squeezed the necklace on his palm. Unknown to James, by doing that, he accidentally pressed the small button attached to the pendant.

Meanwhile, at Erick's place, Bryan and Erick were still discussing Catseye's case when Erick's phone suddenly vibrated and they heard the loud ringtone coming from the phone.

Erick immediately stood up and dashed forward to grab his phone. Bryan was puzzled with Erick's sudden action.

Bryan saw the changes in his expression the moment he stood up in a hurried manner like his life depend on it. Seconds later, Bryan noticed the lines of worry in his face along with his darkened expression.

The next seconds, he saw Erick went inside his room to get something. Bryan stood up feeling so confused 'What is happening?'

Erick came out with his room with the car keys on his hand and his gun on the other hand.

Bryan's eyes widened the moment he saw Erick holding his gun looking so serious. Before Erick could leave the house, Bryan followed him as he grabbed his hand to stop him.

"Hey Erick, what's wrong? Where are you going?" Bryan said with his nervous voice.

Erick turned to look at him and said with his stern voice "Bryan, Let go. I should not waste any more time. Elle needs me. I think she is in danger right now. She just pressed the necklace's emergency signal."