Sniper

Chapter 14

Walking into the apartment Emily jumps at me for the pizza, while Hames just laughs. Thankfully, she gets them and sets them on the table and we all start to eat.

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I get ready to meet Ben at a cafe nearby. I get my gun just in case I need it. Charging up the clip I get two others because we can never be too sure.

I text Benjamin telling him that I'm going to be there in five minutes.

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The bell dings as an indication that someone has entered the cafe. I walk up to the counter and order a French Vanilla Iced Coffee. I look for Benjamin and see him in a black tailored suit that fits him well. He hasn't yet noticed that I'm here.

As I get closer to the table I see that he's not alone, there he was.

"Hey-" I didn't even let him finish I jumped in his arms and hugged him tightly. "I missed you!" I said softly in his embrace. Travis laughed a little and hugs me back.

Benjamin cleared his throat, letting us know that we weren't the only one that we're in the cafe. Travis and I let go of each other. I turned to Benjamin that was now standing, he extended his hand, "Come here." I ordered and stretched my arms forcing him to hug me. He surrendered and embraced me back.

Slowly I realized how much I had lost in my search for Pavel: friends, family, time, and even love and remorse. The sounds of the cafe slowly started to disappear as we stayed in the same position. Neither of us uttering a word to the only thing that I heard was Ben's heartbeat.

"Adria.." he said, softly, bringing me back to my senses, slowly the sounds of the cafe come back. I recompensed myself, I cleared my throat and I sat. Travis and Benjamin looked at me with worried expressions.

"How are you guys?" I asked attempting to start a conversation.

"We should be asking you the same question." Travis averted the conversation to me. Travis sat up and reached for my hand stroking it lightly. While Benjamin sat back with a look on his face. He was analyzing me.

"I'm fine!" I lied, it had been a week of me waiting for Kace to place the one call to Pavel, but nothing all he got were calls from people at command other than that was Laura. They talked a lot, which only made the fucked up idea in my head to use her against him, more fucked up.

Ben and Travis exchanged looks, silently confirming to each other that I was lying to them. "Your eyebags say different." Benjamin made it known. Travis gave him a what the fuck man? look. I retreated my hand from Travis' he looked taken back but quickly changed his expression.

"Is this what this is? An intervention? For poor Adria who has eyebags!" I mocked them and rolled my eyes. "Adria, you have a gun, charged full I assume, and two other clips, you're anxious -for what? I don't know-because your leg keeps bouncing. And you also took the chair facing the door. You've become paranoid. You're not ok!" Benjamin remarked his analysis.

"Ben!" Travis tried to defend me.

"Fuck you, Miller!" I said. Although he wasn't wrong, he had no right to say any of it.

"Adria, you're going down a rabbit hole, this obsession you have over Pavel isn't healthy-" Benjamin began, but I cut him off.

"What the hell do you know? Did you watch your parents get murdered in front of you?"

"No, I didn't and I'm sorry because you saw it all at a young age, but when you finally get him who will you have left? Because whether you know it or not, you're starting a war with a mobster and he's not going to go easy on you."