It's a promise

Chapter 18

Rylee's POV

Shortly after New Year's Eve one other agent from the Russian mission was found dead. Three shots right through the heart and it looked like he was tortured. The ammunition was the same as McIntosh's and there was another note where Walker was counting down again. And he threatened me. I was on a fucking kill list and I didn't find the time yet to tell Steve. To be honest I didn't want to tell him because he would be so worried and we just tried this relationship thing to work even if none of us really talked about the fact if we were a couple.

We tried to see each other as much as we could but it was hard. Every time I came to New York I only had time for a coffee or lunch and when he came to Washington it wasn't any different. We were calling each other every evening when we had the opportunity to talk and for an over hundred old man he was very skilled with his phone and video calls. But I missed him. A lot.

Over two months Steve and I never got the date he wanted to take me on. We were so busy because he went to Wakanda a few times and he still had his grief groups while my team followed different clues all around the globe. At the moment I was on the plane back to Washington from Argentina. I was tired and moody because it was a dead end again and from this moment we had no more evidence or another track to follow. Walker was playing with us and it pissed me off.

I would have the next two days off and Adam would call me if there were any new hints. I would just get a shower and some rest because it was late in the evening and tomorrow I would pack my bags and drive to New York to finally spend some alone time with Steve. I would also visit Nat because I missed her as well. After the landing I walked to my car so I could drive directly to my flat but I was stopped.

'Sugar! Wait a moment!'

Hell no! I was in such a bad mood that I was thinking about setting Chad on fire. His luck was that I wasn't a smoker and I didn't have a lighter with me. Maybe I would find the matches from the one bar in Buenos Aires in my bag. I acted like I didn't hear him so I kept walking. Over the last few weeks he made many more comments and asked me a couple times if we want to have some 'adult time' (his words not mine) to release the stress. I would rather jump on a cactus. Those were my exact words to his offer. He just laughed and tried it again the next day. At this moment I didn't even know if he meant it seriously anymore or if just wanted to piss me off.

'Sugar. Didn't you hear me calling?' He was now walking next to me. My legs were too short to walk fast enough.

'I did but I don't know what should be important enough to postpone my evening plans.'

'A hot date? Should I be jealous?' I stopped walking.

'What the fuck do you want, Chad?' If he made one more joke or sexist comment I would wrap my hands around his neck. He stopped smiling.

'We should go somewhere else. I need to show you something.'

'This is disgusting, Chad' I rolled my eyes, turned around and wanted to leave. Maybe I should talk with Adam about Chad because sooner or later I would beat him up.

'I didn't mean it like that.' I just pulled up an eyebrow. 'Not this time at least. It's about why you called me on New Year.' This could be interesting so I followed Chad with my car to the headquarters. We went inside and straight to his desk. He gave me a folder on which he was working for two months and I hoped it was at least something that would be worse standing here right now. I skimmed it so I could get the gist of it. That was it.

'So it is possible to make ammunition for guns out of Vibranium!' Chad nodded.

'Yeah but not every bullet or weapon we found was made out of it. We were searching for the needle in a haystack but we found it. That's the reason why Walker is so pissed because he also made some parts of the weapons out of Vibranium.'