𝙊𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣: 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐎𝐧𝐞

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It took fourteen hours for Lloyd to locate Donald Fitzroy.

Fourteen hours of no sleep, staring a blue screen while his employees scrambled to find a man who didn't want to be seen. Suzanne had hardly spoken to him, Nicole only meeting his gaze to answer questions he hurled at her. Lloyd knew he had become enemy number one in his employees eyes. He had manipulated all of them into believing he loved the woman he brought into the house, they had become friends with her, and she was the sunshine for everyone. And he really only has himself to blame for the way his employees distanced themselves from him.

Addison had become Lloyds sunshine once again though, what he thought was an act had become real, just like it did all those years ago. She opened up a side of Lloyd he was so unfamiliar with, a side he never thought he would see again. Not hearing her laugh, not having her stand up to him, it left him feeling empty. A part of him had become familiar with the ease of having her around again, and he was angry that he let her slip through his fingers once again.

His eyes closed when he reclined back in his seat, exhaustion taking over.

But when Lloyd's eyes closed, Addisons smile filled his mind, his chest aching. It had been so long since someone warped his mind, she had taken over every emotion he had. But overall, she was his peace, the panic he felt when she was in danger made him come to a conclusion he wasn't ready to admit, he was in love again. He was in love with the rogue agent and he was working for the one man who was set on bringing her down. This mission was no longer about Six, Lloyd knew that when he overheard Denny stating he would kill Addison when he got the chance, And now it was a race against time, Addison was hiding from Lloyd and Denny, and Lloyd was trying to get to her before Denny could.

Denny wasn't dumb, Lloyd knew that, the man had learned to read Lloyd back in college. He needed to get under Lloyd skin and create doubt, he needed to create a rift in a very broken relationship.

Addison had never been forth coming with her relationship to Six, she was fiercely protective of the man and Lloyd could never understand why. When it was brought up, they would constantly argue, her saying it's none of his business because it was left in the past, while Lloyd would argue he has a right to know since they were dating. It was a sore spot that anyone who worked around the pair knew they could exploit when they wanted the upper hand. It took one mention of Six to send Addison into defense and Lloyd into offense. Lloyd knew this is exactly what Denny was going to exploit, he was just unsure how it was going to be exploited.

"Mr. Hansen," Forrest, one of Lloyd's tech men approached slowly, blue eyes opening to meet his, "you have a phone call."

Lloyd sat up in the seat of his private jet, sighing when he took the phone from the mans hand, "talk to me." Lloyd had no reason to be courteous, if people we calling him it was because they wanted someone dead, not because they were looking for a friend. "I need you to look at the email I just sent," Denny wasted no time getting to the point, Lloyd's thumb and forefinger pinching the bridge of his nose, "I was going through Addison's file and I came across some footage from when she first met Six, I think you should listen to it, she's hiding a lot from you."

Lloyd knew she was hiding information from him, but who was he to judge when he lied to her not once but twice.

But Lloyd would be lying if he said curiosity didn't get the best of him, looking over at Forrest and snapping his fingers so the man would bring the laptop to him. "I'll look it over, any update on the hidden three?" Lloyd's fingers moved against the keyboard, sighing when emails flooded the screen. "Nope, they're still MIA, Lloyd if you have a shot I want the two of them dead." Lloyd's back went rigid before shaking the tension from his shoulders, "I know."