If We Lasted Forever | BOOK 2 ✔️

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*12 hours*

Kiara Athena Carpenter

We have been waiting for some work to come up. We didn't come here for nothing. So now that Eliza has called us to a meeting, we have high hopes.

"Athena, I received some news from a source regarding your brothers" she says looking at some papers.
"Elijah has been hospitalized"

I give Dom a look.
"Why?" I turn to Eliza.
"They think he might have schizophrenia" she says not really interested in the subject herself.
"What is it with our family and idiotic doctors" I groan. "Lij is not scizo. He may be paranoid sometimes but he is not scizo" I talk.

A guard lets out a cough causing me and Dom to turn to him. "Well no offense miss but you are not there. How would you know?" he chuckles. I feel rage filling my veins. Thankfully Dominic noticed. He is softly stroking my back in an attempt to calm me down.

"If you open your mouth to say another word there will be a bullet in it" I snap at him causing Dom to now grab ahold of my arm.
"He is not worth it" he whispers forcing me to turn back to Eliza, who showed absolutely zero interest in what was going on.

"You need to go back to America and destroy a base. Don't worry, it's not theirs. It's one of ours. We have to make sure nobody can reach the files in there. Blow it up" Eliza says before escorting us out of the office.

We had little time to pack so we decided to do it together. That of course ended with us making out until a guard knocked on the door telling us that it was time to go

We landed in America in no time. Money cannot only buy happiness but also fast as fuck jets.

The base itself was an hour drive from the airport. That is with our cars. Regular cars and speed limit drivers would make it there in two hours.

*9 hours*

The base was an old building. It was last used about three years ago as a hiding place. However the files stored in there were worth a lot of money and could mean death to a lot of people. So once the copies were made and hidden in a new place, the old files were supposed to be destroyed. Only one copy of each should exist at once.

That's a very important safety measure guaranteeing anonymity and stress-freedom to our assassins, fighters and other workers. Those files are the only things that can prove they are involved with a mafia. They all have normal families and every day lives but once you are in a mafia, the only way out is death or if your files gets destroyed.

Obviously it is impossible for someone to destroy their own file since only very very few people know where the files are kept. And these are usually people in the leader family who have no business helping anybody escape just like that.

Our job seemed easy at first until we arrived at the base. It wasn't there. Our first thought is that it had already blown up which unfortunately was impossible since the soil around what used to be its foundation was healthy. No sign of any explosions. It almost seemed like someone had just picked up the house and walked away. But that was impossible.

"This is not right" I mumbled to myself as Dominic was on a call with Eliza.

I walked further away from him inspecting the trees and searching for any sign of what could have happened.
"It's impossible to steal a house just like that" I kept mumbling.