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5: Meeting the Hacker.

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"And this is the east corridor. It leads all the way to the living room." Cata announced as she led me down.

She decided to give me a tour of their manor after I had eaten and took my meds. She'd been checking on me every hour since I woke up and meeting to my needs. I'd never been fussed about this much before. A part of me loved the care and attention, another part knew I didn't deserve it.

Cata was too kind, too caring. It was hard for me to believe someone like her was in the mafia. I feared that she would soon come to her senses and get rid of me. But that would make sense. Who would want to keep a whore around?

I marveled at the large living room. The couches were a warm shade of vanilla, sporting different variations of throw pillows. The walls were a snowy white and mounted on them were candle stands and more artwork. The center table was low and a lovely shade of crimson.

It looked homey...It looked fucking expensive.

Cata has shown me around the part of the manor I was staying in. Everything was so overwhelming that I feared to glimpse the rest of the manor.

I had never seen or been in a house this big in my entire life.

My eyes wandered up the wall, stopping at a huge shield shaped insignia mounted there. It was a golden silhouette of a glaring wolf. A huge crown was mounted atop its head with twin swords on either side of its fur below the ears, forming a perpendicular X.

I looked at it again, something about it was vaguely familiar.

"Catalina—"

"Cata," she corrected. She had told me to call her Cata before we started the tour. Apparently, her full name made her sound too serious and according to her, "My friends call me Cata." And she'd made me her friend.

I shifted my weight to my left foot, still staring at the wolf. I adjusted Cata's blouse for what felt like the thousandth time. She had lent me her clothes to wear because I had nothing else. I had woken up in pyjamas and the outfit Dubois had put me in was...disposed of. (Cata's words) and I couldn't be happier about that. Cata lent me a blouse and light blue shorts.