Rule #1: Never Date An A.C.E. [COMPLETED]

Chapter 7: Rule #10: New Agents Are Not Allowed To Go On Missions Alone

"Whaa..what?" Dylan pulls me up from my seat with a soft grip and begins to pull me toward Alex and Boone. I'm able to grab a few French fries and I munch on them while approaching the small group.

"She's not ready," Alex shakes her head and Boone smiles lightly at me, despite the tense atmosphere.

"I think she can do it," Boone replies and Dylan nods.

"What is going on?" I ask and Alex sighs loudly, rubbing the bridge of her nose.

"Fine, fine, come on Isa, we need to go somewhere more private," we follow her to a hallway off the cafeteria and enter a small room, similar to the one I was in when I first arrived. Alex lays the file the agent had given them in front of me and gestures for me to open it. I hold in a gasp when I once again saw the name Three Princes written in bold across the top. I see a picture of the beheaded agent, closing my eyes briefly at the carnage before flipping through the remaining pages.

Once I finish, I look up to the three senior agents in front of me, "What is it that you need me to do to catch these bastards?"

They all smile with determination, and Boone speaks up, "As you read, Timothy, Agent Dereks, found that the Three Princes run a club in Newport, along the coast, called Elusive."

"A club, how original," Dylan groans under his breath and Alex punches his arm to keep him quiet.

"We need you to enter the club and try to gain some intel. The Three Princes have an interest in different and," Alex looks pointedly at my hair, "you're different."

"Okay," I nod firmly, standing from my seated position. "When do I leave?"

"You mean when do we leave," Dylan smirks and throws an arm over my shoulder. "We're coming too, just in case something happens."

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After we left the room, Boone led us to what the agents called the Closet, which is exactly what it sounds like. I enter a room about the size of a grocery store, filled with clothes.

"Woah," I gasp, my eyes wide and Alex pulls my arm to lead me over to a certain set of clothing, all cocktail dresses.

"Since Elusive is supposed to be a high-end club, we need you to dress up," Alex begins pulling out dresses and holding the up to me, until she has a substantial pile. She leads me to the back of the Closet where dressing rooms have been set up. I pull dress after expensive dress on, but the trio all shake their heads at each. I have only a few dresses left when I pull on a black skin-tight dress with a neckline plunging deep toward my stomach, so much so, I remove my bra. It has long sleeves with gold sparkles creeping up the arms until fading to black, and similar from the bottom of the dress, where it ends slightly below my knee. I smile at the mirror, twirling and with a nod, I exit the dressing room, to see only Dylan, looking extremely bored leaning back in his chair. He plays on his phone until I clear my throat, and he glances up, returning his attention to his phone, until his mind registers what he's seeing.

"Where are Boone and Alex?" I ask, looking around for them.

"They went to gather that other things we need for the mission," he stood and smirked at me. "You look nice."

I scoff and roll my eyes, "Nice? That's it?"

He chuckles and circles me, and lightly brushing my hair from my bare shoulder. I shiver lightly before stepping back into the dressing room.

"Did I say nice?" Dylan says through the crack in the door. I throw it open after I finish dressing and he stares down at me, "I meant you looked alluring, dazzling, and gorgeous."

"Thank you," I smile up at him, and then brush by when I see Alex, running over to her to show her my pick.

"Perfect, just pick out some shoes and jewelry, and the Dylan will lead you to the Garage. We head out in half an hour," she smiles and then hurries away. I find stilettoes, a long hanging necklace, and stud earrings, all in gold. After collecting my accessories, I see that Dylan has hung my dress in a fabric bag and waited for me by the door.

"Come on, Bella, you've got a club to go to," Dylan smiles and I nod, following him to the Garage where the cars are kept. Boone is already at the wheel of a plain gray van, with Alex finishing loading the back. Dylan hands her my dress and climbs in the front with Boone, and Alex pulls me in the back with her. Once seated, Boone leaves the Garage through a hidden door that is closed tightly behind us and we head out on the open road. I gaze around me in awe, seeing we just came out of the side of a mountain, and I can see the roof of Ace higher on the cliff-face.

"Pretty, huh?" Alex asks as she looks outside as well. "I'm assuming you haven't seen it before now?"

Dylan yells from the front, "Of course not! I dragged her here with a blindfold, I couldn't have her compromise our position if she sucked." I kick the back of Dylan's seat as Alex hides her amusement. She then begins to teach me how to use the earpiece and bracelet. I'll be able to hear her using the earpiece, and she'll be able to hear me and others around me with the bracelet. Luckily, the bracelet matches the other jewelry I had collected, so it will easily be seen as a part of the whole look.

Within a few hours, we reach Newport, and pull into the parking lot of a grocery store. Boone and Dylan head off to scout the club, only a few blocks away from the store. Alex watches over me as I apply the makeup she brought and lightly curl my pink hair, pulling all of it to one side. She helps zip up my dress, and I smoothly step into the shoes and clasp all the jewelry on. We then check the earpiece and the microphone in the bracelet and both work perfectly. Boone opens the back of the van and once he sees I'm ready helps me step out.

"Now listen, Isabella," Boone says seriously and I nod at him to continue. "Rule number ten states that new agents aren't allowed to go on a mission alone, and we are partially breaking this rule. If anything, anything goes wrong, you leave immediately. You do not engage, you just are here to look for anything suspicious and report back, got it?"

"Don't worry," I place a hand on his arm and give him a dazzling smile. "I will be fine."

"You better," Dylan says squeezing my shoulder affectionately. "You look the part, just be careful."

I take one last look at the trio and head in the direction of the club, making sure to keep my head up and eyes forward, projecting confidence. I join the line outside the club, an easy smile on my face as I shuffle forward as people in front of me keep being turned away by the bouncer, despite their sparkly dresses and sharp suits. The two women in front of me stomp off in frustration and I'm next. The bouncer looks at my hair and then his eyes travel down to my showing cleavage and he smirks.

"Welcome to Elusive..." he pauses for my name and I smile at him as I walk through the rope he pulled back for me.

"Angel Montgomery," I say back to him with a wink as walk through the open door to infamous club Elusive.

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A/N

Oooooooo Isabella alone on a mission, breaking rule 10? Uh oh.

Will she find out important information? Will she get caught?

So excited for this story so far!

Question of the chapter: If you were in the Ace Program, would you be a field agent or a technological background helper?

Until next time,

XOXO

sborek