Raven: Homme Fatale

Bad Habit

I stood there looking at my burnt phone shocked, what have just happened, I inhaled trying to relax as I understood that this guy was up to no good and he wasn't here to guide me through my missions,

"Who are you?"

I said as I tried to understand who he was or what he wanted, Taylor looked back at me worried, he has been our driver for years now and we were becoming like sort of a family, although he was harmless, he was just a driver, but in case someone who wanted to catch us found us, Taylor was unarmed, and he would be scared so he would spill everything about us,

"I'm Se7en. That's all you need to know, by the way, how's Hank?"

How did he even know my butlers name? I was worried for him when he mentioned him, Hank was the closest thing I had to a family in Los Angeles, he is a good man and he doesn't deserve anything bad happening to him just because he works for me,

"What does Hank have to do with this?"

I asked really pissed as I tried to remain calm,

"Oh, nothing. But if you keep on searching for your father's killers, you'll see everyone you love dying."

he said as he let out a small laugh,

"Jokes on you then, Se7en, I don't love anyone."

I said and smirked,

"Not even your mother and sister in London? Such a shame. Family before anything else, you clueless Raven."

his voice got deeper and he sounded like he was either tired or like he woke up 10 minutes ago,

"Leave my mother and sister out of this, what do you want from me?"

I said as I took my second phone out in an attempt to text Leo, but instead I saw a black screen with big neon blue letters that formed a SE7EN on my screen,

"Why are you messing with my equipment?"

I added,

"What I want from you is to stop looking for your father's killers. And I will continue messing with your equipment if you continue on searching. I don't have more time to waste on you, think about what I said otherwise I'll pay a visit to Hank, or your family. Se7en out."

And as he said those words the black screen disappeared from my phone and I could hear Leo on my earpiece again,

"What was that all about?"

I asked kinda shocked, in all these years I worked as an assassin I never had a hacker tracking me and threatening me, he was obviously working for the mafia, that Leo told me about, they must've heard somehow me and Leo talking about it and they hired a mastermind to stop me, but I wouldn't stop. Not now that I was so close,

"Maybe we should stop looking for your father's murderers, Raven. Se7en is the most dangerous hacker out there, he can expose you in a heartbeat and destroy all of our equipment, the fact that he managed to stop me from talking to you on the earpiece means he has tracked our base and he knows where we are located which is a major problem for us, we can lose trillions of dollars, and all for something that has already happened,"

Leo said totally calm,

"Let me ask you something, Leo. If I went to your parents house and put a bullet in your father's head, what would you do?"

I asked ironically,

"I..... would try to find the killer."

He replied embarrassed

"So...?"

I asked confused,

"I'll fly tomorrow for Milan, we need to do what we do in person. We can't trust technology at this point."

Leo said as I arrived to the boutique Valerie was, I stepped outside of the car trying to remain calm as I fixed my tie,

I walked inside and I saw her trying on dresses, she was about 5,8 ft tall, curly brown hair, mocha skin and big blue eyes, her body was perfect like it was sculpted by the Greek gods, I approached the saleswoman,

"Hello, I would like a tuxedo, please."

I asked as I took a look at her,

"Any preferred designer?" She asked politely,

"Dolce & Gabbana, preferably."

I said as Valerie turned around and looked at me,

I pretended I was on the phone because I remembered what Leo told me about her, that she loved animals,

"Hank, how is Cece doing? Don't give her too much dog food because she's not feeling well afterwards. Great, see you later."

I said as I pretended to hung up my phone, the saleswoman returned with a tuxedo, I put it on and got out of the dressing room, Valerie looked at me as she came closer to me,

"Excuse me, I can help you with that."

She said as she pointed at my intentionally bad tied tie,

I nodded as I tried to fake a blush but it never happened, I even looked more professional than before,

"Here."

She said as she made me turn to the mirror and look at myself,

"Thank you.. uh..."

I said as I tried to make her tell me her name,

"Valerie." she smiled as she shook hands with me,

"Michael, nice to meet you Valerie."

I smirked and gave her a sexy look.