" I can't be with you. I don't love you anymore."
"Don't do this," he said in a broken whisper.
"Let me go!"
They said that I would always have a choice. They lied.
I didn't.
It's been a year since that fateful day when everything good around me came crumbling down. The day my choice, my freedom were taken away from me. The day I was forced to leave the only man I had ever loved. All because I didn't have a choice.
Now, a year later, I'm back to doing the job I had left because I wanted a normal life.
Normal. I scoff. I don't even know what that is. My family's fame, my father's past and my famous extraordinary boyfriend… Ex-boyfriend. It can never be normal. Ever.
"Steele." I turn towards the voice. Eric Night. My friend. My partner. He like me was recruited for this profession. A profession that we never wanted to go for.
"Captain wants to see us. It's a high profile case."
"Okay." I reply and look down longingly at the three pictures. Pictures of the three most important men in my life. The one that I lost and will never get back, the one that was my saving grace and the one that was my everything. I carefully put the pictures down and close the book. I stand up and walk to the door.
On my way to the conference room where the meeting is being held Cal and Aaron join me. They both like me and Eric were recruited for this job. We were 15 when we were 'chosen.' I've known the three of them since kindergarten and been friends ever since.
We all have a past that we cannot rid ourselves of. Aaron and me. We went through the same thing so we understand each other's pain. We wanted justice. We wanted the people who wrecked havoc in our lives to get caught. To feel the pain we felt when they turned our lives in a split second. Nothing has been the same ever since.
"So what do you think this case is about?" Aaron asked. He is the level-headed one among the four of us. In a way Aaron is a lot like me, he doesn't trust anyone easily. Circumstances made him what he is today.
Life made Aaron, Cal, Eric and I the way we are today.
"Don't know. The only information that Captain is giving is that it's a high profile case." Cal replied.
Calvin Bailey. The goof ball of this group. He has the ability to make a tense situation light. Even though he gets on the last of my nerves and I think of a thousand ways to kill him I know I will never go for it. I love him too much to do that though I'm never going to admit that to him. Like. EVER.
"Man, I can just think about the amount of work we would have to do on this," Eric replied entering the room.
"Bye- Bye sleep. I will miss you" Cal let out a big sigh.
"You mean less of the sleeping equals to zero lays for you" I reply.
"Oh! You know me so well Steele. You know how I just love a good lay. You know you should try it sometime. Maybe it will wear of that bitchy attitude of yours." Cal replied with a smirk on his face.
"You get fucked for enough people Bailey" Captain said when he entered the room.
I turn to Cal and smirk at him and he rolls his eyes at the Captain.
"So boss what's the case about?"
"There has been a murder."
"We got that Captain. What's so special about it that you specifically wanted the four of us. I mean there are more people who have years on training on us" Aaron asked.
"Yes. I know that there are people who have the upper hand but they are not as quick and the best as the four of you." Captain smiled at us.
Eric, Aaron, Cal and I grin at each other. The whole department knows that we are the best at what we do. We are quick, we have stealth and the most important thing, we never miss our target.
"Marcus Jennings. He was on his way to give some important files to the CEO of the company when he was shot on the said CEO's floor."
Captain gives each of us the file on this guy. Judging by his mug-shot he is a good looking guy. Blonde hair, blue eyes, fair skinned, 5"11'. Not bad. Head of the Accounts department of his office. No family of his own. One thing that catches my eye is the area of his employment. It has been blackened and this does not happen unless the Captain does not want anyone else to know about it.
But what takes my breath away is where is office is located at.
"Why is the name of the place he works been removed? It's not like the place was that high and mighty" Cal asked.
"That has been removed because the CEO and his lawyers did not want this news to go to the media unless everything was concrete. One more thing you four have to fly out with James today and investigate."
"So where did this guy work?" Aaron questioned
"Grey Enterprises Holdings"