"A killer" he thought.
Tall man was holding a piece of white paper with "RICH LIONS" with capital letters.
Paul came closer and smiled.
"Hi, I think you are looking for me"
"Mr. Lions ? Come with me. You can call me John." the man moves were soft and quick almost catlike "Well John, I am glad to see you" Paul answered walking after him
He was taken to the safe house just outside of the city. Warm, nice place with single beds and white walls. They told him that Sara was taken as a hostage and they knew were she was kept. The next day he was going to do something about it.
It was dark outside.
He was sitting on a bed. Cleaning his gun. Things like that he had always done mindless - he had the time to think.
There were few women in his life.
He run away from home when he was eighteen.The situation at home was just so bad that he couldn't bare it any more. Than was the army. - The Rangers. He was proud to be a Ranger. That's why he always wore the ring. During the army there was no time for love. He was learning how to kill . To kill quickly , to kill slowly... To get information from the enemy by all means. That was no time for love.
Than The Secret Service.
He had learned more ways of killing and more ways of getting information. He learned how to change his personality , how to cover his feelings behind that all meaning smile he was wearing now.
But there also was a woman.
She was an agent too. They knew , they couldn't fall in love . They had spent few nights together. Than it was over.
Next and the last was the work for Reynolds.And considering it now he could say it would be better he had never started that job.
Oh, he loved her.
At first it was just a little feeling something like friendship. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to be always by her side. Than she found out and gave him a hope that she might be willing.
The bubble burst.
He was able to do everything for her smile, for a warm word.
But she trushed him so quickly... He had never meant anything for her. But even before the her betrayal he started to think.
He was ordered to keep an eye on Sara... He changed his name , put a new smile on his face and started to gain her trust. And of course he did it.
But there was something more... She had some warm feelings for him and he... He couldn't stop himself from feeling something for her.
Than he betrayed her.
Now , he knew what she must have felt.
That was the thing he understood so clearly.
She will never forgive him.
Or... maybe...just maybe,
But he wasn't Lance any more. Even he really wished to be.
He was Paul Kellerman - a former soldier, a former agent, a killer. He was killing so long that it seemed to be impossible to change now.
And which women would like to live with a murderer ?
Sara wouldn't.
But didn't he show her that he had changed ?
Didn't he save her and Burrows from prison ?
Didn't he do all of that knowing he was signing his own death sentence ?
That thing - that he was still alive didn't matter. He was willing to die ...for her.
He stood up from the bed , walked to the window. The sky was dark blue and the stars were shining. He realized that it was first time for a long time he had looked at the stars and actually noticed them.
He was alive... He got a chance to change. Would it work for him ?
But the stars were shining brightly like her eyes...
