I sat there at the bar gazing through the hazy smoke not looking at anything in particular when I saw her. Max. Damn her, I was on a break she wasn't supposed to be here. Besides Chase was going to be here anytime and I really wanted to see him. I glanced at her again hoping that I had been mistaken, but it wasn't the case. I cursed her under my breath and looked up to see Case coming towards me. He didn't look happy, actually he looked ready to kill.

"Hi." I said giving a wry smile.

He grunted and sat on a stool next to me.

"Um, I'm sorry if this inconvient for you, but-"

He cut me off saying, "What are you doing here Yancy?"

"It sounds as if you aren't thrilled to see me." I said my voice flat.

I had met Chase almost two years ago when I had just started at Manticore. He was and still is a reporter, he had been covering an accident that Lydecker had made and I had been on the clean up crew. But ofcoarse no one knew that the mess was Manticore's and I was told to keep it that way. It was simple enough since it was just a five car pile up. The only problem had been me, I was not good at all at lying, I was terrible at it. When Chase had begun asking me questions none of my answers had made scence, but he didn't question them. He had been extremly nice which wasn't like a reporter at all. Afterwards he had asked me out for a drink and our friendship grew from there. It had turned into an affair and he now thought that I was a police officer. I hate lying to him but I have to...

"Is something wrong?" I asked him.

Chase looked up at me, his green eyes narrowed. They were really lovely eyes, so green that you could get lost in them. He didn't look like a reporter at all, he had linebacker shoulders, was extremely tall, about 6'5" and had a great body. His hair was raven black that made him look cruel and merciless, which he was when you got on his bad side. I was just hoping that somehow I hadn't gotten on his bad side.

"Yancy why don't you tell me the truth for once." Chase said, his voice so cold that it sent shivers up my spine.

"What are you talking about?" I asked nervously.

I glanced around nervously hoping no one was paying attention to us, especially Max, i just didn't want to deal with her right now.

I knew that Chase hated Manticore because he had told me long ago. He had said that he had heard about some of the things they did, things I didn't even know about, and that if he ever found someone who worked there he'd kill them. He hadn't been joking about it, he rarely joked.

His fist came crashing down on the bar making glasses rattle, his eyes were cold slits. "Don't lie to me, I don't want to hear them anymore. You've been lying to me since the begininng!!" He said his voice to low and to soft.

I looked at him feeling my body go cold, he knew. But how did he know? Who told him? only one name came to mind, Jake. I didn't know how he found out about Chase but I didn't care.

I turned to find Max staring at me, her eyes dark and threatening and wished I could just die.

"I'm sorry Chase." I said just barely above a whisper doubting that he had heard me because he was already walking away.

My eyes met with Max's again only to find her smiling, a cold smile. She knew what had just happened.