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Steve was completely unaware of the woman who had saved his life was his own mother. As he drove down the road in his car, he told Nina stories about his life that she found rather interesting.

The sad part of his story was his mentioning of his foster parents. He told Nina they were great people and he loved them very much but he wanted to know who his real parents were since he grew up not knowing who they actually are.

Ironically, his own mother was sitting in the passenger seat right next to him, but he did not know and Nina wanted to keep it that way. As sad as his story sounded to her, Nina did not want to go as far as to inform him that she was his real biological mother.

She didn't want Steve knowing his own mother was a cold-blooded, ruthless assassin that lived a very dangerous life. The life she lived she did not want the young boxer to be apart of in anyway.

After she would go out to dinner with him, she planned to disappear and never see him again. It was hard for her but it was too much of a risk.

With Steve being around her, another incident similar to what happened at the diner could be emanate and there might be a chance Steve wouldn't survive the outcome.

Soon, Steve dropped Nina off at her apartment, an apartment she had been living since she became an assassin. He promised Nina he would take her to dinner tomorrow.

Once he drove off, Nina went up to her room and crashed on the raggedy sofa that lied there in the middle of the area. The place was a complete mess with everything from clothes to food thrown everywhere. Nina hardly took anytime to pick up after herself and didn't seem very concerned about the look of her apartment.

Suddenly, there was a soft knock heard at the door. Nina grunted and paced over to the constant knocking. Before her stood a short Asian teenage girl with black hair in pigtails with a great big smile on her face. She happened to be holding a brown box with something inside.

"Hi Nina! Would you like to try some of the cookies I baked?" the girl said in a bright and cheery tone of voice.

Nina sighed heavily while placing her hand on her forehead, displaying an annoyed expression.

"Look Ling, I told you I don't like cookies!" She growled finally speaking for the first time since the gunfight. "They make me sick!"

The young teenager was Ling Xiaoyu, Nina's joyful neighbor. She lived a couple floors down below Nina's room. Every week she would bake cookies and beg Nina to try one. But Nina had a huge disgust for cookies; they made her stomach twist and turn at night. It was basically the same thing every week and Nina was about tired of it.

"Aww come on! Just one Nina, please?" Ling said giving Nina the sad puppy dog eyes.

Immediately, Nina took hold of the door and slammed it right in Ling's face in an awfully mean manner. On the other side, she could hear Xiaoyu crying through the door feeling terribly insulted.

The more she heard Xiaoyu cry the more she did not care. Nina had no feelings for Ling what so ever. Through her mind, she just saw her as an aggravating child and nothing more.

Upon slamming the door on the Chinese schoolgirl, Nina went to the refrigerator for a snack, but wound up finding nothing but a bag of chips and a small loaf of bread with a container full of mustard on the side. Sure it wasn't a reasonable selection, but it was all she had. Before she dug in, she heard another knock at the door.

"Great, Ling must want me to try something else of hers," Nina said sarcastically.

As soon as Nina opened the door, she received a great big sucker punch to the face that sent her flying across the room. Scurrying to get up from the floor, she saw a rather large burly man wearing an all black uniform coming in from the outside.

The moment she saw his face she could tell he was one of the hit men that had been chasing her. Surely, she knew he must have followed her to her room and was waiting for the perfect moment to strike.

He took hold of Nina's throat with his hand and raised her up against the wall, severally attempting to choke her with his immense grip. Nina quickly swung her foot towards his head and kicked him square in the face multiple times trying to break free from his powerful grasp.

But the kicks hardly even fazed him at the very least. Kicking him was like kicking an incredibly huge mountain. All it seemed to do was make him angrier and increase his grip on her. As the two fought in the middle of the room, a constant knocking sound was heard at the door. Since Nina was tied up at the moment, there was no way she could answer it.

"Nina are you in there?" said the voice on the other side of the door. "Hello? I hear something going on in there! Are you hiding from me?"

The voice belonged to none other than Xiaoyu.

With no answer, she suddenly realized the door was unlocked and twisted the knob to come inside. From there she saw Nina wrestling with a rather large assassin.

"Oh my goodness!" gasped Xiaoyu as she watched the hit man attempt to squeeze the life out of Nina against the wall.

Nina searched around trying to find something to hit the assassin with to break his hold on her. She spotted an old glassjuice bottle that happened to be lying right underneath her feet.

Unfortunately, she was too high up in the air to reach it with her hand due to the fact she was being held up against the wall. Thinking drastically, she took her elbow and smashed it straight into the large assassin's mouth.

The impact sent his head bobbing back a little giving her a brief moment to grab the bottle and use it. Within an instant, she swiped up the bottle from the floor and cracked it over the guys head.

Little pieces of glass flew across the room, nearly hitting Xiaoyu. The hit man held the side of his head with one hand, trying to resist the pain he felt.

The bottle ended up leaving a huge ugly gash upon his forehead. Blinded by rage, he charged at Nina full speed. Immediately sidestepping out of the way, Nina delivers a swift roundhouse kick to the back of the assassin's head. Right away, he stumbles over to the balcony and falls to his death.

After realizing the battle was over, Nina collapsed to the floor from exhaustion. Seems the bulky assassin's immense grip weakened her badly along with the damaging punches she took to the face.

Xiaoyu took hold of Nina's arm and threw it around her shoulder deciding to help, despite how rude Nina was to her earlier. The little Chinese schoolgirl then took Nina to her room in hopes of healing her wounds.