Chapter 9
The director pushed the gun to my temple. I closed my eyes and waited for him to shoot.
"Goodbye Eisuke." I said.
"Stop it!" Eisuke shouted, I had never heard him sound so desperate before.
I heard a bang echo throughout the room, I waited but I felt no pain. I'm alive? That sound wasn't a gun shot, it was the door bursting open.
"Made it just in time." Soryu said as he ran into the room.
"Soryu?" I said.
"Freya, don't move." He said and then I heard a deafening gunshot, right in front of me. It was followed by the director screaming, I heard him fall to the floor with a thud and the gun was gone.
Behind him were the other auction managers.
"You bastards, how did you get here? Ichinomiya, I thought you were on a plane?" the director said.
"What are you talking about? You're the one who just assumed that." Eisuke said.
I sighed, Eisuke was here to. I knew he would have a plan, he always had a plan. I really shouldn't be surprised anymore.
"What's going on?" the director said.
"You guys suck at guessing. This was all an act to fool you." Ota said.
"We've secured all the ways out of this room." Baba said. "We've cleaned up your guys, thanks to Sor's men."
So Soryu helped as well? So they really were all back together.
"It's quite simple. We distracted you with that communication with Ichinomiya." Hishikura said.
"Pretty good performance, right?" Hikaru said.
"I think you should be an actor, Eisuke." Luke said.
"You've got to be joking." The director said.
Meanwhile, Soryu untied me and helped me to stand.
"Soryu, you came back." I said and quickly hugged him.
"I never said I was quitting."
"I thought you were never coming back." I said.
"I never said that either." He said.
"Yeah, I guess you're right. Thank you for saving me." I said.
A big hand then grabbed mine "Come here." Eisuke said and pulled me towards him. "You went pretty far for this little thing."
"The photo." The director said.
"This is what you wanted so desperately, isn't it? The photo that accidentally had secret MI6 info on it." Eisuke said and I assumed he gave the photo to the director. Why was he handing it over when he told me he couldn't? Unless this was all part of his plan?
"The time period for the transfer has no expired." Eisuke said. "As per our contract, the auctions now revert to my control."
"What? That was never in our contract."
"It was, whether you remember it or not." Eisuke said and I heard what sounded like a piece of paper move through the air.
That must be the fake contract Ota did.
"I hereby temporarily assign the management rights over to the buyer. After the designated time period expires, all rights of ownership revert back to the seller." Eisuke read out. "This contract doesn't say anything about selling it."
"What's going on here?" the director said.
"That contract is a fake. The one I signed clearly said he was selling it." The British agent said.
"I told you it was temporary from the start." Eisuke said. "I made it clear that I just needed someone to manage the auctions temporarily because I was too busy with another project."
"Don't lie. That contract isn't valid at all." The British agent shouted.
"Your signature is on it." Ota said.
"That's not possible."
"That's your signature." The director said.
Holy crap! Ota's forged signature just fooled the director of MI6.
"Would you like to bring it to court? I can tell you right now that this contract is airtight. You'd lose." Hishikura said.
"Damn it." The director said.
"You have your photograph. I'd say your best course of action would be to drop it." Eisuke said.
"You can't let word of your failure get out, huh?" Kishi said. "Oh, by the way, we got everything you just did in this room on film. Can you imagine the uproar when the press hears about the MI6 trying to kill an innocent woman?"
"Director…" the British agent said uneasily.
"I know." The director said.
"I'm glad you understand." Eisuke said with a laugh.
With the MI6 taken care of, we all left the building. I turned and thanked everyone.
"Thanks everyone, for saving me."
"I freaked out a little when they brought you here though." Baba said.
"I expected it would happen." Eisuke said. "You have to be prepared for all possible outcomes when you're up against an MI6 agent."
"I thought you didn't know about our plan, Eisuke?" I said.
"You really think you could hide it from me?"
"So you found out about all of it? I think you should be the director of the MI6, Eisuke." Ota said.
Eisuke laughed "Good job stealing the contract from my office." He said to me.
"I don't know what you're talking about." I said.
"Don't play dumb with me."
"It was a coincidence. The contract was there was I got lost and walked into the room. And a fake one just happened to be made and switched at the MI6 headquarters." I said.
"Oh, really?"
"It's not like I had a choice and I do feel bad for having to steal from you." I said.
"Fine, then. Your plan saved me."
"What?"
"I had a plan of action, but it was extremely complicated and hard to pull off. Your plan was smarter and more efficient." He said.
He was complimenting me?
"You even came up with the idea of switching the contracts with a forged one. When did you become such a bad girl, hm?"
Being called a bad girl by the baddest boy I know, was the ultimate compliment.
"Thank you." I said and tears fell down my cheeks.
"What are you crying about?"
"I'm just happy that I could help you." I said.
"You didn't cry when a gun was pointed to your head, but now you're crying?"
"Oh shut up. I can cry if I want to."
"You're hopeless." He said and reached out, wiping away my tears.
"So I've been thinking, was it absolutely necessary for all of us to come?" Ota said.
"Who even asked you guys to come? I was in here the whole time." Baba said.
"Well, at least we went big, right?" Kishi said.
"Looks like we all work pretty well as a team." Hikaru said.
"It's true, we have the best results when we all work together." Hishikura said.
"No sense in changing it now, is there?" Luke said.
"I don't think so." Soryu said.
"Now that we've got the auctions back, we'll manage them. Right?" Eisuke said.
Everyone agreed.
"I'm so glad." I said.
"You're about the only one." Eisuke said and put his arm around my shoulders and pulled me close.