Chapter 9: Falling

Mason's pov:

I can't deny that when I see that girl I feel strange things happen to me; finding it hard to breath, my heart makes strange moves, I feel like my brain is about to explode, I don't know what she does to me, nor she does.

This shouldn't happen, I should focus on the mission, only the mission.

"Don't you think that you overreacted? You broke her heart, and obviously, this isn't what you wanted." Leonor's annoying voice interrupts my thoughts.

"What did you want me to do? Accept the bouquet??" I wish I could, but my pride refuses to.

"No, but don't react like this....oh, by the way, I checked the bouquet, and the card she was talking about wasn't in it. Do you know where it is?" She looks at me slyly and a smirk on her face.

"No idea, you mean this little card." I raise it. "I just took it 'cause I didn't have time to read it." I reason her, but I think my response didn't convince her. "Wait a minute, so you knew about her plan and didn't tell me!" I am trying to change the subject. She gives me a little smile and begins to run. "You----" I try to follow her, but my attention turns into the tiny, blue card in my hand.

I have read it before, in the day that she gave it to me, but couldn't leave it, I smile wildly every time I remember that she told me that she loves me in it. I couldn't leave it, so I made sure that no one saw me while I was taking it.

I don't care if someone saw me, the most important thing that she shouldn't know that I took it. If anybody told her, I will kill them, no matter what it coasts; I won't risk my love for her to get uncovered... or the failure of the mission.

"Hey bro, you are falling hard for her." Leonor sneaks behind me.

"No, I am not." Of course I am.

"You are."

"No, stop being annoying, or I will show you." She is really annoying.

I am acting like Leonor now.

"You can't, Father will punish you if you did that." She taps my shoulder. Oh God, I really hate it.

"Don't touch me." I shout at her. She shivers cause of my shout. Oh, she becomes sad.

"So you knew about it, and you didn't tell me. You should folllo--"

"Follow the instructions, I know. But this time it was good for you." She interrupts me.....again.

"You know I hate being interrupted, right?! And how was this supposed to be good?"

"She was trying to change you to a better person. You hate everything and everyone..... Except her." She answers and blinks at me while saying the last part of her sentence. I am about to hit her, I swear.

"I am a murderer. How am I supposed to be?! Kind to people?!!" I yell at her, And she sighs.

"This isn't how it is supposed to be working, Mason. If you kept acting like this way, you won't be able to take the key and whatever the files you want." She begins to talk seriously. I give her a nod, I want to finish this conversation.

I hate the fact that she is right, I can't be in love with her, but I can't help it. I like the fact that she is trying to change me into a better person although I think she might fail changing me; as Leonor said I hate everything and everybody, I hate being touched, I hate being interrupted, I hate talking, I hate listening to people complaining about whatever thier day was, I hate being around people, I hate father, I hate people. The only moment i feel comfortable is when I am around her.....I love every second I see her, even if she doesn't notice or even look at me. I love reading that little card she gave to me.

~I tried to get suitable words to describe what I want to tell you, but I am not that good at describing my emotions. So, I hope these words get to your liking.

Roses are red

Violets are blue

I want to open up to someone,

And this one is you.

You changed the way I think of people, when I look at you, I see my elder brother that I miss. I see protection and caring.

I know that underneath this darkness, there is kindness. You are like the bitter sweets to me. The deeper you get, the more that you taste its sweetness. I hope that one day I see your sweetness.

When I look in your eyes, I get lost in those brown enstatite eyes... I love you.~

I keep reading this card a lot, I love it, especially the last two lines.

I have to go to our spot now, they need me there. I am dressed already so I won't waste time. I am going downstairs to get my gun.

"Where are you going to?!" I roll my eyes and give father a wave, not waving goodbye, but ignorance.

"Hey boy, answer me?!" He repeats. I turn to face him, I hate it, I hate him.

"What?!" My voice raises an octave.

"First, don't speak to me like this, okay, son. And second, where are you heading to, son?" His calm voice makes me nervous. Why is he so cold.

"Non of your business, Anton."

"Son." He sights.

I finally got out of here with my bodyguards, now to the loseres at the spot.

We park in front of her house first, I have to keep an eye on her and know everything about her; her father, her siblings, everything. But I have to go to work so I think I am going to ask one of my bodyguards to watch her.

"Henry, keep an eye on her house. If she gets out, call me." He gives me a nod and gets out of the car.

I take the other one and begin to drive. Henry has been my mother's bodyguard for so long. He stayed with her till she died.. He helped me to take my revenge from the person who killed her. He is the only one that I can trust with my sister, he and Noah-my right hand in the team, we got raised together-, but I can't trust niether of them to listen to me telling them what I feel towards Adelina, 'cause I am so aware of the drawbacks that will happen if this mission failed.

We reached our spot, and I am still thinking of a way to get closer to her, and now she probably hates me after what I did with the bouquet.....'and her heart', as what Leonor calls it.

"Hey boss, what's up?" Noah comes and stretches his hand as a greeting.

"Hey, you know I hate physical communication!!" I shoot him a glare with a smirk.

"Ops! My bad." He wipes his hands at my shirt, I growl as his hand touches me. He pulls it away immediately. "How about that girl, how is the mission going, boss?"

"It's good, I just need to get closer to her so I can have the necklace or chain or whatever and the important files that her father has."

"You are going to go according to whatever this plan that you don't want to tell me about, right?" I nod, but I know I won't, I wish I won't have to follow it.... I need her. But if her father refuses, there won't be any other option than to do it; following the plan that I put.

I go to my office to check the other work we have to do, as the leader I am aware that the Russian mafia have lots of enemies, especially during the time when my mom was the leader. She gained a lot of enemies, especially when she tried to play with an FBI agent, aka: Adelina's father. I knew from my little spy that Adelina doesn't even know her father's job, so this means that their relationship isn't good, but I know that she is the key to those files.

Leonor enters my office without even bothering to knock.

"Any new news, little spy?" I raise my eyes only to look at her without leaving the papers in my hand.

"About Adelina, no, but about her father, yes." She smiles. "And stop calling me this." She yells. "Oh, and dad is annoyed because of this job." I roll my eyes. He has always hated this even when mom was still here.

"Tell me the news, spy?" I sit with my chin resting on both of my hands, which were tangled together on the office.