Chapter 23: Knocking’em out

Recap

I place my fingers on the back of his neck, my palm under his ear as my thumb strokes his cheek.

His teary eyes turn to me. Upon making eye contact, relief floods in his eyes as his tension easies up.

I smile.

That's right, depend on me.

Need me, and only me.

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" Proceed as planned, Nick. I'll take care of the guards coming here." I say as I continue to caress Alexander's cheek.

" Alright, take care of them before they call for back up. Alexander, keep working the passcode. Riley, let me know all movements of the elevators."

"' Got it, boss.'" Alexander and Riley respond.

I mute the earphones so they can't hear our side.

" Minjoon, keep your eyes on the door." I let go of him once he nods.

I walk past him and turn right. The structure of this floor was decent for ambushing. It's like a square inside a square. Once the guards come up, they'll head towards the left, per routine, where Alexander is.

I stop at the right end of the south sides hallway, elevators are at the north, Alexander is on the west.

" Ding." The elevator doors faintly ring out. Five guys step out and head left. Once they turn the corner, I start sprinting through the east hallway towards them.

" Hey! What're you going here?!" Once they notice Alexander, they pull out their taser guns.

" Put your hands up!" The rest put their hands on their guns and get ready to tackle the intruder.

But like a good boy, Alexander didn't look back, he focuses on his task.

Silently I walk up behind them as they're occupied yelling at my baby. Using the sides of my hands, I deliver a downward blow to the necks of two guards in the back.

By the time their body's fall, I kicked in another guards knee in and slammed his head in the wall. Not enough to burst his brains out like a watermelon, but enough to give him a mild concussion.

That's three down.

The other two turned their taser guns at me. I duck down to all fours when the closest guy to me fires. I sprint to him, tackling him. I ram him onto the guy behind him, slamming both of them on the wall. Groaning, they slide down collapsing.

All done, I wipe my hands off. Took three minutes in total. Alexander should be done, too, by now.

I walk up to my host and hug him from behind.

" That was quick. I didn't know you could fight." He leans back on me.

" Mm-hm." I mumbled snuggling into his neck. He smelled nice, like oranges.

" Beep." The gadget in his hand gives out low sound, signaling its job done.

" Talk to me guys. Everyone good?" Nick can't see us on the surveillance cameras. There's only one camera on this floor, near the elevator covering only that hall way.

I unmute our earphones. When I mute them, the others can't hear us but we can still hear them.

" We're fine. The guards are down, and we're entering the server room right now." Alexander graces Nick with a reply, easing his concern.

We walk in to see 8 rows of servers glowing in a soft blue light.

Alexander heads towards the computer stationed in a corner. He turns it on and plugs in a USP drive. He snoops around as the USP collects all the data.

" Done, boss. I've got all their data and erased all the back ups they had."

" Good job, now get out of there." Nick orders.

The servers blink and then shut down with steam coming out. I turn towards Alexander, raising an eyebrow, questioning.

"I left them a gift. A couple viruses!" He grins mischievously, bringing out a small dimple.

" How petty." I chuckle as I close the door behind us.

As we walked to the elevator I kicked some of the guards to make space for Alexander to walk. He's clumsy enough to trip on air, I don't think he needs to trip on these guys too. He's only allowed to trip on inanimate objects and me.

Once in the elevator Alexander pushes the button to go up to the highest floor. But the elevator doesn't move.

" Huh? Nick the elevators not going up." Alexander informs Nick.

" They just locked them! You guys can't go up past the 21st floor!" Riley pitches in.

" They noticed. Okay, then you guys need to go down. Plan E it is." Nick packs up and heads down with Sophia.

" On my way!" Riley exclaims as she heads towards us.

I open up the duffle bag that I've been dragging everywhere.

I start stripping.

" Hik-" Alexander starts hiccuping. He covers his mouth with both hands, as his eyes widen.

" What's wrong?" I say taking off my shirt. He stares at my muscles flexing, forgetting to reply.

If Blake was the tall and slim muscled type, than Oliver's body is the buff and large frame type. This body's muscles are much larger than Blake's, my previous body.

When my hands reach to unbuckle my belt, host turns away to look at the elevator wall. But the elevator walls are mirrors.

He ends up watching me unbuckle my belt through the reflection between the gaps in his fingers covering his face. I slowly take off my pants to tease him.

In my boxers, I smirk. Nonchalantly I ask, " Are you enjoying the show, Alex?"

He nods dazed. I chuckle at him as I put on the black suit Nick and Sophia bought last night.

Once I'm done I lean back, putting my hands in my pockets. " If you don't start changing, I'll strip you myself."

" Ah, right!" He squats to dig through the bag. He takes out his suit. Standing back up, he blushes before mumbling, " Turn around."

" Hmm?" I pretend not to hear him. I tap my watch, " You now have 1 minute and 35 seconds."

" ...Tsk." He turns around, giving me his backside, and starts changing.

He sighs as he pulls down his pants. I whistle in appreciation of the view. He grumbles, blushing as he quickly puts on his dress pants.

" Come here." I call out to him.