FEELINGS AND REVENGE

Returning a few seconds ago when Alice and Steven were going to kiss for the second time, the girl sensed danger. She had been trained from a very young age and over the years her abilities could not be considered normal in any way.

Thanks to that her sense of danger was acute and even though she couldn't see where it came from, she knew something was wrong. However, Steven was in front of her, and caught the flying object out of the corner of his eye as if it were natural, he held Alice's waist and exchanged positions with her shortly before the projectile hit the ground.

Alice was surprised by the sudden movement, but when she saw Steven hugging her tightly like protecting her, her heart pounded, only to be displaced by the sudden movement of the explosion that sent them flying several meters.

After several minutes, Alice regained consciousness, although she had little hurt and she was not finding strength, her vision was a little blurry and her ears were ringing.

It took her a few seconds to regain the sharpness of her vision and calm her emotions, which was already impressive, so she scanned her surroundings trying to understand what had happened.

She looked around and a few meters from her could see a large crater that was still giving off a little smoke and a few meters from her was Steven lying unconscious with injuries all over his body.

For the first time, she felt the desperation of losing a loved one, since she hadn't had any to date and she anxiously ran staggering to where he was.

Imagining the worst, she reached the unconscious Steven and quickly took his pulse, and checking that he was still breathing, she was able to breathe a sigh of relief. Without any decorum, she ripped his elegant dress or what was left of it and she bandaged the wounds that she consider most important in Steven.

She then pulled out a cell phone, god knows where it was from, and started a call. The phone only rang once before it was responded and without waiting for the receiver to say anything she started saying, "Joseph, track my location I was attacked".

Alice hadn't finished speaking when the call ended and "Joseph" was giving orders to a group of young people in what looked like a control room, with large screens and computers.

Quickly those people found Alice's location and a red dot was displayed on a map that was projected on one of the largest screens and when the person operating that screen turned to inform Joseph, he could no longer be seen anywhere.

After 10 minutes since Alice made the call, Joseph was already in front of her, sighing with relief to see that she was fine, but seeing how she attended to the injured young man lying on the ground, his expression changed.

Joseph was the first agent that Alice recruited and trained in her organization, therefore, he was the one who had spent the most time with her, consequently, he knew her quite well.

He knew that Alice, despite having dated a few men for entertainment, didn't really have a loved one, but seeing the anguished expression she was showing, he understood that the young man on the ground was special.

He did not feel jealous or anything like that, for him, Alice was his teacher and savior, because she picked him up from the street almost dead and although the training was difficult and terrifying, now he could enjoy many things that were only dreams before, he lived for her, but there was no feeling of love, at least not as a couple.

He immediately related the young man as a possible partner for his teacher and strangely felt joy that his cold and lonely teacher found a person who would make her show those expressions that he thought she no longer had, but when he saw the young man's wounds he could only wrinkle the face in terror because he knew that if the young man died, his teacher would suffer the unthinkable.

Wanting to prevent his teacher from suffering such devastation, he approached and picked up the young man and took him to the car he had come in, and quickly drove to the hospital.

Alice hadn't uttered a word in all this time and it wasn't until Steven was handed over to the doctors and they started treating him that she asked, "Have you investigated what happened?"

"The team is working on it, they haven't given me any news yet", Joseph replied deadpan. Silence reigned between the two for a few seconds, but the young man was sweating cold on his back, he knew his teacher and knew that blood would flow when they found the culprit.

Suddenly, Joseph's cell phone rang, in a quick movement he answered the call and after a "OK" and "Send the coordinates", he hung up. "So?" Alice asked with a cold, murderous look in her eyes.

"The attack came from a confrontation between a man named Duval and a group of heroes near where you were. Duval is known for being a scientist with a fondness for ballistic projectiles and finding himself cornered by the heroes, he launched a miniature rocket that is presumed to be the one that landed near you," Joseph explained the situation.

"What happened to this Duval?" Alice asked without changing her expression and her tone was cold, making Joseph swallow hard with some fear with a little uncertainty he replied, "He managed to escape."

Alice withdrew her gaze and closed her eyes like meditating, on the other hand, Joseph breathed a sigh of relief, he knew his teacher well enough to know that this man's days were numbered, what he still wasn't sure was if his death would be slow or quick.

Joseph was clear that if Steven got out of this alive, Alice would give Duval a quick death, but if the young man died, only the worst of deaths awaited him, one so cruel and brutal that even demons would sympathize.

"Keep looking for him", Alice commanded, already a little more relaxed, but still cold and Joseph could only assist in understanding with a simple, "Yes". About 2 hours passed and the door of the operating room where Steven was being operated on opened the doors and the doctor came out removing his mask.

"Are you related to the patient?", he asked calmly, to which Alice replied, "I'm his girlfriend, he doesn't have any family or friends", which surprised Joseph since he didn't think that his teacher already considered herself the young man's girlfriend, instead he thought a lot that Alice had feelings for him, after all, she knew him very little.

Obviously, both Alice and Joseph had investigated Steven, what kind of assassins would they be if they didn't? They knew everything about him, that's why Joseph knew how they had met and that's why he sensed that it was still a superficial relationship, but then he thought, that his teacher had said that just so she could hear the doctor's diagnosis.

"The patient is stable, he suffered some trauma and blood loss, but nothing that threatens his life, he will be fine in a short time, a month at the most," said the doctor without investigating much.

Alice and Joseph thanked the doctor and escorted the still-unconscious Steven to a private room where he would rest while he recovered. Joseph stayed out of the room, not wanting to interrupt his teacher and he was right, as she was not as composed as she seemed.

She had really fallen in love in record time, they had only known each other for a day and she already had deep feelings for Steven, she did not understand the reason and honestly, she did not care, she just knew that this man was special to her and that he was almost taken from her.

After several minutes of silently looking at the bruised Steven lying on the bed, she got up, gave him a tender goodbye kiss on the forehead saying, "Rest, I'll take care of everything", and left the room.

Alice and Joseph left the hospital and arrived at the building where they met with Vlad the day before, as it was their center of operations. Arriving at the monitoring room from before, she coldly ordered his agents, "Find Duval, it's the top priority".

Everyone present understood that their boss and teacher was in a bad mood and there was nothing more frightening than an upset Alice. All of Shadow's agents, as her organization is called, focused their efforts on finding the coal that angered their teacher, even though they felt sorry for the bastard because they knew what awaited him when they found him.

The search took a week. It was really hard to track down Duval, but being one of the most powerful assassin organizations in the world they finally found him, to everyone's surprise not far away, he was still in town.

When Alice found out she said authoritatively, "He's mine" and with an expression that embodied death itself she left. Steven was still unconscious in the hospital and if he knew that the girl he just met recently was carrying out a revenge operation of this magnitude he would be shocked, although he could not say if for better or worse.

In fact, maybe he wouldn't mind, I think Steven would be more interested in admiring the tight dark suit Alice was wearing. If I had to compare it to something, just imagine the black widow, because they are very similar, but Alice had better curves, which is saying a lot.

Alice quickly reached Duval's hideout and quietly slipped inside. It was a warehouse that on paper served as a storage point for a cargo company, but in reality, it was where Duval's laboratory was.

Different work tables and automaton machinery could be seen, which built different projectiles of small sizes. Duval was sitting at his computer reviewing his missile plans when he heard a whisper in his ear, "You should have picked another time to disturb the city."

That whisper was the last thing he heard because before he could react, his throat had been slit and blood gushed out, taking his life in seconds, he couldn't even see his murderer, he only understood that it was a woman from the voice, but nothing could do, in the end, he lost his life.

Alice wiped her dagger clean as she walked out of the warehouse at a slow, rhythmic pace, swinging her shapely round ass clenched by the super tight combat outfit she wore and a bored expression that showed no hint of the heinous act she had just performed.

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