Revenge 31: Youth Days (3)

"Son, meet Mary Adams. From today until the next five months she will help you with your training." Zack stared at the woman who's going to help him in his training, he's utterly speechless. The woman that's he's trying to find has appeared before him.

"Mary Adams." He said in a low voice and then the initial M.A. suddenly lingered in his head. Zack pointed his index finger at Mary with a surprise face. "You... you're M.A?!" Mary found it amusing seeing his expressions from the beginning until now. He showed so many expression that she cannot express freely herself.

Zack's father tilts his head in confusion, "M.A? You two already knew each other?" He asked Mary.

"Yes. I met him once at the hospital and I also send him a gift as thanks for his help," Mary said politely to Zack's father which really shocked him. As far as he knows Mary is not someone who will respect her elders that easily for her everyone is her enemy and it's hard to earn her trust. He observed how Mary looked at his son's direction, she looked interested in him but not in a romantic way.

He kinda felt scared by the way she looks at his son, looks like his son is going to be Mary's new toy to play with. 'I'm sorry. son. You just have to survive for five months until then good luck.'

Mary did come from a common family without any power against people like them but Mary is someone you can't just mess around with. She has kept the other gangs in low profile she makes sure that they won't cause any problems with the government. Zack's father did a background check on her to find out who thought her the skills that she has now, but he couldn't find anything it's more like doesn't exist and she learned it by herself.

One of the reasons why Zack's father wouldn't mess with her recklessly is because of the other gangs she controls. If by some chance that the government really interfere with her business she can turn those gangs to mess around the government and the government will have a hard time dealing with it and her tactics are hard to predict. The second reason is Mary saved his life when some terrorist ambushed him and to pay for that debt the least he could do is to help her when she needed his help.

When Mary called him he was expecting that she would request him to pay her back for saving his life but that was not the case and quite the reverse of his anticipation. She's going to help him again by requesting that she would want to help his son in his training. In his thought this is not benefitting Mary at all, this request only benefits him and his son. At first, he couldn't understand why but now he felt really bad at his own son.

While Zack's father has some deep thoughts Zack himself was excited to meet the person who sent the gun to him. M.A. and Mary Adams so obvious yet he couldn't point his finger on it, right now he felt so stupid to himself. He got so many questions for her like how did she get her hands on a magnificent gun? What is her real identity? And many more questions popping in his mind.

"Looks like your son has a lot question for me, General. How about we start the training tomorrow after all five months is far from now." Mary said and Zack's father just nodded.

Zack asks the questions that he's been holding back and was quite surprised to hear her response and at the same time idolizes her. He learned that she's a leader of a certain gang and control most gangs and keep them behave. She told Zack about the incident in the hospital, she told him that the guy in a black suit was chasing her because she got found out being undercover spying in their headquarters, Zack was surprised with that, 'How skillful is she?' He asks in his mind but didn't say it out loud. Zack also learned about how she got the gun for him she said that she has many powerful connections in the black market and it's only easy for her to get it and it's a no big deal for her.

After getting answers from her and it followed by the next day they started their training. It was a hellish training for him, Mary didn't let him rest until it's break time. She made him carry heavy stuff for his muscles and also she taught him taekwondo, aikido, karate and many more types of martial art in just a month. Everything she teaches is very tiring for his body and she also teases him whenever there's a chance.

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Remembering his hardships in the past Zack sighs deeply and Zen notices that his father depress face. "Dad?" Hearing his son's voice he looked at Zen and smiled bitterly. "Is something wrong?" Zen asked.

"No, it's just I suddenly remember the hellish training that I've been through." He said and look at Mary who's face is full of worry.

This is his second time seeing her worried face. The first time he saw it is when Mary's husband sudden disappearance eleven years ago. It still a surprise to him to see her like that, after all, she rarely shows her emotion to others.

"What a coincidence seeing you here out of all places, Mary." He said. Mary looked at the guy who just called her name. To her surprise, she saw her old friend, Zack the one she toyed too much back in their youth days. She saw his grinning face, he still looks handsome as he is before as if time has stopped for him.

Realizing what he meant by that she also grinned at him. "Golly, I didn't expect to meet here too... out of all places... I think fate is playing with us."