"Tick Tick Boom!"

Chapter 8

I grab my duffel bag and follow the girls out the condo building and towards the garage. We quietly got into our own Range Rovers and drove to the agency, we all were either excited or nervous or just not ready to go back to the place where we lost our best friend.

I quietly drove while the music boomed through the speakers. I was still conflicted as if I should still give resign and maybe back down to a lower level, where I can still have time for myself too. I sigh as I approach the agency.

I roll up the agency gate; I take out my card and show it to the guard. He looked at me and gave a nod. I drive down the driveway and enter the garage; I come up to my parking spot and park the Rover. I sit in the car while I waited for the other girls to park their cars.

"Y'all ready?" I hear Nicolette say. I slam the door of my car and tighten my hold on the strap of my duffel bag. I shake my head at her and then make my way up to the building. She knew that none of wanted to be back, but none of us had a choice.

The elevator doors open, and we step out and to the lobby to see agents running back and forth.

"Rose, Paris Hazel, Nicolette!" I look around as everyone turned his or her attention towards us. Everyone seemed so excited to see us, some even looked sad when they noticed that Summer really wasn't there.

"Ladies it is very nice to have you back," I look up to see Mr. Kai and the other captains. They seemed happy to see us come back. I smile at them and even the girls could not help letting a smile peek through.

After we met everyone, we make our way to the locker rooms, drop off our duffle bags in our lockers and we head off to see Mr. White.

I give a knock and wait.

"Come in girls." I guess he knew that we are here.

"Good morning sir," we say as we enter and sit on the long bench then wait for the agenda for today.

"Well welcome back ladies," he said with a smile. "I know it is hard to come back girls, I had unfortunately lost my best friend to a mission too. So, I can relate to this on a personal level as well."

We stayed quiet for a while, none of us expected him to say anything like that and to be honest we did not need to hear that, we knew. In this life always expect to lose someone you love.

"I'm pretty sure you know that you have a mission. I know you four just came back, but you are the best we have, and this mission is important. Let me tell you the details of it." Mr. White spoke up.

He pulled up manila folders and handed it to us. It held the missions info, one copy for each of us. He turned on the huge screen behind him. A map of New York popped up with other information.

"So our department got a breach trying to hack into our system, now this happened right after a week you ladies left. We investigated the problem and it was not what we had expected at first, because they were only trying to get in to the medical information. Not just the agency, but also even the scientist lab were finding breaches in their medical information. Then we had a team trace where the breach was coming from, and they were traced to New York"

"Wait why medical information?" Hazel asked confused as much we were.

"That's the point that even we don't know. We contacted the agency in New York and well they want to help but they are dealing with an important mission, and they need all their agents right now. But they said that any of our agents are welcomed to use anything they want for the mission and a place to stay too."