Starting the day as a spy and ending it as a frightened girl who had just witnessed a cold-blooded murder, now seated in a stranger's car, wasn't exactly how I had planned my day to go. I tried to reverse time in my head.

I would turn down Kelly's job offer. But I wasn't so sure of that. Getting a part payment for the job wasn't something I would trade any other thing for. Maybe I should have ghosted out on her as soon as I got the money.

I shook my head inwardly at the thought.

She would drag my name and reputation all over my website.

Maybe I should have just stopped the whole thing after seeing Ryan with Steph. It was already obvious they were seeing each other and the best I could have done was take photos of them for evidence, concluded my investigation, called Kelly to deliver the news and collected my complete payment for the job.

That would have saved me from having to see t

Our new home was still a million miles away from the Bahamas but far quite a mile from our old place. One week was enough to change everything and start a new life.

The website was permanently down and gone. I had changed my phone, email, and contact numbers and made cautious care that there was nothing left to trace back to me. After searching for available apartments online and settling on one, I had withdrawn all the money I've had up in my savings account for two years now and the amount almost caused me a cry of joy. This was going to be enough to last me and my sister a few months, coupled with the half payment I had gotten from Kelly and all of my dress-up dresses I had sold off.

At least, before I hopefully get a legit job this time around.

JoJo didn't seem to buy the idea at first until I had given her the reason that moving to a new place was going to help me start a new lif

I had just witnessed a man kill a woman right before me. A gruesome, heartless murder. As the FBI forensic agents wheeled her body away from the hotel building, I stare blankly at the white sheets that covered her frame. Under those sheets was an innocent woman. It had taken less than a minute, less than a minute to end her existence. Did she feel the same eerie feeling that I got when he had pinned her to the walls and picked the glass of water? Did she at least see the naked electrical wires popping from the socket that I had missed until the minute he bathed her with the glass of water, causing the shock from the wire to cradle her beautifully crafted stature, never sparing her a second to speak or beg for help until it had taken her soul with it?

Did she get the chance to wish she had never come today or even met a man like Ryan?

My empty eyes caught the sight of Ryan with a few of

Starting the day as a spy and ending it as a frightened girl who had just witnessed a cold-blooded murder, now seated in a stranger's car, wasn't exactly how I had planned my day to go. I tried to reverse time in my head.

I would turn down Kelly's job offer. But I wasn't so sure of that. Getting a part payment for the job wasn't something I would trade any other thing for. Maybe I should have ghosted out on her as soon as I got the money.

I shook my head inwardly at the thought.

She would drag my name and reputation all over my website.

Maybe I should have just stopped the whole thing after seeing Ryan with Steph. It was already obvious they were seeing each other and the best I could have done was take photos of them for evidence, concluded my investigation, called Kelly to deliver the news and collected my complete payment for the job.

That would have saved me from having to see the wrong thing at the wrong time and in fear of being traced and found. And silenced for life.

'How

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