chapter 17- p a r a l y z e d



(a/n: their song )

"So do you remember the plan?" I turn around to face the backseat where Sienna, Val, and Diego sat.

"Wait can you run us through the plan one more time?" Diego asks and everyone now bursts into groans since he asked this same question about ten times now, and I am now starting to have doubts about him going in there at all.

"You and Sienna will sneak through the back and take the guards there, that's when I and Mateo will get through and Valentina will help us see if there any incoming gaurs while Sebastian and Luca stay here, and ready the car for when we get out. Now if you ask me one more time I will cut your head off, okay?"

"I should've just asked Sienna," Diego groans while I and Mateo laugh, getting out of the car with our guns readied in our hands.

Diego and Sienna have already made their way into the building and I and Mateo are now standing by the back door with him not knowing the meaning of personal space. "Could you back up?" I whisper-shout, turning around and I stumble back a little but Mateo secures me by leaving a hand at my back.

"You never gave me the chance to compliment your hair," He leans in a little and I almost forget where and what we're doing. Almost.

"Not the time and place, I promise once we get home you can do all the complimenting you want," I say before placing a peck on his lips and now turning around, waiting for Sebastian to clear it for us.

"You're really lucky I Io--"

"Alright Mal, the coast is clear but don't take too long, it's not going to take long till they realize something is up," Valentina says through the earpiece interrupting whatever Mateo was going to say.

I turn back to Mateo who looks like he's just been hit by a ball and I raise an eyebrow at him, waiting for him to follow me in. He smiles and takes out his gun, and follows me inside.

"There's a door that leads to the emergency stairs that goes all the way towards the office, so just go up those and you'll be fine." Luca says and we both nod, turning to our right where a read door that is labeled 'EMERGENCY EXIT' and I pushed it open holding it so Mateo could enter.

We start climbing the stairs in silence, our guns in our hands. But, the silence is killing me, and I don't think we've ever gone this long without talking to each other. "What's your favorite song?" I look up to Mateo, who gives me a glance with a raised eyebrow.

"I just wanna know," I shrug and he chuckles.

"Say You Won't Let Go," We both take a step up, getting a bit closer towards the upper staircase.

"Why?"

"It was my father's favorite song." His face softens up and hurt is splashed on his face at the mention of his mother and I can almost see the tears at the brink of his eyes.

"Was?" He nods.

"They're dead, him and my mother. But I remember every single Sunday evening they played it and always danced to it, hell they loved the song so much that they played it while they walked it down the aisle, they got the slowed version and everything," He let out a laugh looking back at me, his face softening up when his brown eyes met mine.

"Songs slowed down do sound pretty good," He nods again and I smile.

"Always."

We reach the top of the stair where another red door is, which probably leads to the office.

"Are you guys in?" Sebastian asks through the earpiece.

"Yep," Mateo whispers as we enter the office, trying our best to now make the littlest noise as we can.

"Do you have an idea where they keep the files for their missions or something?" I ask looking around the room while Mateo looks through the drawers where the table is.

"Look to your left, there should be a steel cabinet that had four drawers," I do as told and a smile is almost blasted at my face walking towards the cabinet and pulling it out to reveal a bunch of files, no doubt from all the missions they've done.

"Holy shit...Mateo come over here," I whisper and he walks towards me, his eyes widening at the number of files stacked up in here. It doesn't take long before we're trying to look at all of them, skimming through and trying to find anything that relates to my name.

"Mal, you have about three minutes till one of them enters that room,"

"What?! I thought you've gotten rid of the guards around this place?!" I come across the letter 'L' which means it shouldn't take long before I should reach my name.

"That was only to hold them off for a bit, some of them were being quite stubborn and didn't want to go to sleep for a little while." Val says over the earpiece and I roll my eyes finally getting to the letter 'M'.

"A minute left, you guys have to start getting out of there now, you won't make it downstairs in time."

"Just give me a second," I reply while trying to find my last name.

"Mal--"

"Help me and it'll be faster Mateo." He hesitates before skimming through one and his eyes light up when he picks up a folder in his hands and tucks it underneath his coat.

"Mal you have to get out of there--"

The door slams open and three men appear looking quite battered and angry. Their eyes flash towards the open cabinet, then towards the folder in Mateo's arm, and then towards us which is when we take the sign and start running towards the red door with their shouts being clearly heard from behind us.

"Get the car ready to go now!" Mateo shouts and I can almost feel myself starting to get turned n by the minute.

Not the time Maliyah, you're being chased by three angry men.

A shot goes right beside my ear and I can now feel it throbbing which means one of those idiots has now tried to shoot me, their attempts obviously turning futile. I bring my hand to my ear while running side by side down the stairs with Mateo only to find out that its quote heavily bleeding.

"Oh you bitches," I turn around and take out my gun, aiming for their heads, and shot all three of them, causing them to fall to the floor.

"Was that really necessary?" Mateo asks and I laugh breathlessly, running out of the building with a couple of shouts and guns coming from behind us and the car visible insight.

"They shot my ear, and I love my ear, so yes it was very much necessary," He laughs as we get quickly scramble into the car, with it speeding off, ignoring the shots being fired from behind us.

"Oh my gosh, we did it," I whisper to myself, closing my eyes and resting my head on the headrest.

"Did you get to check what was in the file yet?" Sienna asks and I pull the mini table in front of me while Mateo plants a kiss on my cheek, putting it on the table.

I open the file and the first thing I see is me with braces and some ugly glasses I had thought looked pretty from year four. Out of all the pictures they could've put of me they decided to put that ugly one.

"Is that you?" Diego snatches the picture out of my hands, trying to contain his laughter even though he's doing such an ugly job at it.

"No, it's fucking Sherlock Holmes," I say sarcastically and that just makes him burst into more laughter. He passes it on to Val and she soon joins into laughter with Diego, and so does the whole car leaving me, an embarrassment.

"Why the hell does your hair look like that?" Mateo laughs and I snatch the picture away from him, muttering words under my breath.

"I bet none of you would be proud enough to bring out your primary school pictures so shut up," Val says and I high-five her with the whole car now turning quiet. But it only clicks then, if they've had a picture of me when I was younger, this must be a case they've been trying to do for quite a while, which means that they're probably planning bigger things.

"So? Have you gotten anything?" I nod and I pull out an A4 sheet of paper which has my name at the top and all the things of my life have basically been jotted down here life some damn diary.

"They have everything, from the time I lost my first tooth to when I appeared at the warehouse, it's like I'm some sort of personal police case or something," I say as I pull out more picture of me which looked much better, I could probably keep them on my wall or something.

"Nothing that could give us any clues or?" Mateo asks and I shake my head, but I soon stop after pulling out a piece of paper that wrote 'THE HUNDRED MILLION MISSION'. My eyes widen as I skim through it, a gasp escaping my lips as I read the last bit of the paper.

"What is it?" Valentina asks but I'm too shocked to even process what's going through my mind so Val snatches it from me grabbing everyone else attention in the car.

"...to be killed in order to receive the full payment of a hundred million pounds?!" Val shouted and everyone looked over to me while I shrugged, still in obvious shock.

"You're worth a hundred million pounds, girl why the fuck didn't you tell me, making me waste money like I'm the fucking Queen." Valentina comments and I try to blink away the stares I was still reviving.

"That's because I didn't know, I had no clue," I say trying to think of the last time I actually checked my bank account.

"That's because you'll receive it on your twenty-fifth birthday," Luca speaks out and I only realize that my birthday is tomorrow.

"That must be what Igor has been looking for, it all makes sense, the transferring of women, the money stealing, he was trying to look for you and your money." Sienna turns around while holding the file.

"But why?" Diego asks as I go through the folder looking for more evidence and when I did, I could've sworn my whole body was paralyzed.

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-YESSS MATEO, GET ON THE TRAIN

-mal is rich rich, gimmi some money now

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-ta ta for now

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