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“I need to remind you there have been records of Ghost not showing up for over a week, sir.”
“We can keep her longer than that.”
“...What if Ghost shows up, sir?”
Dante smirked.
“Well then, it will be a lot more fun to watch.”
CHAPTER SIX
“Enough! Enough! Stop, please! I... I give up...”
Eden was panting, her fists still up as the young guy kept miserably retreating, crawling away from her. She let out a long breath and went to calm down, her heart still beating wildly in her chest. They were really too young. All of her opponents were on the floor whining and crying about their broken ribs. She hadn’t gone easy on them, as expected. She wasn’t in the mood to let anyone simply get away today. However, those guys were clearly not in fighting condition anymore. She wasn’t so dumb as to kill a mafia’s recruit in their own house.
She turned to George, who was grimacing on the side, looking pretty shocked with what had happened to his men. After staring at them, his eyes slowly went up to Eden. The young woman was standing alone in the middle of the ring. Her only injuries were a couple of bruises on her shoulders and a cut on her lower lip. She may even have done that one to herself because she couldn’t remember any one of his men getting close enough to hit her face.
The only one visibly happy for Eden was Bullet. The little pup happily yapped now that Eden’s opponents were down and trotted to her, his little tail wiggling around behind him. She smiled and lifted him up in her arms. She was a bit sweaty as expected but surely the little pup wouldn’t mind. He even began licking her cheek as soon as she held him.
As George was still standing speechless on the side, she turned to him with a sigh.
“I take it we’re done?” she asked.
“Y-yeah... Uh... Th-there are showers in the back if you want to... uh...”
“Thanks.”
Eden didn’t wait for him to finish stuttering and turned around to go take a shower.
It was one of those big communal showers with rows of large shower heads, but it was empty at the moment. Eden didn’t expect her opponents to walk in there either. She had left them in quite a bad state already. Of course, she couldn’t do anything if there were hidden cameras, but she didn’t care about peeping Toms. She went to stand under the furthest one in the room and undressed, putting Bullet down to play with her abandoned clothes on the floor. As soon as the water was turned on, he left the clothes to splash in the small puddle of water, although he seemed afraid of the sprinkler.
Eden was surprised to have hot water for free and even shampoo and soap available right there. She made good use of those products. She was wearing her hair long, not really by choice but because both Jack and her mother liked it better this way, and she didn’t care enough to cut it. Eden had gorgeous honey-blonde hair with hints of copper in it and natural curls. Although she couldn’t compare to the other girls from the club, she definitely was a rather tame beauty herself. She had a heart-shaped face, a thin nose, strong lips, and a marked jaw. Her upturned hazel eyes were her favorite part about herself. It often made her look older than her twenty-three years. Eden didn’t have any other specific traits about her body that she particularly loved. She was of average size with a body without many curves and wide shoulders she didn’t like. She only took care of herself when her work called for it, and she didn’t care enough to wear makeup or spend time on herself otherwise.
As soon as the room was filled with steam and the shower was running loudly above her, she took a deep breath and pretended to massage more shampoo into her hair as she turned her SIN back on.
“...Loir,” she whispered.
“Eden, my blondie! Happy you’re still alive. What’s new? Did you have fun?”
“I’m at the Italian’s.”
She was doing her best to talk into the softest voice possible, and a bit impressed Loir could hear and understand her just fine. She hoped no one else was able to.
“Nice! Are you bringing back pizza? I’d like one with anchovies, pineapples, chili, and–”
“I’m really at the Italian Zodiac’s place, Loir. The Tiger.”
“Oh! Oh... Well, I hope you have me in your will.”
“You’re not funny,” she grimaced. “The Tiger wants me.”
She heard him hiccup.
“Is it... the thing about adult relations? The thing where human adults do naughty things I am not supposed to watch? You know I’m too young for that!”
Eden sighed. She couldn’t exactly tell, but Loir was at least a few years older than she was.
“Why would you even... never mind. De Luca doesn’t want me as a woman. He wants me as a hacker.”
