The spy who stole my heart

Chapter 4: New plan

Laura's POV

I walked out of my bedroom and made my way to the living room where the visitor who had come to see me was waiting. On getting to the living room, I saw a young man who had some recommended glasses on. Immediately he saw me, he got up on his feet.

"Good morning. Are you Laura, Mr. Smith's personal housekeeper?" The young man asked me.

In a state of confusion, I couldn't utter a word. Instead, I nodded my head positively.

"Oh, nice to meet you. My name is James Newton and I am Mr. Smith's personal assistant," he introduced himself, offering me a handshake which I took.

"Oh, it's a pleasure meeting you, Mr. James," I said.

He chucked and said,

"Please just call me James."

"Okay."

"Okay so the reason why I'm here is because Mr. Smith forgot a very important document in his study. He wanted to rush back to get it himself but the meeting would start in... 5 minutes so he sent me to bring itinstead. He would kick off the meeting and I will bring the document to him halfway into the meeting. He asked me to give him a call when I get here so he could describe the exact place where he kept the document to you," James said.

Anderson wants to show me where he keeps his documents? I wondered. A smirk was threatening to appear on my face but I managed to suppress it so that James wouldn't notice. I guess I have been able to fully gain Anderson's trust. If not, why else would he want to give me the location of his most important documents? Before I could even reply, James pulled out his phone and I assumed he was trying to call Anderson.

"Yes Mr. Smith. I'm with her right now. Okay," he said before passing the phone to me.

I took the phone from him and placed it on my ear and said,

"Mr. Smith?"

"Yes Laura, please I want you to go into my study, check under the... 5th book ... Yeah, the 5th book on the shelf. There you would see the keys to the drawers on my table. Open the drawers and look through the documents. You will find the document with the words "Ocean World financial records" on it. Give it to James there," he said.

"Okay Mr. Smith. Will that be all?" I said.

"Yeah that should be it. You can give the phone back to James," Anderson replied.

I gave the phone back to James, who placed the phone over his ears. I couldn't hear what Anderson said to him; all I could hear were James's replies. After a minute, James slipped the phone into his pocket.

"Mr. Smith told me that you are going to go get me the documents," he said to me.

"Yeah, wait right here while I go get it," I said.

I turned around and made my way to Anderson's study. The door wasn't blocked as usual. I opened the door and walked into the room. I made my way to the shelf but got confused. I had forgotten to ask Anderson if I will be counting from left to right or from right to left to get the fifth book which had the key. I decided to start counting from left to right and divide in find the key, I would do the opposite.

“One, two, three, four, five”. I counted.

Then when I got to the 5th book, I lifted it up and behold, a small key was underneath the book as Anderson had said. I took the key and hurriedly went to the table in the room. I tried the key on the first drawer on the table and it opened up. I began to go through the documents inside the drawer and a smile appeared on my face.

“Jackpot,” I smiled.

Now that I knew where Anderson kept his documents, a new idea came to my head. I grabbed the document Anderson had asked me to give James and walked out of the study after putting everything back into their normal position. James took the document from me, smiled and walked out of the house. I remained fixed on the same spot, wondering if I should go ahead with the plan I had or if I should wait a bit.

I decided to do the latter and made my way back to my room. I called father to tell him about my discovery and he asked me to snap a document that had Anderson’s signature on it and send it to him. What I had in mind was quite different but I decided to go along with father’s plan. When I tried to ask him what his plan was, he didn’t tell me fully. He only said he needed Anderson’s signature.

Anyways, one night, I snuck into Anderson’s study when I was sure that everyone had gone to bed. I remembered where the key was so I made my way there, took the key and opened the drawer and looked for one of the documents and took a picture of it, making sure that Anderson’s signature was on it then I sent the picture to dad. After returning the key back in its place, I walked towards the door to leave but I heard someone approaching the door from outside. I immediately ran behind the shelves to hide. From a small hole, I peeked to see that it was Anderson that had walked in.

I made sure not to make any noise as I watched him walk into the room and take a seat on his chair. I felt my heart pounding really fast in my chest. I silently prayed that he would just get up and leave the study. Just then, I felt a sneeze trying to escape my mouth but I did everything to keep it in. I managed to do so but unfortunately, my body shook the shelf and a book fell from the shelf. Anderson turned around and I froze.