The King of City

26 THE DISCOVERY

Corrine had to make the most of Lionel's absence to proceed to obtain new information, she didn’t know very well what a Blackwing man could be doing in Gray Umbrella Safety, she thought of many possibilities about Blackwing's plan: an attack against some important character of Lucien or even infiltrate that company for some terrorist purpose, there were many questions and few answers; Corrine felt that she was wasting valuable time because at any moment Blackwing would attack and she would have no opportunity to defend herself, therefore, she would have to refine her research methods in none of her previous missions had she been literally living with the enemy, which frustrated her even more since Lionel even seemed like a good man.

Corrine then thought of going to The Shadow again for some ideas on how to get more information from Larson, however, she wasn't quite sure that The Shadow would collaborate without getting anything in return, therefore, she had to request from Lucien International Crime Bureau an item of additional expenses that with great difficulty was assigned to her, since Corrine hadn’t shown many results in the last month of the mission, Corrine was gambling all her chips.

"Shadow can we see each other?". Corrine said through a phone call.

"Athena?" The Shadow asked incredulously.

"Yes, it's me, I need you to help me with something very important, it's about the man from last time, I can't waste much time". said Corrine desperately.

"And will you pay me?". The Shadow wasn’t going to help her unless he received some money.

"Of course, you put the price, the moment we meet I'll give it to you". said Corrine.

“In 2 hours in front of the school”. and The Shadow hung up.

As Corrine had left, she arrived at the school, although the meeting place suggested by the man seemed very strange to her, since at that time there were many people in the surroundings.

"Athena come with me". said The Shadow.

The Shadow made her enter the school which seemed even stranger to Corrine, despite this, she didn’t refuse due to her urgency, both entered a small office in the place, The Shadow lit a small lamp and pointed Corrine to an old leather chair for her to sit on.

"Now, give me the money".

"There it’s". Corrine said as she handed The Shadow a paper envelope with a large wad of money.

The Shadow set out to count the money, after which he turned his attention to Corrine's request:

"So, for what you need me?"

"That man Larson has me crazy, I don’t know what he intends to do in that organization Grey Umbrella, the only thing I’ve seen is that he is a kind of escort of a millionaire girl and I don’t even know the reason why he’s doing that job". she said desperate Corrine.

"Corrine you have to see beyond what you have".

"I don't have anything". Said Corrine disappointed.

"Did you install surveillance equipment on him yet?". The Shadow asked.

"Don't be silly, from the first day I installed microphones all over the house". Corrine replied contemptuously.

"That isn’t enough, try to install a GPS that is attached to some part of the body, you need quality equipment, if the boy isn’t in the Villa you won’t get much with those microphones, remember that you are a stranger he won’t go to talk to anyone when you are so close”. said The Shadow.

"What kind of equipment do I install?"

"Start with some good cameras and I hope you could manage to attach a GPS to something that the boy uses constantly, it can even be in the case of his cell phone". Suggested The Shadow.

The solution proposed by The Shadow was too obvious to Corrine, with some disdain she accepted the man's recommendation, after all she had nothing to lose, so she again contacted one of her agents to send her some equipment surveillance specials.

“Agent, I want you to send some small surveillance cameras and sophisticated GPS equipment to the Villa, the smallest you have. I want the artifacts in an hour”. Said Corrine.

"As ordered". Said the man who no longer suggested anything to his boss because it wasn’t taken into account.

"I must go Shadow".

"It will always be a pleasure to serve you, Athena".

Corrine set out to leave the Villa quickly and had to wait for the equipment and install it before Lionel arrived, however, to make sure that he was going to be a little late, she called him:

"Larson, I'm Mary. Excuse me for calling you while you're busy. I just wanted to know if you were coming to dinner?".

"Ah hello Mary, don't worry, I'm not going to have dinner". Lionel said quickly and said goodbye to her because at that moment he was with Elsa.

Despite the short call, Corrine made sure that she had a little advantage to install the new surveillance equipment since Lionel wouldn’t arrive so early at the Villa, the first thing she thought about was the place where she would put the surveillance elements, the one that worried her the most was the GPS since she had to be close to Larson, so she decided to enter his room and look for a hiding place for the device.

The room looked like that of a disorganized teenager, dirty clothes everywhere, some packaging of sweets, but nothing relevant, so she didn’t continue searching and instead decided to install the cameras in the room quickly, since she had to go down to the room to continue with the others. Once on the first level, she adjusted the microphones she had previously put in and installed the cameras in some paintings that adorned the entire room, however, being so distracted, she didn’t hear her cell phone ring, it was Lionel who called her to warn her that he would go to dinner because at that moment he had just talked to Elsa and rejected her love, for which reason, the girl wanted to be alone for that night and Lionel had no choice but to leave.

"Let's see, they are all there". Said Corrine distractedly. "It only remains to verify that the devices are working".

While she was taking a small control to turn on the cameras in Lionel's room, she didn’t realize that he parked his vehicle in the Villa, Lionel first looked out of one of the windows, it was a custom he had, however, it seemed strange to him to see that the window of his room was open, which is why he became alert, maybe Mary was outside and those were thieves, so he entered very slowly and without making any noise. he soon advanced to his half-open room, and noted that Corrine was there, thought of scaring her, but his intentions went down when he saw that the girl was looking on a tablet screen, the interior of that room and at the same time was accommodating with his hand a camera that was in one of the paintings.

"You weren't so harmless after all, Mary". Lionel thought.

After that, he took his phone to photograph the exact point where the camera was and quickly went down to the first level, he decided that it wasn’t the time to confront the girl, he had to find out who she really was. Meanwhile, he left the house and knocked on the door, Corrine immediately leaned out the window and saw it was Lionel, so she turned everything off and went down to the first level to open the door.

"Mary, thank God you're at home, I forgot my keys, I'm a fool".

"Don't worry Larson, I was reading in my room, you came back earlier". Corrine said in surprise.

"Change of plans, how about I prepare dinner then?". Lionel said trying to pretend he hadn't seen anything suspicious before.

"Sounds delicious". said Corrine, feeling great relief as she had been capable to install all the cameras inside the house.