Revenge over Love

Chapter Three

f**k! I curse silently as I massage my neck. I can't believe I got knocked up by a woman.

I thought that maybe, because I still had a hangover that morning, my reflexes were slow. Apart from that, I was also distracted by what the woman was wearing. She's sexy, after all. I didn't think that because she is so beautiful and she knows how to fight.

I felt guilty when I saw that she had a gunshot wound, but because it occurred to me that the law enforcement might be chasing her, I stopped myself from helping her. It seems that she is in a hurry to escape. Because if she wasn't in a hurry to escape, she wouldn't have been wearing only a towel on her body.

I need to know who the woman is who trespassed in my unit. I'm bothered. Knocking me out was a blow to my ego. Even if the woman was very sexy in my eyes, even my best friend down there also reacted.

I looked for my cellphone. It was on the bedside of my bed. I took it and dialed my co-worker's number.

"Yow? What is the bad wind and you called me Rico mah boy?" Said my colleague Lukas Vergara. We're both law enforcement officers in the private sector. Where the assignments are secret to the public authorities, most people call it a secret agent. But to me, that word sounds ugly. It sounds like a seller of land.

"Lukas, I need information from someone. I don't know the name. Just look at the cctvs here in my condo building. I'm sure she has pictures here." I said. I clenched my fist when I remembered what happened earlier.

"Her?" Lukas asked on the other line. I heard keyboard typing over the phone.

"Yeah", I gritted my teeth. "Sexy girl' I would like to add, but maybe lukas will tease me more if I say that.

"Your chicks, mah boy? Then she suddenly disappeared and hid from you?" Lukas guessed my situation.

"Stupid! If she's my woman, why I don't know her name? You're just going to make up the wrong story," I said. My head is starting to get irritated. This stupid friend of mine is adding it.

"Okay fine! Just chill boy, I'm just kidding. Don't get too hot- headed" Lukas said, laughing. I know he's kidding me again.

"You want me to shoot you?" I said, annoyed. "Find the one I'm asking you to find. You'll recognize her immediately because she left my unit a while ago."

"Why is she in your unit?" Lukas suddenly asked.I asked myself the same question. Why go through my unit when you can go to the other side?

"Trespassing" I answered.

"Okay, give me a minute" he said. He has also disappeared on the other line. My call has been disconnected.

I looked at the door of my unit when I heard a hard knock on my door. I don't know anyone who can visit me. I went there while still holding my hurt neck. I opened the door.

I saw less than six men. They look like movie goons. Their bodies are muscular. I looked at them with a frown. Clueless.

"What do you need?"

"Did a woman come in? Tall, white and with long hair?" asked the leader of them.

I remembered the woman again, the reason why my neck still hurts. I think the woman has arrears with them. If so, it is true that someone is chasing her. I misjudged that the police were chasing her.

"No woman entered my unit. Maybe she went to the other side" I said. Based on their appearance, they can no longer be trusted.

"Are you sure? Maybe you're just hiding her inside. We searched the other unit. She wasn't there" he asked me again.

"Even if you go inside you won't see anything" I said in a dangerous tone. I looked straight at them. Sign that I'm not scared.

The leader looked away from me and turned to his colleagues.

"Come on! What we're looking for is not here", they started walking away. His staff also obeyed. Following him.

When the goons disappeared from my sight, I closed my door.

I became more and more curious about the woman and why she was being chased. I looked at the small cabinet near my door where I put my shoes. I think my slippers are missing there. I just couldn't figure out what was missing.

I just shrugged my shoulders and went into my room. I need rest now.

I WIPED THE SWEAT FROM MY FOREHEAD. I carefully placed the replica of Nefertari's bracelet in the original case of the bracelet I took. My movements are careful and tense because if I make a wrong move, the security alarm of the entire building where the bracelet is displayed will sound.

The first time I saw the bracelet I was fascinated. The design of that bracelet is very mysterious. I guess Blanca and I will make a lot of money when it is sold on the black market. Blanca is really a genius. Did she really think of this necklace? Wow.

"Move fast, Klemea, I only have a few minutes for you. If you stay there for a long time, they will know that someone has entered the building". I heard Blanca speak on the earpad placed on my left ear.

Blanca's tone is also tense. She entered the building's system so that when I entered, the alarms would not go off and also not to alarm the watchers. Even on the CCTV, Blanca did something so that I could not be seen on the cameras.

"Yes. I'm just fixing the placement of the replica", I explained to my friend.

"Just hurry up" she urged me.

I slowly put back the glass cover that served as a barrier to the bracelet. After finishing what I was doing, I quickly ran out of that building. I was wearing black fitted jeans and a leather jacket that fit my body. It is convenient when you want to be invisible in the dark.

I was whistling while walking as if I hadn't stolen anything inside. I'm going to Blanca's car parked far away from the building so that the building's CCTV won't catch us.

I got into the passenger seat smiling. I looked at my friend who was also smiling at me.

"Where is the bracelet??" She said excitedly.

"Here. There is no scratch like you told me" I said proudly. I took the bracelet out of the bag. Then I handed it to her.

My friend stared at it in amazement. Like me, she was fascinated by the mysterious bracelet. She carefully and gently took it like a crystal.

"It's beautiful..."

"Yet mysterious," I added.

"We're going to make a lot of money here, Klemea," Blanca said happily.

"Really big! Think about how much more money we will give to the orphanage. The children will be happy" thinking of the smile of the children in the orphanage. I feel I'm the happiest person in the world.

After selling the bracelet in the black market, I will take care of revenge against Manuel Aguirre. My revenge on that old man is overdue.

I don't want to tell Blanca about my plan to get revenge on the old Don. I know she will oppose my plan. She will say again that it is not right to take revenge.

But for me, that's the right thing to do now. If I killed Manuel Aguirre, my life would be quiet and maybe I wouldn't always have nightmares at night. I can sleep soundly.

"The auction is at the end of the month. I will list it to participate", Blanca informed me. I got lost in what Blanca and I were talking about. I drowned in thinking about my revenge plan.

"Am I the one who goes to the auction or you?" I asked.

"The two of us are going. The theme is masquerade, so we're sure no one will recognize us."

We looked at the bracelet together. We smiled when we saw its beauty again. Ruby was the stone, it served as the eyes of the snake.

"Let's leave. Might someone notice us," said Blanca. She started the car to leave the place. 'Take the bracelet case from my bag. I had that done at a jeweler's store."

I took what Blanca was referring to. It's a heart-shaped box. Cover with a soft cloth. It looks classy. I put the bracelet there and it fits perfectly.

"Perfect..." I said, smiling again. It's really beautiful.

"Didn't anyone notice you inside?" Blanca asked me. Her attention was still on the road.

I held my chin, thinking.

"No one. It looks like they are asleep". Those guarding this expensive bracelet are not efficient. I don't know if the surveillance isn't really strict or Blanca is just really great. Honestly, I don't know how my friend did that.

From the time we have known each other, I have still been amazed at her talent when it comes to computers. Whereas I'm just good at fiddling with things or running away unnoticed.

They are really a perfect match to be teammates.

"We're lucky then. As far as I know, there are many people interested in that bracelet. It's not just the two of us," Blanca said.

"Well..the more people are interested, the more people will take it" I smirked when I said that. The owner of this bracelet will surely go crazy when he finds out that the one in the building is only a replica.

Boggie is really good at making replicas of some things. I can't even tell what's original from fake.