Fated not

Chapter one

I should be parading the streets of Alabama looking for a job as i have been for the past three months with no luck. After losing my only surviving job as a waitress in Bukman's dinner three months ago with no reasonable explanation and as the bread winner of my family we are practically domed if i do not get another good paying job soon, but here i am doing a delivery shift for my best friend Jessica. She works in a pizza delivery company and her boy friend Landon decided to do a surprise getaway for her during her shift day, so here i am being a good girlfriend spending half my day delivering pizzas.

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Stopping by a one story building book publishing company to deliver pizza to an Anthony Barnass. Coming down from the delivery bike as i remove three pizza packs from the delivery box, greeting the elderly doorman by my right as i walked into the building.

Reaching the reception, i informed the receptionist of my intentions, though the huge pizza drawn on my polo and cap did most of it.

Pointing to the stairs behind me, the sharply dressed blonde receptionist directed, "follow this stairs, it would lead to a lobby, the first office by your left is Mr Anthony's office".

Thanking the receptionist, i swiftly took the stairs entering into a large simply furnished office.

"Your pizza delivery, " i said bringing him to notice as he was quite busy with whatever he had going on in his computer.

Raising his head, to my greatest surprise i knew him, though we did not talk much, he was one of my high school classmate. Though he is a bit different from the nerdy, shy boy he was in high school considering how bold, captivating he became, with his nerd ugly glasses replaced for contacts.

"Lucy?" he asked a bit unsure.

" Anthony", i surprisingly replied.

"You remembered me?, "he asked surprised. "Why would i not, did you not attend grade field high?", i asked unsure.

"Well i would not exactly place me among the popular people in high school unlike you. I mean they even forgot to put me in the year book or even inviting me to prom, i was totally invincible unlike you Lucy, the prom queen!," he jokingly teased making us both laugh.

"If it were any consolation i noticed you, i mean you literally look at me like a hulk," i teased. "Also i hated that year book, did you see my face there ?, Gosh, i wished i was like you." I said smiling as I remembered how weird i looked in the picture.

"For the record, your face was magnificent and you should never have wished to be like me in high school, high school was one of the horrible years i had." He says as i detect hints of sadness in his voice.

"You brought my pizza?," he asks noticing the pizza i was still holding . Dropping the pizza on his office desk, as he signs off the order.

Astonished he asks, "delivery girl?".

"Yes, but just for a day, covering for a friend. You own the place?, " i asked.

"Yes well it was established two years ago. "

"Nice place," i said, genuinely admiring the place. " Well thanks", he said smiling.

About to go, i decided it was fate that brought us to meet, i might as well ask him for help.

"Em, i know we are practically strangers considering we were never exactly friends and this is our first time meeting in nine years, but i do not have any other choice, am desperate, since you own a place like this, i wanted to know if you have any job opening i can get?, i need some money to pay off my house mortgage money and my mom's hospital bills since the house mortgage could not cover it ."

After about a minute, he replies, " have you ever edited a book before?, i could get you a spot it pays well."

" I have never edited a book before but i can try".

"No, am looking for a professional ." He replied.

Disappointed and wryly i turned to the door, he called back. "-lucy, i understand that you must be quite desperate to ask a virtual stranger for help. But just how desperate are you ?", he asks with a hint of dangerous playing on his face. " I might be able to help you afterall. " he says giving off a croaked smile.

"Desperate enough, " i answered unsure whether my answer was convincing enough or that i was making the right decision.

"Here is the deal, i will pay for your mortgage even your mom's hospital bills and an extra ten thousand dollars in your account, hell right away, but you have to do a job for me first. "

Thinking of how relieving it would be to for once have no problem to worry about i desperately replied. "Anything at all. "

"First of all, i am to disclose to you an important confidential message that someone like you should never know. I am a secret agent, i work for a secret organisation called the CUB and we work under the US government.

Feeling uneasy to have been trusted with such huge secret, i answered. "Oh, how come you are here. "

"The company you mean?, do not worry its all part of the cover, i built this company two years ago as a cover job. So as all been said i will go straight to the point.

I need your help with stopping a very rich and influential man, Jeremy Bennett, the CEO of the Bennett's Enterprise, he is worth a billon dollars. Based on gathered information his company is one of the biggest sponsors in the biggest drug cartel organisation in Europe, and we have not been able to get a hand on them, i need you to be an inside man for me, to gather enough evidence to destroy both the drug cartel and the company. "

Completely overwhelmed i asked, " and how do you suggest i do that?.

" I want you to seduce him, i want you to make him fall in love with you and trust you and we would destroy him from within. You are an extremely beautiful lady, and am not saying this as the sixteen year old who had a crush on you, i am saying this cause its true. You have this s*x appeal aura but also filled with innocence, and checking the statistics of women he has dated, you are of high percentage he would fall for you. "

Blushing, i replied. " Thank you, but how am i meant to start?, how do i even see him to make him fall in love with me is not as if i can see him class everywhere i go. "

"So i guess that means you are in. I will pay for your mortgage , hospital bills but they and the ten thousand dollars can only be handed to you only when the job is done. But, in order for the job to be done you are to travel to Europe where you would stay in a hotel and do not worry it is already prepaid, you will stay there for at least three months till the job is done. There are rules before you leave, just two simple rules;

" Rule one: do not let your feelings get the better part of you, trust me he is also a seducer ."

"I am not the first girl you have sent on this mission am i?", i asked completely curious.

No, he simply replied.

"So what makes you think i would be any different ?", i asked .

"Well, you are more desperate, and you are different".

"Wow okay, that's harsh," i angrily replied.

"Rule two:You are to not contact or tell anyone about this conversation and trust me there are consequences if you do. "

Giving off a ghost smile he says, "told you they were simple. "

"Yes boss ," i simply replied.

"You made a good call luciana, am proud, this might be the break you are looking for".

"Thanks. " i replied. Turning to his secret vault on the wall which i never noticed until now, he took out a brand new phone, handling it over to me. "I will be in touch for further instructions. "

"okay then, bye". As i leave the room and closes the behind me , with my resting on the door and my hands on the door knob i suddenly feel a certain chill, -maybe its fear or maybe its an excitement for a new adventure, could not quite tell the difference.

As i contemplate on whether to call him later and decline his offer but the truth still stands i needed the money, its just like acting a movie i reassured myself even though i knew nothing about acting.

I decided to head home after doing two more deliveries, i needed a nap.