The Assasination Project

Part Six

Eva's POV

I was frozen to say the least. The snail had just arrived, and there was already trouble, what did I get myself into?

"Hello. Eva are you still there?" Davin spoke through the other side and he sounded worried, scared even.

"Yeah, I'm here. Tell me, what's the problem?" I asked as I braced myself for the worst.

"I'm the problem", Quince's devious, yet hot, voice sounded through the phone. I gripped the phone hard in my hands and scowled at the purple wall of my room. I was bracing my self for the worst, not a demon. I still didn't even know if what Linos had told me was true. I needed to find out.

"You", I gritted out as my other free hand squeezed the life out of my poor duvet. This man was becoming one heck of a nuisance in my life. Was there no such thing as peace with him?

"Yes me, darling", he spoke. I'll admit, him calling me darling was music to my ears. But he was a huge issue at the moment and I needed to ignore the shivers that went through me when he called me names such as 'darling' or even by my first name.

"What is your problem Quince?! Can't you just leave me be?!", I exclaimed through the phone. I heard his chuckle that made me both swoon and want to kill him at the same time.

"I'll tell you what my problem is. You!", he stated causing me to frown.

"How am I your problem? Because I don't want to give you the snail?" I enquired.

"Well that and the fact that I can't sleep at night because of you", I was completely taken aback by his statement. He couldn't be serious.

"How?" I asked incredulously.

"I don't know. Do you always manage to borrow yourself into the minds of your business partners?" he asked and I started blushing like crazy at his next lines, "Because, all I seem to think about is you. All I seem to see when I close my eyes, is you!"

This can not be real. Who openly admits something like that?

"First of all, I am not your business partner. We have no alliance what so ever. Secondly, are you seriously kiddy me?" I found this all to unbelievable to be true.

"I am your business partner and yes, I was serious. I can't believe you would make fun of my confession! And to think I though you were a sweet girl", somebody tell me he's faking being hurt. Because, at the moment, he sounded so sincere.

But from my past experience with Quince thus far, I will say he's fooling around.

"Oh grow up!" I told him.

"Just come to the zoo ASAP", he demanded.

"I can't! I'm bed ridden after your little stunt which gave me a heart attack!" I accused.

"It wasn't a heart attack, it was a panic attack", he defended, "I would know, my little brother suffers from it".

That was sad to hear that his little brother suffered from such a thing like myself. But I wasn't one hundred percent sure I can trust Quince's every word. Not yet at least.

"Whatever helps you sleep at night", I turned to see that my dad had somehow left when I was still chatting.

"You help me sleep at night", he responded huskily. Shivers ran through me once more.

"Do you have nothing better to do than torment every inch of me!", I exclaimed

"Point is, I want you at the zoo, now!" he demanded one last time before cutting the call. Was he bi-polar or something? Dreamy one moment, and serious the next?

I was about to throw the phone at the wall, but thought better of it. Nancy and dad would think something was wrong, which it was. But I rather keep that to myself.

I reluctantly got of my bed to change into something a little better than the shorts and t-shirt I was currently in. After I had done that, I snuck out of my room, down the stairs and out of the house as not to attract unwanted attention.

I got into my car and headed towards the zoo.

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After a while, I was at the zoo and heading to Davin's office to see whether or not Quince was there with him.

I carefully opened up the door to Davin's office and slipped in without closing the door.

What was strange was that I saw no one at all in Davin's office. If Quince and Davin weren't here, then where were they?

I was about to turn to leave when I heard the door being shut close and a click of a lock behind me. I turned on my heal in horror and in front of me stood Quince with a mischievous grin on his face.

"Hello again, love", he greeted and I had to do a double take between flaking out or punching him in the guts for locking us both in here and calling me 'love'.

"Quince, what do you want now? The snail? Because I already told you I'm not giving it to you", I would get that through his thick scull if I had to.

"Do you honestly think that's all I'm want now?" he asked me seeming almost offended, almost.

I knitted my eyebrows together in confusion. Wasn't the snail all what he wanted? There was actually something else?

"Yes", I replied hesitantly.

Almost instantly, those blue eyes darkened and his eyes narrowed into splits. I'd be lying if I said I was scared. If he didn't appear like a devil before, he looked all sorts of evil now. He began making his way towards me and I instinctively took steps back. That was until my back made collision with the hard cement wall of Davin's office. Quince continued towards me until he all but pinned my two hands above me head amidst my struggling.

I widened my eyes in fear as I stared into his darkened blue eyes which were blazing with fury.

"I was here initially for the snail. It was all I wanted", he held my chin in his free hands, "But now, I have my eyes set on something else as well".

With that he crashed his lips down to mine in a breathe taking kiss. His lips were so soft and to my surprise, I didn't want to push him away. He was my first kiss. God, my first kiss was with a dangerous, but handsome, stranger. And I wasn't complaining. I gave into the kiss.

But before the kiss could become more heated, my phone started ringing uncontrollably. Startled, we both jumped apart and struggled to catch our breathes as Quince glared at the vibrating piece of technology in my hand.

"Hello?" I answered without looking at the caller ID.

"Hello, is this Eva McLane?" a deep voice asked from the other end.

"Yes? Is everything alright?" I asked unsure if I wanted to hear the response.

"We regret to inform you that your father and step mother have met with a serious accident. We're sorry, but they're no more"...