Chapter 1

Inside an apartment, a beautiful woman wearing a black hoodie is gracefully typing on the keyboard of her laptop. The fast movements of her fingers is truly amazing to watch, every movement is precise while her wrists remained steady.

Her blue eyes busy reading and watching everything she had encoded, checking if there's anything wrong.

After an hour, she finished the software program for her client. She sighed and got up from her swivel chair, started stretching and massaging her body, removing the tensed muscles caused by sitting in front of the computer for a whole day.

That's her everyday routine. Waking up every morning, facing her computers and laptop, doing legal and illegal jobs that her different clients had asked for, sleep and repeat.

When was the last time she went outside and have a nice walk in the park? It's been 1 or 2 years since she went outside. She never even dared to go near the door of her apartment except when the person delivering her daily needs like clothes, foods, and other daily necessities arrived.

Bang!

A loud sound outside the room made her jump out of her chair and immediately rush outside her room.

"Who's there?"

Her heart started pounding fast inside her chest everytime she takes a step.

How come she didn't know that someone got inside her apartment? The alarms should have ringed by now and captured the intruder! But after a few minutes, nothing happened.

"That's odd. I'm really sure somebody's here."

As she was walking back to room, she felt somebody else's presence behind her back. Her senses bacame alert and she grabs the broom near her on reflex.

"I know you're here! Show yourself!"

She turned around to see a man covered in black. She can't see his face clearly because of the mask he's wearing.

"Who are you?"

She didn't let her guard down even tho the man showed himself.

"You don't have to know."

In just a blink of an eye, the man is already holding both of her arms to keep her from restraining.

"With that beautiful face of yours, it's a shame you'll have to die at such a young age."

The deep and alluring voice of the man sounds so familiar to her but she can't remember whom it belongs too.

"Why are you doing this? Are you going to kill me?!" She panicked.

The man's husky laughter echoed in to her ear. His voice is really familiar.

"You guess, Pumpkin."

'Pumpkin'

It's like lightning struck her when she heard the word pumpkin. Only one person dares to call her in that endearment.

"Jace? Is that you?"

Jace is her best and only friend since high school. He's always there whenever she had a problem at home or at school. They're always at each other's back but everything changed when she had a boyfriend.

Jace became distant and cold towards her until he completely avoided her. She didn't know the reason why. She never even asked, she just thought that he was sick of being her friend anymore so she never dared to approach him.

When she broke up with her boyfriend, that's the last time she had seen Jace. She didn't know where he went and why he didn't tell her he's leaving. The only thing she knows, is Jace will return after 3 years.

But the man she knew changed after he came back. The way he speaks and act is very different from before but in her eyes, Jace is still the same loving friend she knew.

"Jace! Stop joking around! You're scaring the hell out of me. Why are you here?"

The man didn't answer her question. He kept silent after a few minutes. Then said,

"If only, you didn't interfere with other people's business on the underground community, you could have lived longer."

Confused, she asked the man.

"What are you talking about? Jace, stop fooling around okay? It's been so long since the last time we met, can you at least greet me properly?"

She felt something sharp at her neck while asking that. It was then when she realized that it was a small katana. Is this man really Jace? If it was him, he has gone too far this time.

"Goodbye Pumpkin."

She was about to fight back but it's already too late. The knife has already cut deeply on her heart causing the blood to gush out her soft and fair neck, making her spout a mouthful of blood.

"J-jace. H-ho-w c-could you..." The last thing she had uttered before slowly closing her eyes.

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