Chapter 288

288 Dance With Fire

Adele was on the training grounds with the recruit when her phone rang. Because she was distracted, she didn’t look at the number and picked it up immediately.

“Hello?”

“You?!”

That single voice made Adele’s brows furrow and she looked down at the screen only to see that it was no one but her sister, Cindy.

“How did you get my number?” Adele asked, knowing she blocked them all the last time and purchased a new sim.

“Is that the problem right now?!” Cindy was ill-mannered as usual.

“What’s the problem then?” Adele asked, even though she had an idea of what was the problem.

“Where is Aziz? What did you do to him? I have been calling all day and he hasn’t been picking up!”

Of course, he hasn’t been picking up because she has his phone with her. The moment they stepped into the boot camp, all means of communication with the outside world were disconnected. Here, all the recruits were to focus on training – and this was her opportunity to figure out who Elijah was among them. If Marcel was right, his cover would definitely be blown here.

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“Sorry, but I’m kind of busy at the moment,” Adele said and without as much as a second thought, ended the call instantly.

Knowing her sister’s personality, Adele switched off her phone; Cindy would call incessantly. Done with that, Adele focused on the men swimming back to the finish line.

Marcel said Elijah was a master at disguise and had an uncanny ability to use realistic masks to hide his identity. Unfortunately, no matter how authentic a mask was, it cannot stand being that long in that water without coming off or showing a flaw. Elijah was as good as caught this time if he still has his mask on.

Aziz was the first to step out of the water and Adele was not even surprised by that. The guy has shown his fighting prowess and skills compared to the others. If there was anyone she would suspect as Elijah, that would be him but she didn’t want to make baseless assumptions because of his ability.

Once in a while, they still stumble upon talented newbies, so she was probably overthinking things. Adele has looked into his background and it wasn’t that special except that he went abroad for a few years and returned not long ago to join the Luciano crime family.

His father was a judo instructor which explains his talent in fighting while his mother sold liquor to the locals. He went abroad to live with his brother for a few years and Adele has already sent people to verify that information. Although backgrounds are checked before initiation, Adele wanted to be sure.

With Elijah around the corner, he could manipulate any information he wanted and infiltrate the gang. She couldn’t make any mistakes now Marcel handed this important assignment to her. Adele couldn’t disappoint him.

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Other soldiers with Adele helped her in putting things into order but she was the head here. So each rescuits upon reaching the finish line instantly runs over and gets in line in front of her.

“Aziz, first as usual, is there anything you’re not good at?” She asked him.

“Yes.”

Her brows arched in curiosity, “What is it?”

“Failing”

“Oh. Quite a confidence you got there.” Adele said, her eyes raking over his body, searching for anything out of places like a piece of falling fake flesh or something. She found nothing.

She then stepped closer to him and trailed her hand down his chest, “Quite some muscles you got there.” She flirted with him before shifting her attention back to the others who arrived one after the other and falling in line behind Aziz.

The moment Adele left, a smirk formed at the corners of Elijah’s lips. Was she kidding him? He knew what Adele was doing? Searching to see if he had any artificial skin on him?

If he had on fake skin, it would have fallen into the water during the competition and Adele would find out the minor difference in his body since he was bare from his chest upward. The woman had an eye for minimal details, unfortunately, so did he. He can not be caught until he has fulfilled his mission here.

Adele continued her careful examination of the bodies of the other recruits and so far came up with nothing. She sighed, could it be that Marcel was wrong? Elijah wasn’t here? No, she can’t give up.

By the time she was through, Adele went back to the front and announced, “You should go back and rest. Food would be served to you.”

“Food?!” All of them shouted at the same time. She had told them there was nothing like food and they had been starving for a whole day now.

“You don’t want it?” Adele asked with a dark glint in her eyes.

“Of course, not, Ma’m!” They answered, standing straight at once.

“Now, you have your food and reserve your strength for the last mission tonight. Do you understand?!”

“Yes, Ma’m!” They chorused.

“Good, you all can go except Aziz.”

“Huh?” There were traces of confusion on their faces when Adele said that.

“Meet me in my office,” Adele told him and took off.

Aziz nodded and left to make himself decent.

“What did you do?” John asked, walking alongside him. After that incident, they had become the best of buddies.

“I don’t know.” Aziz merely shrugged.

“Do you think you’re in trouble?”

“More like a quickie?” Another guy butted into the conversation.

Aziz glared at him.

“Dude come on,” The guy said, “Our hot, badass instructor has been eyefucking you since the moment we arrived at camp ‘torture’ ” He said with a dreamy expression, “I’ll be over the moon if I were the one in your shoe!” He smirked.

“In that case, thank God you’re not me, and that same hot badass can kick you out of here faster than you can ejaculate once she hears those shitty words from your mouth,” Aziz warned him.

If there was one thing Elijah was sure of, it was the fact that Adele was intent on finding out his identity and he was not stupid enough to dance with fire.