The Marvelous Elijah’s Return

A Pent

A Rat

Running his fingers in his hair, Elijah paced slowly around the room with his phone pressed against his ear as he said, “Yeah, morning, Ryan.” As he walked into the room of the hotel suite, Rookie moved his lips to speak, but he froze, staring at Ryan sitting on the edge of the bed when he heard him say, “Boss, week three report,” “I am listening,” Elijah answered, pausing in the middle of the room. “This week, Bryan Check met up with Mr. Adams, President of the Light world company, Mrs. D‘Alencias, CEO of Caelum Technologies, and Mr. David Rossi, chairman of Rossi Industries. We investigated these three for suspicious activity in their businesses, but they are clean…” Ryan said, eyeing Rookie when he sat by him. Allowing those words to sink in his thoughts, Elijah began pacing again as he muttered under his breath, “Clean?”

Feeling uneasy by his boss‘s tone and question, Ryan paused, putting the call on speaker for Rookie to hear, and said, “We have been following Bryan for three weeks boss, and most of the business-wise interaction he has had has been with honest businessmen. Nothing that would raise red flags or warrant attention…” “Though his social life is a mess… the man lives lavishly, with constant women and fancy occasions… No wonder he’s so damn famous…” Rookie commented with a smirk, causing the rest of the conversation to go dead.

Eyes still focused on the carpet, Elijah let out a huff, and then faintly smiled at

Rookie‘s statement. He shook his head and chuckled to himself, before saying, “Anything suspicious in his personal life?”

Ryan took his time thinking about it. He tapped his finger against his temple, running

it through his hair, and sighed heavily, “His grandfather seems to be a hardworking businessman, but his family situation isn‘t exactly easy. I can‘t find anything about his relationship with his father and that side of his family…”

“I did some digging, and it seems he tried to bury that part of his past, but nothing came up. It‘s all just a mystery to me…” Rookie replied,

scratching behind his ears. Suddenly a second call interfered with the conversation, and Elijah looked at his phone screen to see the name, “Jerome” flashing on the caller ID. Taking a deep breath, Elijah accepted the call, and put the phone to his ear, letting out a heavy sigh and then said, “J, what‘s up?”

a rat sniffing around the motel, boss. What should I do with it?” Jerome responded with a low, but deadly

me now!” A manly voice screamed in the

slap and then Dice’s voice, “If you are not willing to tell us why the

again, this time followed by another slap, and Elijah flinched and then listened as Jerome said, “Boss, this

his nose. “I will text you the address of our location.” Before Elijah could drop the call, he heard

and then dialed Ryan back, “Hey, thanks for the info. Keep me updated if you guys find out

the other end

lobby was silent with James and Matt relaxing on the couch, and

to see Elijah, walking into the lobby, she hastily

more than ten words to each other a day, and Elijah had let her be because it wasn’t something he wanted to talk

Elijah said as he walked past her. “Hi,” Peach whispered, not taking her eyes off her book as her heart pounded by the feeling of

Peach to raise her gaze back up, but then lowered it quickly, blushing slightly as she stared at the

his eyes fixed

stood up nonetheless, grabbed his coat, and followed Elijah out of the

silence until he

parking lot. “Well, I‘m not sure.” After Elijah drove away,