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?”

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

you guys?! Untie me now!” A manly voice

Dice’s voice, “If you are not willing to tell us why the fuck you have been snooping around the motel for two weeks now, we‘ll just keep

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

you the address of our location.”

back, “Hey, thanks for the

uttered from the

relaxing on the couch, and Peach

she raised her gaze, and to see Elijah, walking

the last incident, they had worsened from avoiding each other to not saying more than ten words to each other a day, and Elijah had let her be because it wasn’t something he wanted to

walked past her. “Hi,” Peach whispered, not taking her eyes off her book as her heart pounded by

to raise her gaze back up, but then

said, his eyes

up nonetheless, grabbed his coat, and followed

silence until he and Elijah were

wrong?” Matt asked, breaking the silence between them. “No,” Elijah stated calmly, backing the car out of the parking lot. “Well, I‘m not