The Protector

“What are you doing tiptoeing around?” When she was about to move forward, someone boomed from behind, shocking her.

She turned around and saw a few guards boring their eyes into her. “Don’t take this the wrong way. I’m Margaret, a reporter. Here’s my ID.” She quickly handed her ID over for confirmation. “I want to interview the leader in there for a bit,” she told them what she had in mind.

“No. He doesn’t accept any interviews. Everything they talk about is top secret, so please leave.” She was chased out of the backstage abruptly. It wasn’t easy for her to meet Mr. Garrison, so she wouldn’t give up now.

“We should leave now, Margaret. Everyone else has already left,” her partner urged.

“You guys go ahead. I’ll wait for him at the passage.” Margaret came to the hall’s secret passage. Few people knew about this, for this was exclusively for leaders. Even so, Margaret easily found it and waited here.

then. Margaret staked out at this place, but she almost fell asleep after waiting for god knew how long. Unbeknownst to

on the sofa. Margaret thought he would come out in the end, so she waited until dusk, but still he didn’t appear. “I can’t give

time to get off work, Levi checked around and left from the front gate, since he didn’t know where

nine in the evening did someone come out from the secret passage, and Margaret’s

left a long while

“What? He left? When? I’ve been

left through the front gate. It’s been almost two

spot all this while!? It’s alright, I have no

going back, and she felt angry. “Oh yeah, I can vent this on Levi.” She fished out her phone and punched in the latter’s number