Song: Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing - Queen Kwong

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Adelaide

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"Tell me everything of note that happened in the time I was out of reach. When I'm back, I'll take your place at the table and I will be able to hear their conversation for myself. Continue to report to me through the piece if anything serious comes up. Put the waitress outfit on and start serving." I pushed past her and took a stabilising breath.

I hope 5 euros is enough for this.

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I looked at the clock on the wall exactly ten minutes later, carefully sliding into the seat that had been Jaekyung's not long ago. 

I spotted her from across the room and curled my lips up the slightest bit, showing her that I was ready to hear what she had picked up. 

I kept my eyes averted until I heard the familiar crackle in my ear. 

"The man is the Target's business partner. Brought to help negotiate with Romano. For the entire 10 minutes, they've been throwing crude jokes around about the women servers and their exposed breasts. Romano is doing well in playing the part. Their negotiations are close to finished. They plan to leave to a hotel close by. They have separate hotels and cars. Over."

I had to fight myself from grinning, this was going to easier than I thought. 

I sat up straighter and let my shoulders roll back, helping my breasts stick out a little more. 

I moved my arse a little backwards, making it seem bigger than it was, and made sly eye contact with the target. 

He was staring directly at me.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Jaekyung enter the room and pretend to make herself busy.

I bat my eyelashes and pretended to shyly look away, tucking a strand of hair behind my ear, exposing my breasts more.

Bite the bait, I thought.

I could feel a familiar gaze settle on me. 

Romano. 

He didn't know about the abrupt change of plans but I hoped that somewhere in his pea-sized brain, he would have figured out that the man that sat beside the target complicated things more than he should.

I didn't look over to Romano, my gaze flitting from the table to the target before I finally tilted my head a little, indicating I wanted to leave with him and ever so slowly, slid out of my seat, shimmying my hips as I strutted out of the room.

It took exactly two minutes and 38 seconds for the target to round the corner to where I was leaning against the wall, letting my dress outline my body.

This was almost too easy. 

I watched as he stumbled over to me, putting his mouth beside my ear forcing me to fight the urge to gag. 

He desperately needed a mint.

"Why don't we go somewhere a little more private? My hotel room, for example." He tried to whisper seductively in my ear and instead somehow made my ear sopping wet. 

Ew.

I giggled a little and I felt his body relax, he thought he was going to be rejected.

At least he knows I'm way out of his league,

"What hotel would that be, big boy?" I gripped his tie and pulled him closer to me and he hummed in approval. 

I forced an Italian accent and hoped that he didn't notice how terrible it was.

"The Ritz, kitten."

I pushed his body off of mine, smiling a seductive smile.

"I'll meet you out front in two minutes, I have to ... freshen up." I said, sashaying to the bathroom the same way I did when I left the dinner table.

Just as I was about to reach the bathroom I heard the familiar crackle of Jaekyung's voice in my ear. 

"M.M is making his way towards you. He looks angry. Target's friend has left the premises. Other waiters are trying to find the who they call, the girl with the shitty hair dye. Over."

I sighed to myself. 

My hair couldn't be that bad, could it? 

I couldn't dwell on it any longer as a very angry looking Romano came barrelling up towards me.

"What the hell are you trying to pull with your little seducing stunt? What the fuck happened to the poison? Why are you wearing Jae's dress? I can't believe-."

I put my finger up to his lips, silencing him, completely unfazed by his rant. 

Right now, I needed him to be less mafia and more assassin.

"Problems arose with that plan. We have a new one. You and Jaekyung must leave now. I want a car outside of The Ritz hotel at 11 pm sharp not one minute more, not one minute less." 

I picked up his wrist and glanced at the time, I didn't have much. 

"Details later. Don't give Jaekyung a nickname if she doesn't want one." I commanded before making my way to the disgusting date I had landed but not before I turned around and called out turning around to face him,

"Oh, and Romano? Jealousy isn't a good look on you."

I turned on my heel and walked to the grand entrance of the restaurant, wrapping my arms around the targets beer belly, whispering in his ear, "are you sure you want a piece of me, big boy?"

He chuckled and pulled me into his ugly car. 

As soon as my arse hit the car seat, he leaned over, trying to make his first move on me but I pushed him back into his seat with a sly smirk.

"Patience, patience. The night is young."

He seemed discontented with my answer but turned away to look out of the window, not before resting his grimy hand on my upper thigh, where my leg was exposed due to the high slit in the dress.

I better be getting a bonus for this shit.

When we climbed out of the car, I let his hand rest in my lower back and travel south of it too.

Walking through to his hotel room I whispered in his ear, "I'm going to the bathroom, I have a surprise for you."

He frivolously nodded his head up and down like a child would when they are asked if they want a lollipop and I made my way to the bathroom. 

I picked up a glass that they had in there and filled it up, putting the ricin in after. I reached into my bra and took out what I had gone out to buy with Jaekyung's money.

Viagra.

I let the dress drop to my feet and I shrugged on a robe that was hanging in the bathroom. I carefully took off the knives that were strapped on my body, hoping not to make any noise as they touched the counter. I opened the door, pills in one hand and water in the other.

"Take a pill, big boy, we have a long night ahead of us."

He looked at me suspiciously, "Oh, honey, I don't think I need the pills if you're here."

I feign a chuckle at his response.

"That's what they all say." I pushed the water and pills into his hands, letting the bathrobe drop to my feet. I seductively sat down on top of the crappy hotel desk in only a very lacy pair of bra and panties.

His eyes widened at the sight and his hands shook as he opened the pills, gulping down all of the water.

I didn't have to fake my smile this time.

He unbuckled his belt and let his trousers drop to the ground.

I mean, it wasn't a bad size but it certainly wasn't the best. 

I opened my legs, panties still on and he made his way over to me wide eyed and starstruck. 

I wrapped my arms around his back before feeling for a pressure point and knocking him out cold.

I let out a sigh of relief when his body slumped against mine and I carefully laid him on the bed. 

I picked up the pill packet, empty glass, robe, my knives and dress before sitting back down on the desk and leaving my fingerprints everywhere, so if the police investigated, they would think he had sex through fingerprinting and eyewitnesses coming to the conclusion that he had a heart attack afterwards. 

Ricin took a long time to kick in and kill the person who ingested it but I don't think the target would be waking up anytime soon.

I sat back down on the desk.

That was anticlimactic.

I had to fight the urge to slit his throat or stab him in the heart, to do anything other than this pathetic excuse for a hit.

I couldn't even leave my signature on his ugly pig face. 

Over the past few years, my signature which was carving a thin line from the top of the face to the chin, had, according to Jaekyung, become infamous and I had been specifically instructed not to sign for the death. 

According to her I had become known as the Crimson Dagger, a name I didn't hate, nodding to the fact that I only used knives in my operations. 

I wonder what his face would like all cut up?

I smiled to myself, maybe I was just too good at my job. 

I put on my dress and messed up my hair, making it seem like I just had sex. I left the room and checked the time. 

10:58 pm. 

By the time I got to the main entrance, it was 11 exactly and a familiar-looking Tesla was waiting for me.

My smile grew wider as I slipped in and saw who was waiting for me there.

"Did he hurt you, carota?" Romano's comfortingly familiar voice asked me, full of worry.

I chuckled, "I think that you forget that I've been trained to be an assassin since I was born, Romano."

I heard him let out a sigh of relief and I relaxed into the comfortable seat around me. 

I slid the heels that I had stolen from Jaekyung off my feet. 

I looked over to Romano who was concentrating on the road with a certain intensity. 

His bottom lip jutted out slightly, looking a little red and swollen. 

Had he been chewing on it?

"The man that he brought with him was a complication and I didn't want any unwanted casualties. I couldn't get the poison into him in any other way without drawing unwanted attention so I took matters into my own hands. It's in his bloodstream now."

I yawned, stretching my arms in front of me and Romano nodded his head mutely, turning off the highway to a quieter street.

"How did we not know that he was going to join?" Romano whispered.

That struck me. 

How did we not know? 

We had been preparing for this for the past week, Jamie claiming that he had exhausted all research paths. 

Jamie.

Something didn't sit right in my stomach, Jamie had never made a mistake in MI6, why did he make one now?

Unless he did it on purpose.

I quickly shook the suspicion from my head, what would he gain from it anyways? 

Surely, he would be making more from our deal with Romano than protecting his victims. 

I sat quietly seething in the passenger seat of the Tesla until we pulled into the driveway of the now-familiar mansion. 

I opened the door with so much force, I thought the car door would fall off. 

With my heels in my hand, I stormed into the mansion. 

After a night void of emotion, all of them seemed to be rising at once.

"Where is the bitch?" I shouted, grabbing the attention of Jaekyung to ran into the room and most surprisingly, embraced me. 

I hugged her back quickly before asking her again, in a quieter voice this time, where the bitch was.

"Am I the bitch?" His velvety voice echoed from the middle of the winding staircase.

I untangled myself from Jaekyung's warm embrace and watched as he made his way down the stairs. 

I was beyond angry, I was livid.

He stood in front of me, a guilty expression painted on his face.

"Ads, you always get like this after-."

"Do you understand what kind of position you put me in tonight?" Gone was the previous anger that was rushing through my veins, replaced by a dangerously calm venom.

He didn't answer my question, looking unfazed and leaning back on the staircase.

"The target showed up with another man by his side. When were you going to give us that tidbit of information? Or was it not important enough for you to tell us?"

His eyebrow quirked up slightly, "By the target, do you mean Simon Fawker? He has a name y'know, Addy."

Before I knew what I was doing, I raised my hand and backhanded his cheek which let out a loud, satisfying ring.

"You do not get to make decisions about what I call the person I killed tonight, Jamie. You don't understand the position you put me in, you not only endangered our entire operation because of your lousy research job, but you also put Romano and Jaekyung in a vulnerable position." I didn't dare take my eyes off him.

"I had to make direct contact with the target, which could've killed me if he knew half of what we were planning to do to him tonight." I felt anger start to bubble up inside me again and I took a breath.

He wasn't even worth my anger.

"We are going to have a long, hard talk about this tomorrow, Jamie. Don't even think for a second that I've let you off the hook."

He stood a step towards me but I put my hand up to silence him.

"My name is Adelaide. Not Ads. Not Addy. Adelaide. I only let people I trust to give me nicknames and you are far from that, Jamie. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to take a nice, hot, shower and sleep in late tomorrow morning and nobody can do a fucking thing about it."

I forcefully pushed past Jamie and climbed the winding staircase, collapsing on my bed as soon as I made it into my room.

Something still didn't sit right with the whole situation. 

If I were smart, I would've left the nagging feeling alone but, being me, I didn't.

I jumped into the scalding hot shower, letting the water burn my skin and when I climbed out, my skin was bright pink. 

I shrugged on Romano's shirt which still had the lingering scent of him, one that I had grown to quite like, and his boxers which I still hadn't returned. 

One thought lingered in the back of my mind.

What did he have to gain from this?

A soft knock echoed through the room.

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