IT'S MY BIRTHDAY LMAO! 🎉🎂🎉🎂🎉🎂

What another lovely way is there to celebrate it than a
K&R update?

Movie 🎥 G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)

Happy Reading xx

~ T

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S C A R L E T T 💣

"Look, Scar, we need to focus. I know it's tough seeing your mother with the guy who practically killed your dad, but in order for this mission to work, you need to be focused. No distractions," Harry told me firmly, as I tried to listen to his words.

He was absolutely right. Tonight was about getting God's Eye, Andrei's fate was to be decided later. But before that; God's Eye. I couldn't let my emotions and thoughts distract me from doing the mission properly, I won't let them distract me. I was going to hold my head up high, push my thoughts away, and show my bitch of a mother, what I was made off. I couldn't help but feel betrayed, that my mother was with Andrei now. They certainly seemed like they were more than just acquaintances, and that sickened me.

"You get me?" Harry brought me out of my thoughts; his gleaming emerald eyes gazing into mine intently, trying to figure me out.

I inhaled deeply, closing my eyes as I did so, clearing my thoughts all at the same time. Once I opened my eyes, they stared intensely back at Harry's; my features were hard, a serious expression taking over them.

"I get you," I nodded sharply at him, showing him that I wasn't going to let anything distract me from the mission.

"Good girl," he murmured, ducking down to press a light kiss to my lips before pulling back. His words and actions left me slightly breathless as he smirked at me before pulling his phone out.

"What's the plan now that Andrei knows we're here?" I questioned curiously as he started dialing a number on his phone.

"The exchange will still happen, but this time they'll be more careful," he told me shortly, before he started talking on the phone to Seth about our short encounter with my mother.

I took it upon myself to phone Jade and find out where she was. Fortunately, she picked up, and agreed to spy on Andrei all by herself. We stayed in the room for a few more minutes, everyone on the inside and the outside of the hotel, waiting for Jade's call. Harry was still making calls with Seth and Damien, talking about how Andrei had now called for his own security to stop us from halting the exchange, making our entire mission ten times harder.

"It's Jade," Harry spoke in a rushed tone when we heard his phone vibrating. He spoke swiftly to her, nodding sharply as I sat on the bed and watched him. "Okay, I'll report to Vlad," and with that he ended the call. Once he had reported to Vlad about Jade's findings and received new instructions he turned to me with a serious look.

"What's the plan?" I asked bluntly, standing up right in front of him.

"Okay so, the exchange will be happening at midnight, sharp, in the conference room on the third floor. Apparently the entire floor is covered with maximum security so we'll be using part of the team to take down all the guards and cameras, before making it to the room."

"Jade will be hacking into the system, taking down all the cameras that gives Andrei and his men a view on every part of the third floor, leading up to the conference room."

"How long will that take?" I couldn't help but ask.

"Not too long, she's already in the room working on it. With the cameras down, you and Blaze will then wipe out the entire floor; kill all the guards, Scarlett. Do not knock them out," Harry told me sternly, his words making me feel slightly panicked.

"Wait! It's only Blaze and I!? Will that even be enough to take down an entire floor of security?" I asked him in disbelief, my eyes wide.

"Scar, Blaze can take down the entire floor on her own. But Vlad wants you to help out. I know you can do it, you were trained for this," Harry reassured me, which slightly helped but not entirely. I suppose I was just nervous because it was my first mission.

"Okay," I exhaled, trying to calm myself down.

"And please fucking kill them, you're only slowing Blaze down if you knock people out. It'll be eleven soon. Jade will be done soon enough by eleven, which will give you exactly one hour to get the whole floor cleared of security," he told me strictly, the thought of killing someone making me feel sick to my stomach, but as if I was going to obey him.

"Okay, got it," I nodded curtly, pulling my dress up to reveal my gun and knife strapped against my thigh. My eyes glanced at the clock on the bedside table as I took them out, reading the time as eleven forty pm.

"You need to change. You can't fight in that dress," Harry told me, making me frown.

"But I don't have anything else to wear right now," I said in a baffled tone.

He walked towards the bed, crouching down to pull out a large black box and picking it up to set it on the bed. How on earth did that get there? He gestured for me to open it, my features forming a confused frown as I moved to open the box. A short gasp left my lips as I stared at what was in it. It was somewhat like a jumpsuit, made of an all black skin-tight material with a V-shaped neckline and long sleeves. I picked it up with my hands, gazing at it in awe, while I held it against my body. It looked exactly like my size.

"Is this for me?" I asked, dumbfounded. Of course it is Scarlett.

"Yep. This is a custom-made suit, specially built for assassins, mostly woman. Made of Nomex fire-resistant, triple-weave Kevlar-lined material, it gives a higher level of protection against physical and energy attacks. A knife isn't capable of piercing this protection. It can take shots from normal guns, shot guns, high-powered rifles, Sub-machine gun- fire will eventually break through the protection. That's probably the only disadvantage it has. Now go get changed, there's some extra stuff I need to show you," he shooed me away to the bathroom.

"How do I look?" I asked as soon as I stepped out of the bathroom. I held my arms out, looking at Harry expectantly while I watched his emerald eyes rake down my body.

"Fucking hot," he smirked, pulling his bottom lip into his mouth. He gestured for me to come closer to him, and I did, with a shy smile and flushed cheeks.

He wrapped his arm around my waist, pulling me closer to his body before joining his lips with mine. He kissed me slow with a hint of sultriness, his lips against mine making my stomach coil as my hand rose up to rest on his jaw. A gasp fell from my lips, getting stifled by the kiss when his large palm ran over the curve of my bum. My insides tightened when he squeezed my bum all of a sudden, before delivering a sharp slap to it.

"Harry!" I warned, pulling away from his lips to glare at him playfully. He simply smirked and used his other hand as well to grip my bum, squeezing the flesh of it with both his hands. "Stop it!" I gasped again with bright red cheeks, suddenly feeling really hot in this skin-tight suit.

"My girl is finally a professional assassin," he murmured lowly with a smirk full of pride. His words made me blush even more, while my insides melted at what he just called me. But I decided to be a bit playful at the moment, wanting to know the reason for him calling me that.

"My girl?" I cocked a brow at him surprise. "Since when was I yours?" I asked him in an amused tone, watching him roll his eyes at me.

"You were mine from the moment I kissed you at the pool," he told me, his voice low and husky, causing a stirring in my abdomen. Now was not the time to get turned on.

"But you weren't mine at that time," I told him with a pout, remembering how he would still go after Natalie when he gave into me.

"I know. But I am now," he whispered lowly, his hand moving to grasp mine. He pulled the joined pair up to his lips, laying a soft kiss on my knuckles that made my stomach do backflips at the sweet gesture.

"I am yours, Scarlett. This heart is and will always, belong to you from now onwards."

My lips parted at his words, my insides melting as an affect of them while my eyes widened slightly. He was fully committing to me, and that honestly made me feel good. His words were said with such honesty, it made me smile uncontrollably. I was falling for him. There was no doubt about that. But I was constantly praying he wouldn't ruin that, and so far he hasn't after he had changed. If he did ruin what we had, I don't think I'd ever be able to get over it; it would break me.

"Harry," I breathed in awe, pretty much speechless by his small promise.

He smiled at me, a sincere smile, before allowing his lips to press against mine, as if to seal the promise. We pulled away after a few seconds, staring at each other with what felt like adoration. All of a sudden, a breathless laugh escaped his lips, the sound of it resonating through my ears. It was a glorious sound. The sight of him smiling and laughing automatically made me do the same, now becoming a habit.

"So it's official now, I'm your girlfriend," I chuckled, my expression faltering when he grimaced at the word 'girlfriend'. "What's wrong?"

"Girlfriend. It sounds so cliché."

"If not girlfriend, then what?"

"How about, my baby?" he asked me with a naughty smirk. 'My baby' honestly sounded perfect, the way he said it with that raspy voice of his made me love it instantly.

"It's perfect," I grinned, reaching up to peck his lips before my eyes glanced over his shoulder. It was eleven forty-five. "Harry! The mission! We need to get going!" I panicked, making him laugh before I shot him a serious look.

There were extra pieces that came with the suit. There were these bracelets attached to my wrists that could take up to fifty tons of pressure before becoming damaged. Those bracelets had special abilities. It had a powered energy discharge, which could easily render a human unconscious and could reach up to forty feet. It also had gas-launchers that released a knockout gas, probably an oneirogenic general anesthetic.

"The bracelets are supposed to have cable-launchers in them, but we still need to fix that up. That belt has explosives in them, the small disks, when you throw it or set it on a timer, it will explode enough to blow up a wall. You're gloves and boots are covered in microscopic suction cups that allow her to adhere to any surface and even, if necessary hang upside down," Harry told me, as I adjusted the belt around my waist and tightened the bracelets on my wrists.

After a few more minutes we left the room, once Jade had given us the call that all the security cameras were down and so were every type of electronic communication between Andrei and his people securing the entire third floor. As we walked down the hallway towards the elevators, my hands reached up to gather all of hair up into a tight ponytail, securing it with a hair tie I had around my wrist. I was caught off-guard when Harry suddenly grasped my wrist and tugged me towards him.

My body froze in surprise when he pressed his lips firmly against mine, giving them a firm lingering kiss. My fingers intertwined themselves with his soft curls, my lips pushing firmer against his as I kissed him back. His arms pulled me further into his body, holding me to him as he ran his tongue over my bottom lip teasingly, before parting my lips and sliding it in. Our tongues danced as we kissed each other for what seemed like eternity when it was only seconds.

"Be careful," he whispered to me, once we had pulled away for a breath of air. His hand rose up to cup my cheek, thumb rolling over my cheekbone.

"I will," I assured him, my hand rising up to grasp the one on my face, running my thumb over the back of his hand.

"And once you and Blaze are done, you get the hell out of here, okay? Leave immediately, because shit is gonna get intense and I don't want you getting hurt," he told me all of a sudden, his voice firm and commanding, making me frown slightly.

"I don't want you to get hurt either," I told him with an unhappy frown.

He shot me a confused look, almost as if it was strange of me to think he won't be fine on his own. Well he didn't understand. I cared for him, which meant that I wanted to protect him as much as he wanted to protect me. It would kill me to see him getting hurt.

"Scarlett, I'll be fine. Just promise me you'll leave," he requested, gazing at me intensely with his gleaming jade orbs.

"Fine," I obliged, not at all happy with the decision I made. Let's just see how this turns out, and then I'll make the decision whether or not to break the promise if things aren't so bad. I had my fingers crossed behind my back anyways.

"Thank you," he shot me a light-hearted smile before lacing his fingers with mine and pulling me along with him.

We reached the elevators where Blaze was waiting for us, her usual sour frown on her face. She was dressed in a similar suit as mine, except she didn't have the bracelets, and she had a belt of bullets around her waist. I was literally waiting for Harry to pull his hand away from mine once we approached her, but he didn't. Her pale blue eyes darted to Harry and mine's joined pair of hands, narrowing slightly at the sight. But she didn't make any attempt to address it.

"Ready Lil Bitch?" she smirked at me, pulling her from her holster, which was hanging from her belt.

"Ready as I'll ever be."

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- Ooooooooo shit is gonna go down during the next chapter! Spoiler alert: someone dies 🤗 any guesses who?

-I might double-update cuz it's my birthday so why not give you lovelies a special treat!? This book is almost at 60K reads and that makes me immensely happy 💖💖💖💖💖

I love you guys so much, because of your support and dedication this book is becoming more and more popular by the day and I'm ever so grateful for that ☺️

Until we meet again...

~T