Double Agent · 06. September 2024
Chapter 13 *** The fingers that peeked out from under her sleeves were like skinny branches, and as Sasha slowly stroked her back, she could clearly feel her spine and vertebrae. She was so thin. "Calm down, it's okay, what's your name?" "Belle." Sasha struggled to make eye contact with her, stroking her shoulder with the same familiarity and skill she'd used to deal with nervous breakdowns in the wards. "Why, why am I here, where am I?" Sasha understood her confusion. When she'd been dropped...
Double Agent · 29. August 2024
Chapter 12 *** As she spoke the words, Sasha broke down in sobs. Sad. Sad. So sad. Look at me. I don't want to live like this. This isn't me. "I'm going to kill you." Sasha's body sagged, and John picked her up and carried her down the hallway with an easier stance. "Besides. You're a crybaby." John walked into the dining room, pulled up a chair with his foot, and sat her down. Sasha put her head down and continued to cry. "Stop it." "Hic......" "Eat something, you'd rather pass out biting...
Double Agent · 29. August 2024
Chapter 11 *** "Eat slowly.'' He said as Sasha picked up the pace of chewing and turning the meat. Come to think of it, she had seen him before, somewhere. Not in the torture chamber, but somewhere else. "Kollok." She gagged. Maybe she had eaten too fast. "Kolok, Kolok." No. No, that wasn't it. Sasha covered her mouth and coughed, then looked up at him, blue and fed up. "Kolok! Kolok! Kolok! Kolok!" The coughing became paroxysmal. The food! The man let out a rumbling laugh. Her esophagus...
Double Agent · 23. August 2024
Chapter 10 **** "Stop it." Sasha muttered, Stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it. Please stop. And then she raged again. She slammed her head into the blackened wall. BANG. BANG. BANG. The blood trickling down her forehead blinded her. Her ragged breathing was no different than when she collapsed, frothing at the mouth. "Kill me! Kill me! Kill me!" Alas, I'm so tired now. I've had enough. If this is your test, I can't pass it. Look at me. I'm just going to suffer through an eternity of doing...
Double Agent · 27. July 2024
Chapter 9 **** After a long darkness, she opened her eyes. The geometric ceiling swirled around her again. She jerked upright. She touched her face, then looked at her hands. Bandages wrapped around them. Everything was the same as the last time she remembered. The small table was neatly set with food, covered in a golden cover-dome. Only that was different from the last memory. Sasha rose from her seat and opened her bedroom door. Trudging to the end of the hallway, she turned the doorknob....
Double Agent · 24. July 2024
Chapter 8 **** "Dieter." Dieter turned his head at the sound of a voice calling out to him. He let go of the woman's head and gave the man a quick, swift salute. It was machine-like, quick, and bowed. The man in the torture chamber stared at Sasha's wet body sagging under the tub, bruises and cuts everywhere. Dieter was a torturer by trade. He was ruthless, cold-blooded, and maniacal in his cruelty. His madness knew no command, no gender, no origin, and that was what had brought him to...
Double Agent · 24. July 2024
Chapter 7 *** It was only a matter of moments before people were screaming and ducking under their desks. Sasha knew the unreal, distant sound all too well. The sound of gunfire. Sasha looked back, red-faced, and then someone fired. A gush of blood from the back of the man’s head splashed across Sasha's face. He fell to his knees on the ground like a tree struck by lightning. Sasha wiped her face with her sleeve. Blood. It smelled familiar and was a familiar color. Everything in front of her...
Double Agent · 24. July 2024
Chapter 6 *** "Yes." Boban brushed Sasha's hand as she set down her teacup. The thick, oily hand was not unlike the lump of fat clinging to his stomach. "You'll have to go to Albert's wardrobe before you leave, I've left something for you." "Yeah." "And shred all these documents." He held out a stack of papers, and Sasha hurried to accept them as he slid them across his desk. "Understood, Senator." "This one, I need you to type it up for me." "Yes ....... Senator." He placed another sheet of...
Double Agent · 21. July 2024
Chapter 5 **** Two things could be assumed from the first page. Either this man, John, was more important than the clerk, or he was much more popular with the public. Sasha scanned the print from the front page to the last page of the newspaper. Among them was an article about Senator Boban, the man Sasha was supposed to keep an eye on. Leading Republican figures were fleeing the capital city of Nepiran for Victoria. The newspaper editorialized that the Allies were running out of money, that...
Double Agent · 21. July 2024
Chapter 4 *** "How long until we get there?" Sasha asked, not long after the car had left the forest. Snow laughed softly. "You ask a lot of questions, Miss Schmidt. Mr. Boban doesn't like inquisitive assistants." "It's just that you're the only one who knows about my predicament, and I can't ask Senator Boban when I should report his actions to General Jared, how I should tell him, and how I can get back to my home across the border, and when I'll be able to get my citizenship, can I?" "I...