Chapter 284

Chapter 284
"This just keeps getting increasingly complicated. I'm beginning to think that this is the mission that is going to make me retire from all of this," Nigel commented.

"What are you saying?" Kenya asked him.

He sighed. "I'm just saying that we've given so much of our lives to Cypher already, but this particular mission seems like it's enough for us to get our way out, and that's if we even make it out alive. I don't know about you guys, but I'm exhausted. We've all read up on Cypher history and none of its legendary agents went through half of what we're going through right now. If anything, we deserve to go down in Cypher history as its greatest team."

I wouldn't argue with that.

"You guys more than us. For so long we never understood why you got the special treatment that you did, but now we know better. You guys are the true legends of Cypher," Zeya said respectfully.

"Well, I don't know about retiring since this is the only life I know really, so I say we focus on getting through everything that we need to before we start making future plans," Malachi said.

"I'm in agreement with that. So, now that the Lane and Sigma missions have hit an obstacle, what else can we do?" Aziel asked.

"Did any of you by any chance happen to see my brother at the party?" Nigel asked.

"Who? Blayze?" Garett asked.

Nigel raised an eyebrow. "How many brothers do I have?"

Malachi and I disguised our laughs before Bart spoke up. "We've heard of Blayze, but we've never actually seen what he looks like, so we can't be sure."

"What are you thinking?" I asked Nigel.

"It just occurred to me that we put him on the enemy list, but not for anything specific. I mean, we all know that he's working for the enemy side, but he hasn't done any particular thing to be on our radar. Maybe we need to check things on his side if we hope to connect some dots," Nigel explained.

"That's actually a brilliant idea. We've been looking at this from one angle, when we've had access to side angles this whole time," my brother commented.

"Speaking of side angles, there are two other angles that we haven't really discussed looking into. We still don't know who had kidnapped Nadia and why they did it, and we don't know who took Margaux," Jayme reminded.

"Something tells me we won't get anywhere with the Margaux thing. I say we leave that to the twins since she's their mom. That's probably why they've gone off the grid," Mordecai suggested.

"I agree with Kai. Let's focus on Nadia's kidnapping for now. Adi, what do you remember about the day you were taken?" I asked her.

She sighed. "Like I said before, I'd just wrapped things up in Spain and I was ready to head to Hong Kong for my next mission. My tech team was taken out first before they took out Rowan. I'd just boarded the plane when all of this happened and they tranqued me before I even had a chance to fight. I woke up in a dark room and they tortured me, but I never saw their faces. They also always used voice modulators."

"Well that doesn't help us much, especially since following the trail is useless now. This was six months ago, so it's damn near freezing by now," Malachi pointed out.

"Did the plane not catch any surveillance?" Brady asked.

"I ran through everything of hers. They wiped everything. Whoever had her is good at what they do," Jayme replied.

"Didn't we also figure out that Lillian, Brady, the twins and Izsak were all in Madrid before we rescued Nadia?" Mordecai asked.

"Ok, let's back up since we're not getting anywhere. You said they took you because they wanted to know details about us right?" I asked her, which she nodded to.

"Why you though?" Kenya asked.

Nadia glared at her. "What are you insinuating?"

"Calm down. Kenya actually has a point here. Why did they kidnap you out of the six of you? What is it that they thought makes you stand out to the guys?" Thales questioned.

"I don't know what the hell you're accusing me of but I did nothing. I wouldn't subject myself to three months of torture for the fun of it," Nadia snapped.

"Except the fact that no-one knows if it was even three months of torture," Zeya said lowly enough to be heard by Brady, Thales, Aziel and I.

No one seemed to be buying Nadia's story.

"What?" Nadia asked, not having heard her.

"Nothing," Zeya said with a fake smile.

"Ok, so we know where we found you, but were you moved at any point? Can you remember any distinct sounds or smells?" Aziel asked her.

She scowled. "I was moved at some point. The first place where they kept me had a lot of noise. I can remember hearing lots of chimes and whistles, and it smelled like reused frying oil."

"That's actually a helpful detail. There can't be too many places in Spain like that," Jayme said as he pulled up his laptop.

"When you say they tortured you, what exactly did they do to you?" Brady asked her while Jayme searched.

"They beat and drugged me," Nadia replied.

"You don't have any scars," Mordecai commented.

Nadia glared at him too. "They didn't beat me hard enough to leave scars. They just prolonged their beatings."

The rest of us shared wary looks around the room.

Malachi scoffed. "And to think you thought Elliephant was full of shit."

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Nadia attacked.

"It means you're making no fking sense, that's what. We all know that having being tortured for three months should've left you with some scars, especially with how dramatic you are about the whole thing," my brother told her.