Special Chapter II: After Retirement

Warning: mature content.

Enya, better known as Agent Leo, was a cheerful woman in one of the most dehumanizing jobs in the world. She’s heard she doesn’t fit in her job almost every day, but that doesn’t stop her from climbing the ranks and carrying out orders from the higher-ups. With her special unit, found family, she’s living inside her bubble of principle and a very private lifestyle.

She’s been pretty satisfied with her life. Although, if there’s one thing she feels short of, it’s friends and acquaintances. She does not have the luxury to participate in social functions often, limiting her social life. Which meant, the people she knows are either from work or her relatives. Which also meant, she is deprived of one of the most elating privileges of an adult life—romance.

Her life lacks romance.

So she’s ended up with one of the most risky settings, she agreed in a friends with benefits arrangement. Now, she’s in a complicated estrangement with none other than her unit leader—William, better known as Agent Jaguar. The dark, graceful beauty. The man with an overflowing sex appeal…but also somehow shares the same predicament as hers.

They’ve been in this secret relationship for so long that they’ve agreed to marry each other should they retire and still without partners. It’s that bad.

But…Leo does not feel like this is such a pathetic situation when they’re together.

“Ah! Ah! Ah!” She moaned, catching her breath and pulling on Jaguar’s hair as he thrust deeply and with a maintained rhythm inside her. He was groaning and growling in her neck. Her back arched like a cat in heat against the bed, her legs all up on his waist as she clung onto him like a koala clinging to a tree branch.

They were both naked and bathing in sweat after going at it for the entire day, but they can’t get enough of the taste of each other.

“Ah! I’m cumming! William… ah!” She yelped when he filled her one last time before the thing building up in her stomach exploded.

“Fuck…” He thrust a few more with a rising urgency, until he stopped and pulled out. “Ah, fuck.”

The bed was once again dirtied by the dripping white substance that came out of her, while he took off the condom and threw it to the trash before showering her with sloppy kisses.

She giggled, still out of breath. He carried her into the bathroom and bathed her tenderly, like he always would. Of course, they left after finishing another round. She embarrassedly left the bathroom after seeing her handprints in the fogged glass of the shower.

“What? You’re retiring?” Leo repeated, her eyes wide. He nodded and continued drying her wet hair with a towel. She was sat in front of her vanity while he dried her hair. She stared at him through the mirror. “Why?”

He shrugged. “I’m tired.”

Jaguar was laid back; meanwhile, she was getting restless. She remembered their agreement. They’ll get married once they’re retired and still unmarried. Now, Jaguar’s retiring. What should she say? Should she retire too?

I mean, Leo thought, it’s not so bad marrying him. He’s actually such a husband material.

As she thought this, he threw away the towel and started massaging her shoulder. Her back involuntarily arched and she closed her eyes. See?

He’s good at everything.

“Oh… That’s it,” she moaned. He quietly massaged her. She felt his thick, warm hands from the thin robe she wore and it was doing things in her stomach. Like… butterflies.

“But, like, I mean,” she stuttered. Get a grip, Enya. “S-Should I retire too?”

Their eyes locked through the mirror. He frowned. “Why?”

“Y-You know…” She avoided his eyes. “You said we’ll get…uh…married when we’re retired. So I—I —”

“If you don’t want to retire yet, then don’t. I didn’t think my decision would influence you like this,” he replied, as if unfazed by her earlier words.

“Ah. Okay.” Leo bit her lip and felt warmth rush to her cheeks. So he doesn’t want to get married yet. “You should at least participate in this last mission with Hawk and Jett Rios, though.”

It was awkward, to say the least. Months after the mission with Hawk, Leo and Jaguar returned to the office like the colleagues that they are. But after work, there were some affairs that they had to continue.

Until Jaguar retired as a field agent and eventually resigned.

The days at work felt empty for her. She wasn’t accepting any more field missions and if she was, she was only working as a senior agent and supervising the younger agents. Her meetings with him became less frequent too. Leo eventually felt the urge to retire. She’s around the age for it too, anyway. And she’s already achieved enough. She wants to follow Hawk’s footsteps and live a peaceful life too.

She stayed in office for a few months until she passed her own resignation letter.

Agent Leo did her final salute to the flag before walking out as a retired agent. Despite how much she loved her job, she walked out of there with a relieved smile. Because she knew no matter how much she made herself believe she was working for justice, she was only working for the corrupt higher-ups.

A few nights in to her retirement, she received a knock at her door.

“Coming!”

She opened the door, to which a smiling Jaguar—no, a smiling William greeted her with a smile and a big bouquet that almost covered his face.

“Congratulations on your retirement!”

Enya realized how much she missed this man. Not only that, she realized how great of a person has been by her side all this time that she’s been overlooking. This man, William, is her happy pill “William…” she sobbed and pushed away the bouquet, flinging her arms around him.

“Oh—hey, what’s wrong?”

Although confused, he still returned her hug.

She sniffed and jokingly hit his chest as she pulled away.

“What’s wrong?” His forehead was creased with worry. “Did I do something wrong?”

“You…” she wiped the tears off her face. “You don’t remember? We’re both retired now and I’m waiting. When are you gonna ask, you coward?!”

Immediately, his forehead smoothed as realization dawned on him.

He chuckled and placed his bouquet on the floor, kneeling down in the progress. Enya stepped back and gasped in surprise.

“Right now,” he answered. He fished something in his pocket and it seemed like the world stopped and it was just the two of them when she saw a beautiful diamond ring inside a velvet box.

“Enya, my love, will you marry me?”