An hour earlier…
“What just happened back there?” Melinda asked. After saving her and her boyfriend from the assassins sent by Victoria, Nichol immediately brought them both to a motel room he had prepared beforehand. “And who were those people?”
“They’re banes from your father’s past,” Nichol replied after pulling a duffle bag from underneath the bed.
“My Dad?”
“You know what he used to do for a living.”
“What do they want from her?” Her boyfriend, Sheen, worriedly asked.
Responding to the query, he faced Melinda again. “Your father did a job for their Boss 18 years ago and they don’t want it to be known. So they killed him. Now, under the assumption that he might have left some details to you, they want you dead as well.”
“What!?” Both Sheen and Melinda exclaimed.
“Sucks to be yo
