Author: Maja Pauc, OŠ Gračani, Zagreb
“Who do you work for?! Tell me right now or you’ll regret you were even born, I swear!” the man said as he angrily leaned the gun to the other guy’s forehead.
“No one! I work for no one, man!” the guy said it as his eyes were full of fear of losing his life in a second.
“Tell me one good reason not to kill you because I assure you that you begin to annoy me,” the man said as he removed the gun from the guy’s forehead. “I’ll count to five. If you find one reason not to kill you, I’ll let you go. But if you tell someone about this, I assure you that I’ll kill your wife, kids, parents and your best friends.”
The moment the man said it, the guy let out a shaky breath of fear. “One…”
“Listen, man!” I don’t know what you’re talking about!”
“Two…”
“No, please!”
“Three…”
“I work for no one!”
“Four…”
“No, please! Don’t kill me!”
BANG!! The man pulled the trigger and cursed under breath. He left the basement and his phone rang. His expression turned to a smiled one. “Yes?” he asked with a big smile, he was still on a mission and no one couldn’t know who he was actually.
“Richard, dear! Could you please come over? My radiator died and you know little old me, I can’t even lift a chair,” the old woman’s voice said on the other line.
“Of course Miss Bridget, I’ll be right there,” Richard said as he hung up. He quickly changed his civil clothes and left his house. It took him three minutes to reach the old lady’s house. He did what she asked him to do and it was already night time when he finished. His phone rang and his expression turned serious as soon as he saw the caller’s number.
“Phillips,” he said sternly.
“Ario Corporation. Their director is doing some funny business. Your name’s Thomas Lex. Your company name is Lex corporation. You need to make a partnership with him. You have a week to finish the mission. I wish you a good day, agent,” the man said and hung up. Richard let out a sigh as he went back to his house. The next day he disposed of the body and went to the Ario tower. He was going to do this quickly.
His actual name was Jake Philips. He’s an undercover secret agent working for a secret government service. He had many identities during his career in the secret agency and he killed too many people to count. His parents and relatives think he’s dead. It’s for their safety. He dealt with mafia, terrorists, you name it, he did it. For this job, he knew many languages: Russian, Swedish, German, etc. He was in this kind of job for ten years and he became a legend. Nobody knows his real name. Richard, Leon, Jeffrey, Harold, Thomas… But his real name is Jake Philips, agent 1237.
