CAMILLE
" I'll be back before 12, Freckles. While I'm away, I got you a cat sitter who'll take absolute care of you.. just like I do. And her name…" I turn to my front door as someone knocks on it twice and it opens.
Freckles who was curious on who we were expecting, approaches the cat sitter as she rubs into her whilst purring. " Excited to see Esther too, huh?" My best friend Esther picks Freckles up as she snuggles with her too.
" That's a pretty hot dress." Esther says clearly admiring my outfit. " I guess the people at the Devil organization never fail to make their assassins look really hot. Camille, you look irresistible."
" lol thank you." I'm flustered and to avoid Esther seeing my crimson cheeks, I walk back upstairs—my destination being my bedroom. " Make yourself at home, Esther. I'm not done getting dressed yet." The moment I'm inside my room, I walk to the long length mirror and then study my appearance.
I was wearing a black strapless body-hugging velvet dress that reached me at my ankles and had a slit up to the top of left thigh, with black stilettos to change my height to a much intimidating one to my targets.
A diamond necklace was resting perfectly on my neck along with matching silver bow earrings.
I had worn a silver Chanel bracelet with pearls stacked on top of each other. Opening the drawer of my dressing table, I take out a black bow as I pin it to my hair I had made in a bun.
Perfect.
Now… I open the second drawer below the first bringing out five hairpins of mine as I put them in the garter strapped to my left thigh. As an assassin I had to wear a garter every time under my dress because of protection or for whenever I was on missions.
Taking my small daggers, I put them in the garter too barely covering everything up with the slit part of my dress. I take out one of my iPods and put them in my ear before turning it on.
" Devil's Thorn."
" I'll be there in Ten minutes, Mark." I say to the person at the end of line to prevent the worry he was certainly bursting with. " Has Clovis Laurent arrived yet?"
" Yes Camille…clears throat..I mean Devil's Thorn, the party's even started. You need to get Clovis before he goes out to make the toast. If he does before you kill him, everything's gonna flop."
I lock the windows of my bedroom as I shut all the drawers I opened, turn off the room lights before leaving. " Leaving now?" Esther turns to me as she watches me climb down the staircase in a hurry.
" Party's about to get started." I reply her as I take my Chanel bag from my couch and Esther hands me a long black coat to wear to avoid getting unwanted attention from other people who would suspect me. " Thank you." With gratitude, I wear the coat.
" Good luck, Camille. Maybe when you're back, I'll make you dinner?"
" Yeah sure. Thank you." With a wave from Esther, I leave my home.
It takes me fifteen minutes to get to the venue for the big party. Mark kept yelling in my ear for me to hurry and I nearly broke my ankle trying to hurry as asked. By the moment I reached the venue, I went through the back to avoid suspicion as I walked over to the spot I knew Clovis' room would be.
Clovis Laurent, a bad psycho whose crimes could no longer be tolerable by the assassin society was whom I would be killing together. Clovis Laurent was not just a dealer in drugs, a contract killer and a gambling boss, he's had cases of assaulting young girls which tags him a pedophile, and since the shitty cops can't take out the trash disrupting the lives of innocent people, I, The Devil's Thorn, will do that.
I climbed into Clovis's room through his balcony, thankfully the balcony doors were open and Clovis was still in the room. " What do you mean Edwin Meyers has disappeared??!" I hear Clovis yell to someone on the phone and his countenance happened to carry worry.
Too bad he'll die with a worrisome look, but will his face still be in shape for anyone to notice?
Not to draw myself any attention, I entered the room stealthily and although I wore heels, my steps in were as light as feathers. Not even my shadow could be caught snooping around. " I want you to find Meyers before I'm out. This party can't proceed without Meyers, understood?" As soon as Clovis hangs up, I can hear him snicker as he turns to me with a sinister look in his eyes.
" Not bad… for a woman. Let me guess, Freddy Nice sent you to kill me, huh? How many fucking times do I have to tell Freddy that I didn't kill Monica?! That bitch ran towards my car, the good in me disappeared and I just ran her over." He chuckles.
I don't break the concentration in my countenance or stance. Clovis Laurent. Clovis fucking Laurent. " You're hot for an assassin tho. Where'd Freddy find you?" Clovis inquires but I still don't break my focus. I don't know who Freddy Nice is and I don't care to know, I work for an assassin organization, not a bad guy who's probably no different from him.
" An assassin who can't communicate, how nice." Without a second thought, I take out three of my hairpins I had stuck in the bun of my hair as I swiftly place them between my fingers of my left hand and shoot them at Clovis.
As expected, the three pins are stuck to his chest and he looks down at the pins before staggering back. What a fool. Most people I've killed were interesting, many called for backup, some I even had to kill their security along with them but this fool only spoke about Freddy Nice.
" What's this? An aphrodisiac? Baby you don't need an aphrodisiac to win me ov—" He staggers again and a gasp escapes his sore throat. " That's not an aphrodisiac, is it?" I watch Clovis Laurent collapse as he rests his back to the wall behind him.
I approach him not throwing away my captivating feminine strut as I take out two daggers from my garter. " Any last words?"
" So you can talk." I hear him say as he chuckles. " I always knew a woman would be the death of me, but no one told me she'd be this…beautiful."
I shake my head at Clovis Laurent"/ flirty attitude and then pause in motion when I notice someone else's presence. It was no longer I and Clovis in this room. There was someone else. I swiftly move to my right when I feel something was thrown at me and that's when three little silver daggers are stuck to the wall above Clovis' head.
" I…missed." I turn to a woman dressed in red as she licks her lower lip with a smile and I can't fail to notice how long her tongue was. Who was the woman? No one told me there was going to be another assassin. Those knives were for me and not Clovis.
Is she a rival?
I turn to Clovis to see him smiling at the woman and I soon realize. No wonder it all felt too easy. So they knew… Clovis was aware I would be here to kill him and purposely allowed me to let my guard down.
What a fool I was to fall for it all, and Mark who told me he'd be looking out for me, where was he?
" What an honor it is to fight you, Black Daisy. I'm Red Lily and you're my role model. You can call me copycat if you want, I don't care." I watch the so-called Red Lily take out more of her silver painted knives from her garter and I can't help but yell in my head, COPYCAT!!
She's dressed exactly as I am, her hair done the same way as mine and even her choice of weapon was similar to mine too. What an ideal copycat. I maintain my stance prepared to fight with her and she does same, Red Lily copies my stance too—this bitch!
" Is that a frown Black Daisy? Are you pissed at someone?" She once again licks her red lips and I can't help but cringe at her act. It wasn't intimidating as she wants it to be, it was just… eew.
As Red Lily throws her knives at me, again, I'm quick to dodge them by going down and then do a triple front-flip towards her, kicking the three new knives from her hand, and then taking a knife from my garter and stabbing her in the rib.
I pull her towards me with her necklace and then headbutt her as she shifts backwards unable to handle the pain in her rib and forehead. " Nobody copies me, you Red Bitch." I pull out the dagger from her rib and then swiftly slit her throat without her expectation.
I chuckle as Red Bitch falls to the ground already dead and I can't help but turn to Clovis with a sinister smirk. " Is that the assassin you hired? Where'd you get her from, Pathetic people Inc?" I mock as I watch Clovis search for his cellphone in fear and the moment he finds it, I quickly approach him and kick it out of his hand.
" I don't have time to waste with you, Clovis. Call over a hundred men for backup and I'll kill 'em all. That's why they call me The Devil's Thorn, whatever that Red Bitch from earlier just called me is the name I use when I wanna be nice, lucky for her, I was nice to make her death less painful." I take out two metal spoon from my garter as I maintain eye contact with Clovis, finding his grey eyes undeniably beautiful. " But, I can't say the same for you."
" Please! I'm sorry! I take my words back! Please spare my life, I'll give you whatever you want I swear! Is it money? Is it a car? Anything! I promise you I'll…" I squat to the beggar's level as I blow him a kiss earning a confused look from him and then I take it in me to gouge his beautiful eyes out with my spoon.
" Argh! Argh!" As Clovis struggles stop me, I quickly take his eyes out and take out a dagger from my garter before stabbing the top of his head with it. The once handsome French man who seemed to careless about death now laid lifeless in the pool of his own blood.
" Devil's Thorn, are you there?" I hear Mark say in my ear and I hum.
" Mission accomplished. The target's dead." I take out another dagger and carve my name in Clovis' cheek like I do to all my victims. I walk over to Red Bitch as I sign my name on her face too, Black Daisy as I sigh. " Got me all worked up for no reason, Mark."
" Sorry about that. I'm glad to hear the mission is complete Devil's Thorn. You've got a new target."
" Give me a break. I barely spend time with my cat, now she's starting to like my best friend."
" Well… this isn't just any mission Devil's Thorn. It's um… it's from HQ. HQ wants you to take out Elio Fontana, future heir to the Italian Mafia Fontana. Can you do that?"
" Who the fuck is this Fontana guy?"
" Like I said Devil's Thorn, he's the heir to the Italian Mafia Fontana."
" What crime did he commit??" I inquire and there's silence at first.
" None." Mark hesitated to say. " HQ wants him dead before he's given position as the leader of the Fontana Clan."
" You know I can't kill someone if they've done nothing wrong, Mark."
" I'm sorry Devil's Thorn but these aren't orders from me. To keep your job you have no choice but to do this. Kill Elio Fontana or you lose your job."