Smith was startled by the sound of the voice behind him, and he turned around immediately to see that the device with which the supreme uses to communicate with them was blinking green, which showed that it was connected to the order, and he was hearing the supreme's voice.
He lets out a sigh and turns around to face the device. He had been trying to avoid that moment for a long time now since he failed to capture Sophia.
He should have recorded it two hours after the failure, but then he was trying to make sure that he covered for that mistake and reported immediately. He has gotten a hold of Sophia.
The fact that the supreme was reaching out to him first was also a violation from his side, and he knew that it was not going to end well for him this time.
"She slept away. I am very sorry, my lord, but this is not going to happen again." Smith apologized to the supreme, expecting that he was going to be scolded and even punished immediately.
However, there was silence from the device, and Smith almost thought that the supreme had ended the conversation, but just as he thought to turn around to face the mirror again, the voice of the supreme came.
"I am not going to blame you for these because even when all of you at the order thought it was an easy assignment to get the girl to work with us, I knew it was going to be difficult. and am not ignorant of the fact that someone had helped her the day you were about to capture her, and I know it is, but then you need to do everything to make sure that you bring her into the order," the Supreme said to Smith, surprised.
He was surprised at the words of the Supreme, who never accepted mistakes. This was the first time the supreme was looking over a mistake that Smith knew about, and he was, however, pleased to know that he was giving a second chance to the assignments directly from the above.
"Thank you so much. I am going to make sure that I get her to work with us this time, and I will make sure that she does not slip away like she did the first time," he said to the Supreme.
"I want you to know, Smith, that more than ever we need her to be part of the order. She is a very important asset, and she must be brought to us unharmed. Remember, unharmed until I say otherwise. If anything happens to her, I am going to hold you responsible for it. I hope you understand that," the voice said.
"Yes, boss. I understand you clearly. I understand everything you have said, and I am going to make sure that this time around I do not make a mistake like I did the first time," Smith said.
After the conversation ended, Smith was very much relieved and was not feeling haunted like he was before then.
The difficult part was sending the information about the failure to the supreme because he had taught that it was not going to be forgiven. He felt so relieved now to know that he had been reassigned to the same assignments and did not have to do them with fear anymore.
He smiled at his image reflecting in the mirror and said to himself. "Now I am going to make sure that I get hold of her, and this time there will be no complications because I will deliver this message.
Those words felt like a source of motivation to him as he instantly began to feel relieved knowing that he now held so much control over the situation.
He remembered the person that Sophia was talking to on the phone and decided to pay the person a visit before understanding how it is that this person was going to help Sophia uncover the mystery about what was happening around her.
The next morning he woke up quite early and dressed very well as if he were headed to an office. He had looked up Dr. Lee and realized that he was a doctor in a famous hospital in the city.
He went to the hospital that morning and informed the nurse that he wanted to see Dr. Lee.
"I'm sorry, sir, but do you have an appointment with him?" She asked him in a low voice.
Smith shook his head slowly in disagreement and said to her, "On the contrary, he is the one who has an appointment with me, as we have very important business we are currently working on, and he has just invited me to come over to his office whenever I am free to speak about the investment. He already pre-informed me that I was going to be questioned, but then he said I should let you know that he has invited me." Mr. Smith said to the nurse, keeping a very serious face, one that made it difficult to say if a person was lying or saying the truth.
"Okay, so I will just put a call across to Doctor Lee and let him know that you are here," the nurse said as she picked up the wire to the phone and was about to dial a number when Smith stopped her.
"Oh, you do not have to worry; he's calling," he said as he used his second phone to call the first secretly. He had saved his concept on a smaller phone with the name Dr. Lee and was pressing the call button on the smaller phone, which dialed the number in the bigger phone that he held outside.
That way the caller ID on his phone displayed the name Dr. Lee and the nurse, though it was truly Dr. Lee calling.
"Oh, thank you, sir. I will let your secretary know that," he said and ended the call, moving his gaze back to the nurse, who was also in the position of a secretary to Dr. Lee.