Daisy

Twenty Two

I looked to Rob when the phone rang. "Rob," he said and listened to whoever was on the other end. "He's awake? Stable? Good. Keep me updated on his progress." Rob slammed the phone down and I raised my eyebrows.

"Who was that?"

"Medical," Rob said and I paused the video of a debrief on the laptop. "Hampson is awake and is stable."

"Oh," I said. "Good. Speaking of Hampson, why the hell was he shot in the first place?"

"The mission went wrong."

"Yeah, no shit," I scoffed and ignored Rob's stern look. "How?"

Rob gritted his teeth and sighed. "There's a criminal organisation that is set on taking us down. Somehow they found out about the mission and sabotaged it."

"What the hell? That's impossible. We're a secret. Invisible. No one knows about us," I frowned.

"They do," Rob scowled. "We've taken out a lot of their assets and they aren't happy."

"We have a leak," I said. "That's the only explanation for information getting out."

Rob shook his head. "They hacked into one of our servers. They only managed to access one file, Hampson and Jack's mission. We have the best working on defence systems. They won't get in again."

"They hacked the Agency?" I gasped. "Shit, they're good."

"Not helping, Daisy," Robbed snapped.

"It's my job to be annoying," I shrugged. "So what are you going to do?"

"Whatever I do I won't discuss it with you," Rob said and pointed to the laptop on my lap. "Work."

"I'm bored."

"This is a punishment, it's not meant to be fun," Rob said dismissively. "I'm going to be having interviews with the new recruits soon. If you make any inappropriate comments or act like... Yourself, then I will not be happy."

"When are you ever happy?" I asked.

"Keep quiet or I'll gag you," Rob warned.

"Lovely," I sighed and stared at the laptop screen, hitting the space bar so the video would play.

*

There was a knock at the door and I looked up when Joey walked in.

"Joseph," Rob greeted and gestured to the seat opposite his desk. "Take a seat."

Joey watched me curiously as he sat down and his eyes went to the handcuffs round my wrists.

"Ignore, Daisy," Rob said and I narrowed my eyes at him. "Joseph, I'm am Rob. I'm in charge here."

"Daisy's father," Joey nodded.

"Adopted," I coughed and Rob raised his eyebrows warningly at me.

"Yes, she's my daughter," Rob nodded. "Joseph, this is about you, not us. Tell me, how are you feeling?"

I sighed softly and shook my head, turning my attention back to the laptop. After Joey was interviewed a random guy came in next, he seemed highly confident and too cocky.

"Ass," I coughed when he walked out and Rob raised his eyebrows at me.

"He's just confident," Rob said.

"He's too confident."

"You were too confident when you first started training," Rob noted.

"Ah, but really you had been training me since the second I was able to hold a gun. I had a good reason to be confident," I shrugged. "I was better than everyone I was training with."