Epilogue

~Epilogue~

~July 15th, 2014: 20 Days After Bombings

Regent Taske sat at his desk in his New York condo, answering e-mails and queries from potential business partners. It had been over a week since ha had sent Janelle after Josh, but he had told her to take her time and get the job done right. And she rarely failed an assignment.
A knock on the door interrupted his train of though, but he took no notice of it. He owned the building he was lived in and the lobby was filled with his people. Not to mention every one of the twelve floors between the ground floor and the one his room was on was heavily guarded.
“Come in.”
The door opened and he could hear footsteps moving from the entry to the office just next door.
“Yes, what do you want?”
“Can I have anything I want? Or did you want me to ask for something specific.”
Regent’s head shot up and his eyes popped.
Nathan, dressed in black from head-to-toe and armed to the teeth with grenades, pistols, and an M16 assault rifle, stood in the office door.
Nathan grinned, “Hey; got any beer?”
With that men in black body armor and “Secret Service” stenciled on their backs swarmed into the office. While the commandos searched Regent for weapons and took him into custody, Nathan turned to the three people who had walked up behind him.
Wraith and Scarlet were dressed similarly to Nathan, and the third man wore a black bullet proof vest, but underneath he wore a business suit.
John Nicolas, head of the Secret Service, held his hand out to Nathan.
“I can’t thank you enough, Mr. Wolv. And you, Miss Scarlet and Wraith. The country is indebted to you for this.”
Nathan shrugged, “Hey, duty and all that. It was nothing.”
As Wraith, Nicolas, and Scarlet turned to escort Regent out, Nathan pulled out his blue Razor phone. Dialing a number, he listened to the phone on the other end ring twice before it was answered.
“Hey, Josh. Yeah, I got some great news about your uncle…”

Miles away in Oregon, Lexy Gold sat on Josh’s back step. She sat looking at the newly refurbished swing set. Josh had her had spent most of the afternoon cleaning the rust and, to Lexy’s horror, three year-old dried blood off the struts and seats of the swings. Josh had also replaced the chain that had broken, so both swings were now usable.
Josh came out the back door and handed her a glass of lemonade.
“Nathan just called me. Regent is in federal custody, and it doesn’t look like they want to let him go.”
Lexy felt relieved, and she smiled as Josh sat next to her.
“So it’s over then? No more assassins?”
Josh took a drink from his glass.
“Nope, no more assassins.”
“So what am I going to do now? What will you do?”
Josh fidgeted nervously with his glass, and finally set in on the ground at his feet.
“Well, we seem to work pretty well together, even when we fight. And I could use someone to help me keep the house clean, keep up with the laundry, and kinda keep me company.”
Lexy laughed and said “Sounds a lot like a wife,” before she realized what she was saying. But the implications of her statement finally hit her, and she just stared at Josh with a kind of terrified excitement.
Josh met her stare and held it.
“That was kind of what I had in mind.”
He reached into his pocket and brought out a small black velvet box. He turned to her and, kneeling on one knee, opened the box for her to see.
It was a platinum band with, and Lexy had to laugh again, a tiny silver bullet circled by small sapphires.
Her blue eyes locked again with Josh’s gray ones.
“Lexy Gold, will you marry me?”
Lexy threw her arms around his neck and kissed him, deeply and passionately.
“I will!”

The End