Back with my entry for Susan T. Braithwaite’s Spies, Lies and Digital Skies Challenge.
I bitched plenty about last week’s prompt, and this week’s was even tougher. I spent way longer working on this one than that one. Thanks, Susan! 🙄😋
This week’s prompt:
Undercover mission at a glamorous event.
Seems simple enough, eh? Yeah, well… Not so much.
First, here’s the one I have chosen as my final entry:
On a crisp Monte Carlo evening, as revelers below celebrate BrenTek’s successful foray into the defense industry with the introduction of the Person-L microchip, our lovely agent, Eva Kovalenko, is awaiting the arrival of one Emil Vasilev.
She had spent the better part of the evening playing a seductive game of cat and mouse with the notorious arms dealer. Stroking his ego just enough, before playfully wandering off to an adjacent gambling table, or to the bar for another drink. Always in his sight, but just out of reach.
Now, however, it was time to relent and give Emil the prize he so desperately sought.
“Meet me in the cloak room upstairs. Ten minutes,” she whispered softly in his ear, letting her delicious brown hair lightly brush his cheek, as he signaled to the dealer that he wished to fold. A lone bead of anticipatory sweat was running past his left ear.
As she gently caressed the cold, resilient steel of the blade in her hand, Eva let out a relaxed sigh. She slipped quietly into the coat room and awaited Emil’s arrival. “Two minutes,” she whispered quietly to herself.
In two minutes, Agent Eva Kovalenko would eliminate one of the agency’s most wanted criminals. But that didn’t matter to her. For Eva, this was far, far more.
In two minutes, Eva Kovalenko would finally kill the bastard who murdered her father.
Some of the other attempts:
I had tried at first to capture an agent slipping poison into cocktails, but could not quite nail it down no matter how I worded things. After that, I settled on the knife, and even that was a challenge. Some were close, others were “No, not quite”.
No, not quite…
I said “discretely”, damn it…
If only you were holding that blade by your side, dear… *Sigh*
Looks like you’re getting ready to take a shot and a bong hit…🙄
Anyhow, thanks for reading, all!
Don’t forget to check out Susan’s blog if you have not already!
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