9.11

Deasil Street9.1

Teresa had no idea where this one plant has come from, and how. The ground is barren, she hasn’t planted anything… but she waters it anyway. If it turns out to be blight resistant she could make some money from it.

Malika was finally due to age up, and decided not to invite her old friends Megan or Annette. She asked her new cadet friend along instead. Carlie Riffin.

The aging process held no surprises for her, and she became a teenager with no problems.

Malika hadn’t wanted to be friendless again after her age up, so she had chosen Carlie with care. Malika would age up first, so she Would look up to her. Carlie wasn’t far behind though, so they wouldn’t be separated for long at school. Everything was going according to the book.

Now a teen, Malika could join the teen cadets. She loved it, spending hours at HQ learning strategy, reading case studies and training for the future. Being a policewoman was all she wanted to do, and she would be the best she could at it.

It wasn’t all hard graft though. As well as Carlie, she had her eye on a fellow cadet who showed as much promise as she did.

Malika had watched her mum struggle to find work, and her dad to find something meaningful to do. She felt she was well ahead of the game.

Over dinner Trinity dropped a bombshell, and Edward whisked her upstairs away from her sister to discuss it. Trinity had decided she wanted out. She wanted to quit now while she was ahead and before she got arrested. Their work had gotten bigger recently, stealing from the government was a step too far from her.

What with her twins aversion to criminal activity, it was a no-brainer as far as she was concerned. She could quit and still be in love with him.

He told her he didn’t want to fight, but he couldn’t risk her quitting. The way it worked was that everyone involved with him underwent criminal activity so he knew they couldn’t snitch on him without implicating themselves.

Trinity told him to listen. She’d been a criminal for years, she was no grass.

She just wanted to go straight for her own peace of mind. She’d grown up a lot the last few years, and her sister had opened her eyes to a lot of problems in her life.

She loved him.

Edward wasn’t having any of it.

He was a master criminal boss who never made mistakes. Either you were in, or you were out.

That got Trinity riled up. How dare he. She was her own woman, this was her decision to make. He was her partner not her boss.

She told him in no uncertain terms he was an arrogant arse. If she wanted out of the business, he had to accept that about her.

Edward shocked her to the core by telling her it was over between them. He was her boss first and lover second, when had she forgotten that? He cared for her deeply, bus his business, his dream of a dynastic criminal empire came before anything.

Trinity was crushed.

She had completely misunderstood her relationship with Edward from the start.She couldn’t decide if she was heartbroken or better off. Belladonna held her while she cried.