Ties (7)

Liam rushes through the hallway of the Tempest building with the slender woman who accompanied him on the roof, Lexie Skye. They push past the people in the hall; Liam has no time to waste.
“The Mayor has a meeting at three make sure he gets to it. His wife will also be attending, make sure that the press and his family do not find out about the incident on the roof,” Liam instructs Lexie as they arrive at the door to his office. He opens the door and to his surprise Eve is standing facing out the window.
“What are you doing here?” Liam asks. Eve turns around from the window and smirks.
“He wanted to see you,” she explains.
In the centre of the room behind the desk a chair swivels around. In it is Eve’s son Madison.
“Daddy!” the little boy exclaims as he jumps out of the chair and runs towards Liam.
“Hi Maddy, have you been good?” Liam asks as he picks up his son.
“Yes Sir.”
“That’s my boy,” Liam sneers at Eve. He then turns to Lexie. “Can you take Maddy for a moment?”
Lexie nods. Liam puts down his son.
“Ok Kiddo, well you know how you like the zoo? How bout I take you there this weekend?”
“Really?” Maddy replies in excitement.
“Sure, now you go with Lexie while your Mum and I talk ok?” Liam instructs his son.
“Yes Sir.”
Maddy turns to Lexie as she takes his hands and escorts him out of the office. Liam closes the door as they leave. Liam glares at Eve in annoyance.
“I told you not to bring him here,” he says bluntly.
“You’re son wanted to see you,” Eve replies as prances over to him.
“And he will see me, just not here… you know why, you know the plan.”
Eve comes up to Liam and slowly strokes his face with her hand as if she was feeling fabric. “Plans change Liam. You of all people know that.”
The phone on the desks begins to ring. Liam barges past Eve and answers it. A hologram of a 50 year old man with a beard in a robe appears.
“What are the results?” Liam demands.
“We have the assassin… unfortunately we cannot probe its mind,” the hologram explains. The hologram is calling from a room five floors above Liam’s office where the Mayor’s eight psychics work in a large white laboratory. In the lab on an examination table the Stagger assassin lies.
“Why not?” Liam asks.
“The Alien has managed to block us somehow…” the hologram replies.
“Well unblock yourselves!” Liam orders. “We need to know who is after the Mayor.” Liam hangs up the call abruptly and the hologram disappears. He quickly dials the phone as he looks at Eve. “I’m occupied at the moment. What did you want?”
Eve wanders over to the chair behind the desk and lounges on it putting her feet up on the desk. “I want to talk about the plan… I want to do it sooner.”
“No… We stick to the time frame… and this is nonnegotiable,” Liam states. The call he dialled answers a hologram of Alia appears.
“Yes Liam,” the hologram says.
“I want to see you in my office in half an hour.” Alia nods as the hologram disappears. Liam gives his full attention to Eve. “Just because you are getting restless does not mean we have to be careless. Why don’t you take care of my son so he can turn out to be a normal human being unlike his parents?”
Eve gets up from the chair. “Fine, I’ll be patient. Maybe I should wait til Alia gets here; she always loved our little plans.”
Liam grabs Eve and pushes her to the wall with his hand around her neck choking her. He stares at her directly in the eyes in anger.
“Listen here you sadistic bitch. The only reason why you are still alive right now is because of me and our deal. If you go back on it at all, don’t think I will hesitate to finish you myself. Am I clear?” He threatens.
“Crystal,” Eve replies choking. Liam lets go of her as she rubs her neck smirking. “Very well, I’ll stick to my side of the agreement. You had better stick to yours…” Eve tilts to Liam still smirking as her walks out of the office and shuts the door behind her.