Secret Agent, Counterspy (?????????) | Rewritten From Chapter 51+

Chapter 48- Kozak Gone Evil [1]

"I'm going to go and use the restroom," he told them, still looking half exasperated at both of them. "I'll be back."

And after he said that, Kieran left.

Dr Kozak was making a run for it as well, claiming that he needed to go somewhere, but he then stopped when Lauriel had abruptly called his name for everyone in the headquarters to hear her.

"Dr Kozak..." Lauriel trailed off.

Dr Kozak stopped walking, turning backwards to look at her. He came closer to her before saying anything else.

"Yeah..."

Lauriel did not hesitate to say her next sentence. She wanted to get this out of the way as soon as possible.

"Can I talk to you in private about something?"

Unsurprisingly, Dr Kozak didn't reply straight away, because he was just looking at her longingly. Although after a while, he nodded, so Lauriel took his hand and walked more into the room.

"Of course you can. You can talk to me about anything Lauriel. What's up?"

Lauriel didn't reply, just kept on continuously looking at Dr Kozak. Dr Kozak genuinely looked everywhere but at her face.

"Oh you said in private."

Leaving Lauriel behind, Dr Kozak left her, looking around for a more confidential place. He eventually found one, so came closer to the door although for some reason, it was jammed.

It took Dr Kozak a while to realise why, before coming back to Lauriel again.

"Crud. That room's locked. Guess we'll just have to talk here then. What's up?"

Lauriel seemed to be having a panic attack. She was hyperventilating uncontrollably, still looking at Dr Kozak for a long time. Plus, her whole body seemed to be frozen as well, by the looks of it.

Dr Kozak was just looking at her, a little bit worried and confused at first. He tried to get her attention again by frantically waving his left hand literally right in front of her face.

"Er... You okay?" Dr Kozak wanted to know, sounding a little bit worked up.

"Yeah I'm fine." Lauriel lied, where Dr Kozak couldn't help but look at her even more and longer than last time.

"I'm low key worried about you." He whispered to her. "You don't look okay. Although what did you want to talk about?"

Lauriel practically blurted out her next answer, and Dr Kozak had to ask her to repeat it because she had talked that quickly.

"I just wanted to apologise."

Dr Kozak raised an eyebrow at her.

"Apologise for what?" He asked, rather resentfully, doing the signature move of examining his fingernails.

"Cheating in the perilous obstacle course test."

Dr Kozak just looked at her as though she was crazy, then looked away instantaneously.

"I know you cheated Lauriel." Was all he ever really told her.

"Yes I know you know. But you don't know why. There was a pathway opposite section five which skipped both sections six and seven so I went straight through it of course."

Dr Kozak was a bit surprised.

"Oh. Thanks. Didn't realise. Thanks for telling me. Did you go on your own?"