ˡᵒᵛᵉʳ'ˢ ᵍᵃᵐᵉ [ⁿᵃᵗʰᵃⁿ ᵈʳᵃᵏᵉ] ¹ ✔

a long and torturous treasure hunt begins

When Nate grinned smugly, Halle thought it was cute but didn't say anything. The picture was snatched back into her father's grasp, when Halle was too busy looking at Nate.

"Only one thing. I already have the captain's key."

"G-good." Halle says tearing her gaze from Nate and looking at something else. "W-where is the a-auction you're t-talking a-about?" Halle says stumbling over her words, as she cleared her throat.

"Second one's in there." He pointed to a building with glass for walls and a red banner that had the word 'Augustine' on it with must be the name of the company as Halle was already looking at it. "The Augustine. It's an auction house, it's very exclusive, but I got us on the list."

"What's the plan?" Halle asked.

"All I need is for Nate to kill the power during the auction, that'll trigger the main alarm, you fight, and then I can do my thing?"

"That doesn't make any sense?" Halle asked her father as she thought that this plan was stupid.

"Anyway, there are eyes everywhere?" Sully continued. "Make sure no one suspects or follows Nate into the power room."

"Okay...how are we supposed to do those things?" Nate asked as Halle nodded her head.

"Well, shit, that's up to you two. You gotta bring something to the equation. I'm not cuttin' you in for fun." Sully said shaking his head.

"You're officially the worst." Halle grumbled under her breath.

"That's a good point. We haven't spoken our cut yet. I assume we're 33, 33, 34, right?"

"Speak english, some of us failed math last year."

"It equals to a hundred." Nate says. 

"You two love birds get thirty three percent and I get thirty four."

"We aren't dating." Nate says.

"He isn't my type anyway." Halle says as Nate looks at her offended, but she shrugs her shoulders.

Sully ended up not helping (as per usual) so Halle and Nate had to figure out how to do the half-assed plans he gave them. Halle went back to Nate's apartment and did research on the layout of the building. Halle connected pieces of paper on the window, writing down where the power room was, and where the exit was.

Halle mostly did the work, as Nate would help with a few things but other than that he was too busy working out. Halle would take a couple glances at him working out, as she sorta lied about him not being her 'type'. He's the perfect type for her actually. He was cute, and charming, and really really handsome, but of course she wasn't going to admit it right then and there.

"I lied earlier." Halle says as Nate grunted a little. 

"Little Miss Halle lied, what? That sounds so not like you." Nate says as Halle stopped herself from giggling, but she smiled behind her hair as a couple strains had fallen down her face. 

"Okay, smart-ass. I lied about how you weren't my type."

"So you do actually like me?" Nate asked amused at what she said, as he had a smile growing on his face.

"You can say that. Why you want me to lie?" Halle says as she looks at the postcards that Sam had sent Nate, as she's trying to find clues about where he went.

"I mean, I do it all the time. It's no biggie." Nate says as Halle couldn't help but chuckle. "So what's your grandpa like? I've only seen you two together."

"I was taken away from my father when I was four as we didn't have a close bond and also because I was more closer to Papa. He was a retired police sheriff for the town's police department. The reason why Papa was in care of me was because Dad was a wanted man and didn't want anything to happen to me. He treated me like I was his own daughter, for a while I forgot about my Dad, as I never asked where he was mainly because Papa didn't know where he was. I basically stopped caring for Dad, but deep down I wish that he was in my life." Halle explains to Nate as he nods his head at her listening to every word that she says, as he's interested in Halle Harris. 

But of course neither of them would admit that they like each other. 

Is it bad that they both like each other?

But of course they wouldn't say anything to each other about it.

Maybe they will admit that they like each other?

Or won't they?

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I'm sorry I was thinking of how I could end that chapter. But enjoy for those whose been requesting that I update.

I will try to attempt a slow burn of Halle and Nate but I really don't know how long it will last.

Love you all >3.