Ever since that fight, Jacob had decided to avoid her. It was regret that plagued his mind, but it was also that regret that motivated him to learn about her more, to see her more than just a colleague. It started out with a question: why? Why did she act the way she did? Why was it him that she acted that way compared to everyone else? He simultaneously enjoyed and disliked her presence around him, and as such it only added more layers of confusion to everything.Â
Yet one of the things he had been trained to do was to investigate. If there was something wrong, there was a reason why. So he did something he normally didnât do: search into a colleagueâs past, in the hopes that at least something will alleviate the situation he found himself in, for both their sake.
What he found at first was vauge, but enough to get started. Orre, a rough life, and some connection to Cipher, and Interpol. That last point was his next lead, bringing him to a bratty so-called rival who Jacob could not deny had talent. From there, he had found the information that he was looking for, and learned a lot about her past. Maybe a bit too much, not that he cared. Everyone has their past, and many times it isnât a good one. The law is the law, but things in the past should be left in the past, only to be learned from when needed from the present. Thatâs how he learned it, and thatâs how his mother said things should be, how his people should treat life. That was not always the case for his brethren, but to Jacob that was the case for him.
Finally seeing her in the halls of Interpol, Jacob called her name in what felt like the first time in a long time.