The Cryptic Neighbour

Eden Torres settles into her new apartment, and notices her neighbor, Mr. Peter, rarely ever leaves his apartment, and only when he does it's always at strange hours. Her curiosity only grows when, late nights, the lights flicker and noises echo from his apartment.

The journalist in Eden cannot resist asking other people in the building. She finds that he has been there a year, and he has not thrown in with the towns. He often receives parcels from international locations and he avoida interactions. Eden being an observant woman is now determined to uncver the truth by digging deeper. one night she notices that a strange figure is with Mr Peter and they were involved in a deep conversation. She tries to overhear a part of their converstaion but the words she could hear were "protection" "extraction" and "deadline".

Her investigation reveals some inconsistencies in his background.Using her contacts she found out that the documents he submitted for apartment lease were all fake ones.

Eden thought of taking the risk to scan his apartment, while he is out. She sneaked in and to her surprise she discoverd an secret room equipped with high tech surveillance gadgets, an arsenal of weapons and multiple passports under different names. She started taking photos of everything but before she could leave, Mr Peter was inside, panicking she hid herself. Mr Peter found her but he could confront her, some hefty mens rushed in the room breaking the door and knocked Eden senseless. Mr. Peter escapes narrowly.

Eden wakes up in a dim light room where some men in masks were staring at her. They interrogated her about what she knows about Mr. Peter. She played dumb, acting as if she doesn't know anything about him. Meanwhiel Mr. Peter located her and staged a daring rescue. He took her to a safehouse and explains her that he is a former intelligence operative who went rouge after finding out that his own colleagues were involved in corruption and illeagal activities. Slowly trust starts growing between them. They decided to uncover the corrupt operatives , they gather evidences and plan to expose them publicly. eden uses her journalism skills to dig out the dirt and Peter leverages his spy skills to to hack into the sucure systems and retrieve incrminating evidences.

They made a plan to trap those corrupt operatives. They somehow got in touch with one of them and set up a fake handover of the evidences those operatives were hunting for, at a busy public location. Eden alerts the media to make sure that the event is covered live. The operatives who were desperate to retrieve the evidence and silence Peter fall into the trap. The showdown day arrived , Eden and Peter were ready with the plan to be executed the way they wanted. They operatives arriived and during the handover the media exposed the corrupt operatives and arrested by law enforcement, who were tipped off by Eden. After the operatives are taken down Eden realizes that Peter had orchestrated the entire plot. He needed her journalist skills to expose the corruption in the department, while keeping his own hands clean.He offered an exclusive story to her about the entire operation but warned her to keep some details excluded fron the story that could endanger their lives and those of innocents. Eden totally confused didnt know what to do, should she piblish the full story and risk thier safety or protect certain truths to safeguard some lives? Finally she decides to write a piece that exposes the operatives but omits the sensitive details about Peter's identity and certain operations.

The story brings Eden accliam and sense of fulfillment but she is left unsatisfied. Peter disappeared leaving a cryptic note thanking her and hinting at future secrets yet to be uncovered. Eden keepa an eye out for Peter knowing that their paths may cross once again and is left wondering about the full extent of his secrets and what other dangers might still be lurking in the shadows.