Agent Book One by Adam Bailey

Author:Adam Bailey [Bailey, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION / Action & Adventure
Published: 2021-09-19T22:00:00+00:00

9

TIME TO LEAVE

Years passed. Jeff became older and wiser. He developed himself mentally and physically, using his traumatic history as motivation to make his life fraught with meaning. He went to New York State University and completed a four-year degree in Eastern Philosophy. He learned about nutrition and the physiology of the body in relation to body building. He did many courses and educated himself. He still trained in martial arts and went to gymnasiums, building up his body. While other serious body builders he knew were injecting themselves with steroids, he avoided that. He went natural but used supplements, such as amino acids, that his body couldn’t manufacture. He was no longer a thin-boned wimp in his teens but now a man with inflated biceps, a well-crafted chest, and bulging, powerful legs. With one well-executed punch or kick, he could flatten the average man, who wouldn’t get up in a hurry. He wore a sterling stud in his ear, or sometimes in his time off, he would wear a dangling silver cross, trying to be an individual. He sported cool aviator sunglasses.

Jeff lived in a different area now than the South Bronx. He lived in a part of Brooklyn—not considered the safest suburb of New York, but nevertheless, he felt most safe in the area where he dwelled. He had moved out of his guardian’s home many years ago but still helped Rodney, his mentor, out by going back into the neighborhood community center and helping his instructor teach kids the values of self-defense, respect, and community spirit. That part of South Bronx had changed. Rodney and Jeff had done some good. They had changed kids’ lives for the better, reduced teen suicide, reduced crime rates, and made people integrate and trust each other again. He considered opening up his own martial arts school in the city but decided against it. He felt restless, however, and had been toying with the idea of going abroad to advance and expand his philosophical belief system.

He routinely jogged or cycled for miles each day, never getting sick of the scenery, unlike most city folk who were used to the vista of magnificent high-rise buildings that towered seemingly sky-high, making them truly skyscrapers. He would cycle over the Brooklyn Bridge or jog through nearby parks. Through crowds in the streets, he would dodge pedestrians and use that as part of his training regime that supplemented his martial arts routine. He would finish his grueling exercise schedule with numerous laps of the heated pool at a nearby leisure center.

Later, after sustaining these rituals for weeks or months, marveling to himself that he never burnt out, he would do all these things but felt like there was something out there chasing him, and it was getting closer . . . and closer. He led an active and involved life; he felt like he was just running away, drifting, without facing the real feelings that defined his undercurrent of depression. He may have excelled in just

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