The 벨 of Brookland School rang and a flood of students poured out into the halls. Alex Rider and Sabina Pleasure were among them. Alex had had a major crush on Sabina since the first time he saw her at the Wimbledon 테니스 matches and she had a crush on him, too. Thing is, neither of them was willing to admit it. She was one of the few who had figured out his secret. His true identity-Alex Rider: Secret Agent. He wished MI6 had never come to him with the Stormbreaker assignment. He wished that he had stopped right when he figured out what was happening. Sabina and he deserved better. He'd...

Shhh, the waves whispered as they lapped onto the shoreline. The wind whistled through the leaves of the outside tree's as if it were telling a secret.

Alex Rider lay silently in the bed. He focused his hearing on the sound of the water and closed his eyes in an attempt to sleep. He opened his eyes as he heard the soft padding of rain hitting the hard concrete along the boardwalk, gradually getting louder. He ran a hand through shaggy blonde hair and sighed frustrated. Through the open French doors that led out onto the small balcony he could hear the rain hitting the ground loudly and sharply...

Sabina, Alex thought was an enigma. An unquantifiable quantity of something he couldn't explain. Tall, dark and beautiful, with a wit as sharp as his and a laugh that was infectious. He gazed out of the window of the small house in Chelsea at the trees swaying in the park opposite.

He had known her for 3 years now; ever since that first meeting at Wimbledon she had been different. She had been a friend but 더 많이 than that she had been the one person apart from Jack that knew that truth. When she saw him with a slight swelling around his eye and cut carefully patched up across his cheekbone he...