Shadow came promptly.“I will drop you off.”Dana quickly waved her hand “No need. No need. I will catch a taxi. You go busy yourself.”Ben pulled Dana along ignoring her rejection.“56 Avery drive” Ben instructed Shadow once they were in the car.“I am not going to Avery drive” Dana pursed her lips.“Peach blossom garden apartments” Ben corrected without waiting for Dana’s instruction.“How??” Dana turned to look at him in surprise.“Shouldn’t I know where my fiancée lives?” Ben had a matter-of-fact expression.Dana’s lips twitched. She turned her head to look out the window ‘There was no point in arguing with his arrogant man’. She couldn’t understand his insistence nor his obsession. 'He will stop when he wakes up from his fantasy. I just have to wrap myself in my shell, not get involved and be hurt when he wakes up!’ Dana sighed inwardly.“Take care and thank you.” Dana smiled before she got off.Ben leaned forward with an evil grin “Did you want to thank me?”“No… no… I meant tak
“Not really” Ben knitted his brows “Is everyone staying?” He had to confirm even if he knew.Everyone nodded.“This can stay as our base. Let’s keep the earpieces connected unless we are on extremely private time.” Ed announced. He knew what Ben was thinking.“This would also help the others pick background cues that we might miss due to our attention being on focus.” Frank explained to avoid misunderstanding and misinterpretation.“Emery, you need to go back to take up office. Ed, is it possible to organize an assignment for her in U country?” Ben paused as he turned to Ed.Ed nodded “That shouldn’t be hard. There is a vacancy at the embassy for which I was going to recommend another agent.”“Or do you all think it would be better for Emery to apply for leave and go on a holiday to U country?” Ben was mapping a plan as he spoke out loudly.“Both are good and bad at the same time” Daniel furrowed his forehead. “Either way, it will alert them.”“Not really. There is a work around” Shad
All the Adalase siblings with their families were in attendance. They did everything in style; family was their style.Frank and his family arrived along with Shadow, Ed, Ian and Archer.Daniel and Tyrell arrived together.Nathan, Shaun, Hillary and Emery arrived shortly after followed by Denis, Jayden and Kayden.Simon and Amelia were responsible for chaperoning the president.There was nothing odd about a celebration. To an outsider, it looked like a celebration of successfully completing a mission. Within the manor, once the dinner was over, the Adalase family members, Sarah and the kids kept up with the ruckus.Ben led the president and the rest of the team downstairs into the study.“Commander” Ed greeted the president.“We are still among friends, drop the formalities” Sherman Herbert smiled but didn’t forget to smite his old comrade “I see you’ve gotten old and moldy enjoying lif
As promised, Ian arrived early at the Mount Road Manor.Simon led Ian to the examination room in the lower basement area where the guy from the airport was detained.“He seems perfectly normal at times, other times agitated and crazy. We suspected he’s putting on an act…then yesterday, Jayden picked up a pattern, the guy seems more agitated in the afternoon and normal in the morning. This is why Chief wanted you to have a look.”Ian nodded as he took a few test tubes filled with different colored solutions and organized them in an orderly manner.“Sedate him with 2-2-2 and bring him over.” Ian instructed as he organized his blood collection kit.Simon put out his hand to collect the sedative. Seeing Ian ignore him, his gaze became complicated ‘Was this junior purposely ignoring him?’ Simon could not be blamed for misunderstanding; they were not familiar with each other.Ian raised his head and
Ian injected a rose-colored liquid into the detainee’s veins on his right hand as he spoke-“Injecting 100ml initial dose of TS-UNK at 08:00 hoursSide note – Test subject- Unknown male; well built, allergies unknown, drug abuse of N21 noted, other instances unknown, blood tests negative for residue of other drugs.Laboratory observation of TS-UNK in rats- stable; Theoretically, TS-UNK when used in conjunction with hypnotherapy stimulate the nervous system to be manipulated to recite information embedded in the subject’s subconscious and conscious mind.Drawbacks include – requirement for additional dosage and no data on volatility of the substance, effects in human unknown including survival possibility.”Any objections?” Ian raised his eyebrows.Daniel and Ed confirmed agreement.Ian turned to the dark guard assisting him “Inject another bolus using the same IV line.”Ian
Jayden quickly organized everything following Ben’s advice.Shadow and Tyrell reached the warehouse and met with the owner at the entrance. Pento Pisca was a greasy pot-bellied middle-aged man. Although he was the same age as Shadow, he looked like Shadow’s uncle.“Hello young man, I am Mr Pisca, I own most of the land and property in this area. Your boss has good eyes. This area will soon be a gold mine” He laughed heartily as he exaggerated the value of his property. He was boisterous and loud. This suited Shadow’s purpose like a glove!“I will have to inspect the warehouse and surroundings.” Tyrell informed courteously.“Of course … of course!” Mr Pisca waved his assistants to show them around.“I hope you won’t take offence if we wander around on our own, would you?” Shadow smiled politely.“Go on… go on…” Mr Pisca’s face
Everyone regrouped in the foyer of the manor.“Something’s gone wrong with the flagging.” One of Frank’s men spoke out “The flags from all the holes seems to be blacked out.”“Nothing’s wrong. The boss’s started going crazy. We joined in the fun.” Sonic grinned.Ben was the first to head in followed by Frank, Ed and Shadow.“We might have a problem.” Ed walked up to chief.Daniel lifted his eyebrows in a cynical fashion “Tigers and their stripes…”“That...” Ed scratched the back of his head with a lopsided grin.“Who won?” Shadow walked up briskly.“General, you didn’t play fair” Archer could only take out his resentment on Shadow.“Ahem…ahem…” Shadow took two steps back in embarrassment as he looked guiltily at Archer.“When did you guys plan? Have yo
Ben rushed after Bryan but didn’t manage to catch up.“Drive” Ben threw the keys towards Shadow. Shadow knew where to. He swiftly drove towards Bryan’s place.“Have you finished the task I gave you?”“Yes. I have also installed a cleanup virus in the form of a confidential document which will attack any document with our logo on any computer outside our internal network. This way any documents she has stored on her personal computer can be wiped clean the next time she uses the copy-transfer method.”“Um” Ben knew who Shadow was talking about.“I will also get an alert once this virus is activated, and it will self-destruct after wiping the hard drive clean. No foot prints!” Shadow was very impressed with the virus he created. He even tested it with Denis; Denis couldn’t find any traces.“So sure?” Ben raised his eyebrows.“Yes. I did a test run and got Denis to check. I told him I seem to have some missing documents in my laptop and if he could look into it for me. He managed to find