"What the hell are you saying Bill?" Cash shouted, scattering everything on his desk. He had made it back in town and his first stop was his club, he rounded up his men and breathed hard on them. Just a few weeks he had stepped out his whole empire was crumbling down. His club had a few turnout after the event of the previous day, the cops are threatening to shut it down the club. His saving grace so far is that they couldn't tie the club to him, he had anticipated that with his shady deals it will be very smart to have investments that would not be traced to him. Word on the street say it's his establishment but legal document says differently.
"Bill you are my cousin, my flesh and blood and I let my whole establishment to you, what did you do with it?" Cash asked as he covered the distance between himself and Bill. He grabbed the hug guy by the collars and shook him violently. "You were not even here when Rahim messed this place up, where the fulk where you?" Cash asked.
I was having a little meeting with the deputy commissioner concerning the confiscated truck and the items in it." Bill said with both arms hanging limply beside him.
"You are a fulking ass hole Bill, I am disappointed in you." Cash released him. "Do I have to do everything myself around here?" Cash asked the entire men who stood around him in the basement of La Tampa Club.
Cash took deep breaths and calmed down.
"I am not supposed to be showing my face around here but I have." He turned to face his cousin. "There is a shipment going down tonight to cover for the mess you created, we will replace the confiscated one and then take our time to get it out from the police custody. Our clients are furious and you can tell from what Rahim did here." Cash paused for a while to let the growing anger subside. "Bill, you know the drill, we are joining the men down to the dock, no mistakes!" Cash stress. Just like it was the survival card for the men, they all quickly left the basement back to their respective duty post around the club. Cash would have killed a few men if it wasn't a crime committed by somebody else other than Bill his cousin.
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Daniel drove to his apartment at Block B South End, he was less worried now that he has come to terms with the presence of uniform men in front of his apartment. He had tried to be friendly a couple of minutes ago, even asking them if they wanted coffee.
Another team had relieved the guys who escorted him home and they seem friendlier than the first even though it was obvious they still had their number one priority at heart which was to watch his every move.
He had thought of driving to the Royal Grande where Rita was holding up but he decided against it. If the news of his affair with Don has broken he is as good as dead, he only needs a slim opportunity to disappear. He had put together a few items in a back pack, he had close to a hundred thousand in cash and he was sure his credit cards will be blocked and accounts frozen if they can't find him. He still needs to get away from Tampa and away from Don. A certain noise came from outside his house then he heard something shatter from down stairs.
He made his way down the staircase before something hit him behind his head. He was falling and then everything went black.
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Rahim had sent two of his best guys to pick up Daniel from T. W Dockyard while he stayed beside his friend at the hospital. He had pulled up a seat beside Don and was reading a magazine on of the nurses had brought for him to use as distraction while he watches over Don.
The door opened to reveal Rita and Sam who was behind her. Rita walked into the hospital private ward and whet straight to where Don was lying.
"How is he?" She asked Rahim but still looking at the sleeping man.
"He is responding very fast, the doctor just want him to rest for a while." Rahim said not taking his eyes away from Rita. "The drugs shot into his drip have a high tendency of knocking out patients." He replied.
"I will stick around till he is up." She said and tried to drop into the remaining seat available in the room.
Rahim observed Rita for a while and didn't say anything, he didn't know why Don had added her to his list of suspects to Dora's murder but if he did, then she has to be watched carefully.
"You might want to go back to the hotel, the doctors have advised that he doesn't need to be in shock after recovery, given that he has not seen you in a few days I am sure he would be shocked to see you and that would be a thing of concern." Rahim said with a stern look on his face.
There are people Rita have learnt not to cross since she came to be with don and one of them is Rahim. She stared at him trying to grab at any hope for a bailout from this situation but none came. She stood up from the chair she was seating in and walked out of the private ward. Sam nodded to Rahim and followed Rita.
A few seconds later, Don opened his eyes and took a deep breath, Rahim stood up and was watching over his fiend if he needed anything.
"Thank you for sending her away, I heard." Don said a coughed.
"I was sure you wouldn't want to see her now so I took that decision." Rahim said as he grabbed the jug of water on the desk, he poured some into the cup and fed Don. Don had a sip and was ok, he took deep breaths and then turn to look at Rahim.
"Ask Sam to drive her straight to the villa and make sure she doesn't step an inch out of her room." Don said. "No communication too." Don said and shot his eyes again.
Rahim picked his phone and dialed a number after a few rings a voice came from the other end.
"Boss." Sam said.
"You have a mission, take Red Bird to the villa immediately. Make sure she stays in her room, no coms." Rahim said.
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Two men in black suits got of the car a few houses away from Daniels house, they had seen cops parked in front of Daniels house so they drove passed the house and turned left into the street behind Daniels house.
"You know what to do the huge." The huge guy told his partner. He nodded and sneaked his way back to the street where the cops where. He sneaked up to a car parked in front of two buildings away from Daniels apartment, he pulled out a military knife from inside his jacket and laid down beside the black Honda.
Soon petrol began to surge out from under the car where the suited man had punched the patrol tank, satisfied with the act the man sneaked into the shadows. He stood safely besides the building next to Daniels house, making sure the cops will not catch a glimpse of him, he then shot at the petrol stained floor and the car with the punched tank was engulfed by fire.
As soon as the fire erupted the man sneaked his way back to the back door of Daniels house where the hug guy was waiting. Soon someone shouted then the shout became much, the men saw the cops running towards the burning car when they smashed the glass of the back door to Daniels house and got in they moved swiftly to the stairs when they heard foots steps coming down the step. The hug guy hide beside the door and waited for the person to come down the stairs. Just as the image walked passed him, he slammed the butt of his silenced gun on the back of Daniels head and he slumped to the ground.
He carried Daniel on his shoulders and both of the men walked out the same way they had come, leaving the entire neighborhood and the two cops fighting the fire.
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Inspector Fin was seating in a Van two blocks away from the T. W. Dockyard, he never liked the idea of surveillance it was both boring and tiring. He was in the back of the van with two other cops, Joe was in charge of tech and everything concerning its functionality while Moge was behind the wheel's keeping an eye on any possible interference outside and around the Van.
"Alpha team, still keeping an eye open?" Fin asked over the com's, the silence was becoming defining. They had avoided using radios and opted for the more silent special communicator. With their plug in's, communication is more audible and very silent to the next person. This helped the team as they were in the midst of armed men and outnumbered too. If anything goes wrong, it would be a massacre before reinforcement would storm in. Fin had arranged reinforcement but they still didn't know what was going on, they were all still at the base on standby as directed by Jason.
"This is Alpha 1, it's been difficult doing otherwise. Out." A voice sounded from the other side. Fin had hand-picked trusted men to work with him on this, as soon as Jason told him the importance of not blowing up the assignment he understood it had something to do with the high and mighty that ran illegal transactions. But he still didn't understand the connection to the current hunt for the murderer of the deceased girl. "This is Alpha 3, Activities are cropping up here but still no sign of anything out of the ordinary. The men who drove in are armed and have taken different security positions to cover the perimeter. Out." Another voice spoke from the surveillance team inside the dockyard.
Fin had deployed four men to be the eyes in the dockyard, two were stationed on an abandoned ship on the left side of the dock. Both men where snipers and one was on the deck of the ship while the other covered the stern. Two men from the unknown group who evaded the dockyard were also deployed around the ship, but they did not come onboard the ship. They passed up and down the area oblivious of the presence of the two snipers on the ship.
Two of the remaining snipers on Fin's team were sprawled up on a three row of containers stacked on the right side of the dockyard. One laid facing the dockyard overlooking the entire distance to the ship where his other colleagues were located, the other sniper covered the opposite direction and into the ocean. There where over four armed men around the container where the two snipers sprawled silently. One leaned on the container smoking into the night, ignorant of the presence of armed men many feet above his head. There were a total of 24 armed men on the dockyard with about fifteen doing perimeter run while the rest sat around idle.
"This is Alpha1, Alpha 2 maintain radio silence I see two armed patrol heading our way. Out" The sniper on the ship's deck announce to his colleague on the stern.
"This is Alpha 3, I see them, if they walk on ahead it's a green, if they try to board the ship it's a red, I will take them out. Over." The sniper from on top of the container said in whispers as he positioned his rifle and aimed at the armed men making their 4th round of patrol around the ship where his colleagues laid in surveillance.
"Copy that Alpha team your positions must not be compromised, use stealth to defend yourself, we must allow their assignment play out. Over." Fin told the team.
Alpha 3 adjusted his silenced rifle as he monitored the movement of the patrol men walking over to the ship.
Silence engulfed Team Alpha, Alpha one was in the view of the approaching patrol men so he couldn't change location as any move he made will attract their attention. He lowered his rifle and grabbed his silenced pistol from his thighs. Alpha 2 left the stern in a crouch, he took the side of the ship which overlooked the sea to avoid the attention of the approaching patrol. He got to a few feet from the deck and hung his riffle over his head and shifted it away behind him as he pulled his silenced his silenced gun and crouched beside the deck looking at Alpha 1 and in a better position to see anyone who came up the steps.
The two patrol men got the ship, one produced a pack of cigarette from his combat pants and offered his partner, and they lit it up in silence. The one with the cigarette turned and looked at the ship, "Have you ever been on a ship before?" he asked his partner.
"Not really, have you?" The partner asked him.
"No I haven't, that is why I want to get on this one for a while." He said and reached for the bridge like steps that connect the dock to the ship. His partner followed him behind.