"What was that about Rahim?" Don asked him. He had watched Rahim have a little talk with Rita and the look on her face as Rahim walked away was that of bewilderment.
"I told her that she didn't have to walk her way to town, I informed her that she could use the her car if she wanted." Rahim said as he produced a park of cigarette from his jacket pocket and lit one.
"She looked extremely surprised." Don said as he watched the Mercedes exit his premises.
"She must have been surprised to know that there are some magnanimous side of the Don of Tampa." Rahim said puffing smoke in the air.
Don was quiet for a while, he kept his eyes on the tiny bird's flying around the trees a few distance from him but keeping his thoughts wrapped around what Rahim had said.
"Would you say i am a bad person Rahim?" Don asked still admiring the greenery around him.
Rahim threw the cigarette away and put both of his hands in his pockets. "You are a man that put his right foot in front, though you may stump on others while at it but it keeps you ahead of your game." Rahim replied and tried to look away from Don who had just turned to look at him.
"You are just one hell of a liar Rahim." Don said smiling. "So what is the update on Daniel?" Don asked as he began to walk toward the villa and gestured for Rahim to join him.
"I have put together a seven man team to defuse the target." Rahim said "they are all specialist and should be able to deliver, against all odds." Rahim replied.
"They need to understand the importance of not failing again Rahim." Don said as he stood to emphasize on his point.
"I made that clear Don." Rahim said matching Don's curious stare with a confident response.
"Any news on how Dora died?" Don asked again. Rahim saw the hidden pain in the eyes of the dying man. He knew Don was tying up loose ends just for pride purposes and not for necessity purposes, he gets closer to his grave every giving day.
"For who did it, i haven't gotten that information yet, but it was done on the day and location of the first shipment collection that failed." Rahim said moving his weight to his left foot. "Cash should know what transpired. He as gone back into hiding but i will fish him out."
"I don't care who committed the murder, I am bringing them the hit." Don said and walked on to the main entrance to his villa.
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Bob tapped the guy driving on his shoulder to signal him to reduce speed as they drove by the white building that looked exactly like the rest on Alcon street. They would have been totally confused if the number visible on the side of the entrance door was removed. Bob rechecked the note given to him by Bolt and it read 17 Alcon street Downtown.
"That's the right one alright." Bob said pointing at the building next to another that had a dog pen in front of it.
"Should we stick around and wait?" The other guy in the passengers seat asked Bod turning to get his direction.
"No we can't, anyone could identify us as strangers in this area and call the cops." Bod said as he tapped the driver on the shoulder again, signaling him to drive off.
They didn't notice the little boy looking at them suspiciously from the window of his room in the building next to Sera's house.
"Hey mom, I just saw some men pointing at Aunty Sera house." The kid said to his mom who was putting his clean cloths away in his drawer.
"Its a fine house maybe they like the design." His mother said not given her sons comment any concern.
"No mum, they have driven pass our house twice, come and see their car mom hurry."
The boy's mom who was in her mid 30's reluctantly came to see what her son was anxious to show her and surprisingly she saw a black Toyota Camry zooming away from the front of Sera's apartment. She tried to get the license number but it had gone to far to be able to identify the numbers. she could only tell that there where three occupants in the black car and they where all men.
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Jason, Sera and Fin continued to keep watch as well as monitor the team as they waited for any attack on Daniel. Sera had taking a few minutes to do a physical check on the team and on her way back she had arranged for coffee and snacks for the three of them.
"What if we are over reacting about this whole treat on Daniels life." Sera asked, before taking the last bite of her snack.
"Better to be prepared than to be caught unaware." Jason said as he took one more look at the perimeter and turned back to Sera. "If they had gone through the whole stress of trying to run him off the road they wont let him off just like that." Jason continued. "He knows too much already."
"Has he even contacted anyone about the death of his daughter or show concern about who the murder is?" Sera asked Fin.
"Yes he has, but if it was my daughter in the morgue, I will do more." Fin replied.
"He is laced with a lot of illegal accusations, how are we sure he is not involved in some ways with these bang of trafficker's?" Jason asked as he took the a few minutes to look through a binocular at the few people walking into the hotel.
Jason stopped to take a closer look at a lady who was dressed in a red jacked and a dark blue jean. she walked alone and looked very casual in her pony tale. He changed his concentration to the snipper on the building directly in front of the opposite side of the entrance , he too seemed to be looking at the lady.
"Come in Alpha one." Jason said trying to focus on the lady who suddenly walked into the entrance of the Hospital.
"This is Alpha one" The sniper replied.
"Do you have any concerns so far?" Jason asked trying not to lead the sniper on.
"Not at all, so far we have a seemingly negative treat to our mark."
"Alright over and out." Jason said and removed his mind from the lady who just walked into the hospital.
"on a scale of one to ten, what is the of possibility that Daniel will be attacked under this heavy security." Sera asked Jason
"Ten, they will surely try to take him out." Jason said
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A lady in her late twenties walked through the front desk of the hospital. She had come into the hospital like every other person looking for medical attention but she knew better. She made her way through the entrance and passing the undercover police officers looking out for notorious tendencies.
She walked to the elevator and called it by pushing the up button, soon the door opened and she entered the elevator and pushed the second floor button and the door slide closed.
On the second floor the lady in the red jacket walked out of the elevator and made her way to the left wing where she came to a door with an inscription 'Staff Only' and she held the door nob for a few seconds, taking her time to look back and forth if she was being watched. Satisfied that no one was on her tail she opened the door and walked in.
She closed the door behind her before she noticed a nurse putting out a hand bag into a locker a few feet's away from her. The nurse saw her close the door and froze for a while.
"Sorry you are in the wrong room, this is for staffs alone." The nurse said as she closed her locker and made her way towards the stranger in a red jacket.
"Oh really, I didn't know." The lady in red said taking more steps closer to the nurse.
"Its inscribed on the door I am sure you missed it, is there somewhere in the building you need me to direct you to?" The nurse said closing the distance between her and the lady in red.
The lady in red waited for the nurse to get much closer before she seized the opportunity of the closeness. She jammed her clinched fist into the chest of the nurse, the force threw the nurse a few feet away from the assailant. The lady in red, in a split second cover the distance between her and the nurse, she grabbed her by her blond hair and tried to get her back on her feet. The nurse still had a little fight up her sleeves even as she held her chest that had just received a massive hit.
She struggle to break free but the lady in red wont have her messing her well laid down plan for so she stiffed her palm and made it look like a sword, she swiftly raise the nurses head up by pulling her blond hair backward and quickly she hit the nurse on the neck with her stiffed palm.
"That is what you get, you fucking bitch." The lady in red said looking at the slumped nurse. She dragged the nurse to a corner and switch her cloths with the nurse. In less than five minutes, she walked out of the staff room looking like a nurse and carrying a small tray with syringe, drug and a surgical knife. the items where neatly placed on a napkin and the nurse headed for the wing where Daniel was.
"Heading towards the target now." She said silently as she walked on swinging her hip to the amazement of an old man who was pushed being pushed by his grand daughter. Somewhere in a van a few distance before the hospital armed men listen the information and a dark one with a scare on his face responded.
"Good, keep it clean and we are out of here, if you don't we will get it done in a very dirty way." He said getting multiple nods from the men around him.
"Calm down cowboy, who is your mommy?" She asked as she turned into the wing where the two cops sat on the two side of Daniels room.
The cops at the waiting area and lobby noticed the nurse who seem to know the act of catwalk but nothing extra-ordinary crossed their mind, they exchanged glances and made boys joke.
"Good day officers, can I administer the afternoon drugs to the patient." She said as she made a few body moves.
"Sure you can." The officer on the left said standing up and admiring the hips of the nurse.
The other officer on the right dropped the book he was reading and first he looked at his partner in disgust.
"He already had that shot a few minutes ago, what drugs is this?" He said as he got up to inspect the tray. "You almost let her in without making sure she was clean." He told his partner.
"She looks pretty much clean to me though." The cop said and licked his tongue while looking at the nurses ass.
While all these was going on two undercover police where watching from the waiting area, they observed the two cops talking to the nurse and they noted the jokes the other cop made by seeing him looking at the ass of the nurse.
"I wish I had the baby-sitting task, I would tap that ass for sure." He told his partner and they chuckled at the joke.
"I would keep it locked up just for me." They both laughed again.
In all of this the cops got distracted, they seemed to have their eyes on the nurse that they lost sight of the threat standing right under their nose.
The nurse balanced the tray on her left palm and quietly reached for the surgical knife with her right hand, while the two cops kept arguing about 'almost allowing the nurse get into the ward without proper scrutiny'.
The cop on the right who was insistent on verifying the nurse didn't feel the sharp knife slice through his neck. it happened so fast that even his partner didn't know what happened because he still was bent side ways, looking at the ass of the nurse.
when he realized that his partner had dropped to the ground he was surprised and before he could figure what went wrong he too got a slice on the neck. he dropped holding the nurses hand.
The other two cops watching from the waiting area froze for a second before one of them reached for his radio.
"All unit their is a threat about to enter the ward of the witness." The cop screamed into the radio. "Officers down, i repeat officers down!"
The nurse turned the knob of Daniels room and found it locked from inside, she stepped back and used her right leg to knock it in. The door flung wide open and as she stepped in the two cops inside opened fire.
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"If you where to kill Daniel, how would you do it?" Jason asked Sera.
"Well, i would use a sniper riffle, i would position myself on that building," She pointed at a tall building on the corner that obviously overlooked the wing where Daniels room window faced. "I would be patient but i will hit him surely from there." Sera concluded.
Jason was astonished by the response, he never thought about that possibility. As he was about to raise his radio Fin interrupted the move with a question.
"How would you kill Daniel, Detective?" Jason paused for a while, i would bribe a nurse with ten percent of what i get from the deal." He answered and tried to speak into the radio again. But yet again Fin's response cut him off.
" Same thing i thought, but i wont bribe a nurse. This guys don't play nice, you know. i would rather kidnap a nurse's kid and then ask her to OD Daniel. that would be the ransom." Fin said with a smile on his face.
"Jason stood frozen for a while, even though they had given the instruction about scrutinizing all nurses that enters the Daniels room, it will still not prevent a mother from protecting her child when she is tasked with killing a patient.
As he raised his radio to give more instructions first he wanted the snipper to scan the area Sera had suggested and he also wanted the cops standing guard at the door to Daniels room to be more careful in scrutinizing the nurses. just then there was a frantic voice on radio.
"All unit their is a threat about to enter the ward of the witness." The cop screamed into the radio. "Officers down, I repeat officers down!"
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The cops in the room with Daniel where more comfortable, first the had soft seats to rest their butts and they also had the privilege of watching the NFL game of Seattle Sea hawks versus Los Angeles Rams.
Daniel was comfortable as they all got along like it was a vacation and not a witness protection assignment.
just when the game became so exciting, their radio buzzed and it was Malvin.
"All unit their is a threat about to enter the ward of the witness." The cop screamed into the radio. "Officers down, i repeat officers down!"
The cops got up as soon as they heard someone trying to turn the door nob, they pulled out their guns and got ready for the intruder.
soon the door burst open under the hit of the intruders leg and they didn't waste any second in pulling the trigger.
when the shooting stopped one of the cops went close to the lady lying on the floor.
"Its a nurse, medic." He screamed as he reached for the nurse lying in her own pool of blood.