Lucas looked through the mirror and wondered why the face of his boss was all flushed...'that's a first' he thought..
Just then a suspicious car silently followed Kathryn's car in about twenty feet distant..
Normal person wouldn't know, but Davin noticed...
"See if you can get close to that red Chevrolet" Davin ordered pointing at the car as he dialed a number....
"I sent you a plate number just now, run it and tell me what you find" he cut the call...
As Lucas drove closer to the car, he kept the speed of the car level with the Chevrolet for some seconds before driving off, but enough for Davin to sneak a peak into the SUV, he was shocked by what he saw...
'Why do they have her pictures' he wondered..
Seeing the tattoos on their wrist, he immediately made a guess of who they might be...
Just then a call came in...
"Speak"...
"Boss, the car is registered to one José Mendez...he is a member of a drug cartel called Dune, they came into the country three years ago and have since dominated the underworld" the person on the other line answered in one breath..
"Mmm"
"Who is their leader"
"No one knows boss" he answered..
"Dig deeper on the organization, I need more information on them before six am tomorrow" he ordered and hung up.
Tapping his slender fingers on his phone, he sent strings of messages before laying back again, upon instruction Lucas drove directly behind Kathryn's Bentley, preventing the Chevrolet from tailing her any further.
"Drive faster you punk" José Mendez cussed at his man driving the car..
"If we lose her you will lose your life"
"But boss, if we overtake the Audi , we might tip her off" the driver said as he tightly held the steering wheel while cold sweat ran down his spine..
"Step on the gas Louis, we need to shake them off our tail" Kathryn ordered while dailing a number...
"Yes ma'am" the person in the line answered respectfully.
"Go to my office, there is a application file on my desk containing an information on a person named Carter Pierce...call him and tell him he can start work tomorrow"she said and hung up..
Immediately they passed an intersection and turned to the right, a trailer crossed from the left and hit the traffic light before halting in the middle of the road....
The Chevrolet tried to pass through a small space on the left,but a black SUV drove and hit the tail of the packed trailer thereby blocking the entire road..
"Get off the road man" Jose said angrily as he got down and approached the black SUV..
"Are you blind, can't you see that an accident just occured" the guy with the black SUV said glaring daggers at him..
Not suspecting anything, Jose stood there angry and cussing his bad luck..
His order was to keep an eye on her and tail her,possibly find out where she lives but he thought if he could be able to capture her and take her back toù to his boss in mexico, it might make his boss promote him to his second in command.
Remembering what he could have gained if he had just caught her, he became even more angry...
"Fuck, fuck fuck...."he cussed as he hit his shoe repeatedly on the car tire..
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"Assemble the team, I will meet you guys in thirty minutes" kathryn said as soon as she got to her room, stripped and went into the shower...
Draped in her white towel, kathryn went to her walk in closet ,picked an all black sweat pant and shirt..packed her luscious raven black hair in a messy bun and went out towards the elevator that took her to an underground basement....
" what happened" arthur asked immediately kathryn walked into the huge room..
Kathryn stepped into the vast and bustling hall, there were more than a dozen people feverishly working away at their tasks.
Big, flat computer screens hung from the walls and sat atop glass surfaces, providing a surreal feel to the panoramic view of the room. The hum of chatters coupled with the clacking of keyboards created a symphony of efficiency.
These were her people, prepared and ready for the battle ahead.
"We were tailed from the moment I left the company" she replied as she worked towards the wall littered with big screens..
"Pull up a CCTV camera footage from the moment I left the company around 5pm" she instructed.
"Yes boss" the agent answered and immediately sprang into action punching in strings of command into the system...
"There, thats the car, stop.....zoom in on the plate number"...she said as she spotted the red Chevrolet..
"Running the plate number on the data base now" the computer nerd said..
"Nice one tony" arthur said patting his back...
"I need eyes inside that car, now" Kathryn commanded..
Just then another agent pulled another footage from the CCTV camera in the street, and zoomed in, inside the car.
When she saw the matching tattoos on their arm, her breath hitched...she had been preparing for a day like this since the past six years, but right in this moment she wasn't exactly feeling thrilled to know that Carlos is now aware that she was alive..
"Those are Carlos's men" she whispered, though arthur and rebecca heard her..
Knowing the kind of person carlos is, she cannot afford to make the slightest mistake, if not she will lose everything and everyone...
She took a deep steady breath and refocused her eyes on the large screen..
"Kathryn are you ok" worried Arthur asked...
"I'm fine, why?" She asked , hoping he didnt see the look of uncertainty in her eyes..
"I asked you some question few minutes ago, you never answered ....you kind of just spaced out" he whispered...
"Am fine, lets get back to the footage" she said dismissively..
"Wait, go back....yes there....that's Audi has been acting strange the moment the tail started" rebeccas said pointing at the black car.
Observing it for a while they noticed the car stubbornly drove behind Kathryn's Bentley and not giving room for the red Chevrolet to overtake...
"Tony what have you got for me" Kathryn asked with her eyes still fixed at the screen.
"Uhmm, ma'am the information on the owner of plait number is classified in the data base, I will zoom in now to get a view inside car"
They waited patiently while tony havked into the CCTV on the street and instantly the side view of the car was magnified and there they saw the side profile of someone they least expected..
"President Davin?" Arthur said which sounded more like a question to no one in particular..
The figure they saw looked relaxed as he laid his ink black hair on the car headdrest probably resting or sleeping...
There was no way he was aware that kathryn was been tailed, right?
And if he is aware, what will happen to their plan?..
So many question went through their heads immediately they saw his side profile..
"Do you think he knows you were the car being tailed" rebecca asked..
"I don't know, I mean I dont think so" kathryn said exasperated..
For all she knows he might or might not be aware that she was being tailed, not to forget the 'stuff' that happened when they waited on the red light..
"From his disposition inside the car, it doesn't look like he was aware of what was happening on the road" Arthur said seriously....
"Well....."
"Do you have a contrary opinion tony"...kathryn asked...
"Yes ma'am"
"Lets hear it"
"If you watch closely....."he said pointing at the screen.
"President Davin's car was initially fifteen feet behind you, now....few seconds later the red Chevrolet overtook him and drove slowly behind you in a not so noticeable distance..." he pointed out...
"Few second later just before the first intersection, the Audi zoomed past the red Chevrolet and drove behind you, moving with the same pace of your car, he could have drove past you If he didn't feel that something was wrong" tony said..
"But that's an assumption, he could have passed but he didn't, still doesn't mean he knows anything" Arthur argued..
"I need to show you something" tony said and replayed the footage....
"From the time the red Chevrolet overtook his car and started trailing your car was five minutes....they were consistently on your tail for five minutes before he overtook them, now look...." he slowed down the footage for a few seconds....
"Here, before his car overtook the Chevrolet, his car came a little bit closer to it and slowed for a fraction of seconds before zooming off, it was so stealth that anyone would have missed it" tony perfectly analyzed...
There was a pin drop silence in the room, no one said anything...
"So what's our next move" Arthur asked breaking the deafening silence..
"There is only one way to find out" kathryn said giving a lop sided smile....