Daniel left Catherine's office feeling rather happy , it was a step in the right direction to establishing himself in this world.
As of now he had not revealed himself to the public and he knew quite well that once that happens all privacy would be forfeited and so when that happens he would like to be in the company of a fairly responsible politician.
That morning,Councilman Anas was at the breakfast table with his family reading a newspaper when he saw an article in an obscure corner of the newspapers third page , it was an article about three mysterious fires that happened in Sol' the last night. It was also said that there were countless bodies that were currently being recovered from the buildings.
The news was so shocked that he stood up from the table in a hurry and rushed out of the house without saying goodbye to his family. He knew that those were the buildings where the black axe usually hanged out but he needed to be sure.
When he arrived at one of the scenes, the firemen had put out the fires and the deceased bodies were being taken out .
Anas walked over to one detective on the scene and asked , " so detective, what happened here?"
"Good morning Councilman, it seemed like someone took out the black axe sir "
"Took out?, I thought it was just a fire"
"No sir," the detective replied, opening up one of the body bags . "If you can look here you'll see bullet entry wounds, it's the same for all of them."
Anas immediately felt his knees grow weak, he already knew that it was Daniel, but he had no proof and even if he had proof, he could not expose it except he wanted to implicate himself.
Anas then called over his Aide " I thought you said that the boy is just fresh out of secondary school with no backers".
" Yes sir , he has no background. He's just an orphan" the aide replied.
" Well clearly someone powerful is backing him up if not how is it possible that he's able to perform such feats."
And for the first time in a very long time Anas was afraid. If only he had calmed approached with caution at the beginning then this wouldn't have happened.
Before long, the day came to an end. Daniel was on his way to the area where the leaders of the remaining there gangs were being kept.
At about 9 pm he arrived at an abandoned cement factory. One of his guards then led him to them all sitting on the floor with their hands zip tied behind their backs.
Daniel looked at the three men sitting on the floor and started having second thoughts of whether he could let them live or not , but he later decided against letting them live as not to give them a common enemy to unite against, it was better to take them out and allow all the gangs to be in confusion and maybe destroying each other trying to fill the power vacuum.
Daniel then ordered one of the guards to shoot them in the head and dispose of the bodies, he had no use for them.
Daniel and his entourage got to the office the next day by 10 AM , he was going to conduct the final interview for the selected candidates to fill in the position of his personal assistant .
While walking in the lobby Mike communicated to Daniel that he had made contact with the arms dealer and he they had set a buy in two days.
In his office the HR manager was already there with three files, these were the final candidates for the P.A position.
After scanning through the files he decided on the file belonging to a twenty three year old woman capable of speaking five languages and a graduate of business administration and business law named Anna Golb .
Daniel looked at Anna walking in she was about five feet and four inches tall, had red hair and a well proportioned body .
Anna on the other hand was quite surprised, she expected to see a middle aged man or an older man as the CEO not the young guy sitting before her .
"You can sit miss Anna" Daniel said , breaking her out of her daze.
" So tell me about your family miss Anna" Daniel continued .
This was a weird question for Anna, in all the interviews that she had been on , she had never been asked anything about family , not that her family was of any note.
She grew up with her older sister in a single family home, raised by their father who loved and cared for them. Long story short even though they were not wealthy,she was raised with good morals.
After listening to her family life , Daniel began asking her a series of questions;
"Do you know any self defense?"
"A little sir"
" Do you belong to any organizations, secret or otherwise"
"No sir"
"Good " Daniel replied while tapping on the desk.
Daniel then provided her with a docket of contracts detailing her obligations and duties . And also a confidential and non disclosure agreements.
Just as the signing was going on a call came in from the secretary, it was Catherine Graham .
Anna was still in the office when Catherine walked in. Daniel then introduced Anna as his new personal assistant and the person that would be representing him in the media for the time being.
Catherine had finally agreed to run against Councilman Anas and Daniel was very happy to hear it.
" So Daniel, I know you are not just supporting me out of the goodness of your heart, what do you want in return?"
" Nothing much miss Graham, I just want you to float the idea of tax exemption for me and my company that's all".
Catherine had thought that he was going to ask something unreasonable but tax exemption was still in the borders of reason so she agreed to his deal as long as he continued to develop Sol'.
After the meeting was over Daniel called his head of security, Mike and asked him to put a protective detail on both Anna and Catherine. Now Daniel only had ten security operatives with him out of fifteen, the rest were with Anna and Catherine while the last one was on constant surveillance on councilman Anas collecting incriminating information on him .
Daniel just wanted this period to be over , he had never intended to be involved with politics or politicians.