Where it all begins

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Prologue

{His POV}

The dark of the night shrouded me as I dove off the sky scraper into a free fall.

The icy wind harsh against my face through my descent.

I spoke into my headset as I flew. "Time on target, T-022 seconds"

The radio buzzed to life in response. "Target location confirmed, Time to extraction T-105 seconds. Godspeed boss."

As I neared ever closer to the ground I pulled the rip cord on my wing suit, Allowing me to glide over the city in silence.

Time on target was now 10 seconds and I was coming in hot. I could see the target, Some rich CEO who had too much money for their own good.

Cheating on his wife, I could see him on the roof terrace of a luxury hotel with an infinity pool.

I flew in landing swiftly on roof and instantly deflating my wing suit for better movement.

I took cover behind the stairwell and waited patiently.

After about 12 seconds he kissed his mistress and she got out of the pool and went down the stairs.

He remained in the pool alone. Silently I walked out and around the edges of the pool.

Lucky I have good balance, Otherwise I'd slip and fall to my death.

After 5 seconds I near ever closer to him and he notices me.

Not good.

I took a risk and lunged towards him before he could make noise. I covered his mouth and pulled him off the roof.

The infinity pool made it easy to look like an accident. Now soaking wet and falling to our deaths he began to scream.

I kicked him off me and pulled the rip cord again on my wing suit hoping it recharged.

It had, and I flew down to the ground safely as he landed hard with a thud.

I quickly snapped an image and sent it to the client before a discreetly armored car rolled up beside me.

I quickly got in and we drove away. We were 3 blocks away before my driver said something. "Swift as ever boss"

I nodded in confirmation before asking "Where are we meeting the Captain?"

"Extraction is set to warehouse, We're 40 seconds out"

I put finger up to my head as my radio came to life. "T-62 seconds to extraction, How is it going boss?"

"Job complete, T-35 seconds to extraction point"

"Confirmed, The helicopter will be ready"

As we pull up to the warehouse lot I see the helicopter descend slowly.

I get out of the way before it lands and unluckily we'd been followed. An armored car screeches to a halt beside me.

My reaction time is quick, hand on my pistol before they even get out of the car.

They get out waving a white cloth and I lower my weapon, still having it on standby.

The car is unmarked, very clearly armored with blacked out windows.

Two men got out, wearing suits, blacked out tinted glasses and had wires attached to their ears.

Secret service? I thought to myself studying them as they approached.

One reaches into their coat pocket and I aim my weapon at him immediately. He notices and slowly pulls out a letter and hands it to me.

Just then the helicopter landed and my crew got out, Security guard, Co-pilot and My recon.

The security guard walks up and pulls out his weapon so I can take hold of the letter and read it.

It reads bluntly as follows: "Hello Shadow, If you're reading this it means we successfully tracked you down and intercepted you.

This may seem like an odd request but I'm sure you can tell by now who we are. We want to hire you to be on standby.

If you want more information about the job meet at the white house in 2 days. You will be granted full immunity upon entering our airspace.

Hoping to see you soon, POTUS."