All Chapters of The Hidden Billionaire : Chapter 81
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CHAPTER 81
Lord Xander’s eyes immediately glazed, distant. “Because I was twenty-two, broke, and drowning in my father’s debts. Dublin, 1998. My dad—Seamus Xander—ran the Irish Travelers’ smuggling rings.”“Heroin from the city through Shannon Airport. One night, the Garda raided our warehouse. Da’s gut-shot, bleeding out on crates of Kalashnikovs. I’m holding his hand when a man steps from the shadows—tall, silver hair, eyes like winter.”“Lord Vandel Offers me a deal: work off Da’s debt, or the Travelers vanish. I signed. First job? Smuggle a crate of West-manufactured guidance chips to a deadlock location—chips that would later guide SCUDs into the most remote places of the country. I didn’t know. By the time I did, I was in too deep.”Lord Xander immediately said as he rattled off the missions like rosary beads, as if he had actually numbered them from the very start.“Regrets? Let me take you through the ledger, Rico. Not a list. A confession. I’ll walk you down every corridor I built for
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“Rico, we really did embark on some of the most life threatening missions.” “Rico, we had mission nine:2007 – The Failed Crescendo, two idiots, one Jeep Cherokee, zero dead.” “But Lord Vandel and his evil granddaughter still won. The airport attack was a feint—distraction for a cyber-heist. While the world watched flaming SUVs, Tai siphoned £180 million from Lloyds TSB via a backdoor in the SWIFT network.” “I was the one who drove the getaway car, a rented Vauxhall, and dumped it in Loch Lomond. The bombers burned alive. I sent their families haggis. Scottish tradition, I lied.” “Rico, please listen up closely, we also had mission Ten:– The Olympic Doping Waltz, 100 athletes, 47 medals stripped later.” “Lord Vandel’s labs in the eastern part of the city synthesized a new erythropoietin variant—undetectable for 72 hours. I ran the distribution through Olympic village laundry services.” “Tai Vandel had bribed the IOC anti-doping chief with a night in Macau he’d never remember. Wh
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Lord Xander immediately took a deep breath and stared at Rico, the leader of his Black Dragon Syndicate group, he slowly shook his head. “Rico, that is not entirely true, let me finish up with the missions that I was listing shortly.” Lord Xander immediately said, his voice was laced with a mix of determination and curiosity as he stared at Rico before continuing. “Rico, we also had mission Twenty-Three:The Condo Collapse. Structural sabotage—corroded rebar, falsified inspections. I bribed the HOA with Bahamian shell companies. 98 dead. Vandel bought the waterfront. Profit: $1.1 billion. I sent the survivors life jackets. Used. Mission Twenty-Four:The Pipeline Dirge.” “Underwater drones, Limpet mines. I dove the Baltic in a rented submersible. Pipelines ruptured. Lord Vandel cornered LNG. Profit: €8.4 billion. I still taste diesel when I swim, that was actually the first day I almost died, that was the day that I also saw my death with my own eyes.” “Rico, very funny enough,we al
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The words of Lord Xander immediately hit Rico, the leader of his Black Dragon Syndicate group like a time bomb straight to his chest. Taking a deep breath, Rico looked at Lord Xander, his boss and his leader and immediately asked, “Lord Xander, So after all this stuff that you did, do you really believe that Master West will truly forgive you even after we deliver to him the secret access logs to haunt down Lord Vandel and his evil, granddaughter Tai Vandel?” The situation was very much palpable and intense as Rico, the leader of Lord Xander's Black Dragon Syndicate group asked his boss and his leader, Lord Xander that self examination question. Lord Xander immediately took a deep breath, he stared at Victor Langston West, who is now called Master West, Tape, Luky, Mr Freeman and back to Rico, the leader of his Black Dragon Syndicate group. His voice was still barely above whispers as he began. “Rico…” Lord Xander’s voice immediately cracked like thin ice under a boot. He lea
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Rico, the leader of Lord Xander's Black Dragon Syndicate group, took a deep breath and stared at his boss, Lord Xander.“Lord Xander, this is completely unbelievable, the Vandel's are unessentially ruthless.” His voice was a bit above whispers as he spoke.Lord Xander, his boss and owner of the Black Dragon Syndicate group didn't say a word he only stared at Rico, before continuing.“Rico, Anya was born in Novosibirsk, 1985, in the dying days of the older union.”“Her father was a particle physicist; her mother cleaned laboratories. She taught herself coding on a stolen ZX Spectrum at age seven. By twelve, she’d hacked the local power grid to keep her apartment warm during winter blackouts. MIPT scholarship at sixteen.”“PhD in cryptographic systems at twenty-one. Recruited by Kaspersky, then by the FSB. Burned when she refused to plant backdoors in civilian antivirus software.”“She went dark. Surfaced in 2017 on the dark web as “Siren”—the voice that could make servers sing.”“Lord
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“Honestly, Lord Xander, I'm short of words at the moment.”“Do you really mean that Lord Xander, I mean Lord Vandel and his evil granddaughter, Tai Vandel did all of this to the former members of their War-pact league, an alliance league which they created themselves?” Rico, the leader of Lord Xander's henchmen and his Black Dragon Syndicate group immediately asked.Sweat was now beginning to break down from his face as he stared at Lord Xander, his boss and his leader.His feet were now suddenly beginning to feel kind of strange…like wobbly.“Rico, we had also a member of the War-pact league called, Shade,Real Name: Captain Rupert “Shade” Hargreaves.”“Rupert Hargreaves was born in 1981 on a rain-slicked estate in the Cotswolds, the only son of a baronet and a former MI6 station chief. Eton, Sandhurst, then straight into the Intelligence Corps. By twenty-six he was running agents in Beirut under diplomatic cover; by thirty he’d been burned in the city's honeytrap (a ballerina, a came
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“What are you talking about, Lord Xander?”“Do you actually mean that there is more?” Rico immediately asked, his voice was barely above whispers as he held his face.To Rico, it was just as if Lord Xander, his boss, was telling him horror tales featuring Vandel's evil family.“Rico, I'm being very serious here, we are definitely going to be in deep shit if we don't get our act together at the moment.”“Rico, we are going to be in deep shit just like Kraken, if we don't fix this all up.” Lord Xander immediately said, he was barely above whispers as he spoke and stared at Rico, the leader of his Black Dragon Syndicate group.Rico was immediately shocked, as he stared at Lord Xander, his boss and his leader.“Kraken?” Rico immediately asked. His face was etched in shock and bewilderment.“Yes, Kraken.”“Kraken, Real Name: Dr. Lars “Kraken” Hansen.” Lord Xander immediately said, his voice was laced with a mix of determination and curiosity.“Lars Hansen was born in 1975 in Tromsø, Norway
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“Rico.” Lord Xander immediately called out.“Those are some of the more people who had been sent to their watery grave all because of them betraying Lord Vandel and Tai Vandel, his evil granddaughter, or at least they felt betrayed at the moment.”“Sometimes, Rico, all I do is just sit back and watch it all play out like a well edited video.”“Rico, Specter, her real Name: Dr. Amélie “Specter” Dubois, she was a really good friend of mine.”“Amélie Dubois was born in 1986 in a Marseille banlieue, daughter of Algerian immigrants. Her father fixed Citroëns; her mother cleaned hotel rooms. Amélie won a scholarship to École Polytechnique at sixteen, a degree in synthetic biology at twenty-two.”“Specialized in highly classified mosaics—editing embryos to order. Burned bridges when she sold designer babies to Qatari princes. Fled to the dark web, offering “ghost genes” that left no trace.”“Lord Vandel found her in 2020 on a biohacker forum, auctioning a virus that turned human fat into bio
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“Rico, focus, we have work to do.” Lord Xander immediately said as he stared at Rico who was still looking in the direction of the just arrived Doctor Anna of the West family medical team.“By now, Master West would really be thinking of how to come back to our location and get back the request he had asked of us.” Lord Xander immediately said as he stared at Mr Freeman, Tape, Lily and Victor Langston West, who is now called Master West, as they talked with Doctor Anna and the rest of the West family medical team.Rico now looked more afraid at the moment, his face still etched in shock and bewilderment as he thought of the best possible thing to do at the moment.“Rico, before Master West gets here to demand our stand, whether we be for him, the West family or Lord Vandel and his evil granddaughter, Tai Vandel.” Lord Xander immediately said, his voice was laced with a mixture of confusion and anxiety.“Lord Xander, Master West is looking this way.” Rico immediately said, His voice wa
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Doctor Anna immediately cried out, it was almost as if she knew that Victor Langston West who is now called Master West would most likely not forgive her for not making it on time to treat Tape and Lily.“Master West, I'm really sorry, we actually had a major traffic jam at the other side of town, we had to even improvise at the moment to grow to this place.”“If I hadn't taken the wheel from my assistant, Dr. Alvin, I don't think we would have even been here at the moment.”“Master West, the traffic jam was so great that you could even stay there for hours.”“Master West, I will never abandon my duty post for any frivolities and anything unimportant.”“I'm more dedicated to the well being of any member of the West family as much as I actually do care about my own life and family…sometimes even more than at some very point in my life.” Doctor Anna immediately begged for mercy from Victor Langston West, who is now called Master West.Now, Doctor Alvin, the associate doctor to Doctor An