Arthur looked at the document one of his assistants delivered in his study, it showed the details of ongoing projects and deals, as well as information from the day before.“How is it that we're suddenly unable to deliver our service? Are we to leave hundreds of thousands of customers hanging? Why did the Hades family break off our contract?” Arthur smacked the document on the table, his eyes were piercing, giving the assistants a lot of pressure. The Hades family had probably pulled out from the deal when they saw his company, Kings Group, in trouble.“Our suppliers suddenly pulled out of our deals overnight. We’re not sure why sir, but it seems like we aren’t the only ones affected”, one of the assistants, a beardless youth with glasses replied.“What am I supposed to do with that excuse? Huh? Should I rub your heads for working so hard but it isn’t your fault? Will that solve the problem?”The assistants shared a look in secret, the second assistant in the room worked up some coura

Hazel felt the tension in the air rise several notches immediately. Alan's gaze turned sharp and even Pierce seemed to be finding it difficult to hold back his boiling emotions. Apart from Hector and the girls, the others at the table were ready to lunge across the table to tear Arthur apart, but they held back, only staring at him with murderous intent.“You set up my Ex with Michael Fletcher?” Alan asked as calmly as he could muster.Arthur shrugged and took another gulp of his drink, “Pierce was going on and on about how lucky you were to find true love during the dragon race while we were all working our asses off, so after a year that you left for military service, I made one of my guys lure her into getting on a dating site, it is quite easy to control people's perception in this digital age, just keep throwing something their way and they would soon grow some interest in it. It wasn't difficult to hack the site and match her up with Michael Fletcher. He was rich, richer than yo

Within hours, they were on a covert boat, heading toward the US under the cover of darkness. The water around them was still, the hum of the boat’s engine the only sound cutting through the silence. Alan stood at the helm, his eyes focused on the horizon.As they approached the shores of the US, Alan’s thoughts drifted briefly to his upcoming wedding. The world saw him as a powerful businessman, a scion of the Walker family, but here, with his team, he was something else—a soldier, it was a very contrasting feeling that he sometimes felt like he was living in two worlds.Once they got close enough to their entry point, the team ghillied up and dove into the cold river and vanished under the ripples of water.The team swam upriver for almost a kilometre before reaching their destination. Frostbite and ice had covered their gear by the time they broke out of the water. If anyone was in the area, they would have thought five ghosts had stepped out of the river. Albeit, ghosts in white gh

Alan and his team converged after their targets went out of view.“They’re heading back to the mountains”, Liam ‘Reaper’ noted.“Another squad is ahead, I intercepted an encrypted radio network, which turned out to be theirs. The name of this squad’s captain is Harry, while the new squad is led by a guy named Gavin.”“How many?”“There are about eleven nodes on the other side, counting Harry’s squad, that would be fifteen.”“Three to One, I’m loving our odds”“Two Commando teams went missing hunting these guys down, we can’t let down our guard”, Alan doused their excitement with cold logic.“They have EMP Grenades, the previous teams went MIA because of that”Alan finally understood what made communications with the previous teams break off. If they were hit with bursts of EMPs, then all their communication modules attached with their suits would be fried and destroyed. If this was true, then that meant they didn’t really need to worry much about the enemy having some special weapon t

Alan stood above Euler, cleaning his combat knife as the man choked on his blood. The battle had lasted less than five minutes.He looked around to see that the rest of his team had finished the rest of the enemy squad and were simply confirming the deaths.Ghost drew closer to him, “Captain. We’ve got the asset”, he showed the black box within the bag to Alan.After confirming that they had gotten what they came for, Alan signaled for the rest of the team to congregate. With all their electronics down due to the EMP grenades, it was impossible to use their comms. They could only communicate using the old fashioned method, face-to-face.…In an undisclosed location, a highly classified US Base.A General with a shaved beard and a balding head stood with a coffee mug in his hand, he watched the screens in a situation room. Several soldiers were seated in front of computers, keeping track of the same thing he was.On one of the screens, thirty face profiles were displayed, but they were