CHAPTER HUNDRED & FORTY FIVE

"Fourteen armed men on the ground, two on the roof. That is a total of sixteen men." The commander said, gesturing at the screen, as he addressed the legion that was assembled before him.

The laptop was small and compact and it had been set down on the top of one of the humvees. On its screen, a red dot moved.

The red dot was Reizei, an undetectable tracker having been placed on him before he entered the building. They had the blueprint of the building and aerial vision from a drone.

By then, the names of the men that had abducted Kayla were common knowledge. James Corrigan, popularly known as Jamie. And Riker. That one needed no introduction whatsoever.

Jovian wiped sweat from his brow. His body was a furnace. It was the fever that had finally come to take him. His vision blurred at the sides and a headache raged inside his head.

They had placed a tracker on the trio that went before them to scope the place and loosen its guard. To soften the ground, as some would call it.

He shook