2025-02-18 23:01:43“Just push her in!” Jake Boston ordered.
Sara tried to scream, but the loosened gag had been retied, and she was inside the car already.
The guns pointed at Carl Gerald stopped him from moving, making him grit his teeth.
“Sir, what do we do with him?” One of the men asked as he cuffed Sara to the headrest stays.
Jake Boston sighed before looking at Carl Gerald. “Tell everyone to get down, leave the girl in the car.”
He grimaced at the sight of Carl Gerald alive and fully healed, despite him being the one to inflict all the injuries on Carl, “You have the tenacity of a cockroach.” He stood.
Carl Gerald heart sank at the sight of the men lining up behind Jake, each giving a menacing stare. He wasn’t too fast at counting, but he counted well over twenty.
“Let my sister go!” Carl tried to put his growing fear behind him.
Jake Boston only chuckled to himself, “You, go deal with that sicko.” He pointed one of his men to Carl, before tossing him a metal bat.
The man grabbed the bat, swinging it a few times all the while keeping his sight on Carl.
‘Calm down! Calm down!’ Carl Gerald said to himself. He had no standing in martial arts whatsoever, but he was ready to do anything for his sister, the only family he had left.
The man wasted time no further, lunging himself at the unready Carl Gerald.
Jake thought it was as good as over, turning his back to Carl Gerald. He took a cigarette and lit it, “Mr. Clyde Lex should be waiting for us, let’s go.”
A scream suddenly assaulted his ears.
“Oi, shut that…” He turned back around to see Carl Gerald still standing, meanwhile the man screaming on the floor, clenching his leg that was broken beyond recognition.
Carl Gerald was shocked at the way he handled him. ‘More importantly it’s like I could see his movements!’ He thought to himself.
“Sir…”
“Go… all of you.” Jake frowned deeply. He’d underestimated Carl.
At once all the men ran, each having a weapon. Carl Gerald, steadied himself as he began to dodge the barrage of attacks.
A club swung at Carl’s side but he twisted it and pulled the opponent in, before swinging him across the others.
Two more attacks came simultaneously from two armed men, he dodged the bat but was unable to block the knife completely as it tore his skin and the sleeve of his hospital gown.
“Urg!” He hissed before delivering a blow to send him rolling.
Carl suddenly felt the urge to give in to his instincts as a surge of power flowed through him.
A bulky goon with tattoos held a mace, swinging it by a short metal chain. He aimed for Carl, who also kicked at the mace, but retracted his foot at the last minute, swerving to the goon’s back and punching his neck.
“He pulled such a feint that needs body control… hmm?” Jake observed as Carl Gerald expressed a shocked and relaxed expression while fighting his men.
Many of his goons had been knocked unconscious, and Carl had barely sustained serious injuries.
“Retreat now!” Jake ordered his men.
The ones who were not incapacitated by Carl ran back to his side.
Carl attempted to chase them too, only to be stopped by a cold black gun, glinting in the sun. “Hey!”
“I wouldn’t do that if I were you.” Jake responded to Carl Gerald’s shout. He signaled his men to carry out the sobbing Sara.
Carl watched as they dragged her out, and violently pushed her against the floor. “Stop it!” He pleaded. “Why are you doing this?!”
“Do you really want to know why?” Jake Boston asked Carl Gerald.
Carl Gerald clenched his fist tightly. Of course he wanted to know why! Trying not to upset the men, he nodded slowly, not taking his eyes off of Jake and Sara.
“Have you heard of Lex's family?” Jake asked. He put his hand around Sara’s neck, as though threatening for a response.
“I-I have… they’re one of the most influential families.” Carl said in a cautionary tone. ‘But what does it have to do with this?’ He grimaced.
“They’ve asked for such a pretty girl…” He pulled out a knife from his pocket and positioned it at Sara’s neck.
“H-hey!” Carl screamed.
“Oh stop your whining!” He pulled down Sara’s gag.
“Carl run! Forget about me and run, it’s not worth it!!” Sara screamed immediately.
“Sara don’t say such, you’re all I have left!” Carl Gerald screamed back. Tears threatened to roll down his eyes, his palpitating heart wanted to make him run to Hug Sara.
All that stopped him was the knife still positioned at her neck.
“Enjoy the reunion now, because this will be the last time you’ll see her.”
Jake smiled at the shock reaction he received from Carl Gerald. “Clyde Lex is from Lex's influential family. He’s an up and rising Scion… more powerful than Austin Tyler’s family.”
“If you think you can interfere, think again.” He placed the knife even closer to Sara’s neck, earning a shocked gasp and a few drops of blood from her.
“Try to interfere and see how I send you to hell to go stay with your mother.” Jake Boston grinned. He’d won.
“…me.” Carl Gerald muttered.
“Oh, what was that?” Jake mocked.
“I SAID FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN IF YOU’RE NOT SCARED!!”
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Chapter 783: The living rooms:
The shift from supportive coordination to implicit threat transformed General Carl Gerald's assessment of the situation from possible genuine oversight to probable Directive manipulation exploiting Reynolds's channels and Reynolds's credibility to manufacture pressure for evidence disclosure."Judge Katherine Reynolds, I'm going to end this call and I'm going to conduct independent verification of the congressional request before responding further," General Carl Gerald said firmly, no longer maintaining diplomatic deference to Reynolds's judicial authority. "If this is genuine congressional intervention, verification will confirm that quickly and I'll cooperate fully once I'm confident I'm not being manipulated.”“If this is Directive operation, then maintaining security is more important than avoiding contempt charges that I'll eventually be exonerated from once the truth emerges."He ended the call despite Reynolds beginning to voice additional protest, his command instincts overr
Chapter 782: The disturbing news:
"That suggests they're trying to create legal cover for evidence seizure and for witness intimidation, which means they're concerned about exposure that would follow from operating entirely outside legal frameworks.”“They want to be able to claim they were conducting proper federal investigation if their operations get scrutinized after evidence distribution occurs."Debra Zachs raised critical question about how team should respond to Connor's surrender demand and one-hour deadline."Sir, do we respond to Connor's message or do we ignore it entirely?" Debra asked. "Responding might provide opportunity to gather intelligence about Directive plans, but it also might validate their narrative that we're engaged in negotiation about legitimate investigation rather than defending against criminal suppression operation."General Carl Gerald considered the tactical calculation before deciding that responding served no purpose that justified engaging with Connor's manufactured authority."W
Chapter 781: Finding the new Agents:
"Their approach is professional but not entirely consistent with standard security tactical doctrine that I'm familiar with," Luke assessed after watching for approximately thirty seconds. "They're using proper safety protocols and proper team coordination, but their breach methodology shows some variations from what I'd expect if this was routine security warrant service.”“Could be different regional office using different procedures, or could be indication these aren't actually security despite their equipment and apparent legitimacy."The ambiguous assessment reflected exactly the kind of uncertainty that The Directive would deliberately create if they were attempting to manufacture confusion about the operation's true nature.Before General Carl Gerald could formulate response to the ongoing situation at Chen's site, Debra Zachs interrupted with urgent report about new development."Sir, I'm receiving notification from another dispersed team member reporting a similar situation,
Chapter 780: Agent Kara:
Phineas immediately began technical verification procedures, attempting to contact Chen through alternative communication channels and attempting to access surveillance systems at the remote backup site that would allow visual confirmation of what was actually occurring."Sir, I'm unable to establish voice contact with Agent Kara through normal channels," Phineas reported after approximately ninety seconds of attempts. "Her phone appears to be off or in dead zone with no cellular service.”“That's suspicious because the backup site location was selected specifically for reliable communications infrastructure.”“Either there's been equipment failure or someone is jamming communications to prevent verification."Debra Zachs was monitoring law enforcement radio traffic for any indication of legitimate FBI operations in the area where Chen's backup site was located."I'm detecting no FBI radio traffic about operations at that location," Debra reported. "If this was genuine federal opera
Chapter 779: The attacks on the Evidence boards:
"Third scenario...and this is what concerns me most based on the anonymous contact's warning...is some kind of sophisticated manipulation that we don't immediately recognize as Directive operation but which achieves their objectives through deception rather than through force," General Carl Gerald said.His voice carrying the uncertainty that came from trying to anticipate enemy actions that were specifically designed to be unexpected and difficult to identify until too late to effectively counter.Captain Luke Harrison's special operations background apparently provided insight into this third scenario that General Carl Gerald was describing."You're suggesting they might attempt something like creating fake emergency that forces us to evacuate this facility or to relocate evidence to supposedly more secure location that they actually control," Luke suggested, his tactical thinking identifying deception possibilities. "Or they might attempt to compromise one of our team members thro
Chapter 778: A friend in cloak.
“Yes…we really can trust him.”“He has actually saved my life a lot of times but we still need to be extremely careful…thanks for pointing that out, Phineas.” General Carl Gerald immediately addressed the question from Phineas.The temporary operations center that Captain Luke Harrison had established in the small commercial office building carried the atmosphere of a military forward operating base in the final hours before a decisive engagement…The kind of focused intensity that came from professionals who understood they were approaching a culminating point where all previous efforts would either achieve their intended purpose or would be rendered meaningless through failure at the critical moment when success was most within reach yet also most vulnerable to disruption.The main room had been converted into a tactical coordination space with multiple workstations displaying various data streams that the investigation team needed to monitor during the final countdown toward automa
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