As Andrew drove away from the bank and headed back to the construction site, he clicked a button on his hoverbike and connected a call to Anika.
“Yes, Commander!” was the reply after the first ring had barely even started.
“Anika dear, eager much?” came the chuckle from Andrew.
“lol Yes, commander I am going mad here! The Reva family presented me with a hero's mansion. I don’t know what to do with this kind of space or treatment. I almost miss the simple life we had on the mission. No one around for miles, and a clear goal. Now the Supreme Lord has me buried in paperwork and reports. It's mind-numbing.” Complained Anika. It felt good to talk to her commander openly. It had only been a few days, but it still felt too long for a team that had worked together almost 24/7 for over 5 years. Anika had joined the team shortly before that fateful mission where they discovered the heart stone. While they didn’t understand the implications at the time, they each learne
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Andrew hung up as he entered the construction yard. The day was already growing late, but the ten security guards were still working. Several had collapsed and were sleeping under some shade. Andrew casually walked through them, ran the course in just 45 seconds, and then proceeded back to the foreman’s office to review the footage from the day. The men just started dumbfounded yet again at the speed and strength of this man. While they had been able to complete the course now, it was a matter of taking each element by itself, and the whole course took close to an hour on their fastest run through. Andrew sat down and clicked on the video from the day and rewatched several clips and angles from the meant training. After he had a good idea of what had transpired, he went outside to work with them in person. “gather round. You all look frustrated and overworked. TOO bad. If you want to continue being employed with Dreadnought Investment, I am lo
When Cynthia Eisen finally made it home, she was distraught. Had she really committed to compensating this Andrew character for 10 million of the king’s gold? she had gone looking to make him pay and somehow it had been turned around on her. At that moment, Jay Eisen called. “Aunty, Did you make that Andrew agree to pay compensation? I saw you slap him! That was brilliant! He is squatting on our company site and now does such a thing to cousin Roisin!” For a moment Cynthia Eisen did not know how to respond. “Jay, we cannot let him get away with this! You are right, but aunty needs your help. He has agreed to come to grandpa’s birthday in 5 days, so we need to shame him then. Can you believe he had the nerve to demand I pay 10 million for medical care rendered to Roisin?” “Wait, What? He wants us to pay compensation? I thought he ravished her! How can we be expected to pay him? Is he thinking to demand a bride price? He has his way with her so now she should b
The next few days were mostly the same for Andrew. He would wake up and work with a new batch of trainees from Dreadnought Investment. And then find food somewhere local, and return to keep training. For Andrew, the routine of the next few days would be good for him, and the time for training was also welcome. Often, he would run laps of the whole five stories of obstacles while waiting on the current batch of recruits to finish the first level. It almost felt like one of the Dragon team’s rotations back to the training barracks when they would split up and spend a week training front-line soldiers how to not die. Even a week of training with the Dragon squadron as their drill masters was enough to elevate most of the ordinary soldiers to something that stood a chance on the battlefields. The field generals were always thankful when the Dragon squad rolled though because while the gods of war were there, no one dared attack that position, plus their men always came out bette
When Roisin Eisen and her mother Cynthia Eisen returned home, they both sat in silence trying to decide how to move forward. In a short time, Andrew would very likely show up to the birthday celebration and in front of the whole family demand compensation for life-saving grace. How were they to come up with ten million? Roisin wrung her hands and got up to pace. As she did, she slipped her hand into her pocket and found the crumpled napkin Andrew had given her. The FORMULA! He has said this formula was worth a lot of money! He had provided a broken fragment for the R&D department to study and prove true, and asked her to talk to the Eisen group about selling off their portion of her company! Roisin stared at the formula, torn with what to do. Could she somehow bargain away her companies equity to cover her debt? Her company had been doing well in the last two years, and now made up about 1/3 of the Eisen group's core function. Her cousin ran the construction business tha
The next day, Andrew Got up and started the current wave of security trainees on their course. All the trainees had at this point been shown the route and also received at least some personal training from Andrew. It would be up to them now to show improvement. Near 11, a sleek bike soared into the construction site. The men all stopped what they were doing and watched and the rider glided over to where Andrew’s bike was parked next to the manager's trailer. Only a few noted that these bikes were almost identical, Andrew’s black and gold was a bit more ornate, compared to the new rider's more solid black, with just a touch of gold accent. The rider just paused and played on her phone waiting for something, ignoring all the eyes in her direction. “Back to training! If you men are distracted that easy, you will never amount to much when it comes to my security squads!” hollered Andrew. “not every day such a beauty like that
When they arrived at one of the higher-end shopping malls of Durres, Andrew agreed reluctantly that what he had been wearing was about worn through from training and living on the construction site. So they set out to find a clothing shop and acquire some medical ingredients to prepare something to bring to tonight’s Birthday celebration. Andrew had no relation to this Eisen family patriarch except through Roisin but figured it would be in poor taste to go empty-handed to Matthew Eisen’s birthday and then seek to collect compensation from his family. It was nice walking through the mall with the beautiful Anika on his arm. She was not in uniform for once nor in field gear so the change was striking. All of her feminine curves and figure were clearly visible and the smile on her face was radically different from the harsh lines of concentration that normally filled it during missions. They made their way into a store that sold high-end Suits, many of which were import
As they walked out, Andrew laden down with bags, Anika said, “hey at least I didn’t kill anyone.” Andrew shivered because he had seen her come off the battlefield more than once drenched in blood. Asrana may be the queen of Ice and have a stare that can freeze you solid, but Anika was a true queen of death in every sense of the title. “Where to now?” asked Anika as they wondered out. “Well, I need to get these delivered to wherever you are staying because we came on the bikes. Then I need a shower before the banquet.” Said Andrew. With a sly smile, Anika said, “Don’t have to ask me twice.” A shrill whistle was all it took to summoned a nearby transport car. Around the same time, back in Tiranë, the Capital city of Placida Anika’s absence from the Hero’s mansion had finally been noticed by the staff. Several housekeepers and aids had been trying to reach her all morning for various functions and briefings but no sign of her could be found. Several of these servants had been placed by lord Reva to try and help him find ways to get close to the goddess of war and to keep tabs on her doings, as she would likely get intelligence faster than anyone else in the province. One such servant nervously reported to the lord after the servants had searched the whole mansion and could not find her. “Lord Reva, I must report… we seem to have lost tract of the goddess.” “WHAT?” lord Reva exploded. “What do you mean you have ‘lost track’ of her? Did she just vanish into thin air?” “umm, well, my lord, it does seem she has. No one has seen her since she retired last evening. Nothing Civilian Dragon lord Chapter 31