Barter's to-do list was filling up. Firstly, if Laura thought that she had escaped, she was wrong, by all means. Barter was just busy.Mr. Ban had suddenly come back alive so Barter was automatically always busy and on the move, overseeing errands and making sure everything was intact. Mr. Ban and his boys had refrained from attacking Greg impulsively because they saw that they had been underestimating him. They couldn't even get past the gate of his estate, and they were already spotted and attacked. Greg's sophisticated security details best the shot out of Mr. Ban's gangstas so intensely that they marked the day with red ink in their hearts. The beatings were severe. Badly bruised men returned to Mr. Ban's camp and fainted at his feet. Mr. Ban could not believe it. So he regrouped them and hired an advanced team to train them for some time.Just light training.After all, his opposition had an advanced team securing him, so Mr. Ban did not think that he was doing too much
''He is stark raving mad at us,'' Bane spoke into the phone at Don Black.''You visited him? What exactly did he say?'' Don Black asked Bane.''What else? He asked me why we exempted him from dealing with Chase, and as soon as I told him the reason, he asked me to get out of his office,'' Bane told Don Black.''He told you to get out?'' Don Black asked in shock.Wide-eyed, he stared ahead of him in disbelief, hoping that it was a lie.''He asked me to get out, and as soon as I acted surprised, he asked Barter to show me the way out in case I had forgotten my left from my right,'' Bane explained.''Ah!'' Don Black exclaimed.''Indeed. Ah, indeed,'' Bane said.Don Black heaved a deep sigh.''This is serious. I don't know but, I hope he is not going to come after us?'' Don Black asked Bane.Bane raised his eyes to look at the door of his office as if Don Black was standing there.Then he raised the left corner of his lips lightly.''War is war!'' have you forgotten that statement? Bane a
"Magnet!" Barter called on his old friend as he walked into his shop.Magnet was a hacker. A hacker that had the art inbred in him. He could hack into anything, including top government files which he had helped Mr. Ban to access on so many occasions. "Barter, my good friend. It's been ages. How have you been and what brings you to me?" Magnet asked Barter as he watched him entering his shop. "What can I say? I've been good. Someone has been sneaking around, so I have to be on my toes. You know how it is," Barter said to Magnet."Ahh. Magnet said and shook his head. Who dares to trigger the emblem, himself. Who dares to disrespect you?" ''Magnet, I am looking for my sister. It's weird. I have heard from her recently, but something feels out of place,'' Barter explained to Magnet. Magnet stretched his hand to let Barter hand his phone over to him, which Barter did immediately.He just stopped talking and handed his phone over to Magnet, showing Alina's phone number. At Alina's f
While Magnet was busy tracking Alina's phone with various advanced instruments, Barter got back to work. ''It's Snake eyes, boss!'' Barter told Mr. Ban when he was asked about the incident of the sporadic shooting that happened at the Governor's estate. Mr. Ban raised his head in shock to look at Barter. ''Say God?'' He asked Barter. Barter nodded. ''God!'' he said. Slowly, a faint smile appeared on Mr. Ban's face. Finally, an ally. A worthy ally. If Don Black and Bane thought that they had something going on with Greg Chase in terms of a coalition, then they were wrong because Mr. Ban was about to hit them where it hurts. ''Quick, arrange a meeting with him. For once we are fighting for the same reason. I have always looked forward to a coalition such as this. A very strong one,'' Mr. Ban said with excitement. Barter knew he had to do as Mr. Ban had said, but he was reluctant. Snake Eyes was a very unpredictable and ruthless man. Everyone had heard all sorts of
''I thought you were afraid. How did it go when you got there? How come he accepted the meeting so quickly?'' Mr. Ban asked Barter on their way to Snake Eyes' establishment.''I was also surprised, boss. I was expecting the worse, but as soon as I got there, I was treated like a special visitor. It was so surprising,'' Barter replied.Mr. Ban scoffed. ''Maybe he had been looking for an ally as well. I will be so happy to join forces with someone like Snake Eyes. Not those pussies called Don Black and Bane. Worthless cunts!'' Mr. Ban said with vile. At Snake Eyes' office.Mr. Ban was led into Snake Eyes' office as soon as he was sighted.Snake Eyes was a very unpredictable man. He sat at the far end of his desk, with both hands under his chin, staring at the door of his office, waiting for it to open.Eventually, it swung open and Mr. Ban's graceful and handsome face appeared at the door. Even though, of late, he had lost some of his looks to anger at the way things were turning.
''I bet you, I do not want a war to erupt in the city. They cannot stand my artillery,'' Greg said to Don Black and Bane on one occasion when they met to talk about the situation of things. Greg had the most frontal army, and the city knew it. Mr. Ban was like a patient gentleman, but deep inside him, he was a wolf waiting for its prey to be helpless before he struck. As pretty much relevant as Mr. Ban still was, he was slowly losing it to Greg. Greg was smart. Apart from coming out of jail, and knowing how to deal with the street, he was a former CEO already, so his brain had been flourishing with ideas before this time. That was why he was excelling so much above his supposed elders in the game. Greg became an elder after three months of joining the commodity exchange business, and it pained a couple of people including Mr. Ban and Snake Eyes. At public functions, Greg would bask like the first citizen of the city. In the same space as Mr. Ban, Greg was excelling greatly
Barter's eyes widened.He was out on an errand for Mr. Ban, but he could not help but want to visit Alina's house.''Where is the house?'' Barter asked Magnet.Already, he knew that there was no way Alina was there, if not Magnet would have said so. ''Do you know the popular small cottage that sits at the boundary between this city and the next?'' Magnet asked Barter.Barter frowned slightly.Everyone in the city must have passed by that house on their way out of the city.Literally, everyone in the city knew that house. ''Yes? Why?'' Barter replied, wondering where Magnet was going with his question.''That is Alina's house, my dear friend. I am standing inside it as we speak,'' Magnet said to Barter. There was silence between the men for a while, as Barter took a while before he processed what he had just heard. Did Magnet just say that the house that the whole city knew of was Alina's house, yet she said she was hiding?She was hiding in plain sight?Barter could not believe it
Barter tried to psyche himself that his fears were not true, but it seemed that the more he tried to lie to himself, the more he believed that in fact, what he was afraid of was exactly what had happened.He was suspecting that Alina was dead, even though he prayed that he was just being overly sensitive. Luckily, he met up with Mr. Ban's errands as if nothing had delayed him before, then he went to meet Mr. Ban. Mr. Ban knew at once that something was wrong with Barter. ''Are you okay? Why are you walking around as if you saw the grim reaper and only managed to escape narrowly?'' Mr. Ban asked as he looked at Barter with worry. ''I'm just indisposed, boss,'' Barter replied.''Indisposed?'' Mr. Ban asked, looking at Barter, expressing that he was shocked at what Barter said. Barter nodded. Barter was sweating on his forehead. The thought of the fact that Alina might be dead was heavy on him. The more he tried to ignore the fact, the more it weighed in on him. He could not wait