The Billionaire's Mistake

MISTAKE 114

Chapter

Chapter 114: Leader of the Dark Hands

Daniel saw his friend Jerry approach with a video playing on his tablet. There were frantic shouts and a telling string of muffled detonations coming from the video.

"Cover the bunker! Water! Water! Where is the boss? Someone find the boss! The boss was in the bunker! Fire!"

"My God... I've never seen anything like this level of slaughter. Not even from your father's work." Jerry said, but a voice on his comm responded.

"That wasn't an assault; it was a goddamn extermination! Smoke's already visible from ten miles out; this whole sector is going to be a blast radius! Everyone is going to say I gave away this information." Jon said. Daniel had torn the receiver from Jerry's hand, his voice laced with pure venom as he addressed the rambling Jon.

"You would have preferred to be on the burning side then? You should have said something. I am an ever-giving person; the least I could have done was touch you home a bit. Daniel said, and the comm went dead. "Such little courage and still complaining," Daniel snorted as he continued walking

"It is not a matter of courage in the presence of a mad person," Jerry said, and Daniel raised a

brow at him.

"You have to admit, this was all kinds of mad. This is going to bring all kinds of trouble, 'he said, and Daniel looked away.

He was tired and, honestly, still in a bad mood. Jerry knew this.

"But your father has painted a new masterpiece this night, Daniel," he murmured in a daze." The underworld will have a filled day for weeks," Jerry said and walked aw

In the SUV, Jerry hurriedly passed a tablet to Daniel.

"What?" Daniel asked as he looked at the news. The president of the country was caught in a gas explosion, the news read.

"President? The actual president? Where did they rescue him from?" Daniel asked.

"I don't know, but it was a gas explosion in Angelo City," Jerry said.

Daniel took out his phone and called Justin.

"I guess you have seen the news," Justin said.

their leader, right? Is the president the leader

"Yes," Justin answered.

He became even more determined to get what

calm in the car, Angelo City was

few

Changer

of me

the silence broken only by the occasional distant rumble of early morning traffic. Suddenly, a deafening explosion shattered the peace, sending a shockwave through the surrounding buildings. Agent Sarah Collins of the Secret Service was jolted awake by the urgent ringing of her phone. She fumbled for

her

Code Black," came the terse

fully awake now. Code Black meant only one thing:

situation, sir?" She asked, already moving to

explosion at the old Harley warehouse. The president was in a meeting at the basement

raced. The president wasn't supposed to be in

way, sir. ETA 10

empty streets, her radio crackled

presence is not to be disclosed under any circumstances. Maintain radio silence unless absolutely necessary." Sarah's brow furrowed. The secrecy was unusual, even for

were dousing the flames, while police held back a growing crowd of onlookers, Sarah flched her badgy and was immediately

"Collins, glad you're

sir?" Sarah asked as they hurned towards

to establish brief radio contact with the basement. The president is alive but trapped. We're working on a

command center, where a team of agents and rescue workers were huddled

up, people," Thompson addressed the group. "We have a narrow window here. The structural integrity of the building is compromised. We need to get

up, "Sir, the main stairwell is blocked by debris. We're

risky," another agent argued. "That tunnel hasn't been

"If we can clear the entrance,

mission was getting more complicated as time went on. But the tension on Agent Thompson's face told her this was a big

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rescue team. Choose your people and. gear

off.

were at the entrance to the service tunnel. The air was thick with

up," Sarah addressed her team. "We go in fast and quiet. Our priority is extracting the president.