GUNSHOT ➪ Zayn

Seventy sixth

chapter 76 Milan

Three days had passed since the two couples had landed in Milan. During these three days, they did not set a foot out of the suite.
Selena and James were working on hacking Milan's security system, which was complicated because --- well, that was a national security system.
Zayn and Alyssa, on the other hand, had infiltrated the hotel where their enemies were sleeping; they were scouting.
Selena and James were staring at the screen of their three computers.
'Loading...' it said.
The more the little circle turned, the more the stress rose in them.
The screen turned black.
'No, no, no, no, no!' Selena yelled.
'Selena!' James tapped his fingers on her shoulders.
'What?' she replied, her head resting on her arms.
'It didn't crash.' he told her.
'Really?' she smiled, putting her head up.
She looked at the screen. It worked. It took them three days, but it worked.

The door opened on Aly and Zayn, laughing and chatting about some viral TikTok they had watched before.
James and Selena looked at them, eyes wide --- they're not supposed to watch TikToks when they're on the most dangerous mission they will ever have.
'The microscopic cameras are in their suite.' Aly said in a severe tone.
'The security system is ours!' James said, a proud smile stuck on his lips.
The four agents were glad that everything went the plan it was intended.

On the other side of the same city. Their enemies had landed in Milan:
'Finally!' Victoria said, taking her sunglasses off her eyes.
'Vic, take your suitcases. We are not on Vacation.' Her uncle sighed.
'No kidding.'
'When are they arriving?' Victoria asked.
'In two weeks, the day before our meeting.' Douglas replied.
'When will I be able to get my phone back?' the third person requested, a bit stressed.
'You can't.' Douglas started.
'Yeah, it's just to make sure that no one ever localizes us.' Victoria continued.

The three spies walked out of the massive airport-- that seemed so small in comparison with Las Vegas airport.
They entered a black taxi and finally set afoot on the Park Hyatt Milano hotel.
They were all three impressed when they reached the front door: the reception was more than magnificent, the white light of the Italian sky penetrated the hall thanks to the significant curvature of the glass roof.
They had seen hundreds of hotels, each one more beautiful than the other.
But it was rare that the three of them found themselves with their mouths open.

James, Aly, Selena, and Zayn were having a drink at the bar.
'This would have been so much better if we didn't have this mission planned.' Zayn sighed.
'Yeah... We'd be dancing in a club, not stuck in this hotel.' James replied.
'Are you complaining?' Alyssa claimed. 'Hello? Are we in Milan? In a beautiful luxurious hotel?'
'She's right.' Selena said. 'Plus, we have one week to have fun because we finished all the preparations. All we have to do is be discreet.'
'What? Why didn't you tell me that we had one week off?' Zayn screamed in excitement.
'Because you wouldn't have done your work that well if you knew.' Selena explained.
'True.' Zayn said.
'There's so many thin--'
James was interrupted by the buzzer buzzing on the table. Selena checked her apple watch:
'Fuck.' she exclaimed.
'What?' Aly worried.
'They arrived but...' she checked the video on her watch again. 'There's one more person with them.'
'Who?' Zayn started to stress.
'I don't know.' Selena said before showing her watch to her friends.
'Anna!' Aly said.
'I have to go.' Zayn said, grabbing his phone.
'What?' They all replied.
'Spoon just sent me a message. I have to call him to talk about my father. I think you'll be fine without me for 2 minutes.'

The young man walked out of the bar and went to hide in the back of the hotel, where nobody was allowed to go.
He composed a number and called: mailbox.
'Damn.' He sighed.
His phone started buzzing- an unknown number.
'Zayn, we have a massive problem.' She said.
'You have to go back home!' He ordered.
'I tried for fuck's sake!' The girl replied.
'When and where can we meet?'
'Mhh... Tonight at 4:00 a.m. On mmh, I don't know!' she panicked.
'Holy shit, why didn't you listen to me!' He got angry.
'Because I had a life before you!' She said at the same time. 'Wait, there's something... Parco di Rogoredo? Yeah, that's it. It looks nice on the poster.'
'That sounds creepy.' Zayn sighed.
'do you have any other idea?' She asked.
'No.'
'4:00 am. Parco do Rogoredo.' she concluded.
'I'll be there.' He promised before hanging up.

Zayn came back to the bar and arrived in the middle of a conversation:
'Her name is Anna Martinez.'
'She's working at the OS?' James asked, surprised.
'Yeah.' Zayn said.
'Why didn't you tell me?' Aly crossed her arms on her chest.
'I don't know! I, I didn't remember that you knew her.' He tried to justify himself.
'But you have seen her a hundred times at the strip club!'
'No, I saw her once just after I met you, and she had a wig, and it was dark. I'm sorry, I didn't put every piece together!'
'Guys, guys. We don't give a fuck about who knew anna or whatever. The plan changes.'