The Three Lanes

Chapter Eleven

Caleb looked at the gun pointed to his face and moved towards it confidently until his forehead was on the metal tip and told him "I dare you to shoot me but make sure you don't miss, because if you do I won't stop myself from choking you to death, so stop this bullshit, let me lead the mission and make you look good as always, dummy."

He walked back into the conference room and voiced to all agents around, "be ready by the hour, I want all weapons, grenades and C4 packed up, we heading in stealth mode but by the time we are done with them the city will have to rebuild two of their finest structures" walked out then put a call to his brothers to meet at home.

When he got to the mansion everyone was there waiting for him, Nate explained and apologized that he didn't know that the target was the agency and gave him the longitude and latitude (co-ordinates) of the compound and then left to catch a flight as he had been called for a mission in Venice, Italy.

Gabriel was told to insert the digits on his smartphone and using a google application so as to figure out where the goons were hiding and they made a side strategy that he could be on a roof far from the compound taking out some of the thugs running away from the compound.

Caleb got back to the Agency and revealed the location where they were to attack and then designed where every agent will be positioned during the mission, once understood and all were ready they moved out via the basement and into a black van. One agent, Arash was sent to check the parameter and after five minutes he hadn't called them back via the radio to confirm if it was clear to make a move, they immediately deduced that the location was spot-on.

All agents moved into position to begin the assault, saw that Arash's throat was slit and they set explosive charges on the main gate and after the minor blast they were inside the compound firing at anyone visible. The hooligans on the other side weren't going down without a fight and they were shooting back heavily thus there was some lethal collateral damage on all sides.

After the dust had settled a bit and some people had stopped shooting to reload that's when he saw him in the middle of his people shooting at his agency men and he suddenly lost all senses knowing that he needed to face him momentarily.

Caleb shoots one guy on the chest and starts running in the direction of Shambugu who just stopped to shoot an agent on the side, he turns and sees Caleb coming after him; then smiles wickedly and raises his gun towards him and before pressing the trigger felt a tingling sensation, he sees blood oozing from his hand and the weapon falls off, he was already shot by him so he decided to either confront him unarmed or run to fight another day, clearly he choose the latter.

The general ran past a corner with the super-agent following behind as fast as he could, when momentarily he noticed a mirror on the roof and swiftly ducked but not before getting shot on the shoulder by the sniper, he got on the radio to announce "there are eyes on the roof" and he wanted him alive. He took some pieces of clothing from his side pocket and tied them on his shoulder to minimize the bleeding.

He couldn't believe the luck running on shambugu's side as this was the second time he got away though bleeding, so he called Gabe and told him to shoot Shambugu on sight if he ran his way then sat back down and waited till he was given the all clear via radio and got up to see the paramedics on sight to patch up what seemed like just a flesh wound.

They moved the dead criminals and put them all on one side and they carried the seven dead agents back on the van and sent them to the hospital morgue to be cleaned up for burial the next day. He took his cellphone to ask Gabe if he saw Sham get past his route but the response was in the negative.

The radio interrupted his anger and it informed him that the guy who shot him from the roof was caught alive and being brought down, he got on his feet and put on his shirt though it was a bit excruciating and it could be seen on his face, seconds later he saw them coming his way and he recognized the culprit as Cain.

Caleb confronts and suddenly fights Cain surprisingly, hits him blow after blow after blow, then kicks him on his ribs till he makes sure he's broken enough of them, looks at him in his eyes and asks, "where is your general?" and waited for a reply, Cain smiled showing off his bloody teeth and before he finished saying, "go fuck yourself" Caleb had already shot him in between his eyes mercilessly.

He rolled his palm in the air signaling to the agents that it was time to move out; they picked up their weapons and bags of the deceased comrades and got in the van and on the road. They gave him the detonator and without hesitation he pressed it and the whole compound blew up as it was rigged with the C4 explosives they came with.

The whole surviving team arrived at the short-term office and wrote down their briefs and emailed them to their mission head and Caleb forwarded his briefs to the director and assistant director of the agency and then ordered all of them to go home, try and rest as tomorrow all their dead mates will be resting in peace after the burial.

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Meanwhile in Venice, Italy with the breathtaking views and the perfect weather, Nate was staring out of the hotel window he was staying in and decided to get on the balcony and feel the air shirtless. Some pretty ladies passing by on their exclusive speed boats looked up at his physically fit body and waved at him, some even threw flying kisses.

He got inside the room and called the general for further instructions and when he couldn't reach him, hanged up and took a warm shower to freshen up. Inside the shower he was lost in thought when he heard his phone ringing, he sprung off the bathtub naked and picked up but it was their secretary who informed him that the general will be offline for a while and the mission parameters were in his inbox.

After finishing his bath, he fired up his email application on his phone and checked the parameters; the mission was to assassinate a prominent young figure of the Vatican government. Nate ensured his weapons were ready and he went downstairs for a meal and a chance to socialize with the Italians.

At the bar he ordered a strong vodka cocktail to calm himself down when one of the most gorgeous ladies he had ever seen walked inside the lobby, she was dressed in red and he felt a familiar vibe as she noticed him too. She walked sexily up to the bar and ordered a martini, looked at him and asked, "Hi, you seem familiar, Have we met someplace before?"

Nathaniel didn't bother responding but she continued, "Hi, I'm Isabella and I'm interested to know you physically and emotionally, I kind of find you mysterious in some way" then smiled because she had caught his attention. "Physically and emotionally? That's how women in Italy speak to men?" he astonishingly asked her.

"Truthfully, sometimes I hardly express myself but my actions make men know what I lack or need at any moment, but with you it's hard because you seemed disinterested in me the moment I walked in, that's why I came over" she explained.

He didn't respond once more and gulped down the remainder of his drink and signaled the waiter to pour him another then turned to Isabella and told her, "I can't say I'm not interested in you, but you look like the kind of girl yearning for attention just because you have a fine figure, wears some cherished perfume and nice clothes which men don't really appreciate because at the end of the night after they have seen you naked, you loose all the value you had the moment when you walked in and the dress remains more expensive than you are."

Isabella was left speechless and alone at the counter as she watched him leave with his drink to another table on the restaurant and had started reading the newspaper. She was approached by different men on either side who wanted to woo her but she rebuffed their advances and left to go cry in the women's room.