Destined

Chapter 8 * Giovanna

When I heard the glass breaking I thought I was too late, fortunately, Kai got out without a scratch. When I managed to find the sniper through my M24 scope, I had two options, kill him or incapacitate him long enough for me to reach his location.

I got him and he's now sitting on a black site, Ace Security has, with me, and my rage is only increasing by the minute. With a towel over his head, I pour a bucket of water on his face, and he starts to fuss, I take the towel away from his face.

"Before we start I'm gonna give you two options", I raise one finger "One you just tell me who paid you and how you managed to pass through my team", I raise a second finger "Two you refuse to talk I torture you and you end up talking either way" I shrug "Your choice".

"Fuck off bitch" I smile, "option number two it is".

I grab some jump leads and a battery, pull a chair, and put on some rubber gloves, connecting the jump leads to the battery I sit in front of the man.

"How did you pass through my team? We were covering every sky rise that had a view to the penthouse" he spits on my face.

Alright, hard game it is, I plug the jump leads on his wrists, start the battery, and he screams and stops, "Still feel like not talking?" I ask.

He just stares at me, I grab the towel again and pour another bucket over his head, shocking him at the same time. We keep going for over an hour until he gives me, everything he knows.

I call John, he picks up "Secure line", I say, he drops and calls me back "Talk".

"We have a mole on the team, the sniper was paid to kill Ka—" I catch myself "Mr. Hastings, I was able to track the account where the payment originated, it's an account in Cyprus, we can't get the account holder information, I believe whoever sent the money chose Cyprus because it's known as a tax heaven."

"Did he tell you how's the mole?" he asks me, in the time I got to know John there are two things he hates the most disloyalty and whining, "Clayton" the line goes dead and I get a text.

John: You know what to do...

I called Clayton and asked him to meet me at the black site under the guise of needing his help to crack the hostage.

"John's little princess needs my help?" Clayton asks walking through the doors, I look at him, gun ready behind my back "How much?", he looks confused "How much what?" He asks me.

"How much did you get paid to stab the only person who helped you get back up?" he realizes I know what he did and pulls his gun, I pull mine at the same time, and we stare each other down.

"Only one of us is walking out of here alive and while I admit you're good, you're not me Clay," I say.

He laughs, "Listen here little girl, you showed up and all of a sudden John was all over you, you got the best jobs, you're training the new recruits and there's talk that when the old man retires he's planning to leave you in charge, I put up with him for years so I deserved that not you," he says.

"Do you know what I used to do before I joined the company?" I ask him in hopes he doesn't because if I can goat him to take me on a hand-to-hand match I know he'll lose.

"No and I don't care," Clayton says.

"Alright, if you think you deserved more than me, then let's put our guns down, try and kill me with your bare hands, then will know you're better than me," I tell him.

Clayton smiles, puts his gun down, and thrusts at me, delivering a right hook to my chin, I fumble back a few steps. I regain balance and run towards him, I shift my weight back and straighten my rear leg, and hooping forward I trap his hands, I take this moment to throw my right elbow front hitting him in the face.

He manages to get me in a headlock, I turn into his side, and with my hand, which is the furthest away from him, I hit him in the groin, he releases me, bending over, moaning. I grab his head, push it down, and drive my knee up his face, he falls and tries to go for his gun, at the same time I charge for mine and shoot him. I lay down on the floor for a few minutes. I look at his lifeless body and sigh it didn't have to come to this.

After cleaning up my cuts and bruises and changing clothes, I call for a clean-up crew. Twenty minutes later, I walked into the safe house.

When Kai sees me he gasps, I smile "You should see the other guy".

"Not funny, Giovanna" he chastises me. "It's just a couple of cuts and bruises Kai, it's in the job description".

John clears his throat, "I need a debrief from Ms. Hathaway, Mason please take Mr. Hastings to the other room", Mason nods and John turns to me "What was that?" I shrug.

He lets it go and I debrief him on the developments. Turns out Clayton has been working with a team of mercenaries because he wasn't happy with John.

Man and their fragile egos, go figure. Me, Kai, and Mason return to the penthouse, which now has bulletproof windows.