Collateral Damage by J.L. Saint

Author:J.L. Saint
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2010-12-14T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

0330 hours

“¿Y ahora que, George?” Andreas demanded, wanting to know what would be next in the continuous plague of disasters following Bill Collins’s betrayal. Flying at the top speed of four Rolls-Royce Trent 977/B engines in an Airbus A380 customized by Design Q in Worcestershire, he sat in the fully outfitted Turkish bath with George at his side, agitated that he couldn’t relax and enjoy his newest acquisition. He’d recently bought the flying palace off the hands of an oil-rich prince whose well had run dry when his father disapproved of his repeated dalliance with a junked-out pop star.

The thought of having eighteen hours to twiddle his thumbs before reaching El Santuario had him stretched over a torturous rack of painful frustration—pain that the incompetence of Fidel’s hired operatives in Atlanta only sharpened. The therapeutic benefits of the mint showers and eucalyptus steam room did little to help ease him. Not even Mozart’s “Eine kleine Nachtmusik” being broadcasted live from the musicians in the concert hall above helped. Minute by minute the reports feeding in from Atlanta went from bad to worse. Bill’s wife and children had escaped and they had help now. Someone who could handle a gun, a man by the name of Jack Hunter that Andreas’s resources were having difficulty in getting information on. Hunter’s abandoned rental car had been found on Angie Freemont’s street about fifty yards away from where Lauren Collins had parked hers.

Sure at any moment he’d be driven past his soft-spoken vow to screaming like a maniac, he shut his eyes and upped the volume of the music. He tried to focus on easing his anger as he turned his mind to his home above all others, El Santuario. Almost as big as an entire Peruvian region, El Santuario housed Andreas’s perfect home, his research and development facility, and George’s personal primate reserve, where a number of George’s wild brethren roamed. The area also provided an ample and secretive operational base for his special ops teams as well as anything else he wanted to keep from prying eyes. He imagined exactly what he would do the minute he arrived. Bill Collins’s body would already be there and so would the traitor’s wife and children. Andreas would personally extract what in the hell Collins’s had planned to do with the formula for GXP from his wife, using the children, of course. Then he’d make an example of Collins’s family.

Putting the fear of Diablo himself into the people working for him was the only way to close ranks on Collins’s betrayal. The video of the event would make the current executions on YouTube look like Walt Disney films. Andreas prided himself on speaking softly and carrying a big stick—the binding, torturing and killing of a betrayer’s family made for a really big stick—one that he anticipated George would have a hand in this time.

The kids would never even see it coming. Cute, funny chimp suddenly going murderously wild. The video would likely go viral.

Andreas must have had the music unusually loud because he never heard Fidel knock.

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