Closed Roads, Cold Orders
The rain drummed against the tall windows of a mansion. Inside, the room smelled of old leather and wet stone. The boss of the assassins stood with his back to the glass, the city lights blurred by a curtain of water. His phone was pressed to his ear as the voice on the other end cut through the hiss of the storm.
“I don’t know why this is taking a month, Silas,” the caller snapped. “Just to take out a girl and you’re taking a month on it? Is she smarter than you? I don’t pay you that much to watch you play hide and seek with her…” The voice paused, Silas not saying anything. “This time I want no mistakes. Make sure everything is finished. You should know how the next three days are important to me. Nothing on this earth can compensate me if this doesn’t go as I want….Make sure she doesn’t return in the next three days. I don’t want to see her ever again, but on my succession day I don’t want any surprise finish all this before the next three days .” He spoke in a commanding tone.
“I promise you we will… hello? Hello?” Silas tried to reply, but he was already cut off. Slowly he turned, the light caught his face, his eyes red and anger grinning in him as he faced the men lined up before him, all in black suits.
In anger he snarled, “What have you all been doing for a month?” He walked among them. “To erase a weak lady and it’s taken you all a month?” he said, still moving in front of them. “By now she must have heard it, seen the news, and might be trying to return. Immediately now, you all surround the cliff and the nearby road, houses even the whole damn village surround all secretly without drawing attention,” he ordered. “ And Everywhere closed to it surround it in disguise. Block every road, every trail. Make it look like an accident. Just make sure she has no way to come out of that countryside. If she is found, kill on sight. If she flees, don’t follow openly. Close in, quietly. No mistakes. Just make sure she doesn’t return in the next three days and forever . Go now.”
“ yes sir “ The men said as they all rushed out.