The CEO's Order

Chapter 6

"Carps?" Astra asked on the line making Amber and Nyx sigh out loud. She's been fond of saying these millennial terms ever since she learned it from browsing on t****k.

"Stop that," Nyx ordered her firmly. Who would have guessed that a word such as "carpet or carps" is being used by the young cool kids to ask someone "r u G?" Amber almost threw her phone straight into Astra's face the moment she learnt what i meant.

"Ang astig kaya, aminin niyo!" pilit ni Astra sa kabilang linya habang nakadapa ito sa itaas ng rooftop sa 'di kalayuan ng kinatatayuan ni Amber.

That night, Hecate decided to play. Near the side of the tunnel where the exchange will take place, she stood still.

She's patiently waiting for her client and the other party to show up, she has nothing else to do but listen to the dumb exchange of words through the three way call managed by Nyx who's staying at their base, making sure that she got all the CCTV camera's hacked, in every angle possible.

"Hex, carps?" tawag sa kan'ya ni Astra.

"I swear to God, if I hear you say that one more time, I will pull the trigger."

The loud gasp of Astra followed by Nyx laughing was heard, "Oh gosh, brutal mo naman!"

"Cut it out you two," pigil niya sa mga ito na kaagad namang natahimik. Hecate pressed a button on her specialized tinted glasses and all of a sudden, the dark place she's in became decent enough to look at. Para siyang nakasuot ng night vision goggles dahil sa imbensyon ni Nyx.

"The new glasses work great Nyx," papuri niya pa rito.

"Oh thank you! I spent a lot of your to complete that one-"

"You what!"

"At least now we can produce as many as we can! Alam na natin kung paano ang tamang-"

"Just stop," nanlulumong sabi ni Hecate. "The sound of money draining from my bank account sounds too depressing right now, don't tell me anymore."

"Okay! Next time I wont!"

Wala nang ibang nagawa si Hecate kung hindi ang magkamot ng ulo. She's been dealing with these two crackheads for so long, but up until now, she still has no idea on how to manage them without losing all her hair because of the stress that they bring into her life.

"I see two cars under Gin's crew approaching the tunnel via Crimson," Nyx announced.

Hecate moved quickly to position herself inside the tunnel. Mabuti nalang at maaga silang nakarating sa lugar ng tagpuan. Wearing her all black long sleeves fitted turtle neck and black pants, she's prepared to camp inside a dark unlit, tunnel. On a cranny she quietly sat down and wait.

"Why are there two cars of Gin's crew if there's only an exchange happening?" Astra asked.

"That's one thing really strange about this. If Woriel Group was skeptical about this, calling Hecate would be enough, I mean that's how it usually goes right?" said Nyx on the other line, with a bunch of typing sounds.

"New player maybe?" bulong ni Hecate.

Inside the base, Nyx nodded in silence, "Maybe? Pero bakit nila tatawagin ang grupo ni Gin nang nandoon ka? No offense, but they hate your guts. Sa tingin nila inubos mo ang mga projects nila. Hinablot mo lahat!"

"Ako lang?"

"Uh, duh! They don't even know that you have us," natatawang sagot ni Astra.

Hecate rolled her eyes, "Okay, but who the hell are they meeting tonight? Gin's too obsessed with me, if this turns out to be one of his dumb plans to find out my identity, I don't know what I would do to him and his stupid crew of amateurs!"

"Mukhang totoo na may trade, I can see Woriel's black van coming, they wont play along with Gin if he only plans to deal with you. They wont risk taking out that van, you know the only time we see that right?" Nyx informed the two.

Astra used the scope of her sniper riffle already fixed on the railings of the roof top to watch what was happening, "Another black van coming from the other side, can you see that Nyx?" she asked.

"Mmhmmm," Nyx answered. A few taps on the keyboard and she's in the server, checking out the license plate on the said car. "Not a legal car, fake plates." she said then entered the server under Hell where in most of the car owned by the people from the underground society were listed. "Huh, interesting, not on the Hell list either."

"Interesting indeed," Hecate whispered.

Ilang sandali pa ay narinig na niyang pumasok ang mga alagad ni Gin at isa-isang nagsi-ayos sa mga puwesto nila. Nakalinya ang halos walong lalaki sa magkabilang gilid ng liblib na tunnel para abangan ang pagdating ng sasakyan ng Woriel.

Based on how the group of Woriel casually rolled in, mukhang totoong kinuha rin nila ang serbisyo ni Gin sa operation na ito. Hindi katulad sa inaasahan ni Hecate.

"Who are those?" Nyx asked as she watched the footage caught live via Hecate's glasses. She saw three men get out of the Woriel group's van.

"They are not the usual guys who deliver the goods, can you scan them Nyx?"

"On it," Nyx answered. "I can see their personal data, but nothing in regards with their connection to Woriel."

"Not on the list inside Woriel's data base?" usisa ni Astra.

"Give me a second, I'm hacking the core," the two waited for at least ten seconds, "Got it, they are newly hired members of Woriel. Why would they send out the newbies on such trade?"

"Oo nga, paano nalang kung mauwi sa sapakan," segunda ni Astra.

Hecate shook her head, "This seemed a bit sticky. " she said. "If they did not send out the usual dudes and sent these newbies instead, that means that they do not expect them to comeback safe or even get this deal turn out successfully."

In a blink of an eye Nyx who's busy eating her chips was stunned with what Hecate just said. It all made sense. As if a loud click just appeared out of nowhere.

"Do you want me to get closer? I can move location," Astra nervously asked.

"No, stay where you are. Just make sure that everything's clear outside, I can manage."

"Hex... are you sure?"

Hindi na nakasagot si Hecate sa tanong ni Nyx dahil sa pagdating ng isa pang sasakyan. The one which they assume to be the buyer.

A masked man got out of the car to talk to someone from Woriel's team. After a moment, two tall masked men followed. They have a plain black sleek mask paired with their full black suit and ties. They seemed different than the first one. Hecate could feel the angst and confidence from these two. Mukhang wala silang katakut-takot at mukhang alam nila ang ginagawa nila.

The deal started to take place, the two men got at the back to check out the goods. Hecate was too far to hear the conversation, but everything seemed fine. Wala naman siyang napansin na tensyon mula sa dalawang kampo.

When she witnessed the two men walk away with a bunch of cases and a huge box being carried by the other, she knew that the deal had to be done. It was finished. Quite easily.

"That's it?" Nyx asked.

"I think, " Hecate whispered. She tried to move a bit closer to the van to hear the team.

"Mukhang tahimik," she heard Gin say. "Go scatter!"

"Oh no!" kaagad na sambit ni Nyx sa napanood.

"That did not sound right, what is Gin planning to do?" tanong ni Astra. Hindi makasagot si Hecate sa kadahilanan na baka matunugan siya ng mga ito.

Nyx did her best to hack on to every account she can to access the information about the trade on Gin's end. Mabuti nalang at mabilis siyang nakagawa ng paraan.

"D*mn it!" she cursed. "Hex, Woriel hired Gin's crew to bring you to them. I found the request that Woriel sent out to them, they wanted you for some reason."

"Those bast*rds," she whispered.

"You need to get out of there!"

Hecate set aside the panic that she's hearing coming from the two. Instead, she put on her black mask to cover up her face. Then she started to stretch her arms and legs.

"What are you doing?" tanong ni Nyx.

"Hush, just watch and enjoy," bulong niya.

Gaya ng inaasahan niya, kaagad na napalingon ang mga tauhan ni Gin na malapit sa pinagtataguan niya.

"Boss! Nakarinig ako ng babae!" sigaw pa ng isa.

Gin rushed near his men, "Saan? Hanapin niyo 'yong babae! Bilisan nin'yo!"

Napangisi si Hecate nang maging ang mga bagong tauhan na galing sa Woriel ay nag-ikot din para hanapin siya.

"So this is the plan huh," she asked. Her voice sounded deep and sultry. Emitting a sense of elegance and power.

A wide grin plastered on Gin's scarred face gave it away, he knows that voice well enough. The voice of the shadow, the voice of who the call as the witch of the underground society, hence the name Hecate.

"Hecate my dear," panunukso pa nito. "Kailan mo ako haharapin? Ang tagal na nating magkakilala, I want to know you better," sarkastikong sigaw nito habang papalapit sa lugar kung saan niya narinig ang babae.

Hecate was quick enough to dash away, "I'm not interested with greasy old men," pangungutya niya sa lalaking nasa trenta pataas na ang edad.

"Hah, if you work with me babe, nothing will matter. Not even the age," lumingon ito para sundan ang bagong posisyon ni Hecate.

"Thanks for the offer," she said while quietly running farther away, "Tempting, really. But keep it."

Halos mapamura ng malakas si Gin nang marinig ang pinangagalingan ng boses ng babae na biglaang nagmula sa likuran nila ng mga kasama niya.

"Catch that b*tch," he ordered. "Th f*cking lights!"

Dahil sa pagsigaw niya, mabilis na napatakbo ang mga alagad niya para sundin ang utos nito. All of a sudden, a bunch of really powerful flashlights lit up the whole tunnel. But in Gin's dismay, the whole path was clear. They couldn't even find a little sign of where Hecate was.

"Brilliant, " he commended, signaling his boys to line up and slowly walk the path with their guns aimed, ready to fire any moment that they saw her. "Of course, Hecate wouldn't be that easy to catch, what am I thinking?" natatawang tanong ni Gin.

He laughed as loud as he could while pulling out an armalite from the passenger seat of his car, "Of course, if it wasn't the goddess herself, am I right?" he said with pure passion and hate. "Oh, you think you're so good huh? You think you're above all of us? Nagtatago ka lang naman!"

Gin slowly walked towards a dim part of the tunnel where he expects her to hide. But even before he could reach the spot, Hecate moved as quietly as she could.

She sneaked up to a guy who's getting closer to where she's hiding. And with a simple punch in the head, he's down.

Kinuha niya ang malaking parisukat na flashlight na nakasabit sa leeg ng lalaki na para bang isang napakalaking kuwintas at mabilis itong pinatay. Sunod ay sinuot niya ito sa sarili niya upang magamit sa binabalak niyang pagtakas.

Hecate turned the knob at the highest possible brightness that the device could handle. And without any hesitation she pulled out her two guns, loaded with the special sleeping serum as bullets and gunned down everyone standing in the middle of the whole tunnel.

Walang anu-ano ay malalakas na putok at palitan ng bala ang narinig sa buong lugar. Isa-isang tumutumba ang mga kalalakihan sa kabilang banda ni Hecate.

She ran as fast as she could while easily avoiding Gin's spray of bullets. Hindi niya mapigilan ang pagtawa. Seeing that there were only three people standing, she felt good.

"What now Gin?" panunukso ng babae habang tumatakbo papalapit sa gigil na lalaki.

When she got a little bit close, she aimed her two guns at them and in a blink of an eye, only Gin was left standing.

Bakas sa mukha ng lalaki ang pagtataka dahil sa panandalian na pagtigil niya sa pagbaril. But when he decided to finish her off, all he could see was the bright light that was walking directly at him.

Her cold chilling voice haunted him, "I'm so close Gin, can you see me?" Sinadya niya pang asarin ang lalaki. She knew for a fact that he's blinded by the bright light and could not see a thing. He's even aiming at the wrong direction.

"Too bad," she whispered directly in his ear, standing right behind him, she aimed the gun to his butt and teasingly said, "Good night Gin."