Chapter #48 - A Deal
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Old men replied ,
“ See if you are here to talk about anything related to any sort of activities then I'm not the right person to talk about this ? “
Connor said ,
“ No Munro sent us here , remember the mime community leader , you met him years ago .... “
Maxwell Roth replied ,
“ Yeah ! I remembered but I don’t have any sort of business with them “
Dave said ,
“ They don’t But we have , we wanted to talk to you about something you been doing for years .... “
Max ordered his men to untie them , and said ,
“ You two come with me .... “
Dave and Connor followed him outside , when they got out it was morning , he invited them to sit down on the dinning table which was set outside , they sat and his men served them the breakfast and Max says ,
“ Eat it , don’t worry I know how to give respect to my guests .... “
Dave replied ,
“ After what you did , it’s kinda hard to believe in you .... “
Max starts laughing and said ,
“ You know I like your attitude by the way , you are a fine man .... “
Dave replied ,
“ You as well ... “
Max asked ,
“ So What is it you required ? “
Dave replied ,
“ We required your service , we wanted to convert our black money into white .... “
Max said ,
“ Will do your work , but not for free you see everything has ahhh some sort of price so I have a price as well .... “
Dave asks ,
“ What do you required ? “
Max replied ,
“ Well What I required if you willing to do so then your money will be washed in no time .... “
Dave asks ,
“ Will do our best if it’s money then we will worth you while ... “
Max replied ,
“ I don’t have interest in money , I want you to do a job in return .... “
Connor ask ,
“ What is it ? “
Max said ,
“ Well I have a convoy full of drugs , delivering to my clients in St Louis , so I want you guys to escort that convoy in exchange I will do your work .... “
Dave didn’t replied for a while and thought about it then replied ,
“ Alright ! Will do your work , just tell us the time and location .... “
Max said ,
“ Well after 2 hours your convoy will be leaving from here and I will provide you some of my best men as well so you can’t get any problem escorting it .... “
Dave asked ,
“ What are dangers ? Who we will be facing ? “
Max replied ,
“ My rival Leon Portage , he wants to crack this deal for his profits but the deal was sealed with me and now he wants to damage my deal , so that’s why I required someone like you to take care of it .... “
Dave asked ,
“ Have you know anything about us ? “
Max replied ,
“ Well quiet a lot I did some research and asked my resources as well .... “
Dave said ,
“ Alright ! “
Dave and Connor gets up from the table , Max said ,
“ My men will take you to the warehouse .... “
His men took him to the warehouse where they were loading the drugs , Max man said ,
“ Well hello ! My name is Sam , I’m the in-charge of the security here .... “
Dave replied ,
“ Don’t worry ! We will take care of the security from now on , because we are taking over it .... “
Sam said ,
“ Wait ! What ? How Sir Roth have told me to take care of it .... “
Dave replied ,
“ Ask Mr Roth , he signed us for this job and you will be working under us .... “
Sam said ,
“ Alright ! Whatever Sir Roth says , come with me so you could load your self .... “
Dave and Connor followed him , they both starts dressing up for the escort duty , they picked up some rifles and pistols , Sam brought the map of the territories and said ,
“ We have three routes , where we can head from , one is the highway but will be difficult to pass throw because of the motor way police and second is the off road where Leon portage will be ready for us to attack on us and third will be the river bank but the roads are too small and end of it we have cross the river as well that’s impossible and one more thing may be they will expecting us as well .... “
Dave heard it all and replied ,
“ Is there any other way to around ? “
Sam said ,
“ I’m afraid not because our destination is not that far but the dangers are too much .... “
Dave replied ,
“ Alright we will take the river off road .... “
Sam shocked and said ,
“ What ? We cannot cross the river .... “
Dave replied ,
“ I gotta plan for it .... “
Sam said ,
“ It’s impossible the river flow is too much our truck cannot cross it .... “
Dave replied ,
“ Just leave it to me and inform the driver as well to load quickly we have to move as soon as possible .... “
Sam replied ,
“ Alright ! “
Connor asked ,
“ What are you trying to do Dave ? “
Dave replied ,
“ I’m believing , and wants to be a believer of I can do anything .... “
Connor said ,
“ You have changed a lot bud ! It’s good to see your confidence back on track .... “
Dave replied ,
“ I haven’t started yet bro .... “
After a hour they have loaded the trucks with drugs and Dave have informed everyone what to do , they start moving Dave was sitting in the front car with 4 men inside the car and Connor was sitting in the end of the car with three men and rest of them in other car and 2 in the truck . Dave checked once again and when he’s satisfied , he signals everyone to move , while they were heading towards the off road river route , driver ask Dave ,
“ That road is dangerous sir , not because of the river but for the hoods as well , they steal everything who ever passes that territory last month few of my friends went there for spending some time as picnic but found dead next morning .... “
Dave replied ,
“ If that’s the case then we will kill every last one of them who attack us .... “
Slowly the convoy heading towards his destination when the reached the off roads , Dave told driver to stop the car , Dave got off the car and checked everything , he asked Connor ,
“ Everything fine in there ? “
Connor replied ,
“ Yeah ! Everything so far good .... “
Dave told everyone and shouts ,
“ Guys ! Turn on your radio , I want every single details upon you hand , if you see anything strange inform on radio as soon as you can , Alright let’s move ... “
Dave and everyone get inside the car , starts moving when they got into the river valley , they starts talking on radio and informing everything they see , while moving Connor saw a child waving his hand towards them , Connor informed Dave regarding it , Dave replied ,
“ Keep your eye on him .... “
Connor kept his eye on him but suddenly he picks up a bazooka and aimed at them , Connor soon as he sees , he shouts on radio ,
“ CAREFUL HE GOT A ROCKET ! “
Connor speeds up his car towards the truck and Dave slowed his speed so that if he hits the truck the impact should not be damaging , the truck driver speeds up the car and escapes , Dave ordered everyone on radio to get there guns ready in case of any attack , they saw some vehicles coming at them , Dave ordered everyone to fire at them , everyone starts firing at them while moving , they burst the tyres of cars and drove there car straight into those car and turning them upside down , when they thing the threat is over , they got back into there old formation , but they didn’t know in there way , there was a mine and when Dave’s car passed the mine, Dave’s car exploded but didn’t happened anything to them because of bomb proof , they quickly got off the car but the hoods were heading towards them , when Connor saw them coming they got off the car and starts firing at them to cover Dave and others to be safe . The driver got injured his leg and Dave tried to get him out of the car but the hoods were firing consistently at them , Connor closely went towards the Dave’s car and said ,
“ Dave ! We can’t hold them , they surrounded us in all directions .... “
Dave didn’t replied and tried to help the driver when he unplugged the seats he drop on his foot which was broken , Dave quickly pushed him outside in the cover of the rocks , Dave picked his gun and got out of the car , Dave said ,
“ 3 men will stay with me here , we will take care of them , just head towards the river valley of crossing and wait for us there .... “
Connor replied ,
“ Are you crazy Dave ? You will gonna get killed .... “
Dave said ,
“ Just do as I said , go now wait for me just for 3 hours and please take care of my wife if I won’t come back .... “
Connor replied ,
“ You are crazy Dave ... “
Connor got his men gathered in the car and told driver to drive carefully towards the river valley crossing , Connor carefully got the driver escorted towards the car and then head towards the valley , Dave and his 3 men covering them and taking shots in multiple directions , there was a car behind of them where they have taken the cover and a big rock in front of them where Dave was firing towards the south man and other 2 were firing at north side , the hoods were surrounding them from every direction and they were consistently trying to push them but couldn’t do that , his men James said ,
“ It’s not helping , at this rate we will be running out of ammo .... “
Dave replied ,
“ Just a little longer .... “
But suddenly James got hit in the head and fall down on the ground , Dave went towards his body and checked him , he’s been dead , Dave said ,
“ Just a little longer if you required ammo picked his ammo ... “
Dave kept shooting after few minutes some of the hoods start backing off and stopped shooting , Dave starts killing them one by one who were running and soon they all ran away , James dead body was laying in front of them , his friends prayed for him and ran towards the river valley .
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