Assassin (The Billionaire Series) (34 page)

Chapter 90

It was 10.00 p.m. and they still had nothing to go on. Nobody
was saying anything but everybody was very jumpy. Something was going to happen
that night. They could all sense it but they had absolutely no evidence to
support it.

Two phones then rang at the same time. They all checked to see
if it was theirs. It was Tom and Zach’s. They both took the calls but said
little. They nodded and ended their calls at almost the same time.

Zach turned to the group, a look of horror on his face. He
managed to stammer.

“The Delta Force group aren’t Delta Force. The real group is
on a boat crossing the Atlantic.”

“So who the hell is protecting Camp David?” asked Donald.

“The bad guys!” screamed Zach.

“Dear god! Saki!!!” shouted Donald but Saki was already
moving. The helicopters were on their way and would be there within four
minutes.

“What about your call, Tom?” asked Lela.

“We need to speak to the President. It seems that his
presidential advisor, a Charles Beaumont, owns the phone line which dealt with
the lawyer.”

“Jesus! What next?” exclaimed Donald.

“We’ve also tracked down the Migs. They were from the US.”
said Tom. Relaying the second piece of information Daniel had given him.

“The US don’t have Migs, that’s ridiculous,” said Tristan.

“No it’s true, I never thought to check ours. We bought twenty
one from Moldova after the USSR broke up so that nobody else could buy them. If
I remember rightly, some supposedly carry nukes.”

“Yep, two have gone missing. I’m sure that if you’re the
special advisor to the President, you can get your hands on a few bits and
pieces. I suppose an experimental missile might not be out of the question
either,” explained Tom, the anger rising.

“I’ll make the call,” said Donald. “Do we have enough
evidence?”

“Yes, the phone line is irrefutable. They’ve even checked that
the line definitely goes into his apartment. With the Migs and the missile, it
should be enough for us to be taken seriously,” said Tom.

“OK, let’s give him a call,” replied Donald.

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The President received a note that an urgent call was waiting
for him in the next room. He excused himself from the table, walked through to
the adjacent room and picked up the phone.

He thanked God the man had a lot to say because for the
following five minutes, he was speechless. Donald Kennedy explained to him how
the Delta Force team were fake and that his Presidential aide was behind
everything. The President thanked Donald profusely and said that he would call
him back in five minutes. He called Beaumont.

“Get your ass over here now and I mean now!!!” he screamed.

Beaumont arrived less than two minutes later. When the
President told him what had happened, he had remained perfectly calm. In fact,
he had remained calm right up until the President told him who the caller had
been. It was the first time the President had seen Beaumont rattled.

“Well you’re the smart ass! What are we going to do?” asked
the President.

Beaumont had to think. “Just give me a minute.”

“OK. Get them here and find out what they know and who knows it.
We can take care of it. Tell them the Delta Force team thing is correct, there
was a mistake but it was just a mix up in teams. We know all about it,
everything’s fine and you’ll send a chopper for them. They can be your guests
for the evening, they’ll love that,” said Beaumont.

The President called Donald back and relayed the message.

***

“We’d better call Saki off,” said Tom as he listened to his
father relay the President’s message.

“Excellent! A night in Camp David!” said Zach

“I’ll get to see my dad,” added Tristan.

“I don’t like it one bit,” said Lela, killing the excitement.

Neither did Saki, he didn’t turn the choppers round. They kept
going and as they neared the flight exclusion zone, they dropped height and
followed the roads. The choppers dropped them off half a mile from the
fence-line of the Camp.

***

Twenty five minutes later, Donald, Rachel, Tom, Lela, Tristan
and Zach boarded the President’s helicopter. Thirty minutes after that, they
arrived at Camp David.

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It was just after 11.00 p.m. when Donald and Tom were asked by
two secret service agents to follow them to the adjacent lodge. The rest of the
party were to wait in the lounge. They entered the President’s office and found
him standing by the fireplace.

“Donald, I can’t tell you how wonderful it is that you’re
alive.”

“Thank you, Mr President.”

“Now tell me, what’s been happening?” he asked.

Donald and Tom ran through all the evidence they had,
including Lela’s kidnap as a ransom to gain control of Alba. The President
seemed particularly interested in Lela’s escape and excused himself just as
they finished discussing it. Tom and Donald were unaware that the President was
trebling the number of guards in the lounge and had just given orders to shoot
the young girl first when the time came.

The President returned and continued to listen to their
evidence.

***
  

 
Across in the
adjoining lodge, everybody was fascinated by their surroundings, it wasn’t
every day you sat in the chairs sat on by numerous presidents. Zach’s phone
interrupted with its tell tale beep. He opened the text and looked at Lela,
trying to conceal his panic from everybody else. Lela walked over and read his
text.

‘Delta Force team not mistake. REPEAT. NO MISTAKE MADE. TEAM
AT CAMP DAVID IMPOSTORS.’

Lela said nothing. She casually got her phone and typed ‘GO’
and sent the text. Saki and the Penarajans had just been unleashed. It was
11.30 p.m.

***

Tom was beginning to grow concerned, the President was not
making notes, was not calling anybody to check details and more importantly
showed a distinct lack of surprise as to anything they said. Things did not
seem right at all. He suddenly had an idea. He asked if he could use the
bathroom.

Once there, he grabbed the phone Lela had taken from the
kidnapper. He pressed the speed dial buttons, one at a time. The fourth one
made his blood run cold. From behind the door, he heard the phone ring in
unison with the tones in his ear. It answered. Through the door, he heard the
President say hello. Through the phone, he heard a digital version of the same
hello. He hung up.

They were dead. They couldn’t take on the President of the
United State and hope to get away with it. Then it came to him, there was one
man who could potentially save them. He called him. He would be there in thirty
minutes.

Tom rejoined his father. He was going to have to drag the
evidence out a bit, they had to keep the President occupied for thirty minutes.

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Saki had broken up the Penarajans into four teams, himself,
Kano, Kisho and Papa would each lead a team. There were seven targets they knew
of, the Prime ministers of the UK and Australia, the President of France, the
German Chancellor, the Chinese Premier, the King of Saudi Arabia and the
President of the European Commission plus the Kennedys and the kids.

It was not going to be easy. Silence and stealth would be their
best weapons. Although they had other weapons too. As well as Tonfas, the
Penarajans were armed with silenced MP5 sub-machine guns with which they were
as familiar as the Tonfas. The four teams would work their way in from the four
points of the compass. With no idea where the delta team were positioned, they
would just have to pick them off as they went.

Saki gave the command to go. The Penarajans moved silently and
placing a small trampoline at the base of the fence, vaulted over it avoiding
the highly sensitive pressure pads. Once inside the fence, they worked their
way through the woods towards the buildings avoiding numerous laser beams and
pressure pads.

It was not long before they came across their first patrol of
‘Delta Force’ guards, Saki’s team being the first to encounter them. It really
was men against boys. The patrol had walked straight into the middle of ten
Penarajans hiding in the woods. Even when the ten men would wake up, they still
wouldn’t know what had hit them as they had each received an identical
knock-out blow at exactly the same time.

As the fake Delta Force were there to kill rather than
protect, the Penarajans encountered very few on their way through the woods. It
also didn’t take long for the Penarajans to work out where the targets were
housed, as seven lodges were literally surrounded by delta force guards while
the others were deserted. Each team broke into two, they would have to rescue
the leaders at precisely the same moment. The risk of any gunshots during the
rescue was too high. It was 11.58 p.m.

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Eventually, Tom and Donald concluded their case against
Beaumont.

“Very compelling, very compelling indeed,” said the President.
“In fact, I think we should put it to him and see what he says.”

“Do you think that would be appropriate?” asked Donald
innocently. Tom had not had the chance to tell him what was happening.

“I think it’s only fair,” he replied before hitting the
intercom button. “Get Beaumont in here please.”

Beaumont entered the room less than ten seconds later.

“Yes Mr President?” he asked as he entered the office,
throwing a quizzical look at Tom and Donald.

Before they could speak, the clatter of a helicopter landing
filled the office. The President hit his intercom again. “Who the hell is that?”

“Marine Two, Mr President,” responded the agent who had seen
the call sign designating that the Vice President was on board

“What the hell does he want?” asked the President.

***

The Penarajans moved in. They couldn’t wait any longer. It was
obvious that the Delta Teams were about to take out their targets. The Delta
force team did not think for a second they were in any danger and were not
watching their backs. They were sloppy and paid for it. The Penarajans swept
through them like a hurricane, the Delta Teams didn’t know what hit them. The
Penarajans had appeared from nowhere and silenced them in an instant.

Saki took ten islanders with him and headed for the last
remaining lodge. Papa organised the rest of the men, they would sweep the Camp
for any remaining Deltas.

***

“Mr Vice President, how can I help you this evening?” asked
the President, irritation evident in his voice.

“I received a rather alarming telephone call about a half hour
ago from a young man. That same young man I met two weeks ago at his father’s
funeral,” he replied pointing at Tom. He continued.

“I believe he has done some digging and uncovered some rather
startling information which he believed I ought to hear.”

Donald was now staring at Tom, realising what this all meant
and mumbled under his breath. “Bloody hell!”

Beaumont stepped forward and was about to open his mouth when
the Vice President raised his hand to stop him. He indicated to Tom to speak which
he did and explained everything they had uncovered. The Vice President then
asked him to dial the number on the phone, he did and the President’s secret
mobile rang.

***

Saki made it to the lodge where they were holding Rachel and
Lela. He could already see the Delta men were ready to shoot. Their main target
appeared to be Lela. He needed Lela to move out of the line of fire before they
attacked. He sent her a text telling her to nod three times and then dive to
her right taking Rachel with her. He readied his men and told them about the
three nod signal. He saw Lela read the text. She nodded three times and dived
down to her right, grabbing Rachel and throwing her into the legs of one the
Delta men. As he stumbled from the attack, Lela was already delivering a blow
to his head which rendered him unconscious. Saki and his men had moved exactly
at the same time as Lela, dealing with all but one of the men who managed to
raise his weapon. However, Lela had spotted him in the corner of her eye and
delivered a high kick to his gun an instant before breaking his jaw with a
punch.

Saki had everyone safe except for Tom and Donald. He left with
five of his men and made his way to the President’s office in the adjoining
lodge.

***

“If you don’t mind, Mr Kennedy, I think it’s best if you and
Tom wait outside,” said the Vice President after listening to Tom.

“I don’t think so. Just everybody wait here,” said the
President who was now fed up with proceedings. “Beaumont, get the Delta team in
here.”

Beaumont picked up the phone and buzzed Williams.

“Hello?” the phone answered.

“Williams get ten of your men to the President’s office now,”
commanded Beaumont.

“Williams is gone, all your men are gone and if you lay one
finger on the Kennedys you’ll wish for the rest of your life that I’d killed
you,” answered Saki, who had taken the Colonel’s phone.

The Vice President saw the look on Beaumont’s face and said,
“Mr Kennedy, please take Tom and wait outside. The Secret Service agents will
look after you. I have a President to arrest.”