Chapter 98 Ongoing Undercurrents

The twenty people in front of Jack were surprised that Jack wanted them to form a private team. And although they were surprised, they found nothing strange about that. At the end of the day, they had already seen teams being formed several times.r

More so, they had seen this when they were going to guard a special person or they were going to guard a certain rich man's building.r

All the same, they were excited to be chosen. They themselves didn't know the prerequisites of being chosen as there were no tests, Denali had simply pointed them out after looking at them for a moment.r

"Do you agree to that? If not, you can say it earlier so that we can find a replacement for you as early as now." Jack asked again to confirm.r

"We agree!" The twenty men and women shouted in response.r

Jack nodded. He then said, "As a private team, you'll be having special training. But, that will have to wait till next month before you start gaining some of the benefits. There are some that you'll receive from this moment but, there are others that will have to wait for a moment."r

"I'm going to give you a first mission. On Sunday, I would like you all to be in Inchoate city. There's a group of gangsters that are causing trouble there. I would like you to deal with them." Jack stated as he looked at the group.r

Upon seeing their confused gazes towards him, he knew what they were thinking and said, "Don't take this team like the ones that you had formed before. The team that has been formed today won't be broken. Although there might be other teams, this team will exist. In other words, the private security teams that are formed won't be doing the contracted work like the ones that the previous teams had been doing."r

"You'll be doing the missions that you'll be assigned at a particular time. Your salary will stay the same even if you don't have a mission during that month. But, there will be bonuses after the completion of each mission." Jack continued.r

The group once again became ecstatic. From Jack's words, they were going to have guaranteed payment. And, from the example of the mission that Jack had given them, they could already tell that it wasn't as dangerous as the one that would involve guns.r

"Okay then. You'll be heading towards inchoate city tomorrow. The mission will be carried out on the following day. So, I hope that you can use this day to get prepared. After the mission, you can stay there till the preparations for the special training are completed." Jack continued.r

He talked about a few more things and about his plans for this security team. As for the name of the team as well as their captain, Jack told them to decide it among themselves.r

Since he was done with this, Jack left with Denali. They parted after reaching the hotel. Jack had already received the call from Brightway Medical Research Centre to confirm the successful purchase of the remaining shares. All that was left was to sign the contract.r

It was for that reason that he was supposed to go back to inchoate city as early as possible before rushing to the Central province. As for Denali, she was going to the headquarters of Good Vision Security Limited to prepare for the merging process.r

But, that was just the preparations as the issue concerning the pills will come first. After the body strengthening pills were produced successfully, the merging would start under the supervision of Denali.r

If possible, Jack would have left venture city on this day. But, he had to stay as by the following day, Calvin would be done with purchasing the grocery stores. There was no way that he could simply leave without making sure that everything was in position.r

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Crystal city, Alfonso mansion.r

"Dalton, where's Jack? You were supposed to have brought him here by now." Victor frowned as he looked at Dalton who was standing in front of him.r

"Father, there seems to be something that I didn't expect. Jack seems to have left inchoate city. As to where he is, we absolutely don't know where he went as he didn't tell his guards when he left and when he would come back." Dalton replied.r

He was working hard to make sure that he found Jack. But no matter how hard he tried, he simply couldn't find any information about where he went.r

Jack had left on the Eurocopter of his. Although Grace, Celine and Haman knew that Jack had gone to venture city, Dalton had no idea that they knew and neither did he know that they knew Jack.r

"So what are you going to do? You already signed an agreement with Master Alton. So, there's no way that you can get out of this. If Jack happens not to be found, our family will be done for." Victor said as anger began surfacing.r

He was even doubting himself if he had really made the right decision by making Dalton the family head. After all, he had simply expelled someone from the family without even consulting him.r

What's even more demeaning of his choice was the fact that the one that he'd expelled from the family was his own son. Although he was trying to save his position, he just made things worse.r

Although none of them had expected that there was someone that would come to ask for Jack to marry into their family, at least Victor thought that Dalton's decision this time was really unwise.r

If it was just a matter of expelling Jack from the family, he himself, being that he never liked Jack, he would have already expelled him from the family. But, all this while, he never did that.r

It wasn't that he was afraid of something, it was just that, at the end of the day, no matter if they expelled Jack or not, one thing won't change, and that was the fact that he had the blood of the Alfonsos running deep inside his veins.r

"I'm still trying to know of his whereabouts. I'm using all the power that I have to know. Furthermore, I'm investigating his actions at the time that he was still in Inchoate city.. I'm sure that I can get a clue." Dalton replied confidently.r

"Look here Dalton, no matter what, you have to make sure that Jack is brought here. You know, the engagement hasn't been made official yet. Who knows when master Alton will decide to make it official? It might be tomorrow, or maybe next week. So, Jack has to get found and brought here, the earlier the better." Victor instructed before leaving.r

Dalton thought for a moment and decided to make a call. "Hello Kevin, I would like to request for a favor from you."r

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Inside the Alfonso mansion, inside one of the bedrooms.r

Brenda sat in front of a mirror as she looked at her reflection. Currently, she was wearing a V-neck beige dress. Her eyes were sharp, all the previous hints of playfulness couldn't be found.r

'I have to do something to make sure that Jack doesn't get married to that family. If he marries that lady, I'm sure that he's going to take revenge for all that has happened to him all this while.' She thought to herself.r

She looked at her nails that were clean but a little long. After playing with them for a while, she continued thinking, 'I can't go to inchoate city due the bet. Although Off-track Racers seems to only ban a person from racing competition, they would definitely make my life hard.' r

'At the end of the day, I don't participate in racing. Otherwise, the punishment for breaking my end of the bet wouldn't be anything to me.'r

She pursed her lips as she began thinking of what to do next. 'Steve has already began his punishment. No matter where he goes, it's like trouble is following him. His life hasn't been easy in these past few days.'r

'Since I cannot go there, I can as well send someone else, someone that will be able to deal with Jack. Even if I have to kill him to make sure that he doesn't come back here, I'll do it.'r

'Maybe he can't remember anything at this moment. But, once he remembers anything related to his mother, I'm sure that chaos are going to erupt here. And, things will get worse the moment that he gains a powerful backing.'r

'Although it may be cruel, little brother, you'll have to forgive me this time. I absolutely cannot allow you to come back here and neither can I allow you to get married to someone with a big background. The only solution now seems to be…. Eliminating you from this world!'r

….r

Jack had no idea that there were several plans that were aimed at him at this moment. They were either to force him back to where he hated the most, or….to erase his existence from this world.r

And, all of this came from a single reason, the engagement between him and Wendy that was planned by Alton but suggested by Wendy.r

If Jack knew about this and knew about the reason for being targeted, he would surely make sure to keep his distance from Wendy. Although she did nothing intentionally, it was just that if she was closer to him, she became his calamity magnate.r

….r

On Saturday, after making sure that everything in the grocery stores that he'd just bought were in position and could easily be taken over by Grace when she came here, Jack was finally ready to leave venture city.r

He headed to where he had landed before when he came here with Gabriel Wadi. He had left that guy alone all this while and he wasn't sure how he was doing.r

As a pilot, it was a sure bet that he would be someone that enjoyed flying. For him to stay in a single place for almost a whole week, it would surely be torturous for him.r

In any case, Jack wasn't worried that Gabriel would lack accommodation and so on. At the end of the day, he had already made the required payment to have him by his side as a pilot for a whole year.r

When he arrived there, he found that Gabriel was already waiting for him. He had already informed him that they were leaving on this day. As for the group of twenty that had formed the private security team, they had left early in the morning. They had chattered several helicopters to take them there.r

After he got in, he was greeted by Eko. He had actually missed this AI as he hadn't heard it for about four days already.r

"Let's get going. I still have to move around for a long time." Jack shook his head as he thought about how several of the companies were in different cities. This made him move around so much.r

"You got it boss." Gabriel replied before he flew the eurocopter out of venture city.