Chapter 206 - Our Next steps

17 February, David Hwang's Villa, City K

David, was sitting in his breakfast room waiting for his staff to show Robert in. They needed to discuss their next moves, but at the same time he knew there were things in their plans he needed to keep to himself to provide Robert with plausible deniability if they were caught.

Hearing a knock on the door, it opened in and in walked Robert. Standing up, David said "Cousin."

Embracing him in a hug, Robert added "Cousin," before drawing back, and taking a seat in the room.

Reading the look on Robert's face, David said "We can talk freely. The household staff will not bother us, and my tech staff have already swept the room."

"You understand how paranoid I am, given last night."

"I do, how dare we be interrupted when it is known that I am involve with Abigail"

"Now you understand the idiots I have to deal with. I must figure out how to deal with them, given that they have all been promoted to Colonel's. My problem is that if when I finally gain my long overdue promotion, I will not have seniority, given they were promoted before me."

"Do not worry, Robert. The government presently want to keep me on side. Like you, the government do not see what our parents did as an issue, as they believe children should not be punished for the sins of heir parents and that we were in government care long enough that we did not fully comprehend what happened with our parents. The reason is the various IT projects that we are doing for it, including the significant IT upgrade that we are doing for the military, and my team are the only ones that have the complete skill set to do so. I can use that to mention that my team do not get along the current liaison and that we cannot continue with him in place. That will allow me to put forward names to replace him…"

"Giving names of those three to get rid of one or two of them…"

"You are getting the idea. I know that does not deal with the issues surrounding seniority, but it should aid in securing your position here with the special forces. You know how important that it to our plans." David saw Robert nodding. "Plus, I am able to use the public knowledge of the fact that reconnected after several years apart, to mention if there is talk of you being redeployed to keep you here."

"In other words, you will use the fact that they will not want to annoy you too much. Clever thinking." Robert paused, and looked at David "Tell me what is going on with Abigail Mo, other than securing your position in society here. Unless your type of woman has changed so much from when we were younger, she is nothing like what you like?"

"You have that right. But her family have been throwing her in my path, and of all the women that have been trying to connect to me, over the last few months with my occasional forays into society here, she is not only honest but straightforward. In the end, I need to fit in with society and since I cannot do that with the type of woman I like, she will do. But you can talk."

"Career cousin, career. Unlike you, if I form a relationship my partner must be approved by the military, and do you think I want that scrutiny of my life? It has the potential of too many risks and could end up having seen me shifted to somewhere useless to us."

"No, but we can use my connections…"

Robert, shaking his head quietly responded, "Do you think I want your rejects?"

Laughing David responded "No, but if my tastes have not changed, I doubt your tastes have changed, and to be realistic there are a few women there that meet your requirements."

"But would they pass scrutiny? And more importantly would we be able to trust them?"

"They want access to money…"

"But that is you, not me. And talk about risks to our plan, what about Abigail Mo?"

"She has made it clear that she does not want to know my business, so I can keep her to one side. But we need to stop talking about women, what happens will happen, but we both will act to protect our plan. There are more important things to talk about now."

Picking up a cup of coffee, Robert took a sip and said "What?"

"I have a meeting today…"

"And not the business you need people digging into?"

"True. I have the group that will allow us to achieve our goal. They are not connected to anything that intelligence believes that I am aligned with…"

"True, everything within the systems indicates that they believe you and those close to you are driven by an extremist Islamic ideology and will look for people connected to you connecting with similar groups."

"That is key to what I have done. Divert them to think one way, while quietly seeking out the perfect group to be able to act. Gangsters is the best way to describe this group, but they are not that simple. They are into weapons and people smuggling, and several other illegal activities. The one thing they do not do, is traffic drugs. They want to take down the government, and therefore their people can be used as cannon fodder, trying to do damage while my men do the real work to destroy the government."

"Are you talking about the Gong cartel?"

"I am."

"Just be a little careful. Lexi Yao's former mother-in-law was a Gong before she was married. I know there was a security screening of her in-law's family due to some custody matter regarding her son."

"Interesting, maybe that is something I can use."

"David, please do not get distracted, we are so close to our goal. If it helps us use that information, but…"

"Do not risk things. I am not that stupid. I needed to get rid of ISX and the actions regarding the Yao family were for that. Any remnants that survived will go down for that."

Their conversation drifted off further into other matters, before David farewelled Robert as he headed to his meeting.

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