Chapter 80 I Have To Find Her

“Alpha, we received the report from Papeno,” Samuel said as he rushed into the war room.

James had purposely kept Romero away from today‘s meetings until we received this info. It was only my men and the king in the war room.

“Go ahead,” I said.

“We confirmed that military vessels have been sighted.”

I sneered, “As expected.”

James turned to me. “So you think Romero is allowing them to restock and refuel on his island?”

James and I had suspicions as to Romero‘s strategy. If he had been playing both sides of the field, most likely, he would have made the same deal with Kal as he did with us.

My gut was telling me he was lending some small islands to Alpha Kal for their military operations.

“Logically, it explains our problems.” | paced back to the map. “There‘s an open ocean between Kal and us. If they didn‘t have a middle point, they would need more large cargo ships to carry the smaller vessels, which we would have been able to locate as soon as they entered our waters.”

Turning back to face James, I continued, “But we didn‘t, because those ships are much smaller. But that means they need to be restocked and refueled somewhere much closer to us.”

James responded, “Even if that‘s the case, there‘s no value in confronting him. We still need to work with him.”

“True. Especially since Romero could just say those are his own ships.”

Most importantly, we didn‘t want to alert him to the fact that we were on to him.

“How many vessels are there?” I asked Samuel.

“We saw four, but we estimated two more to be on patrol.”

James and I exchanged a look– six ships. Someone higher in rank had to be around to oversee their operation.

“Were you able to locate which island their leader might be stationed on?”

“No, Alpha. Papeno is not a single island; it‘s a group of them. While we could see several naval bases, they were guarded by Romero‘s men. Kal‘s commander could be on any of the nearby islands.”

I looked at James, silently asking if that was enough evidence to order a trip to Romero‘s islands.

After a moment, he nodded his head,

I took over the meeting and laid out the operation plan.

“I need a team of thirty, divided into three groups–twelve, twelve, and six. The goal of this mission is to assassinate the target in charge of the operations around Papeno. Additionally, we are here to obtain a detailed map of the islands and where their supplies are. If needed– if we fail to achieve our primary objective–then, in the future, we can send men to destroy their supplies.”

James never interfered with my work. Once I got his go–ahead, I was fully in charge of the operation.

“We‘ll blend in as civilians. Group A will get to Avondale on day two and plan the best route to Papeno. Group B will get to Avondale on day four and locate the target island. Group C will meet with Group B on day six, approach the target, and execute the assassination.”

“Blend in how?” James interjected.copy right hot novel pub