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BLURB

Rose is a black ops agent with a dark past. She isn't just any black ops agent, but she is part of the Reapers, a group of super soldiers.

A trafficking cartel, Python ravages the city of Lagos. Rose has two mission, to destroy the leader of python and running away from her past.

Things doesn't go as planned when she meets Nahum, the CEO of a real estate company connected to the Cartel.

PROLOGUE

The gun went off and Umar Musa falls to the ground. A bullet in his head. The smile he wore few seconds ago has vanished. His body falls to the cold tiles. A fitting end for a cold man. I feel the surge of victory course through my veins and a sudden sharp pain in my chest.

“Medic! Medic!” I hear a husky male voice scream and then his voice seems to fade, but not before I heard the crunch of boots against the floor. I feel something hard hit me on the side. My vision gets blurry. I see Umar Musa's lifeless face again, but this time we are lying face to face. I realize I fell to the floor too. One of his bullets must have hit me. I am going to die.


People say their lives flash before their eyes, and I want to remember the good things before I go. But everything comes rushing back to me, even the parts I don’t want.  That's when I saw her–the girl I used to be.

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CHAPTER ONE

 The music from the speakers blared loudly. I glide past the bodies dancing in Ace club to my target–the Red room.

“Rose, there are five men in the room. Retrieve the hard drive and leave no witnesses” Colonel Jacob voice fill my ear through the hidden earpiece I am wearing.

“Yes sir”. I steady the tray of Hennessy in my hands. I approach Tony and Edward the bouncers that guard the Red room.

“Order for the guests” I lean in and whisper into Tony’s ears. He's the more gullible one. I've worked at the Ace club for four months, gathering intel on Smoke, the leader of a drug cartel in Lagos.

“They don't want to be disturbed” Edward grunts. It's all w front, I see the way he looks at me when he thinks I'm not looking.

“Eddie calm down. I need to get lucky tonight” I rest my hands gently on his shoulders. “Who knows you might get lucky too”

“You have 5 minutes” He unlocke the door and let's me in.

There are six men instead of five. The Intel is never wrong, but I can't signal Jacob right now.

I drop the drink on the centre table gracefully.  I recognize smoke, with a burn scar on the right side of his face. He is signing some papers with the sixth unaccounted man.

“Mr.Amaechi, it was nice doing business with you. We expect the contracts done by May”.

I scan the room for the black briefcase he is to exchange with Brutus, the right hand man of another notorious cartel. Dirt and information the military needs to sentence them.

I move with the bottle to pour a drink for Brutus who tapped his glass asking for a refill. 

“It's a pleasure working with you.  The Granite always delivers, there is no worries” the man is surprisingly young. I'm curious to how he met someone like Smoke. He has a sweet smile, it makes me feel he didn't deserve to be here. I swore to protect the innocent, but I haven't always been able to.

“Rose,  what's your situation” Jacob’s voice interrupts my thoughts. Too bad, orders are orders.

I smash the bottle against Brutus’ head and stab him in the neck. I take his gun and in few minutes the others are down.

Bang! A gun goes off behind me and I feel a sharp pain in my back. I turn and find Smoke standing, and I shoot him in the head.

 I reach Smoke and pull the briefcase from the table. I clean his bloody thumb and unlock the box. The hard drive seats in the middle. I take it and close the box.

The room is sound proof and my team tech specialist Ajayi told me I would have 5 minutes from when I entered for him to disable the cctv. 

“Ahh..” I hear a groan behind me and turn to shoot. Mr.Amaechi is holding his heading as he tries to sit up. I squeeze the cold metal of the gun, but I can't pull the trigger.

I tuck the hard drive into a strap around my thigh under my short gown. I see his black file bag on the floor and pick it up. I drag him up without wasting time. A pieecing pain in my back remind me of the bullet lodged somewhere in my spine.

“Give me your jacket” I say to him.  He hands it over quickly. I hope it would cover up the blood for as long as we need to get out of here. 

“You weren't supposed to be here. There is another door that leads to the inner suits. You will pretend to be a client and we will slip out” I say quickly.

“What? I… I can't. Are you crazy? You just killed these people! Why should I trust you?” his eyes darts to the limp bodies on the floor.

I hold his chin firmly and turn his face back to me.

“You can trust me or walk into the club and die! Smoke has men surrounding this place, you think you would make it out alive?!” He shuts up which is good than him having a panic attack.

“Just follow my lead” he does so as we slip through the back door and past other VIP clients enjoying a private show. He covers his eyes with his hands. I keep our pace fast until we are out of the building.  I remove my black wig and dump it in a recycle bin.

“Where is your car?” I whisper to Amaechi.

“Outside the gate”. I feel like hitting him, of all the place to park.

“I wasn't supposed to be long” he says in defense reading my expression. We walk to the gate. I try to think of a way to keep them from chasing us if they think we're the suspects.

I turn to Mr.Amaechi and pull him in for a kiss. He tries to push me away. We are close enough for the guards to see us. 

“Don’t be stupid” I warn him. I kiss him again and he pulls me closer to himself. For a moment I wished I wasn't trying to run for my life. He let me go and I hear the guards laughing at us, a cue that my plan worked.

I wrap my hands around Mr.Amaechi.

“Oga open gate. My client is not patient o”. 

“We know” said one of them and the others burst into laughter. 

The guards laughing suddenly stops. He places his hands to his ears. He is getting orders and his expression darkens. 

I don't breathe for what seem like forever. Mr. Amaechi grips my waist. He is not helping right now,  but I can't tell him.

We can't wait around any longer. I start to walk towards the gate and they open up.

“Let the girl pass, after them lock the gate”. And we were out of Ace club. He ran and I followed, sprinting till we were out of breath. 

“which one is your car?”

“The Ferrari” he point to the black car.

“The what?” I didn't expect someone like him would drive something so expensive let alone park it outside. 

Once inside, he got the car into full speed. 

He has good control of the car even at high speed. 

“Stop” I said noticing Jacob standing by the SUV. I pull off his jacket and dump it in the back seat.

Mr. Amaechi noticed him too. “who are you people?” he asked. His pupils were still dilated from the rush. He will recover eventually. 

“People you don't need to know Sir” I get out of the car and meet Colonel Jacobs. 

Mr Amaechi’s Ferrari purrs to life again and he drives off.

“Hard drive?” he asks

“Yes" I pull it out of my thigh strap and give it to him.

“Who was that?” Jacob looks a me through slit eyes.

“My escape ride” I lie.

“You were told not to engage with too many people tonight”

“I didn't” I lie.

“Good. You should rest. Write a report, the General doesn't like waiting”

“After I get this bullet out”. I show him my back. He gets a first aid box out of the SUV and swiftly takes the bullet out.

"Agghh" I yell. My voice echoes through the empty road.

The muscles around the wound begin to contract like they do when the healing starts.

“At least this time you didn't jump off a building or crash into a trailer” Colonel Jacob says and shakes his head.

“Just because you can't die doesn't mean you should jump head first into danger” he says he closes the first aid box.

“Yes sir” I say, I didn't feel up for arguing tonight. We enter the SUV.

Ajayi sits inside working on his laptop as always.  “You did good as always no man left”. He says without looking up from the screen.

I freeze at his words. I remember Mr Amaechi saying he didn't think he would take long. I realize that Mr.Amaechi must have entered immediately after Ajayi messed with the cctv. Smoke’s real meeting had.been with Brutus.

“Yeah, I need a break as a reward”. I relax and laugh. They both join me

“Maybe we can go for a drink on Friday.” Jacob says and fixes his eyes on me.

“I don't want to”. Friday is Benjamin’s birthday.  He was my boyfriend. He died on a mission. Now Jacob thinks its his job to look after me.

“He wouldn't want you living this way. Like a shadow of yourself” I say nothing.

“He was my best friend too. But we have to move on” he stops talking after that. I fall asleep and i have a dream. In it I almost pull down a mask covering the face of the man who had pulled the bomb trigger that ended Ben’s life and the hostages