I came out the next morning and saw Cleo was yelling at her ex. He said that she shouldn't molly coddle her son. He has to be out there experiencing things. She said that the half-way house he is in is located near a crime dense area. Her worst nightmare is that she will have to arrest own son or get the news of his demise. He brushed it off as a life lesson. The man said that their son needs to get a life. Part of me wanted to slap the stupidity out of him. But I remembered that I am here on an undercover mission so I can't blow my cover. The two spent another ten minutes yelling before she kicked him out of her house. She looked at me and went back to cooking breakfast. I sat by the counter and gave her an idea. Get him a girlfriend and he will move anywhere she wishes. I did that with a stubborn friend and he moved out all by himself. She gave me a look and I told her to give it a try. She said that he likes a girl. So I told her that we have to go out and approached her. After twenty minutes of arguing back and forth she decided to play along. We approached the girl with a proposal. She liked the idea and decided to help. By lunchtime her son called to declare that he is officially moving out of the area as he got a job with a decent apartment. Cleo gave me a hug as she ran to call all her friends to spread the good news.
I got a job as a bike messenger and I would make deliveries everywhere. I made a few friends and enemies. At night I would still use sign language to converse with my buddies on the dark web. The reason I do this is because I live in the home of a police officer and an efficient one too. So usually there is a bug or two slipped here and there by known enemies. So to squash my paranoia Alicia sent me the metal wand that can be used to detect bugs without making any noise to alert the enemy and a box shaped electric device that can detect where this city was this person was eavesdropping. I began with the stuff that Henry gave me. In fact there were five bugs in the duffel bag alone. Two in the backpack he gave me. Not to mention a webcam too but luckily I had kept the backpack in the cupboard so no one saw anything. The listener was not far away either. Tanya managed to find out what the listener looked like. In no time a few of her buddies made a false nine one one call and had him detained. I was so insulted by this betrayal. My buddies were so impressed by my instincts that they decided that they are going to keep the sign language thing as a permanent fixture. Regretfully Henry was placed in the suspect pool too. I didn't like it but until this creep is caught measured optimism is best.
I found a message from Cheryl asking the authorities to find me as soon as possible. She is scared that sharks ate me or I may have drowned. I did say that I will be out in the sea most of the time. DD called to say hi. Henry said DD that he was wondering what possessed me to go into the sea after all those horror stories he had mentioned during time in service. DD said that I am targeted by the relatives of the people who I have imprisoned. I had systemically removed so many of them to paint a permanent bull's-eye on my back. This is a process that must be done subtly. I told DD to be extra careful with Henry as I texted Wic with a different burner phone and he texted back that he has people to keep an eye on Henry and the other members of my husband's security. The conversation between me and dearest went on for another few minutes before I heard yelling and I had to hang up. I did send a few kisses to my hubby. Turns out the bastard ex of Cleo was back for round two. Lord help me I wish that I could beat the snot out of this guy as he seemed adamant on keeping his own kid in the danger zone of all places. So I asked Zoya if there was some sort of inheritance in his name. It turns out that the ex's family had left the ex with nothing but the ex's son was getting a hefty amount of money and two huge mansions with extended gardens and the works. This creep is only going to see a fraction of the money if his son dies. So he is trying to get him killed without doing the dirty work himself. I waited till he left to tell her a rumor that I allegedly heard while I was taking a lunch break. She called her ex-in-laws and they verified it. She gave me a thank you smile and called me her good luck charm. Her phone buzzed but she hit ignore before she made up her mind and started calling people who will protect her son while keeping an eye on him. I did the same. I needed an ally in the police department and she was it.
I was enjoying breakfast when I found a package by the door. I used the wand and discovered no bug so I opened it. It was a music box. I decided to use the bug detector after I came home. I hopped on my bike and drove carefully to work. The boss was munching on a crunchy chicken sandwich. A few pieces of lettuce fell off and crumbs were littered all over his desk. He brushed his sleeve to push the debris to the floor as he searched the humongous pile for the parcels for me to deliver. I had Tanya tweak the list so I would go to different area each day and plant bugs to track this guy. She commissioned an army of hackers to track down this dweeb. In exchange I do favors. For example torture or kill. I would get an update every five minutes. Each time a different person would respond. After a month of implanting bugs we were about to give up when we got a hot tip. It was the wheelchair dude I had tagged the day I came to L.A. The dude said that he found a target that the Marshals had protected. The target was at Toluca Lake. He was guarded by a few armed men and women. This conversation was sent to me in real time. I called the guys for a shopping list. I was in front of the desk so I started coughing violently so I was the day off. I walked to the bus station and got off two stops later. A motorcycle picked me up and I was transported to the location.
A woman in camping outfit gave me my stuff. I put on camouflage uniform and used the green war paint before my team showed me the satellite footage. The route would take half an hour if I am extremely careful but if I am stupid then it will the last anyone hears from me. I walked through streams and other landscape till I saw the ridge where the drone showed a man lying down. A close up showed that he was a sniper. The trip to reach him took another twenty minutes. The team watched as I snuck behind the sniper and my guys copied and duplicated his voice in case it was necessary I had to say something. The go ahead to kill the sniper was given after he shut up. I took a deep breath as I shot him in the back of his head. Then I took my position and I waited till the bad guys were in view. I took a deep breath as I was confirmed by my people and I started to shoot them dead. I realized that these guys were cocky since they sent only one vehicle while only guy on the look out. So I asked very nicely to check for drones and they found two not far off. So my guys used their own drones and whacked these pests. I made sure to hit the passenger in shotgun next one to die was driver. The vehicle started to swerve and hit the tree. I hid as one of our drones dropped a explosive device. I asked the guys to remove the drone as these guys has contingency plans. The car went boom.
I quietly got out as a new drone flew as the ear piece in my left said to find out if anything was going. I pulled it out and stuffed it into my pocket as I hid the sniper's corpse before I made my way to my people. I made it clear that a new drone has come to help the bad guys. I had Tanya to call Jake to warn him and his associates to shift the client away immediately. I had put the new ear piece to make it back to my people. As soon I saw the motorcycle I stepped on the earpiece so nobody can track it. My driver gave me a cellphone. Tanya asked me, "What you want done now." I made it clear that we need to swoop down and nab the guy who was assistance these monsters. So Tanya said, "Roger that. Nab the dude in the wheelchair. Who does the inquiry? Or do we switch to torture?" I said, "Just start with general inquiry. If that fails then switch to torture." We quickly jumped on our rides and head back to our homes before any new unpleasantness came calling. My guy drove me to my apartment building and he gave me a small candy bar. He gave me a wink and drove off to wherever. The new password was Tigris. Why I was given that is anyone's guess. I walked back to my apartment and saw that the apartments in the corridor was blasting music loud. It felt like the door might tip over. I took a deep breath until I reached my door and fished out the noise cancelling headphones. It took too long to come to life.