Chapter 27
Anton paced back and forth in the abandoned warehouse. His team was finally assembled he needed to start phase two. Queen Riley was doing way too much good for the people of Cordonia. He wondered if he should keep her as queen. He had been watching his wife Olivia so far she's been disappointing. However, the American had been more interesting then Olivia had been so far. Perhaps he'd just keep both he'd be King why couldn't he have two wives. Soon his men filed into the room filling the space as he plotted his next course of action. "Welcome men," Justin said. As he stood before the mass of male bodies.
He held his hand up bringing them all at attention. Anton smirked before saying, "As you all know I have been assessing your skill. You will find on the wall to the left a list of skills and you ranking in each one. Anyone ranking in the top three across all skills will be promoted to a superior. All superiors will be expected to train anyone whose skill level is less than five. I expect to be impressed by all of you. We have a few jobs to pull here before we move to Lythikos. Once there we will stay in one of the Nevrakis strongholds. You all have the coordinates. Next to your name on the skill list, you will see your assignment code. Find the assignment list and look for the code. Next to the code name will be your superior for the job. Once successful you are to go to Lythikos and find the stronghold. You will wait there. If you fail you will return here and I will decide if you are worthy of a second chance."
The area filled with murmurs as the men went to the boards. Each got their score and assignment meeting up with the leaders of each group. Anton spoke again saying, "Group apple will burn the orchard at Applewood. Group tumble will plant explosives at Applewood to bring the house down while they sleep. Group broadcast will be in charge of scaring the masses via live broadcast. There are two group clean up you will tie loose ends by getting rid of Madeleine and Kiara. Group capture the Queen is with me. This will take some time so we must have patience and wait until the time is right. We will continue to train and do practice drills. The two applewood groups will be up first. So you will be taken on as staff there to get familiar with the layout. Once you have planned out the fire and the explosives. I expect you to stay on staff until the nobles go to bed. At that point, you will leave the building and set off the bombs." After each event, a broadcast will appear those on team broadcast will hack the networks and find a room to broadcast in. Please choose a different location for each broadcast we need to make it hard for them to find us. We will meet at Lythikos before we launch capture the queen. We have to prepare the stronghold for holding the Queen as a prisoner. Now go get to work on the destruction of the orchard."
As the other men filed out Anton motion for his team to follow him into a back room. Once the door was closed, Anton stated, "The queen is smart we will have to make several plans to capture her. It won't be easy but it will be worth it. She has the love of all of Cordonia so I now have to include her in my plans. I am married to Olivia but I don't need her. I can take the throne by force and become King through our current Queen. I may keep Olivia for her bloodline I do need to create a strong military force. Thankfully she had an aunt too that may have a few years left in her. I plan on converting one of the towers into a suite for Riley. That is why we will head there I will have to return here to meet teams who fail. Let's get going the sooner we have a place to hold Riley the sooner we can make plans for her capture."
He led his men to Lythikos and then to the stronghold he had chosen out in the middle of nowhere. There were several small remote villages that could be reached by car or snowmobile. They went to work on a space to hold Queen Riley in one of the high towers. Once they found the best tower with access to the roof so she could go outside should she choose too. They started on the roof Anton was satisfied she wouldn't try to climb down from the roof. One of the men stepped forward asking, "Anton sir, what would the Queen enjoy up here. If she has things she'd like she'll be less likely to plot her escape." Anton nodded his head before he replied, "A fire pit for warmth, some seating for comfort and anything else you think a woman would like."
The men nodded as they got to work on the space. George realized Anton didn't really know anything about Riley. He obviously hadn't been paying attention to the women while working as her press secretary. George wanted to groan at the male he certainly was disappointed in his leader. They were capturing Riley and holding her prisoner blind. Who knew how she'd handle the imprisonment or what she'd do about it. He questioned if Anton could even pull it off. Riley already altered Anton's plan at the palace causing Anton to have to pretend to be Justin due to an injury. George shook his head and got to work he'd play along for now and decide his loyalty later. George motioned to the men and set to work on making both spaces worthy of the queen perhaps, she'd finally put an end to the violence.