Chapter 4

24 hours later,

"I'm surprised you didn't want Wolf with you." Sasha said as they sat in a seaside bar with a bottle of tequila and antipasto platter. As undercover ops went, this one was cushy which made her nervous. So far all they had done was go to one of Daniela's apartment in Athens, which was remarkably still intact. They changed wardrobe, did a little clothes shopping and drove to the coast where Giorgio had last been spotted and where Daniela had a seaside property.

It was a beautiful large house overlooking the overlooking the ocean. It seemed like this part of the Mediterranean had been left untouched by the plague. People around them looked like rich clientele on holidays and locals who were dolled up to suit the locality of the beautiful weather and beach.

"Just because you share blood with someone doesn't mean you can trust them or want them in your life. Also, I don't like being cockblocked." Daniela said as she downed her tequila and poured herself another shot. She'd been hitting the bottle hard and seemingly enjoying life while Azima and Sasha wished they were in something more than swimsuits and kaftans. Sasha didn't like the pretty façade, she wished she could strap a gun somewhere to her person but her outfit wasn't conducive to concealing a weapon.

"So why are we here? Why don't we go straight to your friend Giorgio?" Azima asked in a bored tone a she conspicuously took in the area through her oversized sunglasses; looking for trouble.

"Don't you just want to get drunk?" Daniela asked them before she downed a shot and gave smile enjoying the smooth burn of expensive tequila. She promised herself, she sip the next one.

"Daniela." Sasha cautioned, she could understand the woman wanting to cut loose. She'd spent 2 hours helping the woman cover bruises on her body where she couldn't reach with spray tan and concealer. Nothing could cover the scars, but then Daniela didn't care about them. She just needed to look like she hadn't gone three rounds and lost while she wore a bikini and a gauzy kimono jacket. How she could be so carefree and cheerful in such a state was beyond Sasha.

"I need to be seen in the right places, people will reach out to me. Honestly, wouldn't you be suspicious of someone crashing your parties without an invitation?" Daniela asked her.

"You said he was your friend." Azima argued, Daniela rolled her eyes at her.

'I was away with no contact for four years. I know that you're insanely hot but please try to use that grey mush between your ears." Daniela told Azima in a patronizing tone.

"Daniela Soto?" A man said from behind the woman, Sasha watched as Daniela's eyes went wide and her whole face lit up. She jumped out of her seat and turned to the man and enveloped him in a hug.

"Oh my god!" She said in joyous shock, Sasha took in the man's details. 6ft 1, brown hair and eyes, pale skin eastern European accent but she couldn't place where. He was dressed in grey slacks and a white button down shirt, his feet bare like he couldn't decide if he was here for business or to wade in the water.

"I thought you were dead!" he exclaimed, he lifted her off the ground and she made a noise that sounded half pained half joyous. He put her back down on her feet and she playful slapped her hands onto his chest.

"Petro! My god, look at you." Daniela exclaimed excitedly as she checked him over like a customer did a lobster in a Chinese restaurant for dinner.

"The children take over their parents work." he said with a smile as he didn't mind her ogling him or feeling him up.

"As it should be, you look good. Really good." She sighed as she dug her fingers into his chest enjoying the feel of his body.

"I am good, who are your friends?" Petro asked as he looked to Sasha and Azima with keen interest.

"Hm, this is Sasha and Azima. Aren't they just lush?" Daniela asked him, she rested her head on his shoulder and smiled at the women.

"They are." Petro said admiring them.

"Don't get any ideas though, they are married and not into cock." Daniela told him, Sasha subtly moved towards Azima to sell the lie as it would save the two of them from having to worry about men flirting with them.

"How long?" Petro asked them.

"3 years." Azima said she had propped her sun glasses on her head and eyed Petro with look that clearly told him to back off as Sasha was her territory.

"Love in the time of Red Flu. So Romantic, they also let me watch." Daniela told him, she bit her bottom lip and looked at them as if reminiscing something that had never happened.

"Hot." Petro said appreciatively.

"Mmm, you have no idea." Daniela told him in a delicious manner.

"I wish I did." Petro said but it seemed his interest was in Daniela given Sasha and Azima weren't on the menu. "Anyway, does Giorgio know you're here?" he asked her.

"I haven't seen him. Why is he angry at me?" Daniela asked him, she looked worried but Sasha knew better. This woman was good at putting on a show.

"What? no! he loves you." Petro assured her, completely hooked by her.

"I love him, but I didn't want to intrude if I wasn't wanted. We're just here for fun and sun, no troubles." Daniela assured him.

"Oh yeah, let me call him. I think he'd love to know you're here." Petro told her.

"Yes, Ah!" Daniela gave an excited girly squeal as Petro pulled out his mobile phone and called.

"Giorgio! My man, you won't believe the gem that has resurfaced." Petro said sliding a look to Daniela, his eye line drifting down her body and back up. He spoke in Greek for a few moments before handing the phone to Daniela.

"Papi?" Daniela said excitedly into the phone she made a small noise of excitement and joy as she giggled at whoever was on the other side of the call. Sasha watched and listened as Daniela flirted outrageously in Spanish with Giorgio over the phone. The woman was just so bubbly and happy it was hard to believe she could be a criminal, but then most people had more than one side to them.

The conversation went on for a bit until Daniela laughed and jumped on the spot. She latched onto Petro's arm smiling as she handed the phone to him.

"I missed that man. He says we can come to his party this afternoon. Swimwear optional." She told Sasha and Azima before turning to Petro who'd hung up his phone. "Isn't he just hilarious?" she asked him.

"Yeah, but be prepared. His parties can be wild." He said looking to Sasha and Azima.

"Oh don't worry, they are very open minded when it comes to women." Daniela assured him.

"We sure are." Sasha said, she wanted to roll her eyes but managed not to as Petro smiled at them all.

"We're going to propel down to ground from the helo into the front yard overlooking the cliff to the ocean." Danny said to the team as they were going over the specs one last time in the wardroom.

"Better than scaling the cliff side." Burk remarked.

"Luckily everyone is going to be at the party. Sasha assured me that the Alarm is off and we have easy access into the property. But we should secure the property given Wolf's sister is a bit of a gamble." Danny added.

"If the guy is at the party, Daniela will lure him back to her place. We step in and take him into custody. Get what he knows and go from there." Wolf said.

"Daniela, Mi Sol!" Giorgio said warmly, his arms open wide as Daniela walked up to him. His house on the beach was opened up for the party, people everywhere, the booze flowed at a ferocious rate and music played into the atmosphere. This was how the rich played in the post apocalyptic world. How Daniela had missed it so.

"Awwh, you tease me Giorgio." Daniela said as she and Giorgio embraced and kissed cheeks. Giorgio kept her wrapped in his arms as he looked into her eyes. He was just as gorgeous as she remembered him. All 5ft 10, tanned muscles and messed wavy hair, his youth showing as he was always eager to please.

"How are you?" he asked in a low voice, she bit her bottom lip and smiled as she had missed him and it felt good to be embraced, to be wanted.

"Much better now I'm in Greece. The world is just a fucking mess." Daniela told him with a roll of her eyes.

"I agree, which is why I carved out this little corner for people like you and me." Giorgio told her, his eyes lingering on her lips a little longer than the rest of her face. She knew he wanted to kiss her but was savouring the sexual tension between them.

"I love it." She told him in a low voice and sly smile.

"So who are your lovely friends?" he asked her, she turned her head to Sasha and Azima. They blended in well but there was something that was just a touch off, like they didn't completely fit in. But Daniela knew it would be overlooked because of their flawless beauty.

"This is Sasha and Azima. They helped me get out of China and to here." Daniela said as she adjusted Giorgio' collar and smoothed her hands down the front of his chest.

"I expected you sooner." He said turning his full attention to her. Fuck, it was hot when he gave her that smouldering look.

"Word to the wise; never travel to a foreign country when a pandemic erupts. They thought I was bioterrorist. How ridiculous is that?!" she asked him incredulously.

"Stupid of them given we all know you have nothing to gain from killing people. You're a lover not a fighter." He said before he kissed her. She sank into kiss, enjoying the fiery passion and pleasure drugging her, fading all pain she felt away from her mind.

"House is secure." Burk told Danny as he and Miller came into the living room after clearing the property and turning the security system on. There were cameras everywhere, so they were sweet for surveillance and the Nathan James CIC staff was overlooking the feeds to make sure nothing was missed.

"Ok, let's stay vigilant. Keep the lights off." he told them all. Burk and Miller took up their posts and Danny turned to Wolf. "How badly will she fuck us over?" Danny asked him, being blunt as he needed to know the truth.

He felt uncomfortable in the opulence of Daniela's home and couldn't help but feel there was another game playing while they worked with Wolf's sister.

"She won't, she wants to live her life. But she will probably want to break the frat rules." Wolf told him, Danny snorted a laugh as it was really down to who would be the weakest man on the ship on that topic.

"So what is the deal?" Danny asked him, they hadn't had the chance to really broach the subject until now and they had time to kill.

"Parents divorced, my father got Daniela and Mum got me. She and my father supposedly died in a car crash a year after the divorce. Turned out my Father faked their deaths for whatever reason. So I didn't know she was alive until she saved my arse four years ago." Wolf explained.

"But then she got locked up for it. What's her deal? She a killer, arms dealer or terrorist?" Danny asked.

"Honestly? I don't know, I prefer not to think about it." Wolf said, he didn't know everything but frankly he hadn't wanted to know. It made him feel guilty for not being able to save her from her own life but then she didn't look like she needed to be saved at all nor did she want to change her life.

"My money is on Burk." Danny said.

"What?" Wolf asked as Danny's comment seemed out of the blue.

"The one your sister will break down and break frat regs with." Danny quipped. Wolf made a face as he didn't need to know that.

"I heard that." Burk grumbled from his post.

"Gus, so good to see you." Daniela said as he came to her side, they kissed each other's cheeks. She'd been sifting through the party guests reacquainting herself with old contacts and acquaintances. It felt like coming home, which in this case was amazing after the barren world she'd lived in the past four years.

Now here she was standing opposite her old flame Augustus Finch. He was looking just as good as she remembered, 5ft9, blonde cropped hair, ice blue eyes and tanned dressed in board shorts and a black button down shirt which was open three buttons down. God, she just wanted to lick the column of his neck and feel his hot skin against her. Memories of their last encounter had kept her warm in her darkest hours.

"I wondered where you were." He said with a warm smile.

"You know me, I'm so easily distracted by beautiful people. Giorgio always throws a good party. Look at all these beautiful people." Daniela said as she kept her hand on his arm feeling the strong muscles. He smiled at her appreciatively as if no time had passed and their issues didn't exist.

"That he does. So where have you been?" he asked her, she moved in close to give them more intimacy in the room.

"Here and there. Actually, I went to my apartment in Milan last week and found my place ransacked even the special items I keep in my secret space. I was wondering if maybe they passed through your people by Rizzo, that woman still holds a grudge against me. I'm still pissed she tried to sell my Picasso." Daniela asked him in a low voice so no one could hear them.

"Rizzo died from the virus over a year ago." He told her.

"Oh my." Daniela said pretending to be surprised but glad the bitch was dead. She was annoying as fuck.

"Yes, but I can't say I've seen any of your artworks but there is an auction coming up and I have the most beautiful Renoir piece." He told her, that made her smile.

"Oh, yes please." She said in a delicious manner like he'd offered her a pile of her favourite chocolate. "Can I get a tiny peek at it? Please, please, please?" she begged playfully.

"I don't know." He teased.

"You know how much I love Renoir, maybe there is a way I could convince you." She said as she bit her bottom lip and gave him a saucy look.

"Sure your girlfriend entourage won't mind?" he asked as he must have noticed Sasha and Azima in the background. The two weren't very convincing at being lovers but then they were more focussed on the 'mission' and making sure she didn't run away than truly blending in.

"They're enjoying themselves here. So maybe we could go back to mine and catch up?" Daniela asked him as she smoothed a hand up his chest and to his neck.

"I'd like that a lot." Gus told her.

"Why don't we just slip out for an hour? Giorgio won't mind. Be like old times." She told him.