Chapter 231: Total War
After connecting to the correct frequency, Alex heard a feminine voice on the other end of the line. It belonged to the hacker known as “Redacted” and she had quite the anxious tone in her voice as she called out to Alex.
“Hello Alex can you hear me?”
Alex responded with a smirk on his face, as well as a flirtatious remark. Which only further invoked Maria’s ire.
“Yeah it’s me… You sound hot, a little too hot to be a hacker…”
There was an exhausted tone in Redacted’s voice as she responded to Alex with an extremely anxious voice, trying her best to get him to focus on the task at hand.
“As flattering as that may be, we have more important things to worry about right now. So please, for the love of god pay attention to my instructions because you are only going to hear them once!”
Alex sighed and accepted that due to the current dire circumstances he found himself in, he would not be able to flirt with the recluse who no doubt was a beauty in her own right, and was quick to listen to her commands.
“Alright, I’ll keep my mind on the task. Now what’s going on with the patrols?”
The driver was nervous, because Alex was pointing a gun at the back of his head, but Alex had his hand over his cell phone, which Alex used to call in a favor.
“Hey… It’s your boy Alex… Listen… I’ve got a fucking problem…”
The seductive voice on the other end of the line was clearly making a joke with Alex as she spoke to him in an almost condescending tone.
“Let me guess… You managed to get yourself kidnapped by Jalisco again?”
Alex’s voice turned to one of complete and utter surprise as he questioned just how the hell La Madre had figured this out.
“How the hell did you know that? Don’t tell me you’re already sending someone to pick me up?”
La Madre, who had been lying naked in a pile of cash and was just about to snort some cocaine, quickly rose out of her bed, spilling both the cash and the cocaine onto the floor as she freaked out after hearing such dire news.
“Are you fucking kidding me? How? How, Alex? How do you keep getting yourself kidnapped?”
Alex spent thirty minutes or more telling his story, to which La Madre was completely and utterly dumbfounded, remaining in silence for some time, before finally responding to Alex’s tale of woe.
“Okay… well…. Fuck! Alright, I’ll handle it. I’ll send Amahle to extract the two of you… Consider my protection of this little bird of yours to be added to the debt you owe me! As for our plan to attack Jalisco at the heart of their operations, I guess that’s not fucking blown, isn’t it? God dammit Alex!”
Alex did not say anything in fear of angering the Drug Queen further than she already was. Instead, he did as she instructed, telling the driver to follow a certain path to an extraction point, where Alex then tied the man up, and brought him aboard the small airplane that Amahle had piloted into the strip of desert.
Or so he tried, but before Alex could do so, Amahle pulled out her firearm and shot the driver in the head, leaving both Alex and Maria in a state of total shock. Maria broke out into tears and screamed in terror, while Alex confronted the ebony beauty of her actions.
“What the hell, Amahle? He was fucking innocent!?!”
Amahle stared at Alex as if he were an idiot, before saying a single phrase that made Alex understand his place.
“No loose ends. Our employer is being generous enough by allowing you to take this woman with you, but she will not allow this witness to escape with his life intact and run back to Jalisco. We have enough problems already. With your identity being leaked, it is only a matter of time before Jalisco tries to strike at your family. I suggest you call them and have them fly out to Korea immediately. At least the Cartels can’t touch them there…
You fucked up Alex… The bounty on El Cucy’s head is now worth over 50 million US dollars. Now that Jalisco knows your identity, every man with a piece, and loose sense of morality will be gunning for your head. You won’t be safe until Jalisco is scattered to the wind… As for your family and loved ones, they will always have to look over their shoulder until then…”
Alex however knew this was false, he owned a private island that nobody but his family knew about… They could easily hide in that paradise while he battled the cartels… But Amahel was also wrong about another thing, even if he wiped out Jalisco, the Gulf Cartel was also an enemy of Alex’s, and they had posted their own bounty on his head…
The only way he could possibly be safe in this world is if he stabilized the situation in Mexico once and for all, and to do that he would need to wipe out all of the Zetas rivals… Alex was starting to suspect that La Madre herself may have had a hand in this whole situation in order to secure his long-term loyalty.
How exactly she had done this? Alex had no idea, but the suspicion lay deep in his heart that Mexico’s most beautiful drug queen was the true mastermind behind this kidnapping. Of course, he had no proof of this, thus for the time being Alex could only get Maria to safety, via the protection of the Zetas, while waging war against the various cartels that ruled over this corrupt and brutal Narco state.
