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For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Kat and her Wildcats finally got their turn to visit Jacques and start putting some pressure on him. Nothing like a bit of pressure from a rival gang to make him a little nervous. Although I don’t expect he will show the fact that he is nervous. Not yet anyway. But he will soon, I’m sure of it. So, we found out where Jacques has his business office, in a building with other respectable businesses.
It helps to make his business look respectable too, though it is far from it. After his meeting with Kat he told one of his men, Dorian, to try and find out some information about those Wildcats. “You know Jacques,” said Louis, “I was watching that gal when she threw the knife at Blaise, and I couldn’t see her move.” “Yeah, and the way she caught that knife,” said Raphael, “with 2 fingers, and she wasn’t even looking!”
“Okay, I will admit she’s good,” said Jacques, “that’s why we need to kill her quickly. Without her those Wildcats will be kittens.” “Don’t bet on it Jacques,” said Dorian, “those Wildcats are a wild bunch of women. According to the cops they have an estimated 100 or more members. A woman named Kat is the leader of the gang. She’s tough and never backs down for anyone, and apparently she hates men.”
“Interesting,” said Jacques, “which just means we need to get rid of her in a hurry, before she gets in our way. And we definitely don’t want her messing up our big moment.” Later that day Jacques and 6 of his men were driving to his favorite restaurant to meet an important person, however, something was about to make him a bit late for his meeting.
“There’s some motorcycles following us,” said Louis. “Look like men,” said Dorian, “so it’s not those Wildcats.” Louis then sped up a bit, then slowed down. “They’re keeping pace with us,” said Louis, “do you think it’s some of Geffrey’s men?” “No, they don’t use motorcycles,” said Jacques, “I don’t like this. Turn right at the next street.” Just before turning down that street, two black vans pulled up in the lane beside them.
Jacques’ car turned and so did the vans and motorcycles. And just up ahead was another black van, but it was parked which forced Jacques’ car to stop behind it and the motorcycles behind them, plus one van stopped beside them, the other van pulled ahead of the parked van. Rock walked up to the car on the passenger side and told the man to roll down his window. Jacques told him to do it, so he did.
“Our boss would like to talk with your boss,” said Rock, “so tell him to step out of the car.” “There’s something wrong with your head mister,” said Fontaine, “now, get out of our way and we’ll forget the whole thing.” Rock laughed good and loud. “If your boss wants to keep his appointment with Geffrey,” said Rock, “then he better do what he’s told. My boss doesn’t like to be kept waiting.”
Now Fontaine laughed, so Rock ripped the car door off and tossed it aside. Then John was standing there with a shotgun and told the men in the front to get out, or die. So they got out of the car. Jacques and the others remained in the back seat feeling quite safe surrounded by bullet proof glass. And, Jacques had already called for more of his men to come and help. That was something that Aari knew about already since Carine was able to listen in to his phone conversation and relayed the message to him.
So, the Black Wolves were ready, waiting for help to arrive. They didn’t have long to wait either. One car came driving past the van blocking Jacques car and tossed two grenades under it which exploded but did no damage to the van, other then rock it slightly. But before they had their windows rolled up again, Bomber tossed one of Catalina’s surprise packages into the car which exploded, destroying the car and killing the occupants.
A second car came along behind that one which stopped behind the motorcycles and the men jumped out with guns ready. But, the men on the motorcycles were ready for them and pulled out their automatic weapons and there was a short gun battle. All of Jacques men were killed in that fight also. Then Rock kicked the back door of Jacques’ car, pushing it partly inward.
That gave him something to hold onto and he quickly pulled that door off the car too and tossed it aside. There were two shotguns pointed at Jacques and his men, so Jacques told his men not to do anything. All of them were told to get out and John took Jacques to the lead van where Aari was waiting for him. John searched Jacques, then told him to get in the van.
John got in too and sat next to Jacques, then the van drove away. After putting the remaining men to “sleep”, the Black Wolves quickly dispersed in different directions and the police showed up shortly after. Aari only spoke in French to Jacques, deliberately to throw him off. “You are an incredibly stupid man Jacques,” said Aari, “it would have been so much easier to just agree with talking from the start and saved the loss of so many men.
Now, the first thing I want to tell you is this, stay away from Kat and her Wildcats. Kat is my younger sister, you hurt her in any way and you are a dead man. I mean that. I can crush you and your whole organization very easily. What you saw today was just a small example of what I can do. Now, you killed a couple friends of Kat’s, Clarisse and her boyfriend Marcel, plus Clarisse’s mother, who happens to be your mother too.
And now, it would seem, you also killed your brother Thomas. You must really hate your family, or is it because you now will inherit the family fortune? Money can do strange things to people, that’s for sure.” “You certainly know a lot about me and my family,” said Jacques, “so, now where does that leave us?”
“I have enough information to prove you murdered, or were behind the murders, of these people mentioned,” said Aari, “plus the murder of a certain government official, which you did personally. However, you are now a wealthy man Jacques, sharing some of that wealth will keep you out of prison, or worse, death. I will drop you off at your office and tomorrow morning, by 11am at the latest, you will deposit this amount in this account.”
Aari gave him a piece of paper with the information on it. “That’s a lot of money,” said Jacques gruffly. “Much better than life in prison Jacques,” said Aari, “or being put underground.” They were soon at Jacques’ office and he got out of the van, which then drove off.
To Be Continued. ©2025 Steve McLeod.
“You helped my back!” exclaimed Misty. “Sorry to disappoint you,” I said, “but Sky brought Kat here to work on your back, or you might be in a wheelchair for the rest of your life. Now, I heard a little story, though I’m sure it’s not true, that you left the clinic in disobedience to Samantha. Something like that can get you 3 months of inactive duty.
However, since I’m sure you didn’t mean to do that, it was just the pain that was messing up your thinking, so, I talked it over with Samantha and your inactive duty time will only last until you can safely leave the clinic. With a promise that you will obey Samantha from now on. Does that sound good?” “Yes Steve,” she said quietly, “guess I messed up everything, huh.”
“No, you didn’t mess up anything,” I said, “except for you. I want you walking around normally and able to fight again. After all, I need you, you’re my favorite, important pretend wife.” “Aww, thank you Steve,” she said, smiling. “I hope you are listening to yourself,” said Samantha behind me, “how do you expect these girls to obey me when their Leader doesn’t?” “Hmm, she has a point,” said Misty, “we learn by example more than by words.” She smiled again.
“Now, get undressed and into bed,” said Samantha looking at me. “Why me?” I asked. “You were feeling pain before,” said Samantha, “we need to find out why, it’s important. It could mean you can still be killed, and we don’t want that.” “Nice to have someone to talk with,” said Misty, “so, tell me about your kidnapping.” I did, which took about 5 minutes. “We have all day to talk Steve,” said Misty, “you need to streeeeeeetch things out a bit when you talk.”
“Oh,” I said. Misty sighed. Then Cristy peeked in the door. “Good, no one here,” she said and she came in, quickly closing and locking the door. “Donuts!” exclaimed Misty, “You’re the best twin sister ever!” “Ahem,” I said, “I’m here too.” “Oh, I didn’t know you were here Steve,” said Cristy, “I only brought 6 donuts.” “Two each!” I said happily. They sighed and each tossed me a donut. “Better eat quick,” I said, “almost time for Samantha to check on us again.” Scritch, scritch.
Cristy opened the door and Muffin, Storm and Snow came in. The cats were excited when they saw donuts. “They can only have one quarter of a donut each,” I said, so we each gave them a piece. The girls sighed again. They’ve been doing that a lot lately. Then Jennifer arrived with 3 donuts, not knowing that Cristy was here too. And the cats. Oh well. Then Akila arrived with 4 donuts, thinking that only Misty and I were here. She didn’t bring one for herself, she had eaten hers in the kitchen.
She had hacked into Eloise’s phone who was using a code to talk with someone, supposedly her neighbor that had come visiting once. She tried to tell Jacques some things about us, like cats that could disappear and kill people. Hopefully Jacques won’t believe these things. Then she mentioned a woman who could shoot lightning from her fingers. Glad she didn’t mention any names. After that message Jacques told her to stop taking her drugs and get more sleep.
Good, he didn’t believe her. She did tell him we found the hidden laptop and book and he was quite angry about that. He told her to try and get them back, especially the laptop. Apparently there was a lot of information on it that could put him in jail for a long time. Akila hadn’t had enough time to check it out yet, but she will get Cynthia and Melanie to help with deciphering the laptop.
She did discover that Jacques had actually killed a government official recently, a murder that has been on the news lately. Amazing that Jacques would do it himself and then keep a record of it. He had been trying to buy information from this official and he kept saying no. Finally he told Jacques he was going to the police, so Jacques stabbed him. Hmm, that’s what happened to Marcel. These people like using knives.
I communicated this to Kat and Carine. Carine is back with Aari again and I also sent Kristina to be with him as well. It’s nice to have 2 ghosts with each team. We still have Sky, Angel, Jennifer and myself. Jennifer is presently checking me like Kat had shown her to do. After the examination and consulting with Kat, then Kat said there was nothing to worry about. It’s just that some things are taking longer to work because of the way I became a ghost, if that’s what I am.
I’m still not sure if anyone is really. Though I must admit, Angel’s ability to change into a lion is quite convincing. Meanwhile, back in Paris at a certain building where Jacques had an office. “I’m sorry, Ms. Kat,” said the secretary, “but Mr. Garnier is busy and doesn’t want to be disturbed. However, I can make an appointment for you, shall we say, 3 days from now?” “No, that won’t do,” said Kat firmly, “I wish to see him now, and I will.”
She then went to the door and with one kick she smashed it open! One of Jacques’ bodyguards had his gun out right away as Kat and 4 others came in the office. But he dropped his gun quickly enough yelling it was too hot to hold. “Sorry Fabien, but your panic button won’t work for you today,” said Kat. “We shall see about that,” said Jacques, “and I don’t know who this Fabien is that you want to see.” Kat smiled.
“Nice try Fabien,” she said, “but I know you prefer to use your middle name of Jacques, but we both know your first name is Fabien. Now, I am here because you have killed a couple of my friends, Clarisse and Marcel. I don’t like it when people kill my friends, it makes me angry.” “Clarisse is very much alive,” he snapped, “as for your friend Marcel, I don’t even know him.”
“You are a liar Fabien!” exclaimed Kat, “Clarisse is dead, the real one, and you know it, just as her mother is also dead. You had them killed, along with Marcel who was Clarisse’s boyfriend, which you also know. That PI you tried to kidnap now has them locked up in his detention center.” “And how do you know all of this?” he asked, “Do you work for him too?” Kat sneered. “I work for me,” she said, “that PI is on a different side than me, but I do have inside knowledge.”
Right about then, another bodyguard pulled out a knife from his back and threw it quickly at Kat while she was looking at Jacques. But she just reached up and caught the knife, by the blade, between her thumb and index finger. She shook her head. “Little boys shouldn’t play with knives,” she said, “it’s a good way to get hurt.”
She then turned and threw the knife back and did it so fast that no one really saw her do it. But they all saw the man drop to the floor, dead. “I can have you charged with murder,” said Jacques. “No, that was self defense Fabien,” she said, “but you made a big mistake trying to kill me. Now you will feel the wrath of the Kat!” Then she and her girls turned and walked out…
To Be Continued. ©2025 Steve McLeod.
