Chapter 999 - Mr. Patel has a job for Omega (1) (1/2)
~ Los Angeles, Cliffside villa ~
January 7
2:31 AM
Sarah is in the bedroom, in front of the computer.
She is analyzing the current progress of her army of Chaos. Tomorrow will be their monthiversary how they started attacking, seizing or destroying resources of Lebedev and Voronin families.
The rate at which they are expanding their influence is slowing down, but that is expected. At first, they were only attacking, but now they are at the stage where they need to manage their assets while keeping them safe, like the apartment building they acquired in the first night of them being active. The remodel of that building is completed, and they already have a number of tenants.
Besides that one, the army of Chaos seized four more apartment buildings and a total of six buildings dedicated to office space and nine warehouses.
Out of those nine warehouses, three Sarah transformed into a combination of a warehouse and an additional living quarters for her army members. She has apartments that they can use, but she does not want them going out in their uniforms from there, someone might spot them. They use their all-black uniforms only when they are attacking, that is why the spies are unable to find out more about that mysterious army.
With an increased area of influence, they need to be able to move around fast, so Sarah asked Jarred for another helicopter with the same specifications as the first one. It arrived yesterday.
Cash, the construction manager, is happy with all the work coming his way. He is overseeing any remodel work that needs to be done on the buildings that Sarah decides to keep.
For every apartment building, Sarah hired a building manager. They are 'regular civilians' how she calls them. Noah was in charge of the hiring process and now he is managing them as well. Sarah is impressed with his performance.
Colombians and Italians left letters into newly occupied buildings for 'the Boss of the Chaos' . Noah got those letters from building managers, and he gave them to Sarah. That is how Sarah found out that it's not only Lebedev and Voronin families that want to know more about the army of Chaos. Number of other underground organizations is also curious about this new force.
She is not sure what to do with them… they want to meet with her and discuss an alliance. What alliance? She is in this for revenge, to get those two families out of their lives. Did she become some kind of a mafia Boss herself? She decided to think about this later.
Sarah found it interesting how Aiden's analysis of Lebedev and Voronin families is correct. In his plan he noted that they need to be vigilant for small scale frequent attacks which will be mostly focused on information gathering (Eve reports that the drones are busy). Aiden also concluded that no elites from either Lebedev or Voronin family will make their moves until they find out the details about who is taking their resources away. It seems that there is only a handful of elites in each family, and they don't want to risk sending them on a mission without knowing the specifics of their enemy.
In the week of Christmas, Sarah made another trip to Austin and hired her second batch of soldiers. Now there is a total of 56 people staying at the property which they call 'the Chaos compound' . Noah got two deputies.
Sarah took a note to call Cash to come to the Cliffside villa. They either need to expand the existing underground storage, or to build another one. The volume of things they are seizing during their attacks is staggering.
Last night after the raids, they filled up the helicopter two times with things to be transported to the storage. And that helicopter can carry A LOT!
Within regular items like weapons and money, five crates stood out, each with ten bottles of Henri IV Dudognon Heritage Cognac Grande. A long name for a cognac, but it's not just any cognac. Based on the information Eve provided: it's an exquisite alcoholic beverage, aged for 100 years. Each bottle is made out of half platinum and half 24-karat gold, covered with diamonds, and is estimated at 2 million US dollars! Each!
Sarah grimaced while thinking, why anyone would pay so much for a bottle of a bitter drink? She remembered that Aiden likes bitter drinks. Well, he said that next to her he got used to sweet things in life, but she is confident that he will appreciate this beverage. And Jeff likes cognac as well. Ah, she has a birthday present for Jeff! This cognac will be perfect because it seems that it is made to order and difficult to buy. Sarah guesses that the bottles are made to order, while cognac is made without one because it does not make any sense that you place an order and then wait 100 years for your order to be ready.