Prologue
My life felt grey, around me all I saw was hate and greed. I suppose that I was no better. I had stopped caring a long, long time ago, all I wanted was to be done with this last contract then, then I would retire. I would buy some land and build a house, then I would spend the rest of my life in a world of my own.
My last workday finally came. It was a very important day for the security company that I worked for called Rhino Security. My employer and good friend, well my only friend Michael Hansen had after much effort gotten a contract with a man by the name of Helijad Zatim. Mr. Zatim who was a oil sheik in Saudi Arabia, Our first job was a simple escort of him, his business associates and his son, they were to be escorted to a nearby airport. My team were to escort the son.
“Alright gentlemen, were all set. We drive out of that gate in 5 min.” Michael pointed towards the large steel gate we were parked next to; he then turned towards one of the servants, a young man and told him we were ready to go.
He nodded and ran inside Mr.Zatim’s mansion to deliver the message, a minute later everyone came out, went into their assigned vehicles and Michael gave the go order.
My vehicle was the last to drive out of the gate, my team was escorting Mr. Zatim’s son, a spoiled, pampered teenager. He tried ordering us around, while all we could do was to brush him off politely.
While driving to our destination the road in front of us was suddenly crowded with people.
“Shit” said someone in the SUV.
We all hated it when a simple job got complicated.
”We will have to take route B, driver can you back out of here”
He looked at me with a frown “look behind you Boss”
The road behind us had become just as crowded as the one in front of us.
Mr. Zatim’s son let out a small laugh. “Why don’t you just drive through these peasants or shoot a little, then they will run like the rats they are”
I looked at him with annoyed eyes “kid, Shut the Fuck Up.”
He glared back at me, clearly he felt insulted, but he did not talk further.
“We need to get moving, start honking the horn and nudge the people in front of us if need be”
Before the driver could answer a bright light and loud bang came from the left side of our armored SUV, people screamed and ran in all directions.
“STEP ON IT” I shouted as I took the safety of my Sub-machinegun.
The tires of the SUV bit into the road and it was not long before we were a good distance from the place of the incident.
“What the fuck happened? That was no gunshot, was it a bomb?” I asked while looking back at the team sitting in the back of the car, that’s when I noticed that Mr.Zatim’s son was with little success holding back a large grin.
“What’s so funny kid” I asked with an annoyed tone.
He looked at me with the eyes of a snake.
“It’s funny what one little grenade can do, don’t you think?”
As I realized what had happened the anger grew in me, “Did you throw a flashbang grenade into the crowd” I asked harshly.
He answered me without removing the grin from his lips “I don’t know what kind I threw, but I do know it was a grenade and hey, it worked didn’t it?”
I tried not to yell but I had little success “You little shit, just wait ’till I tell your father. I will not have you smother this company’s name just because you think you can do as you please”
He did not respond, he merely sat back in his seat with a satisfied smile.
After a few minutes we arrived at the airport. Michael and the other two escort teams were standing outside the main building with Mr. Zatim. We parked next to the other SUV’s. Once we were stopped I got out of the vehicle and grabbed Mr.Zatim’s son by the shoulder.
Michael and Mr. Zatim looked questioning as to why I was manhandling his son; once we were near I shoved him forward.
“Mr.Zatim your son deserves some severe punishment; he threw a flashbang grenade into a larger crowd of people”
“Is this true my son?” he asked while running his fingers through his long beard.
“Yes father, but it was near the marketplace and I thought it was a good solution, so we could get here faster and-“
“Enough, go inside while I talk to Mr. Hansen and his men” he said in a stern voice.
His son did as he was told.
Mr. Zatim walked closer to us, we were all expecting an apology, but instead we received angry words.
“How dare you disrespect my son like that? The marketplace at this day is only filled with vermin, he-“
Then my anger turned to rage, he was no better than his son. He too felt as thou he was better then everyone.He continued to talk but I could not hear the words, all I heard was white noise, but then I heard him say “you should know your place, dog”
I snapped.
I planted a knee in his stomach which made him puke a little as he bend forward. I then slammed my elbow into his neck and he fell limb. His son came running towards me, he shouted something, I could not hear what and I did not want to. When he got close he lifted his fist, but before he could strike I had trusted my body forward and planted a solid headbutt that made him go limb as well. Everyone must have been looking in shock since none had tried to stop me.
I stood still and looked at the two lying in front of me. I felt calm now, but I also realize that this was the worst thing I could have done, we were never going to get a contract in this region ever again.
My eyes traveled from Mr. Zatim and his son whom were now getting assistance from airport personnel to Michael, he stood rubbing the space between his eyebrows and nose, I walked over to him and stood at ease in front of him.
His gaze traveled from me, to the other teammates, to Mr.Zatim and his son, then back to me.
“You really did it now Nikolai, most of his family members are major players here in Saudi Arabia, after what you just did, I don’t think we can get a contract here anytime soon”
“Michael…I…I’m sorry” I didn’t know what else to say.
“Don’t be. I know that you’ve been on edge as of late and that you are planning on resigning and retiring. I just wanted you here because the pay-out would have been enormous, it would have been a nice boost for the company and you would have had a nice big bonus to cash in, but now…” he paused shortly as he walked closer.
“Now, I want you to take a long vacation. I don’t care how long it is, but I’m sending you on one as of right now”
I didn’t get to protest against it, but truthfully I didn’t want to anyway.
I found myself being guided into Michael’s SUV and we drove to the companies HQ. He ordered me to pack all my things and place them on my bed, he would make sure they got sent once I found out were to spend my vacation.
-
It was now 4 weeks since I flew from Saudi Arabia to Denmark, I had bought some land out in the Danish countryside. I had hired a local construction company to help me build my house and to my surprise they were very hard working, and efficient.
I had thought that the construction would have been flawed, but they did a very good job, considering that this was the first house of such proportions they had built.
This house was going to be my new start…
My chance to forget everything.
End Prologue