1:30 AM

The Nanl Territory

It was a warm night in Vezas, a county located in North America. As usual, the night was quiet, except for the occasional bustling of the lizards and insects around the garden.

Eva moved slowly, hiding in the shadows of the ornamental shrubs. She was dressed in a grey armless shirt and a pair of jeans. On her feet were black sneakers which made her movement easier and as noiseless as possible.

There was a device in her hand. It looked similar to a tablet but it was not. It was a more sophisticated device that she developed by herself eight months ago.

Eva Kendrick, 22, was an intelligent, and crazy hacker. Her love for computers started when she was barely eight. Her father was also an expert. So from her early years, she watched him write codes, build sophisticated software, and developed high-end security devices.

At 15, she built her first hacking device. With her first device, she could hack into her school’s online server where information like tests and exam questions were stored. With that, she knew the questions beforehand and did not bother studying hard as other students would do. But before that, she always excelled in class. So, nobody suspected she had access to the questions.

Eva also had a beautiful face and perfect body shape to compliment her looks. In school, she was the hottest girl in the class and the dream of every guy. Her six feet height and figure-eight body made her look like a model. She had an oval face and a slightly pointed nose. Her hair was always dark and shiny, and her smile was so beautiful that it could soften any man’s heart.

Here she was in the Nanl Territory, one of the most-secured estates in the county. Of course, she had hacked the security of the territory and could open all their gates and doors with a few clicks on her device.

The Nanl Territory was owned by Eric Hendrix, a 28-year-old billionaire. To the public, Eric Hendrix was a successful businessman and the Nanl Territory was just an estate he controlled.

Eric managed the estate and made it very difficult for anyone to secure a property in the estate. The cost was extremely high and there were several criteria Eric laid down. And once you’re unable to meet the criteria, you wouldn’t be able to purchase or rent a property in the Territory. So, the territory was a place for a select few.

Nobody knew how Eric judged who or not to sell a property to. They just knew the properties were expensive. Sometimes, Eric even gave out lands for free out of charity to young men and ladies he picked from the streets. He did not only gave them properties for free but also employed them to work for him. But since the estate was not so large, it didn’t attract so much interest.

What no one knew was that Eric was a deadly assassin and drug dealer. The Nanl Territory was one of the most dangerous places to wander into, it was where Eric trained his followers, both in the art of assassination and drug pushing. Assassins from the Nanl Territory were sent on missions to different countries and continents and were paid heavily for their services. From each payment made, there was a cut for Eric.

Eva was one of the few outsiders who knew who Eric Hendrix really was. As a matter of fact, she had been tracking him for months and studying about the Nanl Territory. And here she was to meet with Eric Hendrix, a move she knew was a suicide mission.

She looked around from where she squatted in the shadow. The security official in the garden was already asleep on his chair. She tapped on her device again to check her position and how long more she had to get to Eric’s mansion. It was not supposed to be more than a thirty-minute walk from the territory’s gate. But because she was being careful not to alert the guards, it took her thirty minutes to get to where she was and might take another thirty minutes to get to Eric’s mansion.

After watching the sleeping guard for a while, she decided it was time to move again. The only challenge was that there would be no way to hide under shadows again as other places were brightly lit. She could be easily spotted by anyone if she made the slightest move.

She summoned courage and pressed on. But just as she got out of the shadow and began to walk, she heard a growl and froze. At first, she wasn’t sure what it was but she knew the sound wasn’t made by a human. She turned her neck right slowly to confirm her greatest fears. A German Shepherd was standing some several metres behind her. It looked fiery and dangerous. But luckily for her, it was chained to a pole and couldn’t come towards her.

Instantly, she knew her game was over as there as there was no way she could move silently as she wanted anymore. It continued to bark even before she could decide whether to move or not.

Knowing her cover had been blown, she took to her heels, running towards her destination.

But it was too late. Just as she got to the elementary school building, strong hands knocked her down.

She was unconscious for a minute and her eyes opened to see three faces standing above her. Her fall was so heavy that her head began to ache.

“Who the fuck are you?” one of the men asked, in an angry tone.

Eva’s vision was still blurry and she felt too weak to speak.

“And what the heck is this?” the man who picked up her device asked. He handed the device over to the man who spoke first.

“This is a map of the territory,” the man with the device said. “I think she has been spying on us.”

“What the fuck!” The third man who had been silent exclaimed.

He bent down and dragged her by the neck, forcefully making her sit up. “Who the hell are you and what are you doing here?”

She stared into the man’s fiery eyes. Her lips parted but she couldn’t find words to explain herself.

“She’s a spy, find the rest of her men and kill her,” one of the men said.

“I said who the hell are you?” the man barked at her again but she couldn’t still find words to reply. “Rot in hell,” he added angrily as he tightened his fists around her neck to squeeze out life.

To be continued.

“Let her go,” the first man stopped the one trying to strangle her. “We need her alive to find who sent her.”

Eva fell back weakly, panting heavily as she struggled to take in breaths after the grip on her neck was released. But she wasn’t given breathing space as the first man pulled her up again.

He bent and stared directly into her eyes, with a hand placed at the back of her neck. She stared back into his eyes, sweating and still panting heavily. She could see the meanness in his eyes and was sure that this man would not hesitate to kill her if he needed to.

“Tell me, are you here alone and whom do you work for?” He asked in a cruel gruff voice.

Still trying to balance her breath, Eva found it difficult to answer immediately.

“I’m here alone,” she finally found her voice.

“Who the heck do you work for?” the man thundered.

“No one,” she shook her head. “I’m here to see Master Eric.”

The man chuckled and turned his neck back to look at the other two. They also laughed.

“What the fuck? You sneak in here at midnight and say you want to see Master Eric. Who the hell do you think you think you are?”

“I don’t want trouble with you guys,” she managed to continue. “Just take me to Master Eric to avoid the downfall of the Nanl territory.”

“Huh?” the man bending down burst into uncontrollable laughter and the others joined him. They couldn’t believe that a weak young girl was threatening to bring down the Nanl territory.

“You ain’t ever gonna see Master Eric, b*tch. You better start telling us whom you work for before you get torture,” one of the men threatened.

“I need to see Master Eric now or the three of you are gonna regret ever messing with me,” she threatened again but this time in an extremely serious tone.

The men exchanged glances after realizing she was serious. Another one squatted beside the first and looked straight into her eyes.

“And how the heck are you going to bring down the Nanl territory? This territory has been in existence before you were born. Not even the government can bring it down.”

“In the next thirty minutes,” Eva replied, breathing heavily. “A video of Master Eric killing Ahmed Hunar, the Oman Monarch, will be uploaded on youtube for the world to see.”

The men got up to their feet immediately and stared at each other. Their facial expressions changed immediately as it became obvious the girl really had something against them.

None of the three men knew that Master Eric had killed the Monarch. But they knew that for an assassination of that kind to happen, it had to be carried out by a killer on the level of Eric.

“What are you talking about?” one of them summoned the courage to ask. “You can’t have such video, the Master isn’t a killer.”

“On Tuesday 18th of May, Master Eric walked into Ahmed Kunar’s room in the Henstall Hotel, after taking down three of the bodyguards outside the room. He stabbed Ahmed Kunar in the neck and watched him die as blood gushed out of his neck. He escaped through the window and disguised as a police officer to escape the premises,” Eva narrated in a bid to persuade them further. “I have compiled the videos on my device if you wish to see them.”

Now, the men were confused. She sounded so certain about what she was saying. The Nanl territory could really collapse if the claimed video existed and it was released to the public.

“Twenty-four minutes left,” Eva reminded them that the clock was ticking.

“Come here,” one of the men dragged her up by the arm and pulled her along with him.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _

Loud moans of ecstasy filled the room as Mia rode on Eric’s dick happily. His hands were on her breasts and he squeezed them softly, making her moan louder.

“Oh! Eric…” she continued to whisper his name as she bounced up and down slowly with his eight-inch dick solidly in her wet pussy.

“Get down and turn,” he suddenly ordered and she obeyed. She knew he wanted to switch to the doggy style.

She positioned herself quickly with her bosom resting on the pillow and her elbows placed forward. He slapped her ass as he repositioned her knees to make it more convenient to slide his manhood in.

“Eriiic!” she moaned as he made the first thrust deeply and slowly. Just as he thrust it in the second time, there was a knock at his door.

Eric paused for a moment, wondering who was at the door at that time.

“Fuck me, Master,” Mia said in a seductive tone, not happy with the pause.

Eric took another deep thrust but stopped immediately after there was another knock.

“Who the fuck is that?” He cursed angrily as he walked towards the door, not bothering to cover his nakedness.

There was only one person who could knock at his door at that time of the day, Jonathan. And whenever such knocks came, it had to be something very important.

Jonathan was Eric’s second in command in the territory. He was about ten years older than Eric but that didn’t affect his loyalty. Eric trusted Jonathan so well and treated him differently from all his other subjects. Rumours had it that Jonathan had saved Eric’s life when he was younger but neither of the men had ever confirmed the story.

“Why the heck are you here, Jonathan?” Eric asked as he opened the door and placed his hand on top.

Jonathan gasped as he saw Eric’s erected dick dangling below. It wasn’t his first time seeing Eric naked. But anytime Eric appeared to him without covering his nakedness, it was a sign that he wasn’t ready to abort fucking whoever he was with at that moment.

“You need to stop your little party there and get some clothes on now,” Jonathan gapped.

“And why should I do that?” Eric raised a brow.

“A girl broke into the territory today.”

“You can deal with that, Jonathan, can’t you?” Eric replied nonchalantly and was about to close the door but Jonathan stopped it with his feet.

“She wants to see you.”

Eric squinted at him. “Why the heck would she want to see me? If she wandered into the territory, she should be treated the way we treat intruders. Now get off…” He tried to close the door the second time but Jonathan stopped it again.

“She claims to have videos of you killing Ahmed Kunar,” Jonathan finally broke the news. Eric widened his eyes at his friend in surprise. “She has scheduled this video to publish on youtube in fifteen minutes. If you don’t come with me, the video will be published.”

Without saying a word, Eric turned back and walked to the wardrobe. He quickly searched for a pair of trousers and a shirt to put on.

“Are you going somewhere, master?” Mia who was still naked in the bed asked as she watched him dress up.

He didn’t give her a reply until he was through putting on the robe. “Clean up my room and get the heck out before I return,” he shot her a cold stare and then walked towards a drawer by the side. He pulled out a revolver and a cartridge and then proceeded out of the room.

“Let’s go,” he shot a look at Jonathan and they proceeded immediately.

Eric fixed the cartridge into the revolver as they walked. Different thoughts ran through his mind. Whomever that girl was, he was going to make her die brutally after getting her to confess who sent her.

“We’re running late, we have only eight minutes more for the video to get published,” Eva spoke in a loud and confident voice as she watched him walk into the hall with Jonathan.

The hall was a large one that could take over two thousand people at once. It was used for several purposes. One of which was when Eric wanted to meet with all the residents of the estate or deliver judgment in public to anyone who went against the territory rules.

At the moment, there were a total of fourteen people in the hall. They included Eva, the three men who had discovered her, Jonathan, Eric, and eight other Nanl territory men.

“Who are you and what video do you have?” Eric asked, after stepping into the platform from where he always communicated to his subjects in the hall.

The platform was an elevated circular area that served as a stage. It had handrails around the perimeter.

“The video of you killing three of Ahmed Kunar’s bodyguard in the corridor at exactly 9:15 PM on Tuesday 18th of May. After that, you walked into his room at exactly 9:19 PM and left through the back window,” Eva explained. “Ahmed Kunar’s dead body was discovered in the room thirty minutes later.”

“Fuck!” Eric cursed under his breath. How in the world could there have been a video of him doing all she described? He had made sure he deactivated all the security cameras that night before he carried out the task. So, there was no way for the cameras to have recorded him. And even if they did, the police would have been the first to arrest him and not this girl appearing.

Nevertheless, her description of the events was so accurate. There was no way she could be so accurate without having seen him carry out the murder or watch a video of him doing it. But there was no way anyone could have been watching him without his knowledge, so the latter seemed more feasible.

“Stop the video from publishing right now,” Eric said to her. It was a mix of command and plea. He was fuming inside but managed to control his anger.

“I will, as soon as your men hand over my device to me,” Eva replied him.

Eric shot a glance at the other men in the hall. Anthonio, the IT expert who was with her device stepped up immediately. Eric made a sign for the device to be handed over to her.

Eva got the device and immediately tapped it on. After pressing a few buttons within a minute, she raised her head.

“Done, Master,” she stated.

Eric stared at her coldly for a while. The sight of her disgusted him and all he felt at that moment was running a bullet into her forehead.

“Joe, take care of her,” he finally whispered to his friend. He decided not to handle it himself because of the anger he was feeling inside. He could easily kill her out of anger without getting the required information from her. That made Jonathan the best person to handle it. “Subject her to torture until she coughs out who she is and who sent her here. Then you kill her.”

Eva could not hear what Eric was saying from the distance but she knew they were talking about her. She fixed her eyes on them and Eric shot her a cold glare at the same moment. Then, he began to walk away, in the direction where he had just come from with Jonathan.

“Where are you going, master?” Eva asked on seeing him walk away.

Eric felt more disgusted at the sound of her calling him master. That was what his subjects called him but this time, it was coming from someone who just tried to blackmail him. Worse still, he hadn’t even accepted her into the clan yet, so he wasn’t her master. All he wanted to do at that moment was kill her. But he restrained himself from turning.

“Take her to the torture room,” Jonathan ordered the men and they charged towards her immediately.

“I haven’t stopped the video from publishing!” She screamed as the men tried to seize her.

Eric stopped immediately, wondering if he heard her rightly or not. He turned slowly and stared at her from where he was.

“I didn’t stop the video, I only postponed it. It will be published in the next thirty minutes if you don’t listen to me,” she continued, half screaming and half talking.

Eric began to walk back slowly to the platform. “Anthonio, why didn’t you stop the video and delete it from her device.”

“The device was designed with top-notch security tools, Master,” Anthonio replied. “It would take me up to 24 hours to crack it.”

Eric turned his gaze back to Eva. The men holding her released her.

He thought about asking the men to take her into the torture room and force her to stop the video before the thirty minutes elapsed. But then he considered that if she was a trained spy, it could be difficult for them to break her in just thirty minutes.

He clenched his fists in anger as he stood on the platform and faced her directly once again.

“What do you want?” he finally asked.

“I want to join the Nanl Clan,” Eva replied, taking in deep breaths slowly. “I want to be trained as your assassin.”

“That’s impossible. We don’t just train anybody, we train only those who are qualified,” Jonathan scoffed.

“I am qualified,” she replied in a confident tone.

Eric stared at her silently for a couple of seconds. “Who sent you?” He asked in soft tones. “Are you a spy from the CIA, the FOX, or what security organization?”

“I’m not a spy, I’m here on my own. I’m here because I want to join your clan.”

“Nobody chooses to join my clan, I chose those I want,” Eric thundered in anger. Eva remained quiet. “You know we could kill you here and nobody will ever know what happened to you?”

“Yes, I know that. In the last three months, ten people have wandered into this place, including two CIA agents who previously suspected your men. All ten of them were found dead at different places with no proofs to connect their murders to this place.”

All the men in the room were shocked and left in awe. How the hell could she have known all that?

“Now, who the fuck are you?” Eric pulled out his revolver in anger and pointed straight to her head. How on earth did she know about the people killed for wandering into the territory. “You’re going to tell me whom you work for or I blow your brains out at the count of three.”

“Hold on, Eric,” Jonathan tried to stop Eric but he looked vicious and dangerous. Whenever he was angry that way, it was almost impossible to stop him from what he intended to do. “1…2…”

“My name is Eva Kendrick,” she blurted. She was panicking now as she also knew about his anger. Her body shook as she saw his finger already on the trigger.

“Who the hell do you work for?” Eric was determined to pull the trigger if she didn’t respond to his answer.

“I work for nobody,” Eva insisted. Her whole body was trembling visibly.

He pulled the trigger.