Chapter 23: Deal 2. Shopping

and he had came to bargin with the cartel to release his daughter after hearing speculations about her being captured by the cartel, obviously as a Billionaire he could of bribed many elite officials to rescue her but that would most likely get killed or even him as the Santiago cartel was not to be messed with as they control all gangs and 40% of the police in this city, not to mention their powerful network that spanned across New Mexico to Colombia home of Cocaine and as far Albanian gangs and the Yakuza...so sending his special forces would only result in major chaos similar to when Omar's father Gavire was killed during a special operations to assassinate him and rescue the British prime ministers son issued by the US government which resulted in the Russian mob planting C-4s near the US embassy and killing major politicians, The Santiago cartel where experts at manipulating they're Allies into thinking they need them and establishing a good relationship, this is why news about Omar's assassination was a huge surprise even among the elites as they feared the cartel would be convinced it was them, even they knew without the extremely powerful network they had, they're army alone was dangerous as they sported custom black military fully geared clothing like the navy seal team and highly illegal weapons that weren't supposed to be owned by the public like a grenade launcher and a flamethrower...they were basically armed to the teeth with lethal weapons...coupled with the fact that they had custom made military vehicles that were always mounted with a massive mini gun or 15mm barrel machine gun...it was safe to say sometimes even the cartels themselves don't know how powerful they actually are...knowing all of this the 60 year old multi Billionaire decided to offer a 15% private stake in his Trillion dollar company, Apex advancements, which was ALOT, and also a 5 billion dollar bank transfer if they hand over Sarah the Journalist...this amount of money could set the cartel for life including the stake in the company for many generations, but that would not be the case, since Javi the Santiago cartel Leader who was turning 18 next week was not present Helen decided to agree to the deal as she would come up with a way to make him feel thankful she did...Sarah walked out of the house covered in a blanket and immediately hugged her father upon seeing her, she had finally been saved from the monsters that walk this very earth and was extremely relieved and happy to finally be released, the torture was overwhelming it made her question why she exists in the first place...but now she could only think of leaving this place now, they hurriedly left the cartel property before someone could snap pictures of them leaving and entering, as this was now common to capture the political figures that made deals with the cartel and expose them...