BLACK GHOUL
Chapter 180: Black Rogue [1]

Chapter 180: Black Rogue [1]

Outskirts Of the City

Black Clover Hometown

Riley groaned leaning on the wall, her blood stained it. The pain from her shoulder hurt like a hurricane, it was a miracle she was still standing, this wasn’t a bullet to the chest but it felt like it, her vision was pinning, she stumbled so many times, luckily Silver was able to help her halfway through, or else it could have been much worse.

"Oh my God!" Iris exclaimed panicking as she rushed to her side,

"I got your text, why aren’t you healing?" she asked worriedly, holding her steady.

"I don’t know why" Riley began in a harsh breath, she felt extremely weak from losing too much blood.

"He used some kind of blade... bullet..." She adds as her mind replayed the events, and it was all hazy, just which was it again? Maybe both, the fight went so fast before her eyes.

"Dammit Riley you should have told Liam about your plan, you should have told the others, I don’t like this... I’m getting Liam this instant" Iris said both pissed and worried. When Riley came to her about this, she knew this was a bad idea, they should have told the others they caught info about Vincent Jones coming to the city. But Riley wanted to keep it in.

"No please don’t" Riley begged, pulling her back down. Knowing if Liam knew about this it won’t end well.

"For god’s sake Riley, we should have told him about the info we got of Vincent coming back to New York... both of you would have stopped him together, not going on this suicide mission by yourself!" She half yelled both worried and angry.

"I can’t Iris, I can’t let him bear this alone this time, I can’t just sit around and watch him carry the load and leave me out of it like it doesn’t affect me too"

"He’s trying to protect you Riley... we are coming after your uncle for fuck sake and he knows you’re the major target, he’s protecting you!" Iris reasoned.

"Fuck that Iris, I can’t just sit back down... I can’t do that" Riley snapped but then she growled in pain clenching her bleeding shoulder.

"Please Iris" she began in a shaky voice, she really didn’t want him to know.

"Liam can’t know about this... please" she adds with pleading eyes.

Iris gave a heavy sigh, she weighed her chances, left for her, she was really dying to walk up to Liam and tell him everything, but seeing Riley’s pleading gaze, she gave up with a sigh.

"Fine... but what are we gonna do about your shoulder, it’s not healing"

***

Operating Room

"It’s on the hotline, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, everywhere. Vincent Jones is officially in New York to set up the agency" Race said.

"How did we miss this?" Rory said, puzzled. They would have caught him off guard with this, it was a good plan.

Liam stood in the middle, arms folded, his stern eyes fixed on the widescreen.

"This time it’s gonna be different" Liam spoke up, their attention drifting to him. "This man... he knows what he’s doing, he’s leaving no tables turned, it’s gonna be hard to overpower him" Liam admitted. He knew attacking him when he came to the city was not a good idea. Vincent was different from Barbra, he was careful, and he knew that after their last battle.

"Then we go full power on him, we bring the war to him" Gray suggested with a shrug.

"Funny enough... he might have already known we will think of that... his defenses are probably up, we could be walking into a trap, a straight war won’t cut it" Liam explained.

The others nodded in agreement, seeing the solid point in his words.

"Then a sneak infiltrate, then?" Kayla suggested, sparking their attention.

"Those won’t work, he may be different from Barbra but probably still thinks like her" Liam said.

"He will be one step ahead of us," Rory said in realization remembering their previous encounter with Barbra Jones. It was like dealing with her copy but at the same time not, it was freaky and scary.

"Which is why the best way is to know his plan, know how he’s planning on coming after us, we need someone on the inside" Liam said.

"But that isn’t exactly gonna work because all of our faces have been exposed," Race said, motioning with his hand.

"But there is someone who’s good at implanting moles in big organizations just to get what she wants," Gray said.

"Who?!" Liam asked, raising an eyebrow.

Gray sighs.

"Linda Sanford" he mouths, knowing her name will stir the place up, but that was the only option he could think of.

The room fell silent.

"Obviously not that woman," Kayla said, remembering the encounter they had with her, even if she wasn’t present.

"Liam killed her only son, I’m not so sure she’s gonna help us with open arms" Rory reasoned.

"Well he tried to kill me first and Riley" Liam clarified.

"Yeah I know... bad idea, but she’s the only one that can pull this off," Gray said, he knew that and that’s why he brought up her name in the first place, or else who else could pull this off if not her, that lady had connections, deeper than any they have ever had.

"She got connections, deep within the soil"

"The fancy old lady who likes holding fancy parties, it just had to be her," Kayla said, rolling her eyes.

"I think Gray may be right... after all she did work with Barbra on selling G-st just to make money, she would definitely have someone on the inside" Race states.

Liam gave a heavy sigh knowing Race was right. She was probably the chance they got in implementing the spies they needed, but their history together wasn’t exactly warming. He could still replay back on that event.

At that moment the door slides open as Riley and Iris walk in.