Author's Note: This story is a work of fiction and is based primarily on the fictional country of Nordland, a small island nation in the North Sea between the UK, Norway, and Denmark. All characters, events, and places described in this narrative are products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
Please note that the character of Marcus in this story is a different one to the character also named Marcus in the Sigrid series.
All comments and feedback are welcomed.
HF
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The cold winter wind lashed the outside of the window of the luxurious hotel room in downtown Nordhaven. The view from the window, on the thirty-eighth floor of the building was almost unparalleled with the majority of the buildings in Nordhaven being less than twenty floors in height. The view overlooked Nordhaven's harbor, the original source of the wealth for this small island nation. From this harbor, in centuries past, Nordlandic Vikings had sailed forth to plunder the riches of lands both near and far. Today, the harbor was still a veritable hive of activity and home to dozens of vessels, ranging from small tugs, through to cargo ships, cruise liners, patrol vessels and warships.
Despite the impressive view, the individuals who were currently occupying the room had barely glanced outside since entering the room over an hour earlier. They were a motley crew, a small group of hard looking men, mostly ex-military or from a variety of European criminal gangs, and one woman. Svetlana stood at the head of the table, Yuri at her side, with her laptop and a variety of papers spread across the surface in front of her. Her personal team of bodyguards and enforcers stood silently, awaiting her instructions.
"I don't need to say how much of a fucking disaster the Congo was for my father's company," she said, her eyes scanning the group. Her eyes settled on the two men who had accompanied her to Ngoy's office for the deal. Despite both being big, burly men, they seemed to shrink as she held them in her gaze. After a moment, she shifted her view back to the rest of the group. "We're going to make NSOG...the North Sea Oil and Gas Corporation...pay for what they did to us there...particularly this woman..." Svetlana said, stabbing her finger on the picture on the table in front of her.
"This is Astrid Bjornsdottir, the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives for NSOG, the one who secured their deal in the Congo. She lives with her family here in Nordhaven and works in the NSOG head office across town. I've managed to secure some very interesting information about this Astrid Bjornsdottir that will help us take our revenge." Svetlana paused. "First, we're going to destroy everything that she holds dear...then I'm going to kill her..."
The group of men looked at each other, Svetlana was known for her vindictive nature; if she wanted someone dead, they were as good as dead. She pointed to another sheaf of papers on the table. "This is source code for a program that PowerTech, the company that we recently acquired in America, designed, and implemented into Nordland's power network nearly a decade ago. Now that we have this source code, we're going to crash Nordland's power network, send the country back to the Dark Ages...make Astrid feel what it's like to have everything crumble around her. Now...this is where you all come in...once we crash the network, we'll need to cut several vital backups that are designed to come on automatically. These will need to be destroyed."
She glanced around the group as they looked at the papers and the map spread out of the table. "Any questions so far?" she asked. The men stayed silent, knowing better to ask any silly questions.
Svetlana nodded and continued. "Our R&D team have spent the last week taking this code apart, analyzing it, looking for ways for us to crash the entire network across the country. They have come up with a way, but it will require access codes from at least two senior members of NSOG."
She looked at Yuri. "Yuri, your role will be to gain the access codes for the network. We need to get the access codes from both the CEO and a senior network engineer. This is Anna Bergman, the CEO," she said, holding up a picture of the woman, showing it to Yuri and the others, before placing it back down on the table. "And this is the engineer that I've selected."
Svetlana held up a picture of a middle-aged woman, with brown hair and a thick, stocky figure. "This is Lovisa Karlsson, she is a senior Power Network Director for NSOG. She is one of the few members of NSOG's technical team with the level of access to carry out this plan. But for her to access the entirety of the network, we'll need CEO approval -- that's the second code we need to acquire." She placed the picture down next to Anna's on the table.
Yuri studied the pictures of both women, Lovisa and Anna. "You want them eliminated?" he asked, looking back at Svetlana.
She shook her head and scowled at him. "No...at least not until we've crashed the network and eliminated Astrid. Seduce them, fuck them, get them drunk...I don't care how you do it...but get their access codes. I've got some ideas but contact Valery Petrov in R&D, he'll also have some ideas for you...and some useful gadgets. But we can't let the Nordlanders know that their network has been compromised before it is time; if they do, they'll likely change the codes and we'll have to start again...so no killing, at least not yet."
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Gospozha
, how do we get access to Anna Bergman?" Yuri asked, using the Russian honorific for boss, as he glanced at her photo. "Leave that to me...I have some 'contacts' here that I want to get reacquainted with...I'll get you that information..." Svetlana replied.
Yuri nodded, his usual taciturn self. "Two targets...I could use some help with this..." he said as he studied the information on the table.
Svetlana glanced around the room at her team. They were all hard men, highly skilled at protecting her and enforcing her will, but not the most physically attractive individuals; well, perhaps Yuri was attractive in his own way, Svetlana thought to herself. The several of her bodyguards that she had fucked over the past couple of years that they had been working for her had been...satisfactory. But she didn't need a blunt instrument, she needed something more precise for this task.
Her eyes fell on Oluwaseun Adeoti, the youngest and arguably the most handsome of the group, but she quickly realized this wasn't saying much. A Nigerian, known amongst the team as Olu, he'd been recruited from the Nigerian Special Boat Service into her father's employ, working as one of his bodyguards for nearly two years before coming across to Svetlana's team about six months earlier. Tall, lean with dark skin and intelligent black eyes and blessed with a nice, thick cock as she recalled from a memorable encounter, Olu was the most likely choice to be able to assist Yuri on this task.
"Olu, you'll assist Yuri gaining these codes. Your target will be Lovisa Karlsson."