The Other Twin

PROLOGUE

It was a bright and lively Saturday morning in Serville, Spain. People were going about their business and travelers were checking into the hotel. Hotel Estrella is one of the biggest hotels in the city. It had fifty-eight floors and was well secured. It was a hotel where the rich and influential, the one percent of the one percent go for meetings or to lodge.

A van sat by the parking lot of the hotel, four people were inside the van, two men and two women. One of the women was clad in a black dress, her auburn hair tied neatly in a bun, her lips smeared with red lipstick, she wore large square-shaped shades, that hid her eyes. The other woman was clad in a white t-shirt, black leather jacket, and black jean pants, her hair was short, her lips had red lipstick but not as pronounced as the other woman in a black dress, her eyes were accentuated with mascara, she was pretty. She was with a laptop and was typing into it, her face serious, her eyes searching for something.

The first man was in a plain white shirt and had spiky blonde hair, he was in the driver's seat tapping his fingers on the steering, while the other man was hunched over the woman with a laptop. He was tall, masculine, and quite handsome.

"Alicia, por que tarda tanto?" [Alicia, what's taking so long?] the woman in the black dress inquired.

"Their security system is complicated, I have been able to hack the first fifty floors, but he is in none of the rooms, I am still trying to hack the last eight floors," Alicia replied, her eyes still on the laptop.

The woman in a black dress looked at her wristwatch. "How much time do we have left?"

"About an hour," the husky man replied.

"This is not my first job and it's not going to be the last, I don't want any mistakes. You were supposed to be in his room in person before he leaves for that conference, the plan was to terminate him before then."

"Alright, I'm in," Alicia said.

"Finally," said the husky guy.

"He is already getting dressed for the conference we need to be quick," Alicia said and handed the woman in black the laptop. "Alright, Arturo let's get ready." Alicia patted the husky guy's shoulder and they moved to the backseat.

Arturo took out a sports bag, unzipped it quickly, took out a red dress, and handed it over to Alicia who had already stripped to her underwear. She donned the red dress, and he tossed her a wig she caught it mid-air and wore it immediately, Arturo put on the tailored suit, looking sexier and his muscles bulged out. Alicia winked at him and he smiled at her.

The woman in a black dress removed her dark shades, her eyes were pretty, and she stared closely at the screen of the laptop. "Did you hack these CCTVs?"

"Yes, Red," Alicia answered from the back of the van, applying some makeup. "Give me a heads-up."

"Nikolai de La Cruz, forty-nine years old Italian wine baron from Palermo. Has a family of three, an Amish wife, and two daughters. He is here on a secret conference to meet the Rodriguezs over the importation of wine to Spain, he was a partner to Dominguez but decided to two-time. He is here with a few guards because he is keeping his profile low. As I said you are his slut, you came with your guard because you feel insecure around businessmen. He won't let Arturo in, he would stand by the door in case anything goes wrong, make sure you copy everything from his laptop. I trust you on this."

"We won't disappoint, Red."

Red turned to them. "Remember, no mistakes, show no weakness."

"Aye, ma!" Arturo said.

The duo opened the car, and Arturo jumped out, but Alicia glanced back at Red. "Wish me luck."

"Don't use your real names, remember that. I will be communicating with you here," Red said and wore her dark shades again.

Alicia smiled lopsidedly and went out of the van. Arturo angled his arm and she slid her arm into his and they walked towards the entrance of the hotel. Red watched them from the car as they entered, she relaxed back on the seat, folded her arms across her chest, and placed her head on the headrest. Her phone went off and she took it from her side and smiled when she saw the name on the screen. "Mi amor," [My love] she said once she answered the phone.

"Mi chica mala," [My bad girl] a deep masculine voice called from the other end.

"Have you arrived in Malaysia?"

"Just got here. Have you terminated the bastard yet?"

"On it."

"I trust in you, I want it clean and well done ."

"Has this girl ever disappointed you before?"

"Mi chica mala, [My bad girl] I trust you. Just do one thing for me, please don't fight with Sofia."

Red rolled her eyes. "That little imp, She is not my business, as long as she stays out of my own way."

"Alright, Red, just wanted to inform you that I got here already. I will be waiting for positive results," The man at the other end said. "Adios." [Goodbye]

"Adios, mi amor." [Goodbye, my love]

She ended the call and looked at the man in the driver's seat. "Salvatore, how long until they are done?"

"Fifteen minutes," the man replied.

She relaxed back and closed her eyes to take a little nap until they come out. Fifteen minutes later, Arturo and Alicia came out of the hotel and started towards the car. Red kept her head on the headrest, her eyes were closed and she didn't see the truck that was coming in full speed towards their car, nor did the driver noticed. When the truck got closer, she heard the sound opened her eyes quickly, and looked out of the window, her eyes widened as she saw the truck that was coming toward them. But it was too late to do anything. The truck ran into the van, sending it up in the air, the van somersaulted twice and came to a stop with the tires up.

Arturo and Alicia stopped in their tracks, their eyes wide with horror and their jaw dropped, as they watched the van tumble with its tires now facing up.

BEFORE THE ACCIDENT

RED a.k.a Angel of Death was the most dangerous woman in Spain, she resided in Seville, where she was born and was bonded to the Escorpion a.k.a Gun and Bullets' family. She is heartless and dangerous, she shows no mercy. The only languages she understands are kill and blood. Other mafia families have tried to buy her away, but she was very loyal to the Escorpion family, not only because it was the most formidable group, but because she was entangled in a love web with the leader of the family, the youngest mafia don in the country, the formidable Miguel Dominguez.

Miguel grew up in a hostile environment where war between rival families was brutal and one had to be alert always. His father was the don of the then second most feared mafia family and Miguel was raised to be a leader and a ruthless mafia. He was just eighteen years old when a rival family, Dragon, the then fiercest mafia family killed his father. When he was twenty-one years old, he avenged his father's death by wiping out the whole Dragon family. It made him become the most powerful and most feared mafia and his family became the strongest. He had gotten one of his mistresses pregnant and she had given him a child, a baby girl before she died in an automobile accident. That girl was the only human he had ever loved and protected with all his heart.

The Escorpion family remained the most dangerous and most feared family for years and no one was able to defeat them because those working there were the best of the best. The gang has more than one thousand members, not just ordinary members, but the most dangerous, sophisticated, loyal, smart, swift, and strong ones and other rival families had tried to buy out most of their workers but to no avail.

Maya Alvarez, popularly known as Red had not always been a dangerous woman. She had lost her parents at a very tender age and she and her twin sister had to live under the care of an aunt and her drunkard husband who treated them harshly. Maya was rebellious and had rebelled against her aunt and her husband a couple of times while trying to protect Mariana her twin sister. Deflowered by her aunt's husband and blamed by her aunt, she left the house at the age of fifteen in search of greener pastures. But life outside there was tough. She had joined the street kids to do some petty stealing to survive. A few months after she left the house, she took her sister away from her aunt's place and took her to an orphanage where the Mother superior was kind enough to offer her a job and a roof.

Maya decided that she wasn't the one to stay in the convent with the nuns, since she was the rebellious, street-wise, chaotic, and wicked one for she had told herself that it was only the wicked that make it through life while her sister Mariana was demure, quiet, kind and peaceful. They were too different and operated in different worlds but they loved each other. She went back to the streets as a solo thief, stealing her way through life. At the age of twenty, Maya was declared the most wanted anonymous criminal-no one knew who she was, because she went by the name Angel of Death. She killed without remorse and do anything to get what she wanted, but she lived a low-profile life to avert anyone's attention from her and never told anyone that she had a twin. She lived in a small shank at the outskirt of the city, in disguise. She worked part-time at a small restaurant as a cover for who she really was. Her uncle was her first kill. After making a lot of money from stealing, she had gone back to the orphanage to pick up her sister, but Mariana refused to go with her, saying she had fallen in love with the orphanage and the children and that she couldn't live with Maya's kind of life.

She met Miguel Dominguez at an affluence party where she had gone to steal. She usually attended such parties to steal gold wristwatches, bracelets, and other valuables she could get from those wealthy people. No one knows how she was able to attend such parties and she was so charming, that everyone was always attracted to the lady in red. That night, she had gone about her business stealing people's belongings, wristwatches, bracelets, necklaces, and wallets. Not knowing that Miguel had seen her, she had tried to take his Rolex watch from his wrist. He had grabbed her arm and smiled at her. She had never thought of men, she didn't know if she was interested in men and she had never thought any man handsome before, but that night, she had thought of the tall man, smiling down at her with the most charming smile and gracious grey eyes as beautiful.

"You are good, you should work for me," he had said to her, the smile still on his face.

She had flashed him a beautiful smile. A smile so sweet and innocent that one would think she could never hurt a fly. "I will think about it," she had replied quietly.

He had bent to her ear level and had whispered, "Make it fast, I'm not good at waiting." He had given her his card and had released her arm, then he had removed the Rolex watch and had given it to her. "You needed it." He had walked away, leaving her gazing after him.

That moment, she had felt a connection between them, not love, but something more of admiration. No one has ever caught her red-handed before and this mysterious man was so cool about it. She had looked at his card and had read the name aloud. "Miguel Dominguez." She never thought about his offer, she completely forgot about him until his men showed up at her shank one day and reminded her of the offer. She sent them back with a message, telling him that she works for no one. Miguel didn't give up and she didn't give in. But as fate may have it, she got into trouble with one of the most dangerous mafia families, The Serpiente, which was the Spanish name of the Snake. This family was headed by Federico Rodriguez and it was a rival mafia family to the Escorpion. She had robbed and killed one of their men.

She had avoided them until they traced her to her shank and she managed to escape death that night of the invasion. She couldn't go to the convent because she didn't want to implicate her sister and she didn't want them to know she had a twin, because she knew they would use her sister against her or even kill her and she couldn't bear her sister Mariana dying because of her. Miguel had seized that opportunity. He had sent his men after her too and they got to her before The Serpiente and kidnapped her.

When she woke up, Miguel had reintroduced himself and had promised her protection only if she worked for him. She was resistant at first but when his men protected her from all attacks from the rival family, she gave in and started undergoing intense exercises to intensify her skills. In a few months, she went from being the newbie to the master's mistress. She was a lethal tool and was afraid of nothing, she was what Miguel wanted to remain at the top where he was. Before long, her fame spread in the gangdom and she became the most feared personnel because her killing skills were alarming and second to none. She never fails an operation. Miguel was what she wanted too, to keep up with her luxurious lifestyle without the source of her wealth being questioned, so their relationship was more beneficial.

Before long, other rival families started to offer to pay her more than Miguel was paying her, but she remained loyal to Miguel, not because she was his mistress but because Miguel was a man of his words, he never goes back on his words nor try to cheat his workers when it comes to their wages. He was a trustworthy man and that was his advantage over his rival families. She went by the name Angel of death until one day, Sofia, Miguel's daughter who hated her so much called her Red, and when she demanded why the little girl had called her that, the girl had said something shocking to her.

"Red is evil, red is dangerous and red is bloody and you are all of them. How do you recover after killing all those people?"

She didn't get angry with the girl, it had inspired her. Since red was her favorite color, she decided to go by the name. She was resilient, she was evil and unapologetically dangerous. Since that day, her signature name became Red, she got drops of blood tattoos on her back, between her shoulder blades, she wore red dresses before, but she got more of red and black attires, her lips were always smeared with red lipstick and it always suited her.

She didn't tell anyone about her twin sister except for her the best friend she made in the family, Alicia Garcia, pretty, boyish with short hair. Red admired Alicia so much because she was smart. She was a college graduate, she studied software engineering in college and was the best hacker in the whole of Spain. Alicia could hack anything and decipher any code. She was another dangerous tool and during operations, she had always deceived men with her innocent face and kindest smile. She was also nice to Sofia whom Red found annoying and had countlessly messed with the thought of snapping her neck. They have servants who worked in the house and there was Arturo, sexy, handsome strong. He was the coach and he had coached both Red and Alicia and had admired them a lot. Red later found out that Alicia had a secret crush on him but what she never found out was if she acted upon it or if Arturo reciprocated the feelings.

Red sat in the car with Miguel as they watched the hotel entrance. It was Red's first operation and she was not nervous. A lot of the other women get nervous when they are given their first task. Sofia's mother Adella had chickened out on her first duty. She had come back to the car and they had lost that client, but Red was confident. Miguel glanced over at her.

"Are you ready?" he asked.

She flashed him that lovely smile of hers and nodded her head. "I was born ready. Give me a heads-up."

"He is an Irish businessman and he is here to seal a contract with his partners from Spain. The briefcase, that's not where the money is. It's in the suitcase. He put it there to deceive people like us. Mind you, he is not an easy man, ex-military, he still has the skills. Just be careful, I trust you. He won't be in his room when you get there, use that opportunity to adjust and wait for him.

"Yes, I will be successful."

It was a pretty dangerous job and although Miguel had a backup plan, he was scared something might go wrong. "It's six million dollars we are talking about, go for the suitcase, not the briefcase." He took out a pill from his pocket, if you can't kill him alert, you can use this pill to make him dizzy but that would take a long time, his senorita Emelia Gonzalez would be arriving in forty-five minutes. Make sure you copy the information from his PC. Here is the drive."

Red wore the afro wig that seemed a little too big for her hair. The plan was to look outstanding, everyone would notice her going in but no one would see her go out. She took her dark shades, applied the red lipstick, and wore the gold color dress and her hand gloves. Miguel drop her off in front of the hostel and took out her suitcase from the trunk of the car, she got off the car, standing there and making sure a lot of people noticed her before she sashayed towards the entrance and smiled at the security guards there, they smiled back at her and nodded their greetings. She went into the large hall where different attendants were walking around and smiled at Arturo who was one of them and was pushing a trolley for a couple. They nodded slightly at each other and she went to the receptionist's desk.

"Hi, I'm Emelia Gonzalez and I'm here for Mr. Alejandro Suarez," she said with a smile.

"Oh, senorita, room 404, please," the receptionist said and gave her the door card.

Red smiled at her and went her way. "I'm in," she said as she approached the elevator.

Alicia and Adriana sat in the van looking into their laptops, both of them were hackers but Alicia was superior to Adriana.

"I see you," Alicia said.

"Emelia has arrived at the airport, she is about to board a car to bring her here, You've got to be quick," Adriana said.

"Roger that," Red said as the elevator open up at the floor she was going to. She dragged her suitcase towards the door and was about to slot in the door card when Alicia's voice stopped her.

"Wait!" Alicia said.

"What is that?" Red asked.

"What?" Miguel asked.

"He is in his room, he is in the bathroom."

"What?" Miguel asked. "He wasn't supposed to be there. Alicia, this is your mistake."

"I'm sorry," Alicia said. The man must have gone back to his room when she was busy stalking Arturo on camera. Miguel was going to kill her if this goes wrong.

"Red retreat, we have encountered a problem."

"What do you mean? I have not come this far to retreat. I m going in."

"No, wait, Red wait!"

Red slotted in the door card and went inside. Her crew held their breaths. Miguel who wasn't seeing anything asked, "Red, are you okay?"

"Don't distract me," Red replied.

Mr. Suarez came out of the bathroom with a towel draped around his waist. He was a portly man with a protruding stomach and bald head. He looked suspiciously at the woman standing there with a suitcase. "You are not Emelia," he said slowly.

"And you are not Pascal," Red replied. "Pascal is supposed to be young and smoking hot."

The man looked offended. "Who are you and what are you doing here."

She moved closer to the man. "But I have always dreamt of f*cking older men."

"Emelia is fifteen minutes away from the hotel, you've got to be quick," Adriana warned.

"You should go f*ck your father..." the man was saying and Red's gaze shifted from his face and went behind him.

Her eyes widened and she gasped in terror, the man turned to see why she had the expression, but on seeing nothing, he turned back to Red but it was too late, she made as if she was passing him and the man clutched his throat. She had used that opportunity to slit his throat. The man gasped for breath, holding his throat, and slowly went down."

"She did it," Alicia said excitedly.

Red quickly searched for the laptop and slotted the flash drive, she unlocked it with her hacking skills and started copying the information she needed. Then she went over to the closet and took out the two suitcases in there. She kept the suitcase she had come with inside the closet and shut the doors. She looked at the camera they had fixed in the room. "Alicia, switch the cameras, I'm about to leave the room."

"Roger that, Red," Alicia said.

Red went back to the laptop and checked the progress, it was 88% before it completes, she tapped her feet impatiently on the floor. Emelia's car approached a few blocks away from the hotel.

"Oh, my God, Red, You've got to get out of there now. Emelia is almost here," Adriana warned.

Red looked at the progress again it was 98% complete. She stared at the device as she slowly turned to 99% and finally it hit 100%. She quickly removed the drive. "Alicia, have you switched the cameras, I am going out now?" she asked, looking at the camera that they have installed in the room.

"Aye ma'am," Alicia said. "Leave there now!"

Red quickly left the room and went into the next room where a man answered the door, he smiled at her and she went in. Emelia's car drove into the premises. A few minutes later, Emilia and Red passed each other at the entrance, Red was now clad in a straight black gown, her hair long and straight. She started walking toward the car. Miguel watched her with all admiration as she walked towards his car.