Chapter 78

“Alpha, we received the report from Papeno,” Samuel said as he rushed into the war room. James had purposely kept Romero away from today’s meetings until we received this info. It was only my men and the king in the war room. “Go ahead,” I said. “We confirmed that military vessels have been sighted.” I sneered, “As expected.” James turned to me. “So you think Romero is allowing them to restock and refuel on his island?” James and I had suspicions as to Romero’s strategy. If he had been playing both sides of the field, most likely, he would have made the same deal with Kal as he did with us. My gut was telling me he was lending some small islands to Alpha Kal for their military operations. “Logically, it explains our problems.” I paced back to the map. “There’s an open ocean between Kal and us. If they didn’t have a middle point, they would need more large cargo ships to carry the smaller vessels, which we would have been able to locate as soon as they entered our waters.” Turning back