Chapter Five - Maryam.
On the highway north, speeding along in her black Range Rover,
Alina was all business, professional and distinctly frosty. I was now merely an operative to be deployed as she wished.
"You have 48 hours, before your flight at Akrotiri, so I suggest you make this quick. Your target is Maryam Ercel, she is an executive PA to Kemal Akyurek, head of Turkish Intelligence or MIT and most importantly for me, she has the encryption for the operatives that are deployed here in the south of Cyprus.
"So where do I come in?" I asked politely, with my former SAS veteran mask on.
"She is currently having an affair with her boss, rather handsome, for a Turk, and he will be meeting up with her in her little apartment in North Nicosia. They meet every week for sex, you will become him and seduce this woman while copying her phone and laptop for the active codes.
"Active?" I asked.
"The codes are only active for a three-day window, then changed automatically to a new cypher." Alina turned to me; the leather creaked in the rear seats.
"I will need the physical details of this man" I reminded her. She smiled and pulled out a slim laptop, opened and double-clicked an icon to play a video of the man in question.
Although this man was not a stranger to me, I withheld that scrap of information from Alina. I needed an edge, I had served my main purpose and fucked her as her late husband and now with bland reassurances of letting me go back to England with Gina and not exposing me to the world were wearing thin and I wanted out.
Now.
As I pretended to watch the video footage and vocal recordings and some up-close physical details from stills of him swimming, holidaying and at the gym- I formed a plan. Alina liked the power she had over me or thought she did. I was certain that she would keep me like her own private pet to do missions that couldn't be done by ordinary intelligence officers or 'Mundanes', as I often referred to them. It was clear that getting out of the country would be difficult, so I had to consider that carefully.
After a few hours' drive, I was deposited in a side street opposite the apartment that the woman would be using for her secret assignations. Wearing the mask of Kemal Akyurek, I made my way across the road and seeing the intercom panel, pressed '4' as the dossier had indicated. The speaker cracked to life.
"Merhaba?" A female voice asked. I would have to feign a lost key, to gain entry.
"Benim, aç anahtarım yok!" I answered in Turkish, I had not told Alina that I was fluent in Turkish.
"Kemal!" She spoke in English with obvious delight. The buzzer disconnected the lock and I entered with some caution. Carefully, I looked around the hallway and as I ascended the stairs, I was watchful for anyone else. If Alina's people knew about this apartment, then Kemal's people would. If the building was under surveillance, it might prove difficult to put my plan into action. As I ascended the stairs, the rather fetching black-haired beauty came out and looked down the stairwell.
"Kemal!" Her voice was excited and her smile warm. She wore a red lacy teddy, and as I approached, I could see she had no bra, to hold her medium breasts. She flung her arms around me and kissed me. I held her, she was slender and elfin-like. My hand slipped down to her tightly formed buttocks and to my surprise, she wore no panties.