Chapter Five

Silver’s POV

“Are you kidding me?” Jericho erupted when I explained the situation to him.

“So we are like his foot soldiers now? At his beck and call?”

“You need to relax,” I remarked as I kept on reading through the files on my desk. I was trying to read through our current budget and the deeper I researched, the more scared I was of our current situation.

“We don't do politics, your father learnt that the hard way when he got into business with the Argyles,”

“What would you have me do?” I asked, completely distraught.

“Whatever Dad did with his father is still affecting us and we can't pay such a sum. We do this deal with him and we are in the clear,”

“Or we do something legit, and not dive into politics,” He handed the daily magazine to me. The headlines were about the new refinery that has been set up at the heart of the pack.

“We align with this, we share our prospects with them and in return get profit alongside. It's not enough, but it will cover the monthly expense,”

I took a hard long look at the name, TRIVIA. It was so familiar, almost like I had talked about it before.

“The plan is perfect but it's short term. How do we resolve our long term situation?”

“Step by step,” Jericho responded with a firm look.

“I will set up a meeting for you by tomorrow. Get to meet the guy, socialize and maybe a solution might come out of it,”

“Hey,” I halted him before he could leave.

“Any lead on the mistletoe?”

“I followed up with companies that used them but their records are sealed,” He answered.

“So right now, I'm trying surveillance to identify what the content we were transporting was,”

“Raid knows and all of this is his plot to get me to work for him against the elders,”

“Not just the Elders because with what you said, Grand Alpha Khang is also in the mix here,” Jericho pointed out with a dreadful gaze.

“We might be the top family here but not to Khang. Greater families had stood against him and lost. It is futile to go against him,”

“Then what? All I'm hearing from you is how fucked we are and not how we can escape our predicament,” my chest got heavier when the realization slowly sunk in, the realization that my only way out might be to get into the dirty business fully.

“Let's just have a meeting with the Trivia group and then formulate our strategy around it,” he held my hand to calm me down.

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“The car is ready?” Lena knocked on my door. I was pessimistic about the Trivia's meeting but I had to evaluate all my choices.

I grabbed my purse and headed out.

“Lena, tell Jericho that I …”

I lost my voice the second I pulled the door open. His alluring gaze fell on me with a hysteric smile.

“Did I catch you at the wrong time, partner?” Raid asked, his shoulder against the threshold causing a huge barricade by the door.

“What are you doing here?” I shot back with a calm look. I didn't want my expression to give away my plans.

“I just came to check on you and to give you this,” He handed a letter to me as he stepped into my room. The crest at the front revealed it was from the Grand Capital, from Khang perhaps.

He stepped closer and whispered carefully; “That's him threatening to wipe the entire park if we don't begin to come up with results. This isn't what money or my power can fix, we need to strategize and not go behind each other backs,”

“I'm not going behind your back,” I voiced, but the smile he had only grew larger.

“If you really want transparency in our partnership, you should start by letting me do this of my free will. Not pulling me in through deceit,”

“Deceit?” He chuckled lightly.

“Baby doll, I saved you. You under my wings is what is preventing other people from snooping around you. Your father left quite an impression in the underground business world,”

“And that was my father!” I declared firmly.

“Not me! He made his mistakes, he made his bed and why am I forced to lie on it?”

“Beats me. You are asking someone literally suffering the exact same thing. The only sin I have committed is sharing a blood with mine,”

“I can't,” I sighed deeply.

“I need to go and …”

“What's holding you?” Jericho walked into my room.

“Alpha? What's going on here? Is everything okay?”

“Everything is fine, Jericho,” Raid answered. He gently stroked my chin with his fingers, removing a hair strand. I couldn't describe what I felt as fear, more like a burning excitement.

"Good luck on your meeting today,” He walked past Jericho.

I waited to catch my breath, listening to him descend the stairs and out the door.

“Why didn't you alert me that he was here?” I gave Jericho a furious look.

“I have been by the door for the past three hours and no one came through there. His car isn't at the front, he never came through the entrance,”

“Oh!” I exhaled.

“If he can come in here without being seen, he already knows of the meeting.”

“What's that in your hand?” Jericho pointed to the letter from Khang.

“I will read it when I get back, I need my focus,”

The drive to the Trivia headquarters was brief, my thoughts became louder than the cousin sitting beside me. I could still see Raid standing in front of me, his smile and words hung over my mind.

“We are here,” Jericho opened the door for me. The refinery was one of the biggest I had laid my eyes upon and to have it in the heart of the Pack land will take a huge financial toll on whoever established it.

“Mr and Miss Salvatore, he has been waiting for you,” a man walked up to us. We followed him into an office and the scent I got when I stepped in was almost nostalgic. The strong deja vu feeling overwhelmed me as I struggled to understand why I was unsettled.

“Where is he?” Jericho inquired.

“I'm here, Jericho,” a strangely familiar voice responded. My heart plummeted when I laid eyes on him. He looked so different from our time in high school, I almost couldn't recognize him.

“Silver?”

“Triscade,” I shook hands with him in shock. He gently grabbed my hand and gave it a kiss, sparking the memories of my time with him. His hand on my skin, his breath on my neck as we made love.

My highschool romance with my first love took over me once more .