Chapter 5

FIVE: 

                   Lucian's Pov 

Patience has never been my strong suit, but it was needed in my world. 

Austin Callum is playing with fire if he thinks running to my enemy is going to save him, as I watch Ryder cut the bastard open I imagine what I would do to Austin when they catch him. 

I hate getting my hands dirty, but it wasn't something I would lose sleep over, ridding the world of trash like him was something I take pleasure in and the fact that he thought he could betray me and get away with it is ludicrous. 

"Harvest the organs and send them to the hospital," I ordered through the comms and Ryder nodded on the screen. 

Light footsteps caught my attention but I didn't bother to check who was coming in because I already knew who walks like a ghost. 

After two weak knocks, he opened the door walking in sluggishly, "What is it this time?" I asked when he plopped on the couch at the other side of my desk. 

"Raphael is acting like a prick" Gray commented and I furrowed my brows lifting my gaze from the computer. 

"What do you mean he's acting like a prick?" 

"He refuses to let the incident slide, he's adamant on getting his pound of flesh for something so trivial" He scoffed. 

This is about Austin's niece. 

The beautiful girl with a lot of fire in her eyes, the way she glared at me with glassy eyes while I held her sister stirred something inside me. 

She looked ready to pounce on me to protect the girl but she was smart to stand down knowing it wouldn't end well for her. 

"How did she get her teeth on him?" It was fascinating that she was able to do that to Raphael, he might be a brute with a hot temper but he is one of my skilled men. 

"She bit his hand when he tried stopping her from crying out for help, I didn't expect her to be so feisty and that pissed him off because she really took a chunk of his palm" He snorted. 

Interesting. 

My phone vibrated on the desk beside my computer, and I diverted my attention back to the screen. The business tycoon with a loud voice and the personality of a peacock was whimpering and choking on his saliva as Ryder operated on him. 

He started the rumour that I was kidnapping little children and selling them to the Albanians, I thought it was a joke at first until he began to broadcast it everywhere he went thinking that because he had the Russians backing him up, he was invincible. 

He forgot who I am and even the Russians wouldn't dare to cross me. 

They were the ones who handed him over to me begging for a truce, nobody wants to be on my bad books because they know the lengths I would go to erase them from the face of the earth. I won't just stop with them and their families, every single one of their relatives and anyone that shares the same name would be erased along with them. 

"Speak" I ordered as I picked up the phone. 

"Boss, Austin just got out of the Cougars' territory. Our spies say he begged to get out of the country. The Cougars are helping him leave the country, should we attack or stand down?" Erick asked. 

When the bastard came in here begging for my help he knew he was doomed, everyone knows coming to me for help is like selling your soul to the devil. 

And his soul is mine. 

"Stand down for now, follow him to the airport, and wait for my signal" I replied and hung up. 

"Why wait when they can just take him now?" Gray frowned. 

"Where is the fun in that? He would be thinking he finally escaped, only to find out he failed later" I remarked and he smirked. 

"Ah I see, you must have another reason for that because you are not the one hunting right now, the thrill isn't yours," Gray said, once again proving why he's my second in command. 

I don't want to catch Austin now, I just have to wait a bit longer. 

"Is it the girl?" He voiced out. 

"You know the others have been on my neck about getting a wife, she's a perfect fit" I replied leaning back on the chair watching Roderick take his last breath from the computer after Ryder took out his heart from his chest. 

"What about Eve? Alicia and Rina?"

"A wife is different from a slut, they are useless to me and I'm not having a child with Eve, she's too immature" I dismissed taking the comms off my ears. 

Ryder was cleaning up the mess already while the rest took care of the organs they harvested from Roderick's body. 

"They won't take that lightly, they might try to get rid of her" He sighed. 

"Let me worry about that, how did the deal with the Howards go?" 

"They accepted, you were right about it, the old geezer jumped at the offer and even offered to hand over his daughter to you to seal the deal" He revealed and I chuckled. 

"He can keep his daughter, having access to his company is all I need for now" It was all I needed to get my revenge, I will ruin his life and take. Everything he holds dear including his daughter. 

I have to be patient even if it's excruciating. 

I recalled holding her lifeless skinny body in my arms, her chubby cheek replaced with sunken hollow cheekbones, how she felt limp and cold in my arms. 

I felt the same rage when I saw Jessica's little sister, Mia was that age when she was kidnapped. 

When she was taken away from me. 

Jessica is willing to do anything to protect her little sister and I admire that, after all, I know what it feels like to be in her position. 

I will make them pay even if it means burning this city to the ground. 

That's why I need to make an example out of Austin, it was clear he was a shitty uncle, and who knows what he has been doing to those girls. 

I glanced at my wristwatch seeing it was time, I called Erick who picked up on the first ring. 

"Bring Austin back to me alive"