Cephus' POV.
"Do you think you can ambush me and get away with it?" I made my voice as menacing as possible and the scared look on my prisoner's face satisfied me a lot.
"You don't scare me," his voice wavered as he tried to sound strong, but I could tell he was on the verge of breaking.
"Oh yes? How about this?" I pressed the hot burning iron into his thighs as he screamed at the top of his lungs, for a man trying to sound strong, he sure looked like a sissy in distress.
I chuckled evilly, "Where is your base? Where is your boss hiding?" I questioned him for the umpteenth time, but all he let out was a bucket full of sob.
"I don't know," he looked pathetic and I couldn't stand looking at his face, so I left the place to my right hand man, Arman.
"Come on, Romeo, come find this fucker for me," I signalled to the computer genius, making him follow me out of the room.
He hurriedly fished out his computer and walked with me, "Boss, there is a tracker embedded into his neck, if I could hack into it, I may be able to figure out where it is from and wherever that is will surely lead us to their boss,"
I nodded, "Do your thing, you have one hour," I entered my office and let out a breath of frustration.
Since Freya was killed by the Cobra gang, I have not been able to get my revenge, but nothing will stop me from getting my revenge. I held my head in frustration, feeling the tick in my skin, wanting to let out the feelings in one way, then I thought of the new girl that claimed to be a virgin, I chuckled evilly at that thought.
"A virgin? At this time and age?" I laughed out loud and Romeo entered my office looking at me like I've grown two heads.
I abandoned my thoughts on the new girl to concentrate on my revenge, "What did you find?"
He smiled and that brought a smug look to my face, "I found them," he declared with a whooping sound.
I smirked, "Where are they?" Romeo looked at me in pity as I asked.
"I'm so sorry boss, but they're at your private house, the one you usually go to with Freya," that would explain it. Everyone knew how sensitive that venue is for me, but it seems Felix wanted to have a laugh at my misery.
I will not give him that choice, as I will be the one having the last laugh after I rip his head off of his body.
"Gather the men and let's go," I commanded in a grim voice as I fished out my golden gun from it's confinement.
The men applauded when they saw the gun, "To battle," I yelled and they all cheered in a single voice.
I made a quick stop at the basement, "Gaylord, I need you to do a few things, someone will come around in about an hour to speak to you," I gave him orders.
Gaylord nodded, grinning, "I'll have everything in place," he promised.
I looked at Gaylord, admiring his loyalty, "As always, you did good," I patted his back and inspected the uniforms he had acquired.
"You are a genius, Gaylord, the uniforms were just what I was looking for, thank you," I instructed him on what to do next.
He nodded and saluted me, "You're welcome, my lord," he turned to the other two men and they saluted me as well.
"Have the men ready by this evening, I want to leave as soon as possible," I won't let Felix and his entire gang get away with killing the love of my life, this means ambushing them at their location.
As I returned to my office to make the final preparations, I couldn't help but reminisce when it happened, when Freya died and I couldn't do a thing about it.
"You promised you won't harm her, Felix," I was surprisingly calm, but inside, I will do everything to save her.
Felix laughed, "Oh, I won't. But my men will and she will have no one to protect her," he closed the distance between us and I could see a lust-filled look in his eyes, "And she's a virgin, too,"
"Don't you touch her," I shot my hand forward and pushed him back, my hand connected with his face with a loud smack.
"You will not touch her," I repeated in the same tone as before.
Felix sucked his right hand and glared at me, "We'll see about that," he walked off to where they had Freya in captivity and I growled at his back. I ran down the stairs and approached the door to my room, but before I could move any further, a gunshot sounded.
"No" I stopped in my tracks, my heart beating too fast and for the first time in my life I wish I could rewind time.
But, I couldn't, I could only run forward and see as my love dropped to the ground, her eyes contorted in pain, holding on to the last breath of her life. We had promises to be fulfilled, hut Felix took everything from me.
"Freya!" I ran and screamed, trying to catch her.
"I love you Jandy," I chuckled through my pain, she knew how much I hated being called that.
"No, please stay with me," but there was nothing I could do, she died. Just like Loraine did.
A sharp knock brought me out of my memories and I didn't realize a lone tear has escaped my eyes.
"What?!" I shouted and Romeo rushed in, his eyes filled with uncertainty and I knew immediately that something was wrong.
"What is it?" I quickly rushed forward, being alert too.
"They moved boss, and their location is now concealed," he answered, his voice dropping an octave, knowing full well I'll be pissed.
"Fuck!" I gripped my hair in frustration as Romeo rushed out of my office, "I need a drink." I took my car keys and drive straight to the club hoping to take care of my foul mood, but what I was met with made me even more angry.
"What do you think you're doing?!" My voice boomed, startling everyone I intended for to be startled.
Chapter 183Katie's POVAll I see is a blur of him as I try to get my mind and body to function so I can answer him. My legs hit the floor as he pushed me down, releasing me to walk away. His hand grips his hair as he stares at the gun in his other hand and back down to me.“No. No, it’s not true,” I whimper, tears still falling. “Don’t listen to him,” I plead, looking him straight in the eyes.“Silence,” he orders, walking over to me with his hand raised. Will he hit me? Will he hurt me?“That isn’t true!” I shoot back. “Nothing he is saying is true…”Silence ensues for a long second before Cephus speaks. “Get the ropes and tape!” he yells to Mack. I’m lying on the ground on my side when his face comes into my vision.“Was it all a lie, Katie? Was it all some fucked up lie so that you could get into my head? So you could get the inside job done and walk away unscathed?” His voice is so loud in my ears, I push away from him.“Was it?” he shouts, demanding a response, his fingers gripp
Chapter 182Katie's POV“I see it as more of a protective arrangement for both of us. There are legal protections for each of us… incentives to keep one another’s secrets.”I fixed him with what I hoped was the most vicious look I had in me. “I never went to the cops after you kidnapped me, didn’t go running to my parents begging them to find someone to break your kneecaps, and you thought you needed some other way of getting me to keep your secrets?”“It matters…” I can hear the anxiety in Mack’s voice. Something is very, very wrong.“Why does it matter? She was nothing before this whole incident and will be nothing after everything takes place. She’s clean. I know it.” Cephus sounds confident, and though I know I have done nothing wrong, if Mack convinces him I did something, I know I am as good as dead.“It matters because I know she’s not clean. After Jared called me and told me what Luccio said, I did a little digging on her and found some shit out.”Horror fills my mind. What i
Chapter 181Katie's POV“I was seven or eight, in a regular primary school not far from here.” His right hand moved, grasping for his phone, then he left it alone and pulled my hand he was still holding onto his knee, placing both of his hands over it. If the ring I was wearing was digging in, he didn’t give any sign. “It might surprise you to hear this, Katie, but I was not the best of children.”“Shocking revelation.”“I was always targeting kids a bit younger, a bit smaller. The ones I knew wouldn’t be able to give me any shit in return. Except this one time, there was this kid—Billy Burke, I remember his name vividly—and he did give me shit. He told me he wanted me to stop pushing him around and trying to scare him, and no he wasn’t going to give me his lunch money, by the way. I’d never run into this situation before when I was running this scam, so I panicked a bit. I hit him in the face. Told me to his parents.”I didn’t know what to say to this. It took me all too quickly b
Chapter 180Katie's POVEven when it gets worked out in the end, it sucks for long-term relationships.”It had to be even harder to find someone you could enter into the sort of long-term relationship most people were especially keen on with. Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised Cephus had jumped at the chance to get me on board as a future wife.And speaking of my future husband, I had half-expected he wouldn’t be there when I returned. Then when I saw him sitting on the couch in front of the TV where he’d been when I ran out to get in Caroline’s car—where he’d probably slept for all I knew, he’d gone out the night before and hadn’t been back before I admitted defeat and crawled to bed—I half-expected to spot Angel somewhere in the room in the next moment. She didn’t have anything further to add to her roster of manipulations for the moment: we were alone.“What was your day like?” asked Cephus without looking at me. I let my bag slip by degrees from my fingers, frozen in place by the p
Chapter 179Katie's POV“Cephus isn’t supposed to be a part of this side of things, he can’t do it… and I doubt you’re in a position to ask your mother for assistance. Caroline is an ideal choice.”I didn’t like it, but she was right. I couldn’t go about this the wrong way if I ever wanted to be on Cephus’s good side. I didn’t want to go about it the wrong way. And while I was surrounded by Cephus’s family I needed to make connections unless I wanted to be treated the same way I was on my own. Caroline seemed like the safest option there so far.“If you’re sure I won’t be inconveniencing you,” I told Caroline. “I could use the help. I don’t have much experience with the whole wedding business, that much is for sure.”Caroline broke out in a little golf clap of delight. There might actually be some benefit in spending trying to absorb as much as I could of her elegance. “I’m so pleased to help. Now, I was thinking, I have the whole of tomorrow afternoon off work, so that would be a g
Chapter 178Katie's POVI sat up with a gasp.It was just like the morning before when I had woken to unexpected voices. But this time I was in a strange bed again, and at least one of those voices didn’t seem familiar at all.I’d learned my lesson from the day before. I couldn’t get myself into the single bathroom in the apartment, but I pulled on a proper outfit, brushed out my hair, and cleaned my face thoroughly with some wipes. I didn’t dare put on makeup without a full mirror, but I was young and fresh enough that I could probably get away without it.Once I was decent, I made a quick and quiet tidy of my room and then stepped up to the door for a bit of strategic eavesdropping before I joined the action.A childish female voice was doing most of the talking. “She’ll need someone to guide her through the process.”Cephus’s voice sounded both amused and exasperated. “Someone who has never been even close to getting married before?”“You know exactly what Caroline means.” The thi