Todos los capítulos de Playing with the Enemy: Capítulo 191 - Capítulo 200

“Stepmother…” He laughed again. “Yeah… That’s what she was.”His expression darkened. “She who had taken my mother’s place after the woman before her. My second stepmother.”He stood and walked slowly around the table to my side.Seven minutes.I put my wrist at my lips. “Pull out.”Voices rang in my ear.Leon held my gaze, nodding slowly.“Pull out. Now,” I said forcefully.There was no way I was getting out of here in the next three minutes.Of all the people I had brought, Leon was interested in only one – me. Even if I couldn’t get out of here today, my sister knew where I was.My comms link went dead.I adjusted my grip on the pistol, supporting my gun hand with my free one.Once I steadied my stance, Leon continued speaking as though having a gun in front of him was just another event on a slow day.Given what I now knew of him, it probably was.“My precious stepmother,” he spat,

I pointed at the screen. “What’s the meaning of this, Leon?!” I screamed, coming back to my purpose as my mind resisted the revelations he had just thrown at me.“What are you trying to do? Threaten my family?” I was using my number one weapon – my words. I reached for every ounce of strength I had left and pushed my focus into them.“Do you think you can stop me with this?” My voice shook, but I refused to let it break.“Do you think you’re the only one with nothing to lose?” I pointed at the drive. “I have your info, Leon! I’ll burn down your fucking empire! If you –”He was in my face, grabbing my cheeks with one hand. I tried to shake him off, but my body was not responding. My secondary weapon was out of commission.I glowered at him as he shut me up, his grip clamping my jaw.I jerked my head, but he held me still, staring down at me as his eyes searched mine.“I’ll make the same request I did the first time you entered these wa

That was the third thing: my jewel was not some workaday fellow. He was very much different from who I knew him to be.His command, right in my presence, sealed everything for me.And last but not least, from Vega’s expression and the lack of blood on his hands, they had not caught anybody.That was keen planning, execution, and tactical proficiency that no fucking architect possessed.My gaze moved to my head of security.He was indeed pale.“We can go after them. We can seize them all,” he was saying, his face damp, his hands trembling.“You mean… scour the city for them?”“Yes, Sir!”“This… city?”“Mr. Ralis!”“You mean I should show my hand, my neck, and my back, out there, in the cold, and just hope that none of the six groups watching us notice?”His entire frame was shaking now.I eyed him slowly.“If anyone wants to give chase, let it be our watchers. We,” I stood, my gaze on my

My gaze went up to the camera I was aware of. I placed my hands in my pockets and stared at it for a long while.My gaze came back down to the old man.I glanced at the heart monitoring machine and the oxygen tank he was connected to. Small tubes were in his nose, not a full nose mask.I pressed the call button.A nurse entered in twenty seconds.I smiled at her. “Father hasn’t woken up at all?” I asked quietly.She turned to the bed on the other end of the room, then back to me. “You’re Mr. Sinclair’s brother?”I smiled and pulled my earlobe. The ear facing Leon’s camera.“Not exactly, but I’m practically family. I have some things to bring up. For the occupants,” I gestured at Adrian, “and any guests. Would it be alright to do so today?” I pressed gently, smiling at the young nurse.She smiled at me, her eyes widening slightly.“You’ll need to ask the doctor about that, but,” she said, her cheeks reddening, “he’

“My friend here is into bare-knuckle fighting. I keep telling him, but he won't listen.” I laughed a little for her benefit. “Once you’ve examined him, you can call the cops if you feel you have to.”I held her gaze for five seconds.She glanced at her co-workers, three of them. One nodded at her.“This way,” she said hesitantly, gesturing to the opposite side of the floor, away from my ward, as it were.“Oh, is there none on this side? I can pay for it.” I nodded at the eldest nurse. “You have my details. I showed them this morning?”Marcus grunted, slipping slightly from my hands. I grabbed tighter.“Hold on there, buddy,” I said to him, loud enough for everyone present to hear.“Sir… we have… procedures for taking in patients.”“He’s not a patient,” I said laughingly. “He came to get me, but,” my eyes darted to Sir Sinclair’s door and back, “I can’t go just yet. I only need a room. I don’t want to bother the guests in the wa