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Franz grinned again. “I was hoping you were going to say that.”
The next thing that I knew, everything had turned black.
Chapter 25
Nero~
I kept flipping my phone over in my hand,anger making it nearly impossible to function. There was no way that Kasen would ever text me to meet her at the fucking docks, so the use of her phone was intentional, and when I found out who was behind this, I was going to fucking obliterate them.
Knowing that I would be walking into a trap, I’d had Morocco pull up all the feed on the docks from the past two days. When he couldn’t find anything suspicious, I had sent some of my men to case the docks because I needed eyes on the ground. When they had reported back that it was empty, save for the dock workers, that’s when I’d gotten in the car to head over.
As I got out of the car, I was still deciding what to do with Rafael. When I had called him, demanding toknow where my wife was, he’d sworn to me that she’d still been in her office, working late. Not allowed in the building, Rafael spent his days parked outside, always close to the entrance, always escorting her out. When I had proposed forcing The Milton Group to hire guards, Kasen had begged me for a compromise. Not wanting to draw any unnecessary additional attention her way, I had agreed to no guards as long as she always texted Rafael when she was on her way down. Gritting my teeth, it wasn’t a good feeling to know that I had compromised my wife’s safety in a weak attempt to get into her good graces when she’d already been mine. Even though Aurelio was wise enough not to say it out loud, this was all of my bullshit coming back to bite me in the ass.
At any rate, after having Morocco pull all the footage from The Milton Group’s security feed, it’d been easy to see that two guys had abducted Kasen, and she’d been passed out while they had carried her out. Unbeknownst to Rafael, they had taken her out back through a delivery entrance, and while I hadn’t recognized either man, I knew that it wasn’t going to take Morocco long to identify them.
“I don’t see anything,” Aurelio stated, both of us scanning the area.
While I had a few of my men secured in place, I’d wanted it to look purposely like it was no big deal for me to meet my wife at the docks. Whoever was behind this was a stupid motherfucker, and I was going to use that to my advantage. I even pulled out my cigarettes to make it appear as if I had all the time in the world.
Just then, one of the guys on the security feed came walking out from behind one of the dock’s storage containers, and it was easy to see that he was faking his bravado. He looked to be about six-foot-one, had brown hair and blue eyes, and he also looked fit, though that didn’t mean shit. Just because you looked like you could fight didn’t mean that you actually could.
He made sure to keep a few feet of safe distance between us, but little did this asshole know that he was never going to be safe from meever again. If anything happened to Kasen, this man’s great-great-grandchildren wouldn’t be safe from me. He just sealed his entire family’s fate, and I bet that he didn’t even realize it.
“Kasen isn’t here,” he blurted, and there was something in the way that he said her name that had the hairs on the back of my neck standing up.
Doing my best not to end himbefore I got answers to where my wife was, I asked, “And how do you know Kasen?”
His blue eyes shifted, his nervousness radiating off him in waves. “Well…we… we work together,” he stuttered anxiously. “And we used to sle…we’re friends.”
They used to fuck.
I could feel the blood rushing through my ears, and if I thought that I couldn’t be any more angrier than I’d beena few moments ago, I was wrong. Even though I knew that Kasen hadn’t been a virgin when we’d gotten married, I hadn’t expected to meet up with any of her ex-lovers. Feeling the incredible compulsion to beat this man to death for ever having touched my wife’s naked body was a brutal eye-opener. Feeling what I was feeling, I couldn’t imagine how Kasen must have felt the night of our wedding when she had walked into the VIP room to see Chastity with her hand on my dick. Elio was lucky that he wasn’t here with me right now, or else my father might have been burying his youngest son tomorrow.
I felt Aureliostep closer to me in an attempt to calm me down before I did the unthinkable and killed this motherfucker before getting any answers out of him. My only hope was that he claimed to be friends with my wife, so maybe she really was unharmed.
“Where is she?”
He straightened, pretending to bebrave again. “She’s safe as long as you cooperate.”
“And what exactly do you need my cooperation for?”
“Your life for hers,” he stated simply. “That’s the deal. If you surrender, then she’ll be free to go.”
I dropped my unsmoked cigarette on the ground, then put it out with my shoe. Sliding my hands in my pockets, I looked at the dead man in front of me. “If I agree to this, exactlywhowould I be surrendering myself to?”
“Oh…uhm…” His eyes started shifting around, and whoever this sonofabitch was, it was obvious that he was merely a pawn for someone else. “Uhm…Franz, I think.” He shook his head, straightening nervously. “I mean, Emil Schulz. That’s who’s in charge. Franz Meier is also in charge…uh, I think.”
The fucking Germans had my wife.
“And how did you come to be a part of all this?” Even though he was irrelevant, the more information that I had, the better.
“Don’t worry about that,” he bit out, almost embarrassed.
I lifted my chin. “So, I just pull up to Emil Schulz’shome and just walk right on in? How exactly does this work?”
“Uhm…I’m supposed to call him after I tell you what to do,” he said, and it was so fucking hard not to kill this motherfucker.
I also knew that there was no way that Emil Schulz was going to letKasen live, if she wasn’t already dead. Emil knew enough to know that her father would never let her death go unpunished. Hers and my deaths would bring the wrath of the entire Italian Mafia down on their heads, so there was something more at play here. Emil wasn’t looking to just get rid of me and Kasen; he was looking to take us all out, taking control of our territory. Just like the rest of this city, he knew that his chances of that happening were better if he took me out. While my brother could hold his own, Elio wasn’t me.
