Con noticed something like a flash of disgust pass by on Adeline's face but it disappeared as fast as it had appeared.Adeline simply smiled and nodded her head at him."In a way, I guess."Con grabbed his glass and drank from it.Adeline was acting weird. His time as a mercenary soldier had taught him not to overlook any sudden emotions that his men exhibited.Hidden emotions could be dangerous especially when your survival as a team literally depended on your level of teamwork. That was one of the things Con had made sure to make very clear to his men.Any issues had to be thrashed out before they went into the field, and he sometimes had to step in to intervene in settling those issues, and ultimately his men were always transparent with each other.They could argue and have disagreements but they weren't allowed to hold grudges. That was a major rule.The way Adeline was acting didn't make Con feel too safe. Truthfully It didn't make him feel safe at all."Are you scared Con?"
The ornate marble walls of the museum gave off a sleek feeling to the building.In fact it gave off a sleek feeling to everything that was in here.Jake followed the guard who walked ahead of him as he was led through the personal museum of the Aliyev family.Gabe and the other two members of the Black Clouds had advised him to come seek help from them.Jake had actually thought they would help him after they had humiliated him. After he had slapped Lana in the hall and Gabe had helped him disgrace the man that had been dancing with her, Jeremy and Clark had led him to a car parked just outside the grand double doors of the hotel.Melissa and his secretary, Hailey, had been waiting in the car for them.It was a four seat jeep, one that Jake had been eyeing for a while now but he couldn't afford if he wanted to see through with his plan of making Adeline hand over her company to him.He had been ushered into the car by his friends and the driver drove them to a hotel.Jake had followe
The men that drove the car spoke as they drove and it was the sound of their voices that woke Con up.His head had a dull ache to it and he still felt slightly drowsy.Adeline had drugged him. That part was clear enough.Even with the drug still in his system, Con could still see the look that had been in Adeline's eyes as he passed out.He should have listened to that gut feeling and been more conscious of his surroundings.But he had been watchful hadn't he? He could naturally smell a number of things normal people couldn't. In a dire moment he had even managed to sniff out a bomb once, but that had been in a dire moment and that moment in Adeline's office had been anything but dire.Adeline had put his heart at rest. She had made him feel calm and foolish and fuzzy inside, so much so that he had let his guard down and gotten himself drugged, and now he was being carted away in a car to heaven knows where.Con groaned as the persistent headache lashed through his brain and the me
Con woke up in another car and he glared at the man sitting on his left."Did you really have to knock me out? You could have just untied me so I could walk.The seats in this car were covered with deep blue leather, not the black of the other one.The man on Con's left simply gave him a knowing look.As if to say 'we put you in those ropes for a reason'.Con scoffed as he saw the look on the man's face and relaxed back into the seat.The seat was wide enough and long enough that he could lie on it comfortably, but his neck still hurt and his legs were slightly curled.Con groaned as that annoying headache came back again and he struggled against the ropes.The feeling of being bound irritated him, as well as the general feeling of these ropes on his skin. Everything just made him angry and annoyed now and he didn't care if the ropes would strangle him to death, he had to get out of them and get a fucking explanation to what was happening.Where was he being taken to and who was he be
The guard nodded and Con shook his head. That wasn't it. He didn't know that name. He didn't read it in the book Aubrey had given him when she was teaching him about the powerful families in Glover city. But why would guards from an unknown family just kidnap him? "Can you tell me more about the Aliyev family?" Con watched the guard and waited for an answer but it never came. Instead the man just looked at the floor and shook his head. '"I'm sorry master, but this guard will have to refuse you that request." Con scoffed. He hadn't been expecting them to. He would have added the names of all the members of the family to his enemy list. They would be right under Adeline Highton. As much as it hurt Con to add her name to the list, he had to. No one sold him like a chicken and got away with it. Adeline would be punished for her deed, and maybe she wouldn't be on the enemy list. She would be on the punishment list. She was his comrade's sister after all, and Mark had asked hi
Jane searched all round for Con but she couldn't find him.It was three the next day now since he had suddenly disappeared and she had a lot of questions to ask him.Like why would he disappear all of a sudden when she hadn't even taken him out to celebrate the victory they secured for themselves at the grand oak.And why did he leave work without coming to see her or sign out for the day.Despite the fact that Con hadn't really managed to get to Melissa, he had gotten to someone better than her and kinder too.The hashtag Lana created for them was still trending, as popular as ever, and it was getting maximum engagement from almost all social media users who saw it.The fact that Lana had also attached a clip of her husband slapping her made it all the more tragic.Jane sighed and turned around in her bed to face the other side of the wall.She didn't like this feeling she was getting. For some reason she felt scared.Almost like something had happened to Con and she hadn't been ther
Con woke up to the sound of rain pattering down on the house.He turned in the bed, fully aware that this wasn't his bed and that this wasn't Glover City.He had been half conscious when the men in the car had hefted him up and put him on a stretcher. Even when they had to carry him up the stairs, they did it with utmost care.So much so that he didn't really feel disturbed in his sleep.He slept peacefully.Con reached for his phone by the side of the table.The phone he picked up wasn't his but it had a picture of him on it.Con sighed as he put the phone down and looked around the room.With walls painted in dark shades of green and gold and the room tastefully furnished and looking like it had a whole bunch of technological fittings, Con could tell he wasn't in the room of just any family.This was probably the Olson family the guards had kept on going on and on about.Con released a dry chuckle and got up from the bed he was sleeping on. He grabbed the phone, scanned his surroun
The Olsen family resided in a state of the art mansion just outside Glover city.The compound spanned twenty acres and there was a lot of bare land as far as the eye could see. Though most cities were now highly populated and it was almost impossible to find any spare piece of land that wasn't occupied or getting set for construction, the Olson's seemed to have enough power to make sure that their lands stayed intact and they had this sweeping view of the forest.Con liked the fact that they liked the forest but he didn't like the fact that they were holding him captive.The lady in the room hadn't really explained much to him. She was still in there "getting ready" and she had asked Con to please go out onto the balcony.She didn't order him around and that seemed a good enough sign to him, so he didn't make any fuss about having to go to the balcony while she changed her clothes.It was an opportunity for him to scope the house out anyways and plan his escape.Under normal circums