Jonas POV
I slipped back into my office and closed the door behind me.
Finally, that bastard had left. I couldn’t let him compromise my plans.
I waited for his footsteps to fade before I grabbed my phone at my desk and began to dial some numbers.
Those fools had better not have messed this up.
In a few minutes, my phone screen had four faces looking at me. Three of which were my men.
“Good afternoon, Boss…”
“Screw your greetings!” I snapped angrily. “What’s the situation there? Is she still captive?”
“Yes, Sir. She is still tightly tied, and we have one of our men watching her.”
My face contorted in anger.
“Excuse me? You said how many?”
My eyes struck fear into the heart of the man I was talking to but radiated through the call. I could see the unease on everyone’s faces as they looked away from the screen and left the man to his fate.
“J…just one, Sir. She is just a little girl. She can’t possibly do…”
“You fool!”
I slammed my fist on the table, and though it was a virtual meeting, everyone jolted in surprise.
My eyes burned into everyone staring at me on my screen.
“Need I remind you what Olivia is? She might be young, but the most powerful blood runs through her veins. She might not know it now, but she has gotten stronger, and it is only a matter of time before she unleashes her full potential. I will not risk being unprepared to deal with the situation. Increase the guard watching her immediately!”
“I will at once, Sir. Forgive me.”
There was silence as everyone watched me regain my composure. The fourth man spoke, and everyone held their breath.
“I can still see that you are troubled, Jonas. Anything else bothering you?”
I sigh and grip the table harder. Of course, something was bothering me other than the incompetence of the fools I hired. They had better not ruin any of this for me else. I was willing to let heads roll.
“You have a keen eye,” I said calmly.
“And you have an expressive face,” the fourth man replied.
I snarled. Snarky bastard.
“Her mate will pose a bit of a problem, but I have a contingency for that.”
“You mean the man that you seem to have an unhealthy obsession over.”
I bit my tongue. I was going to let this one slide. Just this once.
“He will obviously come after his mate. The bastard is searching high and low for her and he has no trust for my family. He is on to us, but I intend to stop him in his tracks.”
I smiled and leaned forward. I was such a genius that my own smarts frightened me.
“You seem happy. How about you share with us this master plan of yours?”
I grinned even wider.
“Indeed I will. You see, I took a sample of Olivia’s blood and made it into a wine and added a hallucinogen for our dear friend Andre and gave some to Lillian to mix into her perfume and douse herself with. It will trick Andre into thinking my sister is his beloved mate. They will get down to business, and we will show the video to Olivia. The rest is easy as pie.”
My three men were clapping for the genius of my plan, but the fourth person was silent and simply staring at me.
“And what makes you think that this is going to work? You described Andre to be quite intelligent. Do you really think he will fall for a plan as rudimentary as this one?”
I growled and stood up. My men were terrified, but the fourth man sat calmly watching me. The fact that this was a virtual meeting made him cosy and sharp-tongued. That son of a…
Beep! Beep!
My laptop came on, and a notification came on my screen.
“It is starting.”
The scowl on my face stretched out into a grin, and I sat down.
“My good friends. It seems like the show has begun. I hope we all brought popcorn.”
It didn’t take long for me to share the screen of my laptop with my comrades, and we were just in time to see Andre stagger into the room that wasn’t his.
I smirked. He has already been offered the wine. Excellent.
He looked around the room for a while, and then my sister came in.
He turned to look at her and though we couldn’t hear what he said, I saw him mouth the word ‘Olivia’.
It was working out so perfectly. Everything happened so fast and yet so slowly.
Watching him kiss and touch my sister with such raw and feverish passion made me uncomfortable, but I was willing to sacrifice anything just to make my plans a reality.
“I still doubt this plan. Do you really think that I will put my neck on the line for a clip of your sister acting like a slut? What concrete evidence…”
“Do you dare to disobey me?!”
There was silence. The fourth man sat upright and looked at me with wide eyes. I could see the fear in them. He wasn’t so sharp-tongued now.
“This plan will…”
“Sir, look. The video.”
I stared at the footage and saw Andre toss Lilian’s panties onto the camera, blocking our view.
Damn it! The video was playing in real time.
“Tell the men to switch the video to the backup as seamlessly as possible! We can’t let Olivia find any loopholes. Her willingness to come with us depends on how believable the video is. Go!”
My three men went offline, and I was left alone with the fourth person. I ignored him and began typing away on my laptop.
I accessed the emergency camera in the mansion and saw Andre hesitating to fuck Lilian.
That bastard was fighting the elixir already? Damn it!
“Is there a problem, Jonas?”
I glared at the fourth person on my screen.
“No. No problem here. But if you want this plan to work. Stick to your end of the bargain, and I’ll stick to mine…”