Drakes POV
He has been daring me since Austin left this city. I guys the rumor is true after all. My own brother Riley is now a pawn to some freaking Russians who only wish to kill use him and then kill him. He abandoned our family just to become a puppet to these bastards.
Wait, what the hell am I even saying?
He did not abandon our family, if he did, then he wouldn’t be trying so hard to destroy everything our parents have worked so hard to achieve all their lives. His determination to ruin this family is so great, if I were one of his bosses, I would give him an award for being so tenacious.
I get the reports of his attacks every fucking day. He keeps killing my boys, sending me a message that I don’t even understand. My boys are so fucking pissed off by his actions, they keep watering me to give them the order to take him out, but for some weird reason, I can’t seem to do that. I don’t think I can ever give them that order, I can’t even begin to imagine it. He may be an idiot, but he is still my brother, and deep down in my heart, I am still hoping and praying for him to come back to his senses before it is too late.
He keeps surprising me with his attack, I think he has been avoiding me on purpose all this while, I just don’t know why he decided to show up at the company today. He has been attacking my boys, stopping them from carrying out my instructions. He keeps attacking them consistently, trying to derail my hard work and force me to shut down and probably run out of this city.
I ignored him all this while because I have other business to attend to. I was still dealing with Austin Foster, I didn’t let him get away with everything he has done to me and my family. He thought he could escape from me by running into Gulag. It took me some time to establish a connection with a few guys that could help me get to him with ease. I don’t want him dead, if that was the case, I would have taken him out without stress. But I needed to teach him a lesson first, I want to give him exactly what he deserves and I want Casey to get her pound of flesh as well. She has been itching to get back at him for everything he made her go through, I promised to help her get her revenge and I’ll be damned if I don’t live up to my word.
I paid a few guys to cause chaos in the prison yard where Austin is being held. They started a fight in the yard and during the fight, he was injured pretty badly. They had to move him to the hospital in the city because a vital organ was hit and they had to stitch him up before he bleeds out and dies. He still owes the government a lot of money and I’m sure that is why they don’t want him dead. He can’t die until he pays up his debt, and that works fine for me because I don’t want him dead, at least not yet. I let them take him to the hospital, and after they got him out of danger I took out the few cops that were placed outside his hospital room and I had him moved out of the hospital without drawing attention to my operations.
He was unconscious when we took him from the hospital and I had him moved into my private jet without his knowledge. I flew him back to the city he ran away from, he didn’t stir as we took off and flew all the way to the city, but as the plane touched down he jerked awake and tried to jump out of the bed. He fell off the bed and yelped in pain as his injuries hurt him. He realized his surrounding for the first time since he boarded this plane and he looked so nervous and scared.
“Look who has finally woken up from sleep.” I let out in mock excitement, earning a shocked gasp from him. He followed my voice and his eyes widened in shock when he sets his eyes on me. I smiled brightly, loving the excitement on his face.
“Hello Austin, welcome back to the city.” I let out smugly and I watched as the color drained from his face.
“You thought I wouldn’t find you, didn’t you?
You thought you could hide in the Gulag until your case is closed and forgotten once more. You have no idea what I’m capable of, do you?” I asked him fiercely as the smile disappeared from my face to be replaced with a deep frown. I glared at him, making him cower in fear as he backed away from me, trying to put some distance from us.
“I’m so sorry Drake, I swear, I didn’t mean to, I only did it because I had to. I was only following orders Drake, I swear it. It’s the Bratva insurgents, they made me do it, they forced me to do it. It’s them you should be after and not me, I didn’t do anything, I swear it.” He pleased pathetically, making me even more furious.
“Really, Austin?
Really?
That’s all you have to say to me, I mean, that is the story you are going with?
Oh, come on, Austin. You should be smarter than that, you should have thought about it carefully and come up with a better story. You don’t expect me to believe that every damn thing you did to me and my family was ordered by the Bratva insurgencies, do you?
Are you saying the Insurgents made you adopt my sister and her kids and threatened to kill them all?
Were you forced to marry my sister and treat her like a fucking whore, were you also forced to come after me and threaten my family?
You crossed the line, Austin…
You fucking crossed the line!
I would have let you go if it was just me and my family that you hurt, but you got those innocent kids involved in this shit. For that reason, I will make you pay for everything you have done.” I told him fiercely, and he shivered in fear as he gaze at me. I would have had mercy on his pathetic condition, but I know better than you to fall for that pitiful face of his. If the tables were turned, I’m pretty sure that he would have done something worse than this to me, I would probably be dead already.
I had him moved to a secret basement underground. That basement has been there for a very long time, my father had it built when he built our company. There is a secret elevator in my office that leads to the basement underground. No one knows about it, except for my father and I. Riley never had the opportunity to work in this office, and my father never confided in him about anything. So it’s safe to say that the secret of that basement is safe with me, and apart from the guys that helped me move him into the basement, I don’t think there is anyone on heart that knows where Austin Foster is being held.
I had him tortured every damn day to remind him of the pains my sister went through at his hands. I kept his location a secret and I made sure I personally handpicked the guys that helped me move him into the basement. That information is purely a secret, and I can swear that neither the Russian cops nor the Bratva thugs can get to him in that basement. I was so confident that his whereabouts is a secret, and that is why I was so shocked to see Riley in the company building today. I wondered if he knows that Austin Foster is strapped to an electric chair right below us, I also wondered if he came for a fight because I don’t want to do this here, and I don’t want to face him today, I still need to get all the information I need from him.
My boys were wondering why I let him get away with everything he has been doing to us all these months. Some of them think that Riley is my only weakness, they think I can’t hurt him because he is my brother. Others think that I have gone weak, they believe 5hst Riley is smarter and tougher than I am. And to be honest, they are all right, and at the same time, they are wrong as well. Riley is a tough guy, and he is trying his best to stay under the radar, trying to hide from me. They may also be right that I don’t want to kill my brother, I want to give him a chance to turn back from his evil ways and retrace his steps. But that is not the only reason why I kept quiet all this while…
I’m actually working on a plan, I’m baiting Riley like a fucking Idiot, and I’m using him to get to the Bratva insurgency. He has no idea that he is being trailed by me, I needed him to lead me to the guys he is working for, I need to know who the real enemies are. The fact is that, no matter what I do, my family will never be safe as long as the Bratva insurgency still exists. I could take out Austin and Riley, but these guys will not stop easily, they will keep trying to get our properties, and they will keep sending different guys to achieve their goal. Austin and Riley and merely pawns that can be replaced any day. The brains behind these attacks are the Bratva insurgents.
If I want to save my family, I have to destroy this organization from the scratch. As they say, if you want to kill a snake, you take off its head. If I take off the heads of this organization, then my family will be safe again. I got help from a stranger, he pointed me to some details that I would have overlooked initially, and if it wasn’t for him, I would not have known that Austin Foster years a disguise. Some of the information he have me panned out, and when I needed to find Austin again, he still pointed me in the right direction. After getting help from him federally, I decided to meet him in person and find out what he wants from me.
He has vital information that I need, and I know for a fact that he needs something in return and that is why he has been helping me. I need to know who he is and what he wants in return and so I set up a private meeting with him. I was so surprised when he told me that he is dating Loretta, and he had stolen from Austin in the past and now his life is in danger. I knew he was deep in this game because he knows too much, but I never realized that he is way deeper than I thought initially. He even knows about Rosalie and the tricks she is pulling on me. He told me how the Bratva insurgents are working tirelessly to snatch everything from my family, and at the same time, Rosalie was working her ass off, screwing different government officials, just to frustrate my wife and kick her out of my life.
He gave me so much information that I never thought to investigate before, he even told me that the Bratva Insurgencies were responsible for the Remington’s missing cargo ships and they were keeping them in a secret location because they wanted to use them for their illegal businesses after taking our seaport from us. I was so shocked by all this information he gave me, he seems so sure about it, and when I checked it out, it all turned out to be legit. I was expecting him to demand for so much money as a reward for all this information, but all he asked for was money to leave this city and protection for himself and his family. I gazed at him in shock and I kept telling myself that this is too good to be true…