“So who is Marley?” Lily asked curiously but no one answered.
After a few more seconds had passed, Marley spoke up.
“Who is asking?” He asked and Lily turned to him. She stared at the terrifying man and raised her brows. It wasn’t what she expected at all but she was glad she got answers to her question.
She was expecting a person like Max or Axel. Not a man with a huge scar on his face.
“You.” Gustavo suddenly called and turned to Lily then he started to walk towards her.
“Hey, hey, don’t touch her.” Axel hurriedly said and was about to rush to Lily but every man in the room pulled out their gun and pointed it at him.
Nora’s eyes widened in fear and shock, and Lily also gulped.
They finally understood the mess they got themselves in.
Gustavo glanced at Axel before turning to Lily. He stopped walking when he got closer to her. He furrowed his brows and stared at her closely.
“Have we met before?” He asked and Lily stared at him too. She recalled who he was, he was the man at the spa. The man who was in the hot tub with girls and was speaking on the phone with Marley.
“I am very sure you guys haven’t met before.” Axel said.
“At the spa?” Lily asked. Axel, Max, and Nora all turned to her confused.
“Yes! You were the lady staring at me.” Gustavo chuckled.
“So you are Mrs. Blackwell.” He said and looked at Axel who was glaring at him.
“Oh, this just keeps getting interesting.” Gustavo laughed and walked away from Lily, he stood next to Marley.
“I thought you said Axel Blackwell has no weaknesses.” Gustavo said to Marley,
“Yes, boss.” Marley replied and Gustavo turned to Lily.
“I found his weakness.” He smirked.
“Hold her down.” He ordered his guard and they grabbed Lily.
“No, no. She has nothing to do with this.” Axel said and was about to rush to Lily but two men held him from behind and he struggled with them.
Nora moved behind Max in fear.
“Come on, we only came here for a business deal. We didn’t come here for any of this.” Max said.
“I know and I would love to do business with you guys too but why don’t we have a little fun?” Gustavo said and his men laughed.
Lily wasn’t struggling with the man holding her on her knees, her eyes were fixed on Axel who kept struggling to free himself to rush to her.
Somehow, she felt calm about the situation. She felt calm because Axel was there, she knew no matter what, Axel won’t let anything happen to her.
“So, what do you suggest we do?” Gustavo asked Marley with a smile on his face.
“We could make him beg. He needs to pay for what he did to the Russians.” Marley replied.
“It will be fun to see the head of the table on his knees.” Gustavo added and they all laughed which made all of them distracted.
Axel used that opportunity to his advantage, he freed himself from the men holding him and rushed to Lily. He punched the guy holding her and took his gun from him.
In a flash, he turned and shot Marley in the leg, he groaned and fell to the floor and they all got angrier and pointed the gun at them.
“I think you just made things worse.” Nora said.
Lily stood up and stood behind Axel.
“Tell your men to lower their guns or his head goes next. I am twice as fast as your men in pulling a trigger and I never miss.” Axel said as he pointed the gun at Marley.
The man didn’t want to show weakness and at the same time, he didn’t want to lose his men.
“You’ve got three seconds.” Axel said as his grip on the gun got tighter.
“Fine, lower your guns.” Gustavo ordered and his men lowered their guns. Slowly, Axel did too.
“The business deal is off and get ready. You just got yourself a problem with me.” Axel said and Gustavo chuckled nervously.
“Come on. We were just messing around.” He said.
“We apologise.” He added and Axel exchanged looks with Max.
“Let’s get this over with.” Axel said.
Lily and Nora stood next to each other as they watched Axel, Max, and Gustavo discuss. Marley wasn’t in the room anymore, he was taken away to be treated.
“So all of this was to see who Marley was?” Nora asked Lily.
“What? No. I was worried.” Lily replied.
“Well, maybe.” She added and Nora glared at her.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t know this was going to happen.” She apologised and Nora shrugged.
“It was fun though.” She said with a chuckle and Lily laughed.
Axel and Max suddenly walked towards them and they both sighed.
“Do you think we are in trouble?” Lily asked.
“Yeah, a huge one.” Nora replied.
Axel and Max got to them and no one needed to tell Lily and Nora that they were supposed to walk out.
They both walked out of the warehouse with Max and Axel trailing behind them.
They got outside and Nora paused and turned to them.
“Before you ask any questions and blame all this on me, I just want you to know that this was Lily’s idea and she forced me here.” Nora hurriedly said and they all turned to Lily.
“What? I was worried and curious.” She said and shrugged. Axel sighed and held her hand.
“It doesn’t matter, nothing went wrong.” Axel said and Max and Nora turned to him surprised.
“Really? Is that all you have to say?” Max asked.
“What am I supposed to say?”
“You are letting it go because it is Lily?” Nora asked.
“I didn’t say I was letting it go.”
“Then yell at her.” Nora said and Axel glanced at Lily who was staring at him. Her blue eyes pierced him. He was annoyed earlier but staring at her, he just couldn’t.
He knew how soft she was, yelling at her would make her cry.
“Oh my God.” Nora sighed and Axel looked away from Lily.
“I’m sorry.” Lily apologised and Max rolled his eyes at her.
“I’m sorry Max.” She said again but he scoffed. He was upset, not just because they showed up but because of the effect she was having on Axel.
“Dont apologise to me, I don’t need your fucking apology.” He snapped at her and Lily flinched.
“Don’t yell at her.” Axel raised his voice at Max and he kissed his teeth.
“Can’t you see what she is doing to you? She is making you weak, you almost lost it back there.”
“Stop yelling… ”
“Ever since you became obsessed with her, you have become so soft. You listen to her and do anything she wants, you barely pick up calls or attend to urgent things. A few days back when you were checking the rate and you noticed it dropped a little, you were wondering what the problem was. Lily is the problem.” He yelled and Lily flinched again.
“Stop yelling at my wife… ”
“Fuck you.” Max cut him off and walked away angrily.
“I will just go after him and we will go in the other car.” Nora said and rushed after him.
Lily tried to hold back her tears but she couldn’t. She stared down at her feet and bit her lip. Axel turned to her and cupped her cheeks.
He saw the tears in her eyes and he pulled her into a hug.
“Hey, don’t cry.” He said and stroked her hair, Lily couldn’t hold her tears back anymore, she burst into tears and cried out.
“I’m sorry.” She apologised as she cried.
“You didn’t do anything wrong.”
“I was just worried about you. I didn’t mean to put you guys through that… ”
“You didn’t do anything wrong, please don’t cry.” Axel said and she sniffed.
He got her to stop crying after a while and they both entered his car. He ignited it and drove away from the warehouse.
Instead of heading back to the hotel, Axel decided to drive around till she would feel better.
He didn’t care he was getting weak because of Lily, she was all that mattered to him.