Chapter 44
Jack POV
I saw the letter on the table and scoffed.
Her sister?
What a blunder!
With my gaze fixated on the letter in my hands, I had this impulse to feel that everything was not okay.
My hands stuck straight into my pocket. I paused for a moment deliberating on whether to bring out my phone and placed a call or rather keep my cool.
She must have been summoned by Damien since he is out of jail. Maybe to question her further about me but I doubt if she will be able to answer any of his questions.
I can’t fathom the reasons I hadn’t impregnated her.
I know what I’m saying by this, as an undercover that you are. Whenever the females are sent on an undercover job, the first rule is for them not to fall in love.
So if you do not fall in love, how come were you able to be pregnant? That’s where the problem comes from; Damien will have no choice but to kill them.
I should have also done this to her but I couldn’t. Maybe her death will be a special kind.
I’ll have to walk to the gym to get my ears filled.
“Hello, Ethan.”
“Connect me to the spy in Damien’s house. I need him to protect someone.”
“ANGIE.”I broke the words to him over the phone. I’m pretty sure that he will be surprised about my speech but I do care not.
I just needed her to be safe. Besides, she wanted to tell me something, so I can not allow her to die before then.
“Get lost buddy,” I yelled hard at him when he was acting as if he didn’t understand English.
Tomorrow will make it exactly twenty-two years that my wife was missing. I wouldn’t say she’s dead because I never see her body.
Damien was an older man then, who was struggling to be recognized and respected in the mafia world.
We were both working for the boss. It wasn’t my fault that I was bright and he was dumb.
He was a great attacker without a proper strategy. He was aggressive and ruthless. He doesn’t think before he acts.
At certain times, he told me the reasons behind his reckless behavior.
“You ever care to know why I’m always brutal?” He cocked his brow at me but I only spare him a glance.
“You see how people respect Boss? Aren’t you fascinated by that? Boss rise to become this powerful because he wasn’t lenient to anyone, not even his friends or offenders. He once annihilated his friend’s family because they laughed hard at him that he was a son of nobody and there’s nothing his father could do.”
“Well, he said; my father may not be able to do or say anything but I’ll defend myself and bring a name to my father that whenever his name is heard, people will bow and panic carelessly.”
“They scorned hard at him that even in his next generation he will probably be a nobody.”
“He was pained at that and cried. He nipped over to his friend’s direction and said; Dunc please tell them to stop mocking me. Dunc smirked and shoved his hands into his pocket.”
“You’re a nobody, Mateo. They aren’t lying even if I burn acid on your mother what can your father do?” Mateo watched Dunc say all those nasty words to him.
“Absolutely nothing.” Dunc flinched his shoulders in pride and has this evil grin on his face.
“If you dare to touch my mother, my father will report you all to the government and a lawsuit will be filed.” Mateo threatened in his power to show that even if they are not wealthy, at least the government will help them.
“Should we try that out? Money does everything.”
Before Mateo will comply, Dunc smirked his head in request to bring Mateo’s mother.
Twenty minutes after, Mateo’s mother was pushed down to her knees. Mateo watched his best friend pour acid into his mother’s face.
The poor woman died on the spot.
“Well now, you can go on and tell it to the government.”
Mateo wept uncontrollably. In his sorrows, he folded his knuckles into a circle of balls and was going to punch Dunc but he was held back by Dunc’s gang.
He was beaten to a stupor. At his very sight, his father was shot nine times to death.
There was no one to come to Mateo’s help. Even when he had gone to the government house and police station to complain, Dunc was only invited for a talk and then released.
Mateo was left alive to do his worse but that was their greatest mistake.
Mateo went missing, and no one heard about him. Days turned into weeks and weeks into months, then months into years.
Not on this special day when Dunc’s Mom fell off a skyscraper. The homicide was filmed but the face of the man was unknown.
The proceeding week, Dunc’s dad was shot 45 times.
Good 45 bullets were removed from his body and yet nothing was done.
Then Dunc’s friends started to die one on one.
Until Dunc was the last man standing. Dunc had to transfer his will and belongings to Mateo and pleaded for his life.
Stones in ears, Mateo refused to back down as the images of his mother’s and father’s death replayed in his vision.
He used an axe to butcher him to pieces, he bought a dog and feed the pieces of Dunc to it.
Mateo diverted the money to a shore account and that was it. His coming back was a blast to the whole of Las Vegas.
A worthless young boy comes back to become a billionaire.
“Is that why you will choose to thread in his way?” I asked, and he nodded affirmatively.
Mateo loved me. He loved me for being courageoustrategiccal, and tactical.
I don’t act recklessly, it usually takes me longer than twenty minutes to come up with a solution.
I was the one behind the scenes for making such a brave decision while Damien was in charge of torturing and killing people the way he want.
When the boss died, he willed his legacy to me but Damien was not ready to succumb to fate.
Although those attributes of mine had served as a factor there was something that prompt it.
“My wife.”
He wanted to fight me but he couldn’t because the boss was alive. Time changed, everything went his way after the kids died of cardiac arrest.
He finds that moment palatable for him to strike brutally just like he had always desired.
Everything was a setup. Rico was sent to grab my attention and knows my secret.
Since I was picked from the street and nurtured. I knew how hard life was on the street when I was still sleeping around, begging for food.
I decided to help Rico and then their target was my wife.
It wouldn’t have pained me to this extent if Damien wasn’t aware of the identity.
Emily Royce was the only child of Mateo.
Damien was fully aware, he had always wanted Emily to live or even engaged with him in any conversation.
But since from the onset, Emily has always loved me.
I knew Damien’s love for Emily was not genuine, it was all because he could get hold of Mateo’s wealth and legacy.
The fire has been off for a long time. Now is the time to Kindle it.
**””
“Yes,”
“Okay. Prepare our flight movement. We need to get there this night.” I sweep the phone into my pocket, staring up at the sky.
Rico!
***
Ethan and I were in the private jet. He was browsing through his phone and communicating with some people.
“Ensure you stay around to keep us informed on his whereabouts.”
Ethan was speaking with someone over the line. I feigned deafness, pretending to be engrossed with my phone.
“Boss,” Ethan called, lowering his head in respect.
I look over from my shoulder to him and shrugged my head in approval. He smiled before parting his lips.
“The men are ready and waiting for your arrival. The hotel in which we are going to lodge has been prepared ahead.”
I watched him explain everything before nodding my head affirmatively.
Ethan is truly a hard-working boy different than Rico. From the onset, Rico had always acted suspiciously but I decided to feign a look because of the love I had for him.
Rico… His name keeps coming to my mouth.
I glanced at my watch to check the time and it was just past 2. We’ve been on a flight for the past six hours. I remained calm despite the urge in my heart to rip him apart.
The wife was pregnant! That was what I heard but my wife was also pregnant then. Should I spare her or killed her the same way my wife was killed?
Tooth for tooth.
An eye for an eye.
Whatsoever you do so you shall reap.
My heart clenches together at the thought of me ever going to kill a woman. Let’s see how it goes if I’m going to kill her with both hands or give the job to someone else.