Chapter 44


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    Third Person POV


    FIVE MONTHS LATER


    Jason. Charlie, Kai, and Ben, leaders of the Irish French American Mafia, were buried in their


    respective duties. Jason and Kai spent their days training with the men, running orders around the


    world with such vigor and malice. They increased their production ten–fold and although shipments


    were still ambushed, only one in every ten raids were sessful and each attempt ended in a


    bloodbath. No mercy was their new motto.


    Charlie was busy opening new businesses and merging withpanies to keep up with the expansive


    illegal tender that their mafia was overhauling.


    Jason, Kai, and Charlie would spend their evenings at various bars and strip clubs. They would drown


    themselves until they felt numb, allow women to feast upon their flesh and shower them with pleasure


    just to ease the pain in their hearts. They killed people, young and old, men and women in shes of


    anger without mercy and without a second thought. Their men were always afraid of the monsters who


    held the seats of power, but now they quivered in their shoes at merely breathing in their presence.


    Each man had their way of coping at the loss of their girl. They missed her presence. They missed her


    wicked sense of humor. They missed touching her and watching her reactions. They were angry, sure,


    but more deeply they were depressed. She was theirs and she was gone without a trace. Each day that


    she wasn’t found, brought out more beast than man. Even Thomas and Draco kept their distance.


    But Ben was a little different. He was the only one who channeled his rage into productivity. Ben spent


    his days with his nerds,ing up with more and more advanced technology. But at night, when the


    others were passed out drunk, Ben wasbing through security footage. He hacked everywork


    he could get his hands on, developed a new recognition software, continued to look. He would only


    close his eyes for a few hours in the early morning before starting back up again.


    It has been five long tortuous months since Aurora disappeared. There was an explosion in one of the


    warehouses at the other end of thepound. To the men, she somehow left during that time and it


    short wired most of the cameras. Even our secret cameras and tracker they slipped into the ne


    she always wore was not responsive


    either.


    Every time there was a lead on her, a person of interest brought in, a smidgen of hope, it would


    disappear before anything could be done. The footage would disappear. The witnesses or people


    would be missing or dead. The soldiers who saw her flee, dead. The guard at the gate, dead. The store


    owner in the next city where she got gas went missing two hours before they arrived to question them


    and his whole building was destroyed in a gas leak explosion“. They were running in circles. The guys


    knew she was smart and resourceful, but someone had to help her and that was the most upsetting of


    all.


    It was particrly infuriating for Ben as he prided himself on being the best in the tech world and they


    surrounded themselves with the best! How someone managed to be two steps ahead when they were


    already seven steps ahead


    themselves.


    He spent hours each nightbing through logs and surveince. He knew he was missing something


    and he knew that it was going to be obvious once he found it, he just had to find it, so there he sat at


    his desk, surrounded by his closest nerd herd and they got to work like they did every night.


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    One particr might, at about three in the morning he and his nerd squad were searching the archives


    and one of his pals, Christina, mentioned something about all the raids they have been getting in the


    find the traitor and hopefully Aurora, if it was thest thing


    he did.


    It was a typical Friday night, but Jason in a moment of sobriety today during hisbat training


    realized that he had not spent true quality time with his best friends in months. So he sent out a text


    demanding Charlie, Ben, Kai. Thomas, Draco, and their visiting buddies Tom and his husband Camden


    to meet at the billiard room tonight for


    drinks and tun.


    Tom and Camden were part of their main of course, but Tom was one of themanders for their


    European division.. Tom grew up with Kai and them when Charlie and Jason came into the picture, the


    guys all clicked instantly and became good friends. Jason evem presided over Tom and Camden’s


    wedding a few years back. They were in town to pick up their new baby twins Common and Tabitha


    who were graduating from the NICU in the morning. Jason, Charlie.. Ben, and Kai all helped sponsor


    them and helped make all the arrangements. Tom was just as cruel as the lot of them and when it


    came to his family, he could match Rai’s sadism. Those kids were going to be very lucky.


    “To the newest Collin Family additions! And to thest night of sleeping for you my friends” Jason


    raised his full ss of whiskey to the other men who were taking sis of their amber liquids around the


    pool tables. Thick Smoke filled the room as each men let their Cuban cips in the trays.N?velDrama.Org owns this text.


    “Salute!” they cheered. Tom and Camden were beaming. For the first time in months, the guys were


    smiling and enjoying each other’spany.


    Draco, Kai, Jason, and Camden were ying pool. Tom and Thomas were entranced by the video


    game consoles ying some sort of post–apocalyptic shooting game, and Ben and Charlie were trying


    to outshine the other on the various arcade games like PacMan, Gctica, and Pinball.


    Jason got a text from his phone and it was confirmation about a new huge shipment. It made him


    happy.


    “We got the Weisman deal bitches” Jason cackled, lining up his sont on the pool table and let it fly,


    sinking three balls.


    “Yes!” He celebrated.


    “Seriouslyy?” Charlie was exhausted. “How much prode this time? And when are we doing this” He


    was already trying to assess the new properties he was going to have to invest in


    “Next week. And we are looking at…Three hundred and neen…billion”son said seductively,


    pausing sporadically for dramatic effect. He was in his element. This was by far one of the lingest


    diralls they ever received. They had been working on their products and proposals for months before


    Aurum and presented it two weeks ago.


    “FUCK!” “NO FUCKING WAY!” “HOLY SHIT!” was just some of the obscenities the guys screamed out.


    This was going to be a massive operation but it was going to be beyond lucrative..


    “And that is whydies we are the fucking best!” Jason smirked and raised his ss to all his closest


    men who followed suit and they all pped and cheered. They celebrated their victory.


    “With such precious cargo, we should do the Sleeping Beauty Charlie said, a little tip Jason just nodded


    and it


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    caught the attention of the others. Kai and Ben nodded and the others were confused.


    Draco spoke up this time, genuinely curious because he was one of the main strategists: “What’s the


    Sleeping Beauty


    boss?”


    “Hmm, remember that shipment a few months ago where we changed nsst minute and had you


    run all over town and we wouldn’t tell you anything about it?” Jason said sternly. Draco just nodded.


    “Well, that my friend was what we called Sleeping Beauty!” Jason downed the rest of his drink in two


    all got back to ying and goofing off.


    What they didn’t notice was that Thomas had slipped out of the room and walked down the hall,


    entering a spare office space, and getting out his phone to make a very important phone call.


    In the billiard room, Ben got up to go to the bathroom. He exited the room and went down the hall. The


    same hall that Thomas had sequestered himself in moments before.


    Ben was too busy answering his texts and went to the bathroom with ease.


    He did his business and spent a minute sshing water on his face andbing his unruly hair. The


    countless nights. of staying up andbing through files was tiring. His muscles ached, his head hurt,


    his eyes always felt like they had lead in them. He needed sleep but he couldn’t rest. He knew he was


    missing something and he knew it and it was driving him crazy. He couldn’t believe there was someone


    one step ahead of him.


    He started to head back to the guys and he past a door that was slightly open. It was a small office


    space that they usually kept closed. He went to shut the door when he heard Thomas talking and what


    he heard had him reaching for his phone and his gun…..


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