Chapter 42


    Luca’s POV


    James: Now, just why would you leave me on delivered? I get that today is your day off, but I am


    suffering here in the office while you sleep in and get nasty with your little wife.


    I contemted sending him a quick reply for him to shut the hell up and chill until I give him a callter


    today, but the sharp breath victor took beside me made me jerk my head up and stare at him– before


    following his gaze which was focused outside the car’s window.


    My gaze hardened the moment I noticed what it was that has made him react that way– a bunch of


    guards in their uniform walked past our car in their uniforms, making my brains start to rack


    immediately. That could mean a lot of things but I wasn’t letting any detail that might end up being


    important, slip off my fingers.


    The car started to slow down after a few more minutes and Victor leaned forward towards the front of


    the car to ask the driver if we were already where the phone was.


    “Yeah, it’s probably in one of those buildings.” The driver replied before finally stopping the car and


    unplugging the iPad from the cord of the car and handing it back to Victor. I looked into the screen of


    the iPad once victor was sitting once again and noticed that the red button that has signified Aria’s


    phone all through our journey was kinda glowing, the shape getting bigger and wider despite the fact


    that it still haven’t moved from it’s particr spot.


    Which only signified one thing, the phone was indeed around here. All I had to do is to hope the phone


    was still on her and that nothing had been done to her.


    The driver came down from the car and pulled my door open a few secondster. I took in a deep, slow


    breath before climbing out of the car and inserting my phone into my pocket, just as the car got


    mmed shut. I nced behind my car which I had just alighted and nodded my head once on seeing


    my second car filled with some of my guards, already parking their own car, a few feet away from


    where ours was parked.


    Victor came to stand beside me, his heading up to stop exactly at my shoulder level. He lifted the


    iPad and pointed at the red button on the screen.


    “My bet is one of these two buildings. They’re the two most biggest ones around here, and they’re


    close to each other, and the arrow is catching more signals when pointed in their direction.” Victor


    started to say immediately and I collected the iPad from him and moved towards the first building which


    was a little bit bigger than the second one, and surprisingly, the red arrow did catch some more signal.


    I moved towards the second building, with the iPad cradled against my chest like I was reading


    something off it and wasn’t trying to see if they have my cousin in here, with the help of the said iPad in


    my hands. Once I got a few feet closer, the signal became stronger and stronger. I moved a few steps


    closer just to be sure and the signal got so strong and firm, and stronger and it might start beeping.


    I walked back towards Victor, my driver and the guard and puffed out a slow breath as I handed the


    iPad back to Victor. Victor nced down at the iPad before ncing up towards the second building


    which I was beside, a few seconds ago.


    “You’ll have to go back to the warehouse now, Victor. You’ve done enough at this point.” I said to Victor


    who quickly nced up from the iPad he was tweedling with and stared at me like he was about to


    argue.


    “But Mr Ri, I can stay behind…” I raised up my left hand and he trailed off immediately like I


    expected.


    “This is a really dangerous situation and I won’t be dragging you into it. You don’t know how to defend


    yourself physically because this isn’t your strongest fort, you’ve helped in what you’re good at and


    that’s what matters.” I said to him and watched as the fire in his eyes dimmed a little before he lowered


    his head and stared down at the iPad before slowly nodding his head after a few seconds of hesitation.


    “Get back in the car now, my driver is going to drive you to a certain point, where another car is going


    to block you guys and take you back to the warehouse from there, got it?”


    He nodded his head before lifting his head back up once again and saying in a small voice, “I enjoyed


    working with you.”


    I nodded my head once and pointed towards the car with my left hand and watched as he walked


    towards it with little to no enthusiasm as he pulled the door open and sank into the spot I was in, when


    we got here.


    I was about to tell him about how I had enjoyed working him too– even though that wasn’t true, but just


    to satisfy some of the hero worship which I had picked off from him right from the moment we were still


    back at the warehouse before deciding against it and watching as the door got mmed shut by the


    driver.


    A few minutester and the car was pulling out of its parking spot, and speeding off on the same road


    we had been on, some moments ago.


    I turned towards the guard standing a few feet away from me with his hands folded at his back and his


    head raised up in a confident stance. I jerked my head sideways and he walked towards me


    immediately, standing a few feet away from me.


    “Go get the rest of the guards.” I said to him and he instantly went off to do just that, leaving me to my


    thoughts once again until the whole guards were standing a few feet away from me, barely making any


    noise and fuss like the professionals that they were.


    “We’re going in there immediately, through the front gate.” I started to say before pausing and throwing


    a nce at the said building, from over my right shoulder and silently contemted with myself if my


    initial n was going to work.


    But then we were running out of time, a quick nce at my wrist showed that the time was some


    minutes before it reaches three p.m in the afternoon and there was only little time left at hand. We


    could have nned to first of all check if there was another way we could get into thepound, either


    from the back of the house or something else, but there was no time left for us to wait until a few


    guards go around to check how the back of the building was located at– which was going to take more


    than a few minutes for the guards to be able to get to the back of the building and get some


    confirmation done.


    “We are not drawing out weapons yet, and hopefully won’t draw out any weapons first.” I paused and


    nced over every one of their faces before continuing, “All you’re going to do is to follow my lead and


    be on the lookout for any attack that might being my way from all corners. Got it?”


    They all murmured their replies and I nodded my head before reaching out and pping my hand on


    the guard nearest to me. I noticed the way he flinched with fear before my hand connected with his


    back and the way the rest of the guards had different looks in their eyes almost immediately.


    “You’re staying behind, outside here. To watch the cars and make sure no onees out from the


    building toe shoot at the tires, do you understand?”


    “Yes sir.” He replied almost immediately, his voice sounding way higher than necessary and I almost


    shook my head at how scared of me he was.


    Almost all the guards I work with had little to no balls each time I did as much as breathe into their


    direction. I lifted my hand off his back and took a step backwards before turning around and staring


    intently at the huge ck gates. I patted both sides of my pants and felt the guns which I had inserted


    in there lightly dig into the sides of my hips.


    After taking in a deep breath and pushing my hair out of my face with my left fingers, flicked a hand at


    the guards behind me and started to walk towards the building, faintly aware that the guards had fallen


    into steps behind me almost immediately.


    I paused outside the gate and reached for the smaller gate to try pushing it open— and surprisingly, it


    gave way immediately, opening immediately to reveal the wild, emptypound.


    I paused in my footsteps, not knowing how to go on about the whole thing again from this new finding,


    at this very moment . Knowing it was either I go in and figure out what was in there or stay out here and


    weigh out different other probability which there was only about a small amount of little to no guarantee


    on those other options.


    I pushed the gate more open and stepped into thepound after doing a fast sweep of the whole


    expanse with my eyes. A few cars were parked around different areas in thepound and that was it.


    I didn’t need to tell the guards not to close the small gate once they’ve all made their way into the


    a two story building. I paused a few steps away from it just as the front door opened to reveal two


    guards with guns raised, pointed at me.


    Unsurprisingly, they were in the same uniform as the one I had seen those bodyguards in, when they


    had walked past my car, about half an hour ago.


    I didn’t need to nce behind my shoulders to confirm that my guards had already drawn out their


    weapons as well. I watched as the eyes of the first guard widened the moment our eyes locked before


    he nced towards his partner and whispered something to him, and then the two of them disappeared


    into the house and mmed the door shut behind them.


    Just… What the hell was that?


    I nced over my shoulder as the particr guard that usually follows me in my car, every fucking day


    and pointed towards the door which the two guards had disappeared into.


    “Go knock on the door.”


    The guard did as I say, covering the few feet towards the house and knocking loudly on the door. He


    repeated the motion a few more times before the door finally got pulled open by a dude in a ck


    jumpsuit.


    “What the hell do you all want? This is the wrong house.” The dude said to us,pletely avoiding my


    gaze pathetically.


    I stepped forward with my hands folded behind my back before I started to say.


    “I am here for the girl whom y’all had kidnapped hours ago and would appreciate it if you bring her out


    to me this very instant, with not a single scratch on her body.” I said to the dude in a jumpsuit and


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    watched as he tried his very best to hide the fear that had crossed his face andsted a few seconds


    there, before disappearing into thin air.


    “I don’t know what you’re talking about, we- I haven’t seen any girl, please leave our premises


    immediately, you’re trespassing private property.” The dude said and I stepped forward once again,


    closing the distance between us until only a few feet separated us from being in each other’s private


    space.


    “Did you hear what I said clearly? I said ``get me the girl right this instant!”