"Or are you just looking for the opportunity to finish David off silently so the bastard will not expose your wrongdoings?" Damien said with an angry look in his eye.
"Not at all, sir," said Lucian with an authoritative tone. "You can come with me to see if what I'm saying is right or wrong. I'll question him and bring the truth to light."
Damien finally seemed to calm down a bit. "Bring him in."
The door bursted open and Black stepped in with David in his hands.
"Boss," he said, "I have found the culprit!"
Lucian walked slowly to David taking his time, then he grabbed David by the shoulders. "You're going to tell me the truth. What is going on with you, huh? You've been a show since the kidnap of my wife and her mother."
"Boss…" David trailed off hesitantly.
"If you don't want to tell me," Lucian whispered in his ears. "Then consider yourself dead."
"Please boss, don't do any of that! I promise you that I'm one of your boys, I would never betray you!" David yelled out loud.
"If that is true then you should consider telling me with proof!" I said causing him to fall on his knees. "What do you mean, boss?" He asked.
"Where have you been since the kidnap of my wife and her mother?"
"I've been…"
"Tell me!" Lucian yelled. "If you don't, consider yourself dead."
David immediately looked around the room but then he said, "We received an order from you through Sarah to kidnap… Emerald and her mother."
"What?" Lucian stumbled back feeling appalled by David's words.
Damien who had been hearing the conversation became upset and ran towards Lucian in a bid to attack him. "You bastard!" He raged.
David immediately said, "It wasn't the boss who asked us to kidnap them! It was Sarah!"
"Who the hell is Sarah?" Damien said painfully. "How dare she give orders to kidnap my daughter and my wife?! Who the hell is she to control your people?!"
"I'm sorry, Father-in-law" Lucian said, hoping his Father-in-law was not too mad at him to the extent of breaking all their ties completely, because Damien's influence was important to him in the mafia and it was only a matter of time before he became the most powerful. How the hell could he fix an issue as radical as this? No person could ever trust the other fully after something like this happened.
"Trust me, sir," Lucien said with his head bowed in his Father-in-law's direction. "I'll make this right."
"Oh, you damn well better. If I see a single scratch on my wife's or my daughter's body, you'll pay for it, Lucian!"
Lucian kept his head bowed, he didn't want to further agitate the old man.
"I want my wife and my daughter back today, if not I'll ensure you pay the consequences, Lucian," Damien said.
"Yes sir," Lucian said.
"I'll send some of the men to go with you in case you need more help to find them," Damien said after much contemplation.
"No need, I can handle this myself. I want to handle this myself." Lucian said under his breath.
"I don't care about your thoughts, you are still at fault here no matter how I look at it. How can someone you're not close to order your men? Anyway, I'll put several of my men in your care. They can tell me the news when my wife and daughter are found."
Lucian knew that it was a bad idea to try to
argue with Damien on that so he accepted. "As you wish, Father-in-law. Please tell your men to stop fighting my men."
Damien looked at Baby, telling her to go deliver the news with facial expressions. The baby then stepped out of the room leaving Black, Damien, Lucian, and David.
Damien scoffed, "There's nothing more to do here," he said. "I'm going." As Damien turned around to leave, Lucian said, "Sarah… is an old friend from Spain. I treated her with respect, and my second in command, David thought he should treat her the same which is why this had to happen."
"I don't care what hierarchy bullshit going on wrong in your group. I just want my wife and daughter back as soon as possible, so don't waste any more time and go on searching."
Damien turned around and left the room with Black.
As soon as David and Lucien were alone, Lucien kicked David in the face causing him to fall on his back.
"What good is this?" he yelled out. "How could you take orders from Sarah?"
David scrambled on the floor and got on his feet. "I-I didn't know. I thought it was your order I-i- She tricked me! She tricked us all into doing the kidnapping! We wouldn't have done it if we knew it wasn't your wish sir, please forgive me and have mercy. I hope you won't fire me because of my dumb mistake."
"As long as you right your wrongs. Take me to the location where you held Emerald and my mom hostage," he said.
"Yes Boss," David said.
Outside, Damien had stopped his men from fighting Lucian's men and was now in his truck with Baby and Black.
When Lucian went outside, he saw the aftermath of the clash between his people and that of Damien. He was just glad there weren't any deaths.
"Ten of you come with me," David gave an order to ten of the men who were still standing after the clash.
They immediately went to David and bowed. Lucian and David along with the men and a few more of the men that Damien had left behind entered an expensive truck and drove off to the location where Emerald and her mother were held hostage.
"So you mean that Emerald and her mother are here?" Lucian asked David who nodded. "Right, I remember vividly. This is the place."
"Why don't I see any guards then?" Lucian asked.
"I don't know," David replied absentmindedly. "I do recall seeing them here the last time I was here."