Chapter 30

Asher scowled as he sat in his hotel room, Jael stood beside an open window some distance away from him, smoking a cigarette.

“Just let me do the talking tomorrow,” Jael was saying in between puffs.

Asher very much intended to let him do that, because the supplier had stood them up that day, forcing them to spend an extra day - the odds weren’t in the suppliers favor.

“I’ll also encourage you not to take any weapons,” His second-in-command said patronizingly but Asher couldn’t even be mad at him because he was being pragmatic.

Their one-sided conversation was interrupted by Jael receiving a phone call, the Beta ending it with a dark light in his eyes. “The supplier wants to meet tonight because he has somewhere to be tomorrow.” He relayed the information he had just learned, starting to consider letting his Alpha loose on the cocky sleazebag.

Asher took the information in a surprisingly calm manner so maybe there didn’t need to be any casualties and they would be on their way back to Reef the next day like he initially planned out. It was early in the evening and the new shipment had already been handled, the only thing keeping them was the supplier who insisted that whatever he had to say was too important to be discussed over the phone.

“He’ll come to our hotel for what will hopefully be a short meeting,” He muttered absently, lighting another cigarette.

They were currently waiting for the supplier to show up so when a phone started to ring, Jael absently reached into his jacket thinking it was his and was surprised to see Asher picking up his phone instead.

He relaxed momentarily until Asher suddenly shot to his feet with a darkly muttered curse and started for the door. Jael hadn’t being paying attention to the conversation but now he wished he had because Asher didn’t look pleased by whatever he had heard.

“Boss?”

At Asher stopped to give him some sort of explanation, “Fucking Nolan is trying to raid the mansion.”

“What the fuck?” Jael blurted out, more stunned than anything else.

Asher was already hot-footing it down the hallway of the hotel so Jael was forced to follow because he knew that he couldn’t stop the Alpha.

“I’m heading back.” He said shortly, glaring at the elevator walls like he could will it to go faster.

Jael remained silent, expression grim. He knew that Asher was heading back in a haste wasn't because he didn’t trust him men to handle it but because of Celine, and considering the fact that Mafia King Nolan was only carrying out such an insane mission for her sake, he had every right to be torn up about it.

There was no question about what he would do, he would stick by his Alpha’s side even if it meant that they would lose a supplier who was fairly decent for all his hassle. He didn’t however predict that they would run right into the supplier in the parking lot on their way out.

Asher just saw the Beta in the distance and swerved to the right, heading right for the car without breaking stride, leaving Jael torn between making a choice.

“Fuck.” He cursed under his breath, closing his eyes briefly, visibly torn. He eventually walked up to the supplier even as he could hear tires peeling behind him.

“Was that-” The Beta started to say but Jael didn’t let him finish.

“We’re going to have to postpone this,” He cut him off, “Something important came up.”

Jael was already heading to another car the moment he relayed the message, he had already contacted the men that accompanied them and they were already waiting in the car, both of them wearing grim expressions. They were sharing a room and had come out into the parking lot right after Asher drove off, the moment he hopped in, the car was already moving, leaving the supplier stunned in the middle of the parking lot.

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Nolan bit back a curse as the maid that had tried to stop him dropped to the ground unconscious, he would rather not attack unarmed women but lingering around too long would only give Asher’s men the chance to call for backup, he didn’t want that. So he didn’t flinch when he knocked out the other maid that was standing protectively in front of the room he needed to get into.

Breaking into the room was fairly easy, gunshots going off rapidly all around the house. The Omega somehow managed to sleep through the mayhem, she slept peacefully in a bed of pillows, white-blonde hair billowing around her. He studied her for a moment, his gun still held in his hand, he could understand Asher’s men protecting her but he hadn’t been expecting the maids to jump in front of a Mafia King holding a weapon for her sake.

He would have gotten his hands on her regardless because he needed to satisfy his curiosity but what he had learned about her so far made all this trouble almost worth it. He reached out to nudge her lightly with his gun, curious to see what her reaction to him would be.

Celine was jolted out of sleep by the sensation of cool metal against her skin, that coupled with the hazy figure of someone leaning over her made her think Asher had returned, so she called his name.

“Asher?” She mumbled with all the hope of confusion of a sleep addled mind, reaching out for him without thinking. She was probably dreaming about him because why would he come to her first thing after returning from his business trip.

“Asher?” An unfamiliar voice repeated, making her eyes go round as all of the sleep cleared out of her eyes.

“W-Who…” Her words trailed off as her gaze dropped from the familiar man to the gun pointed right at her, she looked back at him to see that he had a thoughtful look on his face which clashed with the violent image he presented, a cigar in his other hand.

“Mafia King N-Nolan?” She blurted out in a mix of horror and confusion, pulling back her arm.