Chapter 133 ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE

Chapter 133 ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE
AIDEN
I gritted my teeth as he approached us.
‘What do you want?’ he asked.
Fucking bastard, he knows what I want. He is smiling because he thinks he is winning now; wait till I strike back.
‘You know what I want,’ I replied harshly.
He put his hands in his pockets. ‘I assure you, I have no fucking clue’
I glared at him. ‘I need to speak to you’
‘Okay, I’m listening’
‘Alone,’ I announced, trying to avoid Shirley’s hunting eyes.
‘I wonder what this is about. What is so serious that you don’t want Shirley to hear, huh?’
This bastard knows exactly what he is doing.
He is trying to bring Shirley into this when this is clearly between the two of us.
‘Leave us, Shirley,’ he said after a while.
Shirley looked at him, then at me. ‘Is this about me?’
No response.
‘I don’t want to leave. I don’t want you guys to fight’
Lucien shunned her. ‘It’s non-negotiable. Go now!!!’
Her breath hitched; she turned to me, waiting for some kind of intervention like I always do, but I was dealing with my own thing and couldn’t offer any help.
She sighed, gave me a long, hard, stern look as if I just betrayed her and walked away.
Way to go, Aiden. You just keep making everything worse for yourself.
I waited until she was out of earshot before I grabbed Lucien roughly by his chest and shoved him hard against the wall.
His men surrounded us in a second. Lucien smiled at me and gave them orders to stand down.
‘Why are you so uptight today, man? What’s going on with you?’ he asked, still mocking me.
‘How dare you threaten my baby mama and my unborn child?’ I barked.
His eyes widened. ‘I’m sorry, what?’
I pushed him harder into the wall. ‘You fucking heard me, fool? Don’t try to act dumb here.’
‘I threatened you?’
‘Yes,’ I snapped.
‘When did I do that?’
My eyes narrowed. ‘So you are going to keep playing these fucking games with me, huh?’
‘What games?’
‘The fucking shoe man…’
He stared at me like I was talking in riddles.
‘The shoe you soaked in blood to pass a message’
Still that ‘I don’t know what you are talking about’ look.
I was frustrated.
‘What do you have to say for yourself?’
‘That you get off me this second; your breath stinks badly’
An insult.
He thinks I care how much he insults me right now? Nah, that’s not going to get to me, not when he threatened my baby.
‘I said take your filthy hands off me!!!’ he said, and he pushed me away from him roughly.
I stumbled a few steps back until I got my footing.
He adjusted his shirt, adjusted his collar, cleared his throat, and said, ‘Now that is settled, what the fuck are you talking about?’
‘There you go again, playing the dumb game; are you not tired of it?’
He shrugged.
‘You came into my fucking house, stole my unborn child’s shoe, immersed it in blood, and sent it back to my house as a message to me. You actually think you can threaten them and get away with it?’
He threw his hands in the air. ‘Oh my God, what the fuck are you saying, man? You look exhausted. Did you sleep well last night?’
‘No, I didn’t, because of what you did’
‘I didn’t do anything, Aiden. You really think I will stoop that low? Common man, If I want to send you a message, you will definitely know it is from me’
I laughed bitterly. ‘I know what you can do, Lucien. I know you did it’
He crossed his arms. ‘You know you have some nerve coming here to accuse me of this after burning my warehouse to the ground and killing my men.’
‘Is that why you did it?’
He shook his head. ‘If anyone should be angry here, it should be me. I’m the one who lost my goods and my very good soldiers, yet somehow I’m the villain?’
‘Well, you asked for it. You kept pushing me,’ I retorted.
‘So you burnt my warehouse down?’
‘Yes, and I enjoyed watching that motherfucker burn down to the ground’
His face darkened, and he stepped towards me. ‘Listen, you stupid cunt. You think you have balls now? Wait till you see what I have in store for you. I will eat you up, eat up your stupid empire, and bury you and your bloody family deep into the ground. Do not fucking try me again; you will regret it if you do.’
I stepped towards him as well to show him I wasn’t intimidated by his threats.
He can deny it all he wants, but I know he is the one who did it, and he knows that I know; that’s why he is being defensive.
‘You think I’m going to cower back and whine like a little cat? You are highly mistaken. You don’t know what I’m capable of. If you come for my family or business, I will come for yours. I will rip everything and everyone associated with you into fucking pieces…’
He chuckled. ‘You will touch Shirley too?’
I hesitated.
Nah, I was just blabbing. I can’t harm Shirley in any way.
‘You know, you are one sneaky son of a bitch. You pretend to care about her, yet you have a pregnant woman in your house’
‘So?’
‘Have you told her about your sweet baby mama, Chloe? How do you think she is going to react to that kind of betrayal from someone who claims to want her?’
I swallowed. ‘That…that’s none of your business’
He laughed. ‘But it is my business, you see Shirley is my stepdaughter, and I don’t want her to be hurt in any way. So what would you do if I call her now and tell her about the juicy secret you have been hiding from her?’
I moved back. ‘Is that another threat?’
He raised a brow. ‘Threat? Oh no, that’s not what this is at all. This is me standing up for my stepdaughter so that assholes like you can leave her alone once and for all.’
I clenched my fist. ‘You are fucking crazy. You know what? I don’t care what you do. I’m going to warn you for the very last time: if anything happens to my unborn child or to Chloe, you will see war’
‘Oh, feisty Aiden, you look like a scared little cat. I can’t wait to see what little tricks you have for me, but just know this: I would be waiting for you.’
I turned away, walking super fast, cursing him in my mind.
The battle line has been drawn.
I saw Shirley running out of the house, waving for me to stop.
I didn’t stop, I just kept moving.