Chapter 58: A lie

Adric’s POV

I always knew when it was a trap but this time I didn’t, I was so focused on Santiago finding us that I didn’t stop to think maybe it was a trap, they knew we were watching her and they came to see her knowing we would find out. They had the drapes closed and the cameras turned off so we would be suspicious and do something rebellious.

Just like what we did, we got into her house as planned, I made sure no one saw us and some of my men were keeping a lookout, no one was there to see us, we should have thought this through before doing it. We stayed in her room for ten minutes causing noises like the lamp falling, something that will make her come to her room but it was to no avail.

She didn’t come, one of us has to make the tough decision of walking into the living room, I am going to do it, I figured if they know it’s us then we can get into the living room despite the cameras and fuck it we would kidnap her and leave for New York.

I did ask one of my men to check if there were any wired cameras in the living room but he said there weren’t, they were able to cover their tracks in such a short time. A wave of nervousness washed over me as I walked into the room.

I glanced around the kitchen but no one was there, when I walked further into the living room I stepped on blood.

Her blood.

Grace was lying in the pool of blood, it’s a trap, we shouldn’t have come here, we are going to be framed for her murder. I heard a noise coming from the door.

“Someone is coming.” I took off my shoe to print any shoe print because of the blood and walked further into the house.

The door swings open and two men walk in.

“Those monsters killed her, boss is not going to be happy.”

“Search the house, I’m sure Bianchi must have left something behind.”

Fuck, I quickly walk into the room.

“We have to leave now,” I say to Stephen who is confused by the situation, he didn’t ask any questions as we left,

“Get the driver to bring the girls to the airport, forget packing. They should be here in five minutes.” I say to him and he nods.

He noticed how paranoid I was about the situation, he had no idea what must have happened. I would inform him of everything once we are in the air far away from this.

We got to the airport, and seeing Maya I felt at ease.

“What’s wrong, why are we leaving?.”

“We are in danger,” I say.

We were walking into the airplane when I heard a gunshot.

Fuck they are here.

“Start the plane right now.”

Once the four of us were inside, I glanced through the window, the rest of my men were fighting them off. I can’t let them hurt Maya because of me, we need to strategize before making any decisions.

It took over three minutes for the plane to be on air, they killed all of the men out there.

“What is going on.”

“Come with me, we have to talk.”

“Someone killed Grace Santiago, I went into her living room and she was in the pool of her blood, dead.”

“Those men.”

“They are not Santiago’s men after all, they killed Grace and blamed it on us and now Santiago’s men are after all.” He says and I nod.

We were in deep trouble, we had no part in her murder yet every piece of evidence was pointed toward us.

Someone did this, someone wanted us to be to blame, whoever did this has been watching us, they knew we came to meet Grace twice, they knew we were there.

Grace always says men come into the house to ask her about Santiago, could it be someone that is his enemy but how can we find an enemy of an assassin, he has thousands of them.

“They are using us as bait to find Santiago.”

“We have to find them before it’s too late, God knows how much damage they can do to us,” I say and he nods.

I had to find those people, the only thing I knew about them was that they were men in black suits, nothing else. They disabled my camera and microphone I have no idea what they look like.

“Find the CCTV footage of the building,”

“They are smart, don’t you think they disabled it”

“We won’t know that until we try, to find the footage of today and a couple of weeks ago, they could be one of those men that came to see her.”

I have to try every possible way to find them.

Maya was asleep by the time we got back to the main part of the plane, I embraced her pulling her closer to me.

I will make sure nothing happens to any one of us this time, last time I fucked up and that led to me being in a coma but not this time. This time I will make sure they are the ones that will get hurt.

The flight back home took longer than I expected maybe because I was nervous, I know they would have been trying to find out my home in New York and if they are smart, they would have some of their men stationed at the airport waiting for my arrival, they may not attack us there but they will follow us to know where I live so I had other plans.

Stephen’s best idea for one of my safe houses was to have a plane runway, we would be going there and after we arrived, they could keep waiting and waiting while some of my men would find them and bring them back here.

The sooner I know about our situation the better for us.

We arrived in New York at night, Maya continued her sleep in the car that drove us further to the house, we were both too tired to walk.

“Amore, wake up, you need to eat and shower.”

She hasn’t had anything to eat for a while, I know she will wake up with a headache if she doesn’t eat at all.

“Take a shower, I will get food.”

“Where are we?.” She asks while yawning, one could still hear the sleep in her voice.

“Our new home, somewhere safe, don’t worry they won’t get to us,” I say and she nods. She gives me a kiss before I leave.

I made her a grilled cheese to eat. Stephen will have Stephanie stay with us for a while until all this is over, they already know about her and they won’t care if she doesn’t have any romantic relationship with Stephen, even if she tells them the truth about not knowing anything, they will still kill her.

After Maya ate, I ran her a bath. My Amore’s eyes were slightly open as she wore my clothes. I know she can’t wait to be in bed.

“I will be back soon amore,” I say and she nods.

“What is the update?.” I ask Stephen.

“We were able to get two of Santiago’s men, they will tell us everything.” He says and I nod.

I walked downstairs into the basement, all my safe houses had a basement for torture because you can never know when you are going to need them. There is never no time for torturing people.

A smile erupted on my face when I saw both men were bleeding, they had a good beating by Stephen.

“Ready to speak,” I ask and they nod.

“Boss is going to kill you, you murdered his wife.”

“We didn’t,” I muttered against my breath. “Who gave you that information,” I ask.

“It was an anonymous. Boss is trying to find out who sent the message, they were pictures of both of you leaving the house and you had blood on your suit. He will make sure he kills both of you.”

I was getting annoyed and I was to get the information I needed, they didn’t even know who sent them the information. The pictures and everything were misleading.

“We never killed her, someone else did and they framed us, that doesn’t matter anymore. Now tell us what is Santiago planning.”

“He will kill me if I do.” He says and I roll my eyes, I thought they were ready to speak, I guess they are ready for another round of torture.

I gave a signal to one of my guards that were standing there to get me some blades.

“You will speak.” I smile.

They don’t have much of a choice, at least I can find out what he is planning then it would work out. I will be able to stop him before it’s too late.

I can’t let him hurt Maya to avenge the death of his wife.