Chapter 69: Manipulation

Maya’s POV

She was a snake, a hypocrite, she was a liar, a manipulative person who would destroy us one day if Stephen hadn’t heard her conversation today we would have continued to believe her, and we would have continued to trust her, I am glad I forced Stephen into going, I always knew something is wrong with her, I always felt that she has harboring hatred for me, I always thought it’s because of the fact I am with Adric but it’s not only that, she equally hated Adric and Stephen.

If she had a love for him in her heart, she wouldn’t hurt him, she wouldn’t be supporting his enemies, and she would have always been there for him but she is not, Stephen and I had one thought surrounding our mind, why would she do this? She must have a reason, we both knew it was not because of money, she is the only child to her parents, and every wealth belonged to her so why was she doing this?

“He is not going to like this, he will be heartbroken,” Stephen says.

“I know, he finds out his father betrayed him, and now his best friend, the only person he saw as a sister, the only person he saw as family, and now she did this to him.”

“He has to know, we have to find to get her to talk. We can’t kidnap her we still need her father and kidnapping her will lead to war with her father, we can’t afford another war when we have a Spanish cartel and Santiago on our hands.”

“We are going to pretend as if we don’t the truth,” I ask.

“We don’t have a choice, we can’t confront her. She will know the truth and I don’t trust her anymore, we will have to be monitoring her moves, as for her father the poor man doesn’t even know what she is doing.”

“What if we told him-“

“We can’t, he loves his daughter and he will continue to support her no matter what, one word from her he will wage a war, I don’t need that,” Stephen says.

He is right, we can’t afford a war right now. We have a lot to solve and this is not helping at all, I wish we could kill the bitch and have her gone once and for all but we can’t.

“Once we inform Adric we will find a way to distract her with false information and we will take down the Spanish cartel and Santiago,” I say and he nods.

Everything is messed up but I know we will get through this together. I just have to figure out a way to get Calla to speak without her remembering. We will have to drug the bitch.

Stephen and I glanced at each other.

“We will drug her.” We said in unison, we bursted into laughter. We had the same idea.

“I will get the drug.” He says and I nod.

He was about to leave when we heard footsteps, Adric was awake. I let out a breath we were both nervous to have this conversation with him, as much as he needed to know this I know it will break his heart, I’m going to hurt that bitch for hurting all of us.

He had a frown on his face as he walked down the stairs, it was hard to make him go to sleep but I had to force him. I knew he needed to sleep to feel better.

“Amore.” He says while walking toward me. “You said you will be there when I wake up.”

I instantly smile when he says that, he is such a baby for me.

“I’m sorry,” I whisper before pressing my lips against his. “I had something to discuss with Stephen.”

“Find your own girl.”

“I have one already, she is upstairs sleeping.” He says.

He considers Stephanie his girl, which is a good step, I know I promised her I would speak to Stephen about the baby but I have been unable to do that for a while, things for been chocked up and I know she will be curious to know if I have spoken to him.

Fuck, with everything going on it almost skipped my mind to speak to him, now that Calla is a threat he needs to know about his unborn child. I will have to speak to him after this, at least before tonight.

“What is wrong?.” Adric asks, Stephen and glanced at each other.

“We have to speak to you, we have a mole.” Stephen says, Adric mumbled a series of curses under his breath.

“Who is it?:” he asks in a serious voice.

I let out a breath before speaking,

“It’s Calla.” I blurted out.

He burst out in laughter but when he notices Stephen’s hardened face his smalls vanished.

“We are not joking.” Stephen says.

“What! It’s Calla, our best friend. You can’t be fucking serious.”

“I am serious, fuck I know how it sounds.”

“Is that why you asked him to accompany Calla and her father.”

“Yes.” I replied.

“I overheard her conversation, you will be surprised I would be lying if I say I wasn’t, fuck we trusted her and she did this and remember Mathew and Tobias.”

“Don’t fucking tell me.” He muttered against his breath.

“She was working with them, ever thought how they knew about the house, those four men that were moles knew about Calla that is why we found them, everything was directed to them but they had little to do with it.”

“She tried to kill me adric, she knew I would be at home, she knew there would be a bomb.” I whisper.

“Fuck, how can I be so stupid.”

“And now she is working with the Spanish cartel, I’m not sure but she is. She is planning to steal those documents I got from her father to give it to them.”

“Do you know why she is doing this?.” Adric asks. “Could it be blackmail.”

He didn’t want to believe, his childhood friend is doing this on her free will, I don’t know calla as much he knows her but I’m fucking sure it’s not blackmail, she could have asked for help from him and I know he will help her in a heartbeat.

“I don’t know Adric, it could be but fuck we have to find out before it’s too late.”

“Where is she?.” Adric asks.

“We can’t confront her, she will deny everything and she would know we are aware of her actions. We have to pretend we don’t know, Stephen and I have an idea, we will drug her into telling her the truth, she won’t remember any of that.”

“I fucking hope she is not doing this on her free will, I fucking hope she was forced into this.”

“I hope so too.” Stephen whispers.

I could feel how broken they both were because of this. It ruined both of them, ruined friendship for them.

“We will figure out, I promise.” I whisper to him holding his hand.