Finding the evil

In the office of Yibo, he sat at his desk taking a phone call with the most recent intel. Running his hand through his hair, the frustration evident.

"How could you not know where he is?! This city is not that big! Keep looking!", he ordered as he ended the call.

Evan sat on the couch going through information that had been sent to him by each of the leaders of the sectors within the Morningstar Clan.

Wiping his brow with the back of his hand, "No one has anything. He must have went into hiding as soon as he left the meeting that day."

Leaning forward placing his hands on the coffee table, he allowed the frustration to consume him. Swiping his hand across the desk throwing papers across the floor.

"Getting upset will not help.", Yibo said honestly. "We have to keep focused and keep looking."

"You realize how bad this reflects on us, right? This happened right under our nose and we knew nothing.", Evan complained.

Yibo stood from his desk and walked to the window turning his back to his son. Taking a deep breath, "This is a lesson for us. We neglected to see a possible threat and take action to protect those closest to us. Our line of work is dangerous.......it always has been. I would always protect you and your mother. You both always had a security detail. We should have handled you the same way and made sure that no one that is not part of our world would be pulled in and hurt. This does not just reflect bad on us, but it is bad on us. We dropped the ball, son and we could have lost her."

Evan could feel the sadness in his dad's voice. Not knowing that his father knew Charlotte he thought that his reaction was out of guilt due to she being his son's girlfriend.

Across town, the little subordinate sat on the hospital bed in the emergency room as the doctor added stitches to his beautiful face.

"It may not scar however we cannot be sure. Keep the salve on the stitches. They will disolve in a couple of weeks.", the doctor said as he smiled a sweet smile at the patient.

"Thank you doctor.", the subordinate said as the security guard stepped forward to take him home.

Giving a small smile at the doctor, the little subordinate exited the emergency room.

Entering the car, the guard placed a call to the taller of the guards to advise how the visit went and what the doctor had said.

"Well done. Please take him home and make sure he eats something.", the taller of the guards said.

"Consider it done.", the guard with the subordinate stated.

The vehicle exited the parking lot heading to the home of the subordinate as the rest of the group discussed among themselves what happened and what to do in future to protect him.

"I'm heading out. See you tomorrow.", the taller of the guards said as his replacement took his place at the door.

His plan was to stop at the convenient store and then head to the subordinate to check on him.

As he reached the store he headed straight in and picked up beer for himself and some sweets for the hurt little guy including a slushy. The little guy loved blue slushies.

Exiting the store he found a couple of his friends leaning against his car.

Upon seeing him they both stood up. Smiling they each nodded at him, "Hey, got a minute?"

The taller guard smiled back as they were friends and agreed.

"Something has come up and we are looking for someone. You may not know the prick, but you have a lot of eyes around you that may have seen something.", the first guy said.

"Yeah, the douche we are looking for attacked an unrelated female trying to take her out..............you know how we feel about attacking the weak.", the other one said.

Clutching the bag tighly in his hand the taller of the guards felt the anger from earlier rising. "Tell me what you need.....if I know anything....it's yours."

The two friends looked at each other and nodded in agreement.

Leaning in the first guy stated quietly, "The guy is the leader in this area. He went into hiding after the last meeting where he got his ass handed to him by Ryder."

"Yeah, after that is when the coward ordered the attack on the little girl.", the other friend stated. Upon finishing the statement he leaned forward and whispered the name of the hateful man into the taller guards ear.

"Of course it's him.", the taller guard stated.

The two friends looked at each other and back at the taller guard.

"Hey, whomever is looking for him can be given my number. I've got you........I know where the fucker is at.", the taller guard said. "Right now I have to go pay a visit to his latest victim.

The two friends showed concern for the person he would be going to see. "Thanks for your help, man."

"Nothing to it.", the taller guard said as he walked around his car getting in and heading to the subordinate.

Back at the mansion, Seth received a call from one of the soldiers that he had served with back in the day.

"We found him!", was all that the contact said.

"Hang on", Seth stated in haste as he tapped Grayson on the shoulder.

They both made their way back to the house quickly making their way to the study. Entering the room, Seth nodded at Bull whom tapped on Axel's shoulder. Alan showed up just in time as well. The doors were closed as the call had been placed on speaker.

"Go ahead. I am with my team.", Seth said calmly.

The caller began, "We reached out to another contact and explained the situation and whom we are looking for. Turns out he knows where he is and had been on his way to check on the asshole's newest victim."

The guys all exchanged glances.

"He asked me to give you his number.......I just sent it over.", the caller stated.

Seth's phone vibrated with the message that came through. Verifying the arrival of the number Seth thanked the caller.

"You owe me a meal, man. A good one! Not take out!", the caller stated with a smile in his voice. "Let me know if you need me again......Oh, and when the meal will happen."

Seth smiled, "Thank you, man. We will work out a good time to meet. I owe you big."

The caller disconnected and the guys collectively said, "Yes!"

Back across town, the taller of the guards arrived at the apartment of the subordinate. Placing the code in, he entered the door to find the subordinate working on a laptop.

"No. No. No. You are supposed to be resting.", walking up the guard closed the lap top and placed it on a high shelf.

Speechless the subordinate sat on the couch shocked.

Handing the slushy over, the subordingate became excited causing his eyebrows to go up. Wincing in pain and reaching up to hold his head, the tall guard panicked.

"Are you okay? Do I need to call someone? I can carry you if you need to go back to the hospital.", the taller guard spilled out quickly.

Confused the subordinate looked up with big eyes, "I am okay. I just need to be more careful with my expressions."

Standing tall the guard looked around for a way to change the subject. "Oh", he said while holding out the bag from the store resembling a good child.

The subordinate took the bag looking inside. "Um... thank you but I can't drink right now.", he said giving a sweet smile.

"Oh, that is for me.", the tall guard explained. Reaching out he took the bag back and reached in gathering a small tub of icecream with a disposable spoon.

The smile on the little subordinates face grew bigger, "Strawberry is my favorite......how.....how did you know?"

"Some people are important to remember.", the tall guard said softly.

"Oh.", the little subordinate blushed as he played with his hair out of habit. "Um, wanna watch a movie with me?", he said looking up at the tall guard with his heart beating out of his chest.

"I would like that.", the tall guard said as he sat down beside the little subordinate. "No one will hurt you again.......not while I am around.