Ares Young

"So you were saying you knew he was coming after you?" Clyde rolled his eyes as he leaned his body to the wall.

"Yes." I wanted to throw something at him. He's been asking me stupid questions after I told him everything that happened.

Now, I'm lying on the hospital bed in the headquarters after being treated for my injury. My left shoulder was almost dislocated because of the impact, and my back hurt. The doctors said I'll get big bruises tomorrow, and my whole body will feel sore.

"Why do you still go after Leila when you know her brother is fucking Luke Morrow?" Clyde helped me by grabbing my water bottle from the side table.

"Why not?"

"You find it fun?"

"Yes, Nielsen."

"You're just trying to piss Luke off, right?" Good question.

"No." The door was kicked open by none other than Kayden. He walked in and was followed by Mason.

"I thought you're dead. I wore my best suit for your funeral." Mason joked as he looked at me from head to toe. I gave him a middle finger as I sipped my water.

"You need to stop the temporary obsession with her sister, find someone else to screw around," Kayden said as he stood beside Clyde.

"And what makes you think I'll listen?"

"Because we're not in the mood to have beef with The Ravens." I almost punched his face for it. Kayden was a member of The Ravens, and he knew nearly all the members in a heartbeat. He warned me not to have beef with The Ravens means Asher is currently busy, so he doesn't have fucking time to clean our shit.

Boring Asher.

"Then I'll set my temporary obsession from Leila to Luna and Tatiana." Clyde opened her eyes after hearing his girlfriend's name, and Kayden was already glaring at me, "Why? You both afraid that they'll choose me over you two?"

"You're an idiot, Young." Mason hissed.

"Says the person who's currently obsessed with a certain singer and decides to have a part-time job as a bodyguard when you're a fucking billionaire running a multi-billion dollar business?" I leaned my head back, and Mason looked unbothered with my words. He sat on the sofa.

"We'll get going then. Have a fast recovery, Young," Clyde said, and he walked out first, followed by Kayden. They left me with Mason alone.

Someone knocked on the door, and Tim walked in with my new phone. I groaned in pain when I tried to reach the phone from his hand.

I checked to see if Leila called or not. She only made one missed call, but it successfully made me smile.

"Why are you still here?" I tried to turn to Mason, but the back of my neck hurt so much.

"I'm buying the West Records shares from you." I didn't give a fuck about the back of my neck hurting, and I turned to Mason like he had just created a new word with his mouth, "Correction, I'm buying the fucking company, so you better give up your fucking shares."

"You already bought the rest and begging that fifteen percent from me?" I pretended to be hurt.

"Yes, fucker." He knew I was intrigued by this. I bought those shares around three years ago, and I never thought one day I'd have Mason wanting me to hand them over. I should have bought more if I knew this day would come.

"And you think I'll hand it to you that easily?"

"If you try to make it difficult, I'll play your game, Young." He got up from the sofa, putting his hands into his pocket. I glared at him.

"I'm not handing it to you, Calland." He gave me a nod and made his way out. After he's gone, I dialed Leila's number, hoping she would answer it quickly.

I called her five times, and there was no answer.

I called Katia, and she answered it right away.

"Where is she?" I asked.

"She's with her brother, sir." Well, if he dares to hurt her. I will fucking kill him, not caring that both are related.

"Where?"

"Gamma Cafe, sir. They met up around 15 minutes ago." I tried to get up, but everything fucking hurt. I ended the call and pressed the emergency button, causing the whole floor to rush towards me.

"Sir, what are you doing?"

"Take everything off," I commanded, and they quickly took everything off me. They helped me to get up from the hospital bed, too. I called Tim to take me to where those two siblings were.

Leila Morrow

Luke called me to meet up, which I had to because he was hurting Ares. I saw Ares being brought by the Bloodhounds team before the live news got cut out. I knew that he had to be injured.

I walked into Gamma Cafe downtown and waited for Luke there. I ordered some coffee and anxiously looked outside for him. It's been a decade since I saw him. We talked a couple of times regarding Mom, but that's it.

When I saw Luke walking into the cafe, so many things changed. Maybe that's why I didn't even recognize my brother in the news. He's at least six foot three and very muscular. Still, the same empty grey eyes, short jet-black hair, and thin beard covered his jaw.

He walked over to me and sat across me.

"What do you want, Luke?"

"Stay away from Ares, Leila." I rolled my eyes, hearing him say those words.

"And why do you think I'll listen to you?"

"I didn't leave you all these years for you to be dragged into the world I'm in, Leila." The more I looked into that grey eyes, the more I realized it was empty. It's so open that it doesn't feel like I'm talking with him.

It felt like I was talking to a living corpse.

"You should leave me alone like you did for the past decade." I took a sip of my coffee, looking at him, annoyed.

"I'll leave you alone after you stay away from Ares." I let out a chuckle.

"How are you, Luke? It's been a decade, and I'm surprised to see you alive." I said sarcastically, and he leaned his body to the seat, "How's Valerie? Is she still your fiancee? Or you decide to kill her and dump her body somewhere in Central Park?"

"How do you know?" His eyes looked at me, amused.

"Funny." I hissed, and he looked at me with a poker face, "Wait! Did you?"

"I did kill her, but I didn't dump her body in Central Park. I dumped it behind my property." My jaw dropped.

"Are you for real?"

"Look at the news." I grabbed my phone and saw some missed calls from Ares. I ignored it and put Valerie's name in the search bar. He lied. Valerie is still pretty much alive.

I almost threw my coffee to his face for lying to me.

His phone rang, and he ignored it. He didn't even bother to answer or reject the call. He put it on the table, looking at it like he achieved something. My eyes landed on his screen to see Kimberly's name.

"You're still screwing her? She's a fucking bitch." I still remember Kimberly with all my heart. She's a mean bully, always creating trouble wherever she goes.

"She's good fuck."

"You have a fiancee, who you didn't even bother to marry."

"You should kill her and dump her body somewhere in Central Park. She deserves death more than anyone else in this world." I commented, and he smirked.

"You should be the one who kills her. Learn how to skin people from Ares. He's good. He's talented in skinning people and taking their organs out perfectly." My ears almost rang after hearing the whole sentence.

"I never thought you'd praise my skills, Morrow. I'm fucking touched." Our heads turned to see Ares. He sat beside me and pulled me on his lap, wrapping his arms around my waist.

Ares gave me a peck on my lips before turning his head to Luke, who was ready to kill him.