Three weeks have passed. Thomas was feeling much better now, and his wounds slowly began to dissipate. Mitch, on the other hand, often disappeared somewhere with one of his men, Chris. Neither I nor Thomas knew where, even though we tried to find out. Brothers found safe place for my mother. She was safe in a completely different city, with friends. Boys assured me that no one would find her there and that she would be safe. At first, they wanted me to stay there, but I didn't let them convince me. I've learned a lot better in the last few weeks to fight and shoot. I was very happy about it, because I no longer felt as vulnerable as I used to.

For security reasons, I was also unable to contact Malia. Boys only allowed me to meet her once, explain everything and say goodbye. Until it was over, I couldn't contact anyone so they wouldn't track us down.

Radcliffe... This man terrified me. The flash drive is the only thing we have on him, but we haven't been able to get it back. Not yet, at least. For that, you had to come up with a really good plan, and it's not easy to outsmart this man. We found some papers about Luke recently and that might help us, but unfortunately his people attacked our people and blew up the car in which they and the papers were, so now we have nothing. Nothing at all.

We tried to come up with a plan several times, but it was much more difficult than we thought.

I was able to spend a lot of time with Thomas during these weeks, we've officially become a couple and managed to go on a couple of dates. They were really wonderful.

I was just reading a newspaper in the hideout when I heard someone's car. I looked outside and saw Mitch's van. But surprisingly there was no brunet, or anyone else. I was about to go back inside, but the pickup's rear door was ajar. Not thinking much, I just walked over to it and opened them. I felt a terrible stench. There was some kind of black sack inside and something inside. I hesitantly opened it and looked inside, which I immediately regretted.

"Oh God..." My eyes widened.

I started breathing a lot faster than usual. Inside was the body of a man who had undergone terrible torture. He was pale and blue, his mouth open, his eyes burned out from underneath which he could see the hardened blood. He was stabbed in the stomach several times and his fingers were broken.

Terrified, I started to step back until I ran into someone. I turned quickly and saw Mitch.

"What are you doing here? Hm? " He folded his arms over his chest.

"W-Who is that? " I stammered.

"Nobody important. " He replied.

"Mitch, goddamn it! " I got annoyed. "Is that your doing? "

"Who else? " Rapp smiled.

"What happened? " I heard Thomas' voice running up to us. He trailed off as he saw the body.

He immediately glared at Mitch.

"Is that Harley? " He asked immediately.

"Who's Harley? " I asked.

"The guy who betrayed us. " Older brother replied. "And yes, that's him, in person. "

"What..." Tom began, but didn't finish because Mitch cut him off.

"Tommy... He had to pay for what he did to you. " Replied and walked over to his brother. Thomas told me about everything that had happened, so luckily I knew what was going on. "And he paid. And no..." He raised a finger upwards silencing his brother at the same time. "Don't bother with it this time. It's over now. " Added. "Chris! " Called his friend, and they locked the van and drove away.

I didn't know what to think about it. Seeing Thomas' reactions, he didn't quite know what to do either. This time, however, we decided to let Mitch go.

***

Another week passed. We did not talk to the older brother about that incident. Plus, even if we wanted to, we wouldn't have had one time, because Mitch would always disappear somewhere and often come back bruised. And when we asked what happened, he simply didn't answer.

I decided to check on Thomas. It took me a while to find him. He was sitting on the bed in his room. Strange because the first time I came in here, he wasn't there.

"Hey. " I sat down next to brunet and put my hand on his shoulder. "I was looking for you. I looked here before, but you weren't... "

"I'm like a ninja. " He laughed lightly, and after a while I joined him. However, I noticed that something was bothering him.

"Something happened? " I asked right away.

"Nothing. " Sighed and took my hand. "I'm just a little tired. " He looked at me and then at our hands and stroked my hand at which I smiled slightly.

I combed the boy's hair lightly and told me to look at myself.

"Talk to me. "

"Something is wrong. " He replied after a long moment. "Mitch is hiding something, I know it. And this is no small thing. He's up to something, Lyds. And that's rather nothing good. " Added.

"What do you mean? "

"I don't know..." He sighed. "But I have a bad feeling. I know Mitch better than anyone, and I know something's going on, but he won't tell us anything anyway. "

"You think it might be Luke? "

"Probably. "

I saw that brunet is exhausted from all of this, and me too. We had a couple of occasions to spend them together, just the two of us, but we knew very well that the Luke case was still open. The fear was still felt.

"You know..." I said after a while and put my hands on his shoulders, starting to massage them after a while. "You should rest..." I whispered in his ear and kissed him lightly on the cheek.

Thomas smiled slightly.

"Should I? " He glanced at me. "Should we? " He raised one eyebrow up.

"The second option definitely sounds better." I smiled and continued my massage.

"Will you offer your help? "

"I already did. I'm massaging you. " I added and squeezed him tighter in my arms.

"Ouch. What did I deserve? "

"Should I start... " I didn't finish, because brunet turned around and put me on his lap.

"I'm listening. " He smiled.

"First of all..." I smiled back. I glanced at his lips, which I kissed after a moment.

"Mmm..." Tom muttered. "And the second and third? "

"You can finish. " I smiled innocently.

"As you wish. " He shrugged his shoulders and this time he kissed me.

I returned his gesture. I was glad that I managed to bring a smile to his face.

I knew how much he worried about his brother and what he might do. I was also scared myself. But I was hoping that Mitch wouldn't let us down.

I braided my hands in brunet's hair, and he wrapped his warm and strong arms around my waist. In his arms, I felt the safest in the world.

However, we broke the kiss when we heard a loud bang.

"What was that? " I asked, glancing at Thomas.

"I have no idea. "

We left the room quickly and headed for the main exit.

"Hold on. " Tom said as he walked closer to the door himself.

What was happening again? This time, I also had a bad feeling.

"Get down! " Rapp yelled and lunged towards me.

After that, everything happened too fast. And the most accurate thing I remembered was another huge bang and burst of the hideout.