Lucas Pov

I walk to the living room to check on Rayne, and I see she is no longer lying there. I look around for her, but she is nowhere to be found. I run up the stairs and see Caleb walking out of the room she has been staying in. "Hey, I put Rayne in her bed; I thought it would be more comfortable than the couch," Caleb says as he walks past me.

"Thanks, man," I say and walk into her room. She is lying on the bed covered up and sleeping peacefully. I pull the chair beside her bed and sit down, getting as comfortable as possible in this stiff chair.

As I sit here, I hear a knock on the door. I get up and answer it. I see Nico standing there with his hands behind his back. "The Russian is in the warehouse, boss," Nico says. I turn my head and check on Rayne one more time before I close the door. "I will meet you there," I said, looking at him before heading to Dante's room. I open the door and walk into his room. I see him sprawled out on the bed. I walk over and cover him up, then lean down and kiss his forehead.

I leave the room and head to the garage. I climb into my car and start the car, then I head to the warehouse. I walk into the building and head to the back room. The guys already have the room covered with plastic to stop blood from getting on the floor and walls. I look over to the side of the room, and I see the tools they have laid out for me. They range from knives to blowtorches.

I hear grunting, and I turn my head and see the guy who drugged my girl. I walk over to him with a sinister smile on my face. "Hello Hugo," I say.

He looks at me and spits at me. I raise my fist, and it connects with his face with a sickening crack. "Now that is just plain rude." I spat at him as I walked over to the table, grabbing a hammer. "What did you have planned with Rayne after you drugged her?" I ask him, and he just looks at me with no emotion in his eyes. He refused to talk.

"Hmm, don't feel like talking, do we?" I ask. I shifted his hand to sit on the arm of the chair better and brought the hammer down with such force that when it connected to his hand, you could hear the bones crushing. He let out a bloodcurdling scream and started to cry.

"Now I am going to ask you a few more questions, and you are going to answer them," I say as he continues to cry.

"Who sent you?" I ask him.

He refuses to answer. So I hit him again, but this time I hit him in the knees. This goes on for another twenty minutes.

"Ok, Ok, I was sent to scare that bitch. But when I saw her, I knew I needed a taste of that piece of ass that you have been hiding from us." He says this with a bloody grin on his face. I can feel my blood start to boil as it runs through my body.

"But the boss wants you to know that you won't always be able to protect your bitch and that bastard of yours." He says this as he is laughing.

I grab his tongue and hold it in my hand, bringing the knife out of my pocket. I cut it. He is thrashing and screaming as I slowly cut through his tongue. I do it so slowly because I want to make sure he feels every last thing, every nerve detach every ounce of pain I could from this one action. Once done, I hold his tongue and speak. "Your boss will not get his hands on what is mine," I say in a deadly tone.

"I will make you an example of what will happen to anyone who thinks they can take or hurt what is mine," I say, shoving his tongue back in his mouth and making him eat it. I hold his mouth shut and watch him fight back with the little energy he has left. Once satisfied, I grab my gun, step back, and shoot the bastard right between his eyes.

I walk over to the sink, quickly wash my hands, and turn to Nico and Collin. "Send his body back to Maxim. Make sure to use this bastard as an example. They want to play, then game on." I say as I walk out of the room.

"Lucas, was that even necessary? I mean, I get killing him, but he ate his tongue and then died." Caleb asks as he follows me. I didn't even notice he was here.

"What do you mean? Of course, it was; they are after YOUR COUSIN. Why am I the only one who is trying to keep her safe?" I asked as I walked into my office, rage rolling off my body as I turned to face him as I leaned on the desk, glaring at him.

I exhale a breath that I didn't know I was holding, then turn to the counter where I have all my alcohol hiding. I grab a bottle of Jack and a shot glass to fill it up. I look at him, smirking devilishly, "You know what? I do not think you need his whole body to make a point. Just send back his head with his mouth held open and his hands. Add a note addressed to Maxim telling him this is what will happen to anyone who thinks they can touch, hurt, or speak ill of mine." I smirked, raising my glass before downing it in one swift chug.

I sat down in the chair and decided to get some paperwork done. Tomorrow I have to meet some possible buyers at the docks; they are interested in some of my guns, and then another buy for some cocaine. So I need to make sure I have everything ready. As I'm sitting here getting every last detail finished, I get a phone call. And I notice I've been here all night; it is already 9 a.m.

I pull my phone out of my pocket and see it is Rayne.

"Good morning, Amore. Is everything okay?" I ask her

"Yes, and good morning. I wanted to say thank you for last night and to see if I could go to town and do some shopping with Dante and Aurora." She asks me on the other end.

"Yeah, that's fine, but why are you asking?" I say and ask all at once.

"Because of what happened last night. Thank you," she says and hangs up the phone.

Sighing I get up from the desk and stretch. I decided to go to the gym, where all mine and my father's men are every morning to train. I walk into the gym and see Collin and Caleb in the ring doing hand-and-hand combat, and then I see on the other side of the gym Korey and Nico at the shooting range.

I decided that I would join Collin and Caleb to have a two-versus-one. I need to get my frustration out of my system. "How about you two against me?" I ask the guys as I walk into the ring, "Yeah." "Sure," they say at the time.

I don't give them a warning, and I go after both.