Chapter 36: Chapter 36

My head hurts.

That was the first thing I noticed when I opened my eyes. The light slightly blinded me but then I managed to adjust. I scanned the unfamiliar room I was in. Both of my hands and feet were tied up at a chair in a tight knot making my hands hurts.There was no other furniture, just a door which  was the only exit in this room.

The room was cold making me shiver remembering I was dressed in shorts and a elbow length blouse.

I moved my arms, trying to loosen the tight knot around my numb wrists but of course it was useless. I shrieked in frustration and eventually gave up, knowing I'd tire myself out.

Suddenly, the door opened widely revealing a man I didn't recognize. He was probably around mid fifties. He was thin but muscular and his arms full of tattoes. I quickly disliked him.

"Morning, sleeping beauty", he smirked. I kept quite and prayed to God that he would just leave me alone.

He walked closer and kneeled so that he was eye level with me. "Aren't you a beauty. Sean's surely a lucky bastard", he said and my eyes widen in surprise.

"You know Sean?", I blurted out.

He chuckled. "Indeed. In fact, I know him very well"

"Please let me go", I pleaded and he let out a mischievous laugh.

"Now why would I do that when I can finally have his precious little puppet?", he whispered in my ear. "Besides, your beloved boyfriend has my nephew. So if I were you, I'd pray that nothing happened to Peter. Otherwise..", he grabbed my hair with a full force making me whimper.

"I'll make you regret being born in this world", he said in low voice as he loosened his grip on my hair.

He walked out of the room and shut the door as he locked the door from the outside. Then it was silence.

Tears started to form from my eyes and I was a sobbing mess.

Sean, help me.

SEAN POV

I couldn't sleep. Whenever I closed my eyes, all I saw was her face shaking in fear. I knew it was Jonathan who took her. There was no doubt about it. I kept his nephew hostage after all and to get back to me, he took Valerie as leverage as well. He knew Valerie was important to me and I would do anything to have her back.

But the real question was, how he managed to know where Valerie was at that time?

He must had been watching her but if that was true, how come Hunter and Jack didn't realize it or sensing that they were being watched? And what was weird was Hunter never disappoint me when something like this happened. Never.

This was by far the biggest disaster that ever occured in the history of my reign, besides 'the rat' problem.

Then there was only one answer left.

We had a traitor among us. Again!

I rubbed my face frustratedly. This was too much. It seemed like my problem never ends.

The door to my office was opened and I glanced up that it was Larry, holding a cup of coffee in his hand.

"You look like crap", he muttered but I had no energy left to talk back so I kept quiet.

"Got you coffee, I thought you'd need it", he said placing the coffee on my table.

"We have a traitor", I blurted.

"What do you mean?", he frowned.

"A traitor among us. That explained how they knew where she was", I was fuming now.

"Woah, calm down, man. You can't just jump into conclusion", he said trying to ease my anger.

"Calm down? I can't fucking calm down. My girl has been missing for more than 24 hours and our fucking guys still have no clue where the fuck is Jonathan", I was now screaming like a mad man.

"Sean, I get it. She's someone special and I know she's been nothing but a good influence to you. But you need to think straight and focus on finding her, not sitting here blaming everyone", he exclaimed.

"We'll find her, Sean", he patted my shoulder.

"What if we didn't?", I clenched my teeth.

"Just trust me", he said and I nodded but I still not in ease.

One of my guys suddenly entered the room without knocking making me snapped. "What? Don't you know how to knock?", I screamed.

"I-I'm sorry, boss. But there's a problem", he sttutered and I tried my best not to shoot him.

"What is it now?", my blood started to boil again. Why can't someone bring at least one good news?

"Your shipment from Greg was gone this morning-"

"What?", I was already on my feet and banged the desk without my fist.

"How did this happen? And you better tell me all the details or I swear to God I'll end you right here, right now", I said as I pulled out the gun from my pocket.

His eyes widen in fear. "We didn't really know, boss we already tried checking the cameras but the footage was gone from 3AM to 4AM. I think that's when the culprit did their actions", he said quickly.

I pinched the bridge of my nose and turned to Larry. "This is what I'm talking about. We have a traitor among us. How the hell can they take that freaking bombs and fucked the cameras if not someone from the inside", I exclaimed.

"They are bombs?", the guy blurted out in surprise. I forgot that he was still here.

"Yes, they are. Now get lost, will you?", I snapped and he scurried out of the room.

"If what you said was true, then the possible traitors were Don and Levi. They were the ones who went fetching the bombs from Greg", Larry said.

I shook my head. "No, it could be anyone. They all knew about the shipments, they just didn't know what was inside".

"How about that new guy Andy? You surely remember that he wanted to join us out of nowhere", Larry suggested.

Andy was our newest member and he'd been here for a month. He was a street fighter and he claimed that he decided to join because one of his friends from the street told him stories about my gang and how we owned the city.

What Larry said about his suspicion with Andy made sense because all of this disasters happened before he showed up. Jonathan escaped, Valerie's kidnapping, and then this. Guess we got our guy.

"Call Andy and tell him to meet me in the basement", I said standing up and walked to the door.

"Already on it", he answered with the phone pressed to his ear.

//

I was already in the room, waiting for Andy to show up. Few minutes passed and the door finally opened, revealing the man I was expecting.

"Is there anything you need, boss?", he asked casually like there was nothing happened. Oh boy did he know the things I'd do to him.

"Take a seat", I said pointing to the chair in the middle.

"Uh, okay?", he looked skeptical but obeyed anyway while I took out four handcuffs that I'd prepared for this purpose.

I walked towards him and put the handcuffs in each of his wrist against the chair arms then his ankles as well."What's going on here?", he panicked but I kept quiet as I finished my work. The handcufss rattled as he stretched his arms and legs. Idiot.

I grabbed the other chair near me and positioned it facing him. "You know, I'm getting tired with all of this shits. First 'the rat' and there's you", I started. "So why don't you just tell me what that son of a bitch asked you to do in here"

He looked at me like I was insane. "What are you talking about?"

I chuckled humorlessly. "You know what I'm talking about. So I suggest you tell me now or I'll swear to God I'll shoot you right here", I screamed as I pulled my gun against this forehead.

"Dude, I really don't know what you're talking about", he started to scream as well.

"Guess we're doing this the hard way then", I muttered and walked towards the 'table of tortures'. I grabbed the steel baseball bat and surely his eyes widen in fear when I came back.

"Boss, why don't we just talk nicely and not using tools?", he gulped and I smirked in triumph.

"But I did talk nicely but you just didn't corporate", I said and the next thing happened was me swinging the bat hitting his jaw hard making him stumbled to the floor along with the chair.

He groaned in pain as blood flowing from his nose and mouth. "Now tell me. Where's Jonathan and that rat, Tyler Evans?"

"I've told you. I didn't know what you're talking about", he said, panting for breath.

"Wrong answer", I brought the bat again hitting his stomach hard as he coughed blood. I was sure there were few broken ribs as well.

"Please. I didn't know anything", his voice was weak and raspy.

"You're a stubborn one, aren't you?", I said as I grabbed another tool, which was a whip.

"But don't worry, you'll break sooner or later", I smirked as I whipped him making him screamed in pain. I kept hitting him until there was someone pulling me back.

"Stop! You're killing him", Larry exclaimed as he pushed me back, blocking me from Andy.

"And that's exactly what I'm doing. So if you're excuse me", I said trying to walk pass him but he stopped me.

"If you kill him, then you'll never know where Valerie is", he replied.

"He's not talking anyway so why should I spare his life? I don't want the same thing happen again like Tyler. I should had ended him when I got the chance but no, I let him got away and it brought us to this problem", I retorted. "So tell me why shouldn't I kill this bastard", I pointed Andy who was bloody mess and probably passed out because of the excess blood coming out of his body.

I dropped my whip and left Larry alone with that traitor. I exited from the room and walked towards my mini bar. I really needed a drink.

I grabbed the bottle of bourbon and poured myself a glass. I felt relief came rushing through my body as the alcohol burned into my mouth and down my throat. I kept refilling my glass until I was light headed and called it a night.

I stood up and I felt a little dizzy making me stumbled a little. Georgie suddenly appeared and I accidentally bumped into her making her yelped in surprise.

She scanned me and furrowed her brows. "Have you been drinking?", I just shrugged.

"Jesus Christ, Sean. It's still daylight and you're already drunk?", she scolded and I ignored her as I continued walking towards the stairs.

It was already hard walking straight let alone climbing the stairs. I stumbled into one of the steps but fortunately Georgie managed to catch me before I faced the floor.

"Come on, bro. Let's get you to bed", she said  steadying me by taking my one arm around her shoulder.

I leaned half of my weight against her as she struggled to steady and walk me back to my room. She tossed me on my bed as she let out a loud sigh.

I suddenly sat up and I walked slowly towards the bathroom.

"Where are you going now?", she sounded annoyed.

"I need to pee", I said as I closed the door behind me.

I did my business then walked to the sink to brush my teeth. I spit out the rest of the toothpaste, then rinse my mouth. I splashed some water to my face as well and being in drunken state I was, I accidentally splashed some water as well on my T-shirt.

I groaned a little and took off my shirt, throwing the fabric somewhere. I was too tired to care anyway.

I walked back to my room and threw myself back on the bed. I took the covers up to my chin and let the sleep took over me.