Kai has sent me another text message this morning, requesting for us to have a physical meeting.
I don't trust that man or anyone else around me. I've faced enough betrayal from my people. But because I need information from Kai, I have agreed to see him at the cafe where he wanted us to meet.
Just a while ago, brother Chang told me what Father has decided for me as a punishment. I must find Federico and recover the stolen gold. It's the only way for him to forgive my shortcomings.
This will be my chance to prove my worth to my Father.
As I stood to adjust my neck tie, I notice the outline of Father's fingers on my cheek. He must've slapped me with so much hatred, he still think I should've been the one who died instead of my Mother even after all those years has passed.
I take my suitcase from the drawer, take my Glock 19 9mm and move out. Derrick is outside my door when I walk out.
"Sir, more of our men have been discharged from the hospital." Derrick informs, his head down like he's daring himself not to look at my face.
Shit. I know it's about the slap. Everyone of them must be feeling sorry for me.
I put up a frown, "Where is Peter?" I walk ahead to the elevator as Derrick quickly follows behind me.
"He's not yet back, Sir."
I feel my cellphone vibrating against my thigh and I step into the elevator, reach the inside of my pocket to retrieve the phone. Kai Yun is calling, which means he has arrived to the cafe when I still haven't even left the estate.
Derrick is standing next to me, I don't want to pick the call in his presence because I don't trust any of my men after what Peter has done. Tae Ho has influenced so many of my men, I'm not sure with whom Derrick's loyalty lies even though he's currently the only one directly involved with me.
When I step out of the elevator, I walk out to the main door and put the phone to my ear.
"Listen to this, Lorenzo." I hear a different voice of a man answers the call, and then a sound of gunshot rumbles in the background. Followed by the groans of a man I suspect might be Kai Yun.
Shit. This is bad, I think Kai has been shot either in the arm or leg.
"Who are you?"
"Good question, but that's not the most important question for you to ask me right now don't you agree?"
"Then what do you want?" I change the order of the question.
"Better. I want the codice segreto. In the next five hours. Or you will receive the head and balls of this man alongside the head and nipples of his sister."
Darn it! Fuck!
Does he really have the girl with him? "I need proof that you have the man and his sister, you are not just running your mouth and arrogantly blabbing." I tell him.
"You really are a funny man Lorenzo. Check your email, I will give you a call in the next four hours to let you know the meeting address. Before then, make your choice." The call goes off.
I make a few taps here and there on my phone, trying to find the email he was talking about. Then I saw the email with the video attachment.
Two video attachments.
The first is Kai, tied up in a place like a basement but I don't care to watch it to the end. I put up the second video, because I care more about it. Hana is sleeping on a bed, the video has blurred some parts of her body which obviously appears to be naked. There's a hand slowly trailing on her body as though deliberately trying to test my patience.
It seemed like she's deep in sleep and doesn't even know what is happening to her body.
I'm boiling in rage. Why the hell is she naked on the bed? Did she sold that body to someone or was she forced to do it?
Sergio Alfonso suddenly pops up, smiling at the end of the video before it comes to an end.
It's that bastard!
I curse out and smash the phone on the floor, earning myself a look from Derrick who I'm sure has been listening and hanging on my every word.
"Sir! Is everything okay?"
"Get me a new phone! Now!" I'm taking my anger on him. The aggressive energy pumping in me makes me want to pounce on someone. I need to release my anger before it drives me insane.
I don't know how I got back I'm inside the central sitting room, my eyes scanning so many places to find things to break. My gaze falls on the lines of delicate roses meant to serve as decoration.
Without a second thought, I reach for the roses and begin to smash them one after another. I curse out as I do it, until I hear the movement of someone behind me.
"Derrick, get the men ready! I'm going to the Alfonsos!" As I turn my back after issuing my order, I realize that Derrick isn't the one behind me.
It's my Father!
"You will not start a fight with the Alfonsos. You're going after Federico to retrieve my gold. That is what I ordered you to do."
"Father! Sergio took something that belongs to me. I must get her back." I'm loosing my shit and almost yelling at my Father.
"Have you decided to invite death upon yourself just to bring back a girl? That Sergio will end up returning your body to me in a gold coffin! Have you forgotten what he did to the eldest son of my friend, Antonio?"
"I'm not afraid of Sergio! I'm not a coward!"
"How dare you raise your voice at me!" A hot slap lands on my face, but it doesn't faze my determination.
I look at my father dead in the eye, "If I don't get her back, prepare to receive my dead body in a gold coffin, Father. Because I will rather go out there and die than to give up fighting for what belongs to me!"
"Lorenzo!"
For the first time in my life, I feel the guts to walk out on Father. I have lost my respect for him after he sounded like he was afraid of Sergio Alfonso!
I'm going to show him just how much his hatred for me has been driving me to the brink of insanity.