Chapter 4 4.

A horribly annoying buzzing woke me up, it was my alarm clock. '6:00 am' it read, fuck it's to early for anything.

I got up a headed to my bathroom to fix myself up, I didn't wanna walk out looking like Oliver last night. That would actually be very embarrassing.

I fixed my hair up, brushed my teeth, and left to my closet. I picked out a suit and put it on, making sure it looked well and presentable enough. After I finished with all of that, a knock was heard on my door. I don't feel like being bothered right now.

Opening the door, I saw Oliver. "What do you want, why are you awake so early? I don't feel like talking right now and yo-"

"Okay okay, kill me later." he interrupted, "We found Grayson, he's in the basement with a guard." he said with a small smile on his face.

'That's a nice way to start a morning, murder and pure torture.'

"Oh? Perfect then, let's pay him a visit before we go." I said while leaving my bedroom, standing in front of Oliver.

"We're leaving so soon? It's not time to see the girl yet you know, at least have some breakfast first. It's an important meal you k-", I placed my hand in his mouth to shut him up.

"Okay, I'll eat first. I'm not going to see Ella just yet, well.. technically I am. But I'm not gonna talk to her, I'm just going to see how she's doing at work." I sighed, taking my hand off his mouth.

"So.. you're going to stalk her until it's time for you to go talk too her?" he asked while we started walking downstairs.

"Precisely, just rephrase that. It won't be considered stalking for now. I have more to discuss with you later about my plan, if you're willing to cooperate that is."

"You'd kill me if I didn't so I don't really have a choice, do I?" he chucked, I chuckled with him.

"You do have a choice, doesn't mean it's the one I want to hear though. So you're good with talking about it when this is over?"

"Indeed I am." he said with a nod.

I started walking down the stairs with Oliver following behind me. As early as it was, I couldn't wait to finally kill this guy. He had done me so wrong over the years I've known him, this was just payback for him.

We reached the basement and opened the door, walking down the stairs. Grayson was tied to a chair, blindfolded and unconscious with a light hanging above his head.

I looked at the guard as a sign that he could go now, he nodded his head and left right after. Oliver stayed with me, I didn't want him to but I let him anyway since I know he would enjoy this just as much as I would.

We waited until he finally started moving, gaining his conscience back. He started panicking a bit, not knowing where he was or what was going on.

I directed Oliver to go take off the blindfold from his eyes and he did just that. Oliver threw the blindfold onto the floor and walked back over to my side.

Grayson fluttered his eyes open and looked around, finally looking at me with some fear and hatred in his eyes.

"You kidnapped me, what the fuck is wrong with you?! You crazy bi-", he yelped once he felt a cold blade pressed against his throat.

"Where's my money, Grayson?" I asked him, not caring for anything else that he had to say.

"I-I don't have your money man! Just g-give me more time, I can wo-"

'Odd, he never acted like this before.'

Grayson usually wasn't fazed by things like this. He would always have a stupid smile just plastered onto his face whenever I threatened him, but now he was breaking apart. What was that all about, was he scared of me this time?

"I've given you months. You wanna tell me that wasn't enough time to repay what you owe? Come on now, I'm not stupid, you know that, don't you?" I asked, placing the blade closer to his throat.

"I-I never said you were stupid! You're a v-very smart and hardworking man! I w-will get you your money, just d-don't kill me, please! I'm begging you, I-I have a family." he stuttered.

'You lying fuck.'

I remember my men taking down his family, leaving him with no one else. It was deserved, he tried to kill us. I was second in command for the Italian Mafia leader, he was never happy about that. So he tried to end us but failed miserably, I succeeded on taking his family though.

'Maybe he made a new one or something, I don't know and I don't care.'

"I don't give a fuck about your 'family', I could kill them again right after I'm done with you and feel nothing for it. I know you're lying to me, Grayson. I'm going to keep you here until you tell me where it is."

"I don't hav-"

"Grayson, for fucks sake just tell me where it is you lying piece of shit." I commanded in a very aggravated tone.

"Lucifer, I don't fucking have your money." he replied back at me.

"You're the leader of your own mafia now, you can't lie to me. I know you have it so tell me where it is and I might let you go in one piece."

"I. Don't. Have. It."

I let out a sigh, trying desperately not to just slit his throat open right here at this moment. I pulled myself, keeping the blade at his throat until I tried to figure out what I was going to do next with him here.

"Sure you don't, just be happy I'm not turning you into a blood fountain." I said while putting the blade away, walking over to the door with Oliver.

"Yet." I said under my breath and locked the door behind me as we walked out.

I let out a sigh and ran my hand through my hair, standing in front of the door with Oliver in pure silence and annoyance.

"Oh, Lucifer! Breakfast should be ready for us by now, but uhh.. what are you gonna do with Grayson down there?" Oliver asked, breaking the silence.

"Send a guard and two men down there to torture him until he breaks and tells us what we wanna know. I'll meet you at the table, we can discuss everything I wanted to tell you before."

"On it, I'll go get them down there, see ya in a few minutes!" he waved and ran off to do what I told him.

I walked over to the dining room and sat down, a plate of breakfast in front of me. As hungry as I was, I was gonna wait for Oliver to finish and come over here, can't eat without him or else that would just be disrespectful.

After a few minutes, Oliver came through the halls and into the dining room, sitting where his breakfast was placed. We both took a few minutes to eat first so we could talk after we were at least semi-full.

"Okay, what is it you wanted to talk about?" Oliver asked, picking up his glass of water.

"Our visit with Ella. Her roommate will be there, I'm sure of it. Apparently he visits there pretty often. I need you to distract him, start up a conversation with him or something. He could get in the way, I'm not sure, but it's better safe than sorry."

"I can do that, but a name would be nice and useful." he said in a sarcastic kind of voice.

"His name is Nicolas. He should be easy to talk with, he's quite the chatter. You guys have that in common, that's for sure." I answered before taking a sip of my drink, brushing off his tone.

He chuckled, "Okay, so that's all you want me to do?"

"I want you to have him convince Ella to come over here if I fail to do so, we could set up a feast for everyone tonight. I really don't need her to think of me as a stalker or creep after everything that happened."

"But you are a stalker." he said under his breath but loud enough for me to hear.

"Shut up, I'm not a stalker." I lied, everything I was doing was considered stalking and I knew it just as much as he did, I just hated being wrong sometimes.

"Okay, whatever you say. So are you gonna talk her up while I do whatever I'm doing with the guy?"

"Yes, that's it." I nodded.

"Wow, your first plan that doesn't include kidnapping!" he joked.

"Oh, I hate you so much. Okay, we should finish eating and head out. It's 7:20 already." I said as I checked the watch on my wrist.

"You can wait, don't rush. Just eat and relax for a moment." he said while putting some food on his fork.

I continued eating, not rushing like he told me to. We had enough time after all, and I was running on about 2-3 hours of sleep only.

Spending time with Oliver like this was rare, I always pushed him away. But he's my brother, I couldn't keep doing that. I wasn't really an affectionate type of guy but I was trying to get there.

We finished eating and left the table together, we headed over to the living room to chat for a while longer. About an hour passed and we decided it was time to go. We put on our shoes and left the mansion.

The driver was already there by the time we left. I gave him the address of the bar Ella worked at and we sat down, settling ourselves as he began driving the car.

As some more time passed, we finally got there. I didn't want to enter so fast, so we watched from the car for a while. She was hard at work, giving of a smile to everyone she served.

"I think now is a good time to go." Oliver said after 20 minutes had passed.

"Let's head on in then."

We both got out of the car and closed the doors, heading over to the bar. Oliver opened the door for me, followed behind me afterwards. I looked over at her from a distance as she kept serving.

Just as I expected, Nicolas was there. I pointed to where he was so Oliver could go and distract him. We went over the plan once more and went our separate ways.

I'm really hoping this works, I need this girl.