Chapter 6

Mike's POV

Jesus Christ, does that son of a bitch have a nasty right hook. I'm actually surprised he didn't knock out a tooth or two. Once we were outside, I felt myself get shoved from behind and I stumbled slightly and only barely staying on my feet. For as scared as I was to turn around, knowing he was once again pointing a gun at my head, I still did it. At this point, there was nothing to lose.

I moved my hand from my mouth, spat out a mouthful of blood and ran the back of my hand over my chin. I tried to look him in the eye, but the barrel of the glock pointed at me was what took my attention. After taking another deep breath, I lifted my eyes and locked them with Demetri's extremely pissed off ones.

He glared at me and his voice was dark. "Talk, Newton, or I will kill you and I don't really give a flying fuck how pissed off Alexis gets over your death. She'll get over it eventually."

I ran my tongue over the split in my lip and thought about how to tell him this in a way that won't have him pulling the trigger just for shits and giggles. I stalled a moment longer and scrubbed my face with my hands and sighed as I dropped my arms. However, when I went to open my mouth and seal my fate, I was saved by his phone ringing yet again.

The look on his face showed me he wasn't in the least bit happy with the interruption, but, with his gun still trained on me, he pulled it out and flipped it open without looking at the screen, his voice dark and clipped.

"What?"

It was instant, his reaction to the words from the other end. His face went from menacing to confused to shocked with hardly any transition between them. When he spoke again, he turned away from me but never dropped his arm, his voice softer.

"You're sure?"

It was another minute before he finally dropped his arm, spoke into his phone again before hanging up. He then holstered his gun and hit a button on his phone and turning towards his car, bringing it back to his ear. Before he moved though, he looked at me and narrowed his eyes. "This isn't over. You will tell me what you're hiding or I will put a bullet in your skull. For now, get in the car."

With that, he turned his attention to his phone and left me to watch after him as he walked to his car. It took me a moment to catch up to current events, and when I did, I had to jog to catch up. When we reached the car, I looked at Demetri from over the roof. "What's going on? Where are we going?"

He glanced at me for a second before opening his door. "Just get in."

Demetri's POV

After I ended the call that saved Newton's life, I didn't say a word. I just looked out the windshield and drove, my mind whirling with different possibilities as to what Alec was talking about. He didn't give me much information, but the sound of his voice told me he was downplaying whatever was going on.

I couldn't even begin to understand what he was talking about either. All he would tell me was that something with what they thought had Alexis' voice was at the office, but they couldn't make out what it was that was said. Apparently, something was sent to my office by whoever had my sister and currently and Felix was doing what he could to clean up the audio to see what it was. He was a wizard with computers and tech shit, so if anyone could, it would be him.

The only thing that wasn't sitting right with me about this was why would they send something that couldn't be understood. My guys were pretty sure it was her voice, but they couldn't say it with absolute positivity so, as of right this moment and as far as I was concerned, it's not like it could be used for proof she was still alive. Besides that, unless I actually saw her, I still wouldn't take some recording as evidence.

The air in the car was tense and awkward. Then again, can't really think of a reason it wouldn't be. Not ten minutes ago I was pointing a gun in the face of the other passenger and there was already an edginess because I already knew he was hiding something from me that had to do with this. I just couldn't figure out what it was.

But I would.

One way or another, I would find out and he would be the one to tell me. The only question left as far as that went was; was he going to live afterwards.

The drive was short and uncomfortable, the tension growing in every passing moment of silence. By the time I pulled into the parking garage I would have sworn to just about anything that Newton was about to blow his own brains out just to save me the trouble. Once I pulled into a spot and cut the engine, I looked over at him, my voice much calmer than I was. "I have to do something right quick. After I'm done, you and I are going to have a little chat."

*X*

I walked into my office suite, Mike trailing behind me looking around like this was the coolest thing since sliced bread, but I just shrugged out of my jacket and tossed it over the back of the couch that was off to the side. Walking through the room like I owned the place, and I did, I grinned as I heard the grunt from Mike as Caius cut off his path followed by the indigent 'hey' as he was searched.

At that, I snickered.

Once Caius was done, Mike made a noise in the back of this throat as he caught up with me as I approached the doors to my actual office. The grin was still on my face as I pushed them open and Mike called me an asshole.

Not giving him a second thought though, I clasped my hands, rubbing my palms hard against each other and looked at Felix. "What do we got?"

I saw him give a side glance to Alec, but looked over at me right after. "You're not going to like it."

I perched myself on the arm of the chair he was sitting in and nodded to the computer. "Never for a second thought I would. Play it."

Felix looked at me for a moment longer before sighing and hitting the spacebar to start the recording. There was a lot of white noise for a few seconds before what was clearly my sister's voice... and she did not sound happy.

"Fuck you, Dude."

I cocked a brow at the language but didn't say anything as the recording continued to play, not wanting to miss anything. There was a distorted voice demanding her to 'say it' and her, in a very colorful and defiant manner, refusing to do so. This when on for about a minute before there was a very loud 'crack' and a pained grunt making my eyes narrow. The fucker was already going to die, but I was originally only planning on shooting him. Now? Now I was going to destroy him.

After another moment of silence there was a chuckle that slowly grew in volume and amusement. Before long my sister's voice came back on and it was dripping in, pleasure, for lack of a better word.

"You have just made the biggest mistake of your life, Chief. My brother is going to destroy you."

She knew me so well.

There was another cackle like chuckle before there was a click and the recording ended. I just started at the computer, my mind whirling with what I was going to do to the fucker when I got my hands on him when Felix leaned back in his seat and pulled me out of my thoughts by speaking.

"That's the best I can do. It'll take days to uncover the other voice, if it even can be uncovered."

I pinched my chin between my the side of my finger and my thumb, running my tongue over my bottom lip as I thought. Finally, I made my decision and stood. "I'm less concerned about who has her and more so with where she is. Ignore the foreground and focus on the background. Clean it up and filter through it. Find out if there are any identifying sounds that can at least narrow down things down a little."