Growing Fires with Old Ashes

11 - Meetings

Douglas.

After that fucker got a call he got up from the table, leaving me alone, waiting for Sage.

"Hey guys- wait where did Atlas go?" her smile falters slightly when she notices that that fucker is gone.

"He said he needed to be somewhere" I shrug.

"No, you scared him off, didn't you?" she says as she put her hands on her hips. Disbelief dancing in her eyes. What the fuck.

"What? If I wanted him gone, I would've shot him ages ago.'' I joke and then look up at her but no change in her facial expression. I clear my throat. "No, he received a call and took it. It looked urgent. I did nothing." I say while narrowing my eyes.

"Oh."

"Yeah, thought so."

"Alright."

"That's all you have to say? Alright?"

"We're not doing this right now. Not here" she says as she narrows her eyes too.

"Alright, we can go outside" I said while rising from my seat.

"Outside? Are you stupid? I am not talking with you about this." Wait what? Is she serious right now?

"What? Wait, no you're not actually telling me, your boyfriend, that you don't want to explain why there was a guy in your bed. With you, snuggling against him, for fucks sake!"

"Stop screaming Douglas."

"I offered you to take this conversation outside a minute ago."

"But it was nothing! So, there isn't a conversation."

"Are you serious right now?"

Silence.

A long silence.

A cold, bone-freezing silence.

"Mierda! [fuck]" I say as I punch the wall. "The least you could've done was breaking up with me. But you chose cheating as the best option, huh? You slept with the guy, you told me not to worry about! This is low, even for you Sage."

"Wait, Douglas-"

"No, I'm done with this." I said as I stormed out of the house.

Atlas.

And then I was back in the same old building, waiting for it to just collapse. Aka, the main base of the Usoro Mafia.

When I reached the main hall, all heads turned to the ground once again. Hawk gestured with his head at the back. So, without sparing him a glance, I made my way to Antonio's office. I nodded at his guards as acknowledge and they opened the doors.

Walking inside I found Antonio between two piles of paperwork. "Ah, there are you." He said as he glanced up from his paperwork. "I have a meeting room prepared for us, so help me with these papers." He held a small bundle of papers out for me to grab.

I took them from him. "What meeting?"

"You'll see" is all he said before he walked out of his office. I sighed and walked after him.

"Did something happen?" I asked as I reached up to him.

"Not yet" he said with a smirk on his face.

Not yet?

Then it clicked.

"You're planning something."

"And that's why you make a great heir, son." He said, keeping that smirk on his face.