Dry Your Tears

Twenty Five

"Are you out of your mind?" John exclaimed once Elias had gathered his men and told them about Alexia as well as his and Lorenzo's plan.

"Yes, I know going to Marchesi for help will be risky bu-"

"No fuck that. What's risky or no, better yet, fucking stupid, is trusting that other Italian cock sucking bastard." He yelled and Elias sighed while Adam looked between the two, conflicted, the rest of the men in a similar position. 

"Eli, I have to agree with Johnny, we can't trust Lorenzo, he's literally Luca's second in command and besides, there's literally no reason for him to help us. Think about it Elias, he doesn't gain anything from it." Adam weighed in, hating to have side against Elias but this matter was too delicate to simply choose sides based on friendship. 

"I hear you guys, I do, but he says Olivia is in danger, that her time is running out and we don't have anything else going for us. This is the closest we'll ever get to finding her, trap or not." 

"What does he mean by that?" Jonathon asked, and Elias sighed, "I don't quite know but I'm sure he isn't lying. I can just feel it. Please just trust me on this." Elias begged and while Jonathon was more sympathetic as he had once been in a similar position before with Amelia, John was less so and couldn't help rolling his eyes.

"Are you a bloody idiot, of course there's something wrong with her, she's been fucking kidnapped by an Italian loony. Bloody hell, I'm starting to understand how you got my niece kidnapped in the first place." He spat and everyone gasped, even Adam glared fiercely at him while Elias just had a look of defeat on his face. 

"Look, I know a series of reckless decisions have put us in this situation , has cost the lives of so many of our brothers and sisters. I can never apologize enough for that but, I lost Aaliyah to that man, I lost my parents, my uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Gray to that man. I will not lose Olivia or Alexia to him either. If not for me, if not for Olivia do it for Alexia. She has been the driving force behind this organization, the reason why everyone of us are able to go out there and come back alive. She had our back, always, will we turn ours on her now? She is alive, but barely, Luca tortures her everyday. Every minute we spend arguing is bringing Alexia an inch closer to death." Elias looked around at the faces of his men, seeing that he had hit a chord, that he was getting somewhere. 

"I spoke to her, I spoke to Alexia, I used the code, she wasn't being forced or tortured, she says we need to trust him, he's our only hope. Besides, we were lured into a trap in Russia and what did we do? We killed Volkov and went back to save those girls. We were victorious, we've gone into countless missions trusting blindly, we've had failed missions even when we had things planned out to the dot, our job is unpredictable, people will get killed, people will get hurt but it'll happen either way. Eventually Luca will find out we're still alive and he'll come for us, we at least now have the element of surprise with him thinking we're dead."

At first they were reluctant, but one by one, starting with Jonathon, then Adam, Sander, James and the rest of them, they nodded in agreement, realizing that  Elias was right. Alexia was one of their own and if they weren't willing to do it for him or Olivia they had to at least do it for her. It was slightly disappointing that he had to remind them of this in the first place considering all Alexia had sacrificed for them. John looked like at them all in disbelief, of course he didn't know Alexia so he wasn't blinded by loyalty to her and although he so desperately wanted to save his niece, the only thing he still had of his late brother, he didn't exactly know her personally so he wasn't as eager to walk into to fire for her as the rest of them. 

"You lot can well go and get yourselves fucking killed but I ain't going to be a part of it, bloody hell." He spat, storming out of the house, well the run down villa they were hiding out in.