Consequences

Chapter 27: Clumsy

Xander expressions were devoid of any emotions as his stone eyes pierced through Max. He informed, "So, the person whom I consider to be the traitor other than Ariana is SALVATORE."

Max's posture stiffened for a moment as he looked at Xander with dread. But then, he sighed. He looked perplexed and stunned. He placed his hands over his mouth and gasped, "THAT'S THE REASONS WHY HE'S BEEN SO SECRETIVE ALL THIS TIME!"

"What do you mean?" Xander questioned as wrinkles formed near his eyebrow.

"He has been behaving so suspicious for a last few months." Max replied, "He would get sudden calls and would try to get away from me to pick them up. Even during the last attack on the Albanian mafia, he was texting someone continuously and was saying that it was 'urgent'. He hangs out the most with me but he would always be secretive as if he's on some secret mission."

He facepalmed himself and regretted, "Fuck! I should've told you in the beginning."

The frown on Xander's face turned into a glare as he crossed his arms and retorted, "That bastard has been backstabbing us for a pretty long time, I see."

Max anxiously stammered, "We need to do something before he gets his hand on all the security codes and highly personal informations about Cosa Nostra."

"Exactly and I would been needing your help regarding this." Xander explained as a neutral expression covers his face, "As you said that he hangs out the most with you so you need to keep eye on him as much as you can. You need to keep an eye on whoever he calls or texts when you're around him. Collect as much informations you can. Also, I would need you in the control room so you need to be there as soon as you'll be called."

"You'll let me enter inside your control room?!" Max gasped.

"I told you that I trust you because of a reason." Xander replied to Max's surprise, "But, you'll only enter when you're asked to."

Max nodded and Xander continued, "I don't want people to get suspicious so we'll discuss more about this matter tonight in the control room."

Max smiled and nodded, "Okay boss."

Max walked out of the door. Xander's eyes were focused on Max all this time as if he was trying to enveil him piece by piece. As if Max is the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle which has been missing for long. As soon as Max left the room, he glanced outside the window. His eyes became cold and a dreadful calmness was on his face. He took out his phone and checked for something. He dialed Liam's number on his phone and called him. As soon as he picked up the call, Xander asked Liam, "Where are you?"

"Downstairs with Jane and Noah," Liam replied.

"You need to pick up Kylie from school right now."

"Okay... but is everything alright?"

"A few men from The Wolves are surrounding Kylie's school. It's pretty obvious that they've shook hands with The Golden Lords to take us down and are targeting Kylie. DESMOND IS VERY VULNERABLE NOW."

The Wolves were one of La Cosa Nostra's biggest enemy and a close ally of The Golden Lords. One of the reasons why Wolfe, the leader of The Wolves was loathed by Xander was that he helped Desmond in his dirty business. He was completely involved in human and animal trafficking. He even did drug smuggling and dirty betting. He hated Xander's guts and always wanted to kill him and get his hand on Cosa Nostra's huge territory and gain Xander's powers. He wanted to be The Godfather of the underworld which was impossible as long as Xander would be alive. He tried to fight Xander everytime but ended up losing.