THE AURA OF HATE [Editing]

FORTY

•••The next morning•••

"Carrington, we have a conference and a meeting." Hazel walks in my cabin and informs me.

My eyes immediately fall over her curvy figure and her rack.

She's wearing a grey skirt that comes till her knees and a black silk shirt with heels... of course.

"With who?" I ask her curiously.

"I set up meeting with Anthony, he'll tell us what to do with the Russian mafia and all. Since we found out, it's Vladimir.. we have to be careful because he's not only your nemesis, but also your brother in law." She explains and I can't help but nod in agreement.

Yesterday we found out that Vladimir wants Hazel. He wants something that's mine along with my mafia.

There's no way I am letting her go.

She's mine.

"Come on, let's go." Hazel asks me and leads me the way.

While walking I can't help but look at her behind move right and left as she takes another step.

"Anthony." Hazel and I greet.

Along with Anthony are Ray and Hayley.

As a part of the mafia they are supposed to be included.

"So let's not waste time shall we?" Hazel says and sits beside me.

"So, you've mentioned that Vladimir is coming after you and Hazel. The best possible way for this solution would be... you sort out and agree some things with him." Anthony suggested and I scoffed.

"He wants my wife. That will never happen. Not even in his wildest dreams. He wants war... I'll give him war." I say and Hazel looks at me with a smile.

My heart skipped a beat as my eyes met her smile.

My heart...

"Xander, some things don't require war... they just need some brain, which you don't have. You're forgetting... he's your brother in law, you can't kill him." Hazel says and I look at her.

"Oh but I can, and I will. This discussion is over." I reply and leave.

I was looking through some of the paper work when Hazel barged into my office.

"What was that?" Hazel asks me and I look up at her.

Her eyes showing concern.

"What do you mean?" I ask her.

"Are you fucking dumb? You're going to start a war with the Russians?" Hazel asks me and I stand up.

"Is that concern on your face, Mrs Carrington?" I ask her smirking.

She hesitated.

"Uh no." She replies and rolls her eyes.

"Looks at this." I walk to my laptop and motion Hazel to take a look at the information I found.

"Vladimir Rostislav was married to his first wife, they had a son but then the Italian mafia attacked one day at their mansion and kidnapped his wife and his son. His wife was found dead after 1 month but there was no sign of the son." Hazel reads out and frowns.

"Okay? And what is this supposed to mean?" She asks me.

"That means, I found Vladimir's weakness." I reply and Hazel Smacks her head.

"We don't even know who his son is." She asks me shrugging her shoulders.

"Read this." I click on another document.

"His son was named Victor Ivanov, he did his university from British Columbia batch of 78903, but there was no registration of a person named Viktor Ivanov." Hazel reads out.

"Where does this lead us to?" She asks me.

"That means he changed his name and, I was in the same batch. I had a classmate who was very secretive about his family. Especially his father. We apparently were roommates, he told how his father was an abusive asshole and he ran away from his house. His mother was dead. He mentioned that his name wasn't real but never disclosed his actual name." I say and Hazel raises her eyebrows.

"Do I have to pay you for telling the name?" She asks em sarcastically.

"Dane Monroe." I say and Hazel is left shocked.

"How are you so sure about that?" She asks me.

"Dane was my classmate who studied with me in the same batch, he was hesitant to speak about his father, his mother was dead, he ran away from home." I say.

"Come on everything connects." I say to Hazel.

"So you're saying that Dane Monroe is viktor Ivanov?" Hazel asks me.

"Yes." I reply.

"We need more evidence before we actually use him. For all we know he might be a regular mafia man." She replies.

"We need to find it out." She mentioned.

"Now that's where you come in darling." I say and Hazel frowns.

"You're going to get the information out of him." I tell her and she smirks.

The jealousy within me ignited and thinking about Dane touching Hazel in the places only I can touch makes me wanna shoot his balls off.

But only Hazel can do this work... no one else.

"Why me?" She asks.

"Cause Dane has hots for you." I mention and clench my jaw.

"Is someone jealous?" She makes a joke.

I grab her hand and pull her against my chest.

"Darling, I don't have to be jealous... do you know why? Because I claimed you mine... long back." I whisper into her ear.

I know I made myself clear because this time she didn't deny it, she didn't go against it.

Because she knew it.

She was mine