After You Left

Chapter 25

1 week later:

"There has to be another way because if there isn't, I'm going back in there, with or without your help." I snap at Liam. "It's been a week since he was taken and so far all you've told me is that there's some secret basement in that house where you assume your brother is keeping Dylan."

"I am trying my best you know." Liam sneers at me.

"Try harder." I sneer back.

"Okay. Why don't you two calm down?" James says placing a hand on my shoulder. "We don't want either of you slashing the other's head." Liam and I glare at each other before he nods.

I sit back down on the chair around the table. "We have to find a way in." I sigh.

"And we will Lea." Liv reassures.

"What if we placed someone on the inside, as a spy?" Thalia asks, Liam gives me the look before he turns to Thalia.

"A spy?" I ask.

She nods. "It would be easier to know what Henry is doing and find out where Dylan is being kept."

I think on it before I turn to Drew and he gives the smallest of nods. "It sounds like a brilliant plan but we need a volunteer."

Alex raised his hand but Liam quickly cuts him off. "You have the tech you need fix." Alex looks ready to argue but gives up.
Thalia puts her hand up. "I can go, he won't expect me to be a spy, I can make up some story about I don't like it here and he'll take me back in."

"That's bullshit." Alex snaps at Thalia, she glares at him. "He'll cut off your head before you get one word out."

"I am going through this with or without your support." Thalia states boldly, Alex's face burns with rage and he storms out of the room, Alexa sighs and follows behind him.

"So it's settled, you'll be our spy." I say to Thalia, she nods before leaving the room. "Tonight."

"Get some rest Lea, you've been at this for hours." Liv says frowning, she drops a kiss on my head before leaving the room with Drew, and James follows afterwards.

"You better be right about this." I tell Liam.

"I am." He says absentminded. "Tonight we will know for sure."

Dylan's POV

"We're sure about this right?" I ask Damien.

"Tonight, you and I are leaving this place." He replies.

-Time skip-

Lea's POV

"You know the drill right?" I ask Thalia, she nods unfazed. We get out of the car, me, Liam, Thalia. Drew and Liv are sitting this one out, James had another check out to go see and Alex and Alexa are not coming for purposes that had not been mentioned to me.

Thalia walks ahead of us, Liam and I keep to the shadows, the night air is chilly. There's a sort of tension in Liam's body, my own body is tense and filled with worry.
About 30 minutes later we're near the mansion. Thalia gives us a nod before walking right through the gates. I press the timer on for 5 minutes.

Dylan's POV

I count down the seconds in my head and the moment I reach zero, the door opens and I sigh in relief. The guy outside our door yelps but Damien grabs the guy around his neck and slams his against the wall, his head banged and a crack echoed through the hall. I frown confused as I stare down the hall. "Something is wrong."

Damien nods. "Either that or we're being played." He bends down to search the guy and retrieves a gun and baseball bat, he hands me the gun than nudges his head in the direction of the dimly lit hallway.