Savage Crown II

24. Twenty-Four

Callum

I walked into my newly remodeled office where I found Owen and Elijah waiting for me sitting down in the seats before my desk. Eli twisted in his wooden chair and looked over at me raising a manilla file with both hands, "can you read me a bed time story too daddy?" He asked in a pouty voice.

Owen joined in and began laughing along with Eli. I yanked the file out of Eli's hand and smacked him and Owen on their heads with it letting a small laugh out. "Cut the shit guys what's this?"

"The location on Declan's hide out" Eli said rubbing his head pretending to be in pain. "We got his exact location down to how many men are walking around patrolling the area"

"You got all this from Clara?" I asked as I was opening the file and reading through everything. "Yeah, well your wife must have found some heavy shit on her family for her to squeal without torture" Eli laughed.

"Is it true Natalia blew up a highway once?" Owen asked excitedly, " I heard her dad did to the  Santorro's in the city plaza"

"That's all true" I said proudly. "So don't piss my wife off anymore or else I can't help you there Owen" I looked up at him with a smirk. Owen O'Leary had been working for me for four years and was the one who I kept close like Elijah. Owen was tall and bulky from all the time he spends working out and always kept his brown hair short with a faded cut. We had met in the most unconventional way but after giving him a job he worked his way like hell to climb the ranks and prove himself as one of my most loyal men aside from Elijah "She already pointed a gun at my head earlier" Owen grinned remembering what Natalia had done to him.

"Train harder then" Elijah laughed."you got knocked out and disarmed by someone smaller than you AND you got your own gun pointed back at you by a Leon without dying I'd say you got a horseshoe up your ass since you're still alive."

"I'd rather have a horseshoe up my ass than be whipped like Callum is" Owen laughed harder and louder. "Loving your wife and daughter isn't whipped Owen" I snapped.

"I don't know man. Searching for a woman for four years sounds a lot like being whipped to me" Elijah laughed as he teased more.

"Alright cut the shit both of you" I ordered as I smacked the file on my desk. "I still want names on who broke into the penthouse in New Zealand"

"We looked at the video Callum" Elijah got serious, "you haven't seen the video have you?"

"No, not with all the shit that went down as soon as we landed back in Chicago" I said as I ran my fingers through my hair. Elijah pulled out his phone and began scrolling through it, the brightness of his screen reflecting in his blue eyes as he searched through different files until his thumb finally stopped scrolling and rose from his seat placing the phone on my desk with a video paused on the screen. I lifted the phone and hit play on the video, nothing too out of the ordinary on screen at first, just an empty flight of stairs. Three minutes into the video a fucking ghost appeared. Clear as day on camera was Dmitry Novikov and four other armed men. Dmitry stood tall in a black coat with his hair almost a platinum blond. He reminded me a lot of his grandfather Viktor with those murderous eyes. He didn't even try to hide his face. Taunting us by looking right at the camera as he walked up the stairs.

Natalia's father had murdered his parents and Declan was after my throne. My jaw clenched with anger as I rose from my chair. "I need you two to find Dmitry, and how soon can we kill Declan?"

"Well that's the thing boss" Owen said, "why is Dmitry personally after you? We never crossed the Russians. Technically they have beef with the Mexicans and Polish. Then there's the Italians, they only got dragged in because of Santos. Your beef was with Santos directly not Bratva."