You Smell Like Trouble.

Chapter 12 (Blaze's POV): Oslo

"You actually came." Domonic grins.

"I said I would, didn't I? I've always been a man of my word." I sit next to him.

"I think Nizhoni would disagree, no? You said you'd protect her with your life, yet you took hers."

"Dom, I-"

"Anyways. I'm here to offer a trade and truce."

I sigh, "and why should I? You signed a peace-treaty with me, and broke it by sending those petty little thieves to my underground ring."

"It was just a prank, Blaze. I'll succumb to the war and surrender, if you give me Natania. I'll marry her and treat her the way a woman like herself should. I know she's only with you so you can get power, but I can give you that." Domonic offers.

What? He actually called me all the way out here to trade me safety and power for my future wife? He's,

"out of your fucking mind. Natania's not just some random chick to me, Dom. Sure, this whole thing started to boost our rep, but Natania means so much more to me than anything else."

I probably shouldn't be exposing Natania as a weakness of mine to him, but if he's willing to trade all of this for her, then I know he won't hurt her.

"You'll only end up hurting her, Blaze, the same way you hurt Nizhoni. You know that."

"Maybe you're right. Maybe I'm not the best for her, but so what? I love... I love her. She's mine, and you're not taking her away from me." I stand up angrily and start to my car when he calls behind me,

"I figured this might happen, so I went ahead and took the liberty to already take her. They should already have her on the plane by now." he says as he checks his watch.

I feel a vein pop out of my forehead as I turn to face him, "what?"

"Natania's gone, Blaze. I took her." Domonic smiles.

I pull the gun from its holster, but before I can shoot, I get shot.

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I wake up, tied to a chair, in a warehouse with a roaring headache. This is my warehouse.

"That bastard." I grit.

The doors slam open, "Blaze!" Ana and Zay run in.

They start untying me and I ask, "how'd you know where I was?"

"Domonic sent us a picture just now. It was dark outside when it was taken though, so you must've been here all night." Zay says.

"I just woke up though." I stand. "I need to get back home to... Natania. Natania! Domonic took her, we need to find her!" I yell, running out of the doors. I run towards my car but Ana calls,

"Wait! Blaze, you can't just go out looking for her. You need a plan first."

"Like hell I do! I don't know where she is, Ana. He put her on a fucking plane."

"Let's just go back to your parent's place, and see if we can track her, okay? We need to make sure first and then once we get her location, we'll go get her ASAP. And you're shot."

I take a deep breath, "fine."

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"Start tracking this number now." Ana demands to one of her men. He nods and immediately gets to work.

Zay has all of our locators on it too.

"Blaze, you're a fucking idiot." Beau says.

"Don't you think I know that?!"

"No, he's not. He texted me last night, but I was out on a mission." Bay defends me.

"Don't make excuses for him, Bay! He should've texted everyone!" Beau shouts.

"Beau, tone it down." Dad says.

"Tone it down? Seriously, Dad? He let her get kidnapped! An innocent girl who's already been through so much! Sure, I didn't like her at the beginning, but that's only because I barely knew the girl and her last name was Tai. Imagine how scared she is right now, Dad. What if she... does what Frejya did?" Beau testifies.

He's so concerned because he had a friend named Frejya who died from abuse. Well, she didn't get killed by her abuser, but she killed herself because of it.

"Beau, let's go talk." Ana says. Him and her both get up from the couch and step into another room.

"Beau isn't wrong," I begin, "it's my fault. Ever since I met Natania, I've been making all kinds of mistakes. My mind has been fucking with me."

"You've been thinking about Nizhoni, that's why. We know, Blaze. We see you, baby. We understand you." Ma says and rubs my shoulder.

I try my best to hold these tears back but one falls, "she's probably so scared right now, Ma."

"Blaze! Blaze! Blaze!" I hear Zay shout. I wipe my face quickly then turn to face him,

"What?"

"Natania's phone isn't lively trackable, but the last place her phone traced was Oslo Norway."

I stand up and head for the door but Dad calls me back, "son, sit. Make a plan before you act on instinct."

He's right.

I walk back, and sit down, "we should take a discreet flight there. We'll have Natania's parents let us borrow some of their men, and we'll send them all over with us. Once we get there, we'll go to the private house and spend night and day searching for wherever Natania is."

Dad nods, "what if they sent her phone there as a distraction and she's not really there?"

"We'll still set everything up and start searching again."

"Okay. How many people do you think you'll need? Planes, too?"

"A good hundred should do, and maybe fifty from the Tai's. As for planes, I'd say three. We'll have to squeeze everyone on, depending on weight. Any more than three and we'll be figured out."

"I'll call them and make it happen. You just worry about getting our men and yourself to Norway, okay? It's a good plan, Blaze."

I nod then walk out to get things in order.

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"Okay, so team one and two are gonna set out on the outside of Oslo, and team 3's inside?" Ana asks for clarity.

"Exactly." I nod.

"You know, it still amazes me how you guys have houses in every country. That's like... over two-hundred." Zay says.

"We have them for occasions like this. Team three, let's go."