Boss's Right-Hand Lover

Chapter Seventeen

  Seated on the warm beach sand, I stared at the sunny horizon and felt the cool and breezy air touch my skin. I let out a deep breath, reminiscing about everything that had just happened. Feeling the tears fall from my eyes, I sobbed, realizing that my best friend who I had been anticipating his return, would no longer be returning.

Cuz he's dead. I felt a presence behind me and quickly dried my tears.

"Xander, if you hug me, kiss me or even touch me. I promise you that I will shoot five bullets into your chest,"

"Well too bad you can't. I'm not Xander," I turned noticing it was Justin instead.

"What are you doing here? How did you find this place," He sat next to me.

"Please.This is my brother's favorite spot. Also, it's where the two of you first kissed," I kept silent.

"You okay?" I glanced at him.

"No. No, I'm not okay. I just found out my best friend is dead and my boyfriend freaking kept it from me,"

"Come on Vee. I'm sure he had his reasons," I grunted.

"A reason why he kept the death of my best friend since childhood away from me?"

"Yeah, I mean, imagine how much Ralph's death must have hurt him. They've been friends since he lost dad. At that time he didn't know me, so Ralph was the closest he had as family," I scoffed.

"But still! Since he came back from Italy, all he's done is lie why? Is he keeping secrets because I'm a burden now?" I asked him feeling angry again.

"I don't know babe. All I'm asking is that you give him time. He'll come through. I promise,"  I looked at him and nodded after a while. We kept silent and watched the waves move back and forth.

"Remember how we first met?" I asked. Justin smirked.

"How could I forget?"

Flashback To Three Years Ago

"What's the status of tonight's mission?" I asked as I stepped into Xander's office. I sat on his chair. According to Ralph, it's normal for the second in command to take over when the boss is absent.

"The area is packed with security cameras and Vipers," Ralph informed. If you haven't guessed already. Vipers is one of our rivals who stole our supplies that were confiscated by the police. Now we want to take it back.

"Why so tight today?" I asked.

"The leader's son is coming to inspect the supplies. Seems like daddy is worried about his safety," I gazed at him in disbelief.

"Worried about his safety? Or throwing him into the lion's den? If he's expecting us to ambush, why would he ask his son to be in charge of the supplies?" I looked at the four persons behind him and then turned to him.

"Did you get my team?" I asked him.

"Sure did. Meet the smartest, toughest and intelligent young men and lady in the mafia," He introduced them.

"Aiden, our IT, technologist and computerist. He can break through any network or security system and get you info from even the toughest network. Code name, Hacker," the orange-hairedd dude smiled at me.

"Nice to meet you boss," I returned the smile.

"You too Aiden. I expect good results from you, " He nodded.