Until I Found Him (Book 1) || SHERLIAM || Reincarnation AU || BXB

Chapter 13: Milverton

"Good afternoon Mr Milverton"

"Good afternoon to you too, Mr Moriarty. How did it go?"

"Yes, my son William won't be pestering the Holmes' second son anymore, you can ask the Ashford to propose the wedding to Mr and Mrs Holmes now."

"How can you be sure that your son won't try to reach out to him and are you sure that Sherlock Holmes will agree to the proposal?

"Oh don't worry about it, I've dispirited him. I made up a story about how we are indebted to The Henry but we are rivals! But rest assured, he won't try to talk to Sherlock Holmes"

"Your plan better works, Mr Moriarty. Do not forget, your little secret is still within our hands therefore, you are still indebted to us"

"Y-Yes, pleasure doing business with you"
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Sherlock sits inside his room, clearly bored. He had been whisked away by his parents from his own house and now he had been living with his parents for a week, Sherlock had no idea why and on top of that, he had people monitor him 24/7 so that he wouldn't use his phone at all.

"Can you leave us alone for a minute?" He heard voices from the door as he glanced up and saw Mycroft.

"But sir, I've been ordered to—" "leave us" The man who had been monitoring Sherlock all day sighed and left. Mycroft closed the door and locked it as he walked towards Sherlock and sits next to him.

"Sherly"

"what do you want?"

Mycroft sighed as he cursed under his breath. "I'm sorry" Sherlock raised an eyebrow as he looked at Mycroft skeptically. "Mycky, what did you do?"

"I couldn't stop them, I'm sorry"

"What?" Sherlock looked at Mycroft who got up and walked towards the door. "Mother told me to asked you to get dressed, there's someone she would like you to meet" Mycroft informed Sherlock as he left the room, leaving Sherlock in confusion.
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"Ah there you are, Sherlock" His mother called for him as Sherlock stepped inside the living room to see his whole family sitting on the couch and sitting on the couch opposite them are the some other people. He walked towards his mother as he looked at the new faces and one of them is oddly familiar.

"Come, I would like you to meet your future wife, Miss Fiona Ashford!"

Who? Wait hold on.. "Future wife?" He asked his mother in utter confusion.

"Yes my dear, the young lady sitting in the middle of Mr and Mr Ashford is Miss Fiona"

"No, mother, I'm not marrying her—I'm not marrying anyone!" Sherlock backed away from the couch his family are sitting.

"This is ridiculous! I'm leaving" "Now now, I wouldn't do that if I were you" Just as Sherlock was about to turn around and leave, a man who had been standing beside the couch of the Ashford family is sitting on walks toward Sherlock. Sherlock looked at the man and he gritted his teeth, he recognized who it was.

"Good Evening, I'm Charles Augustus Milverton. You must be the infamous Sherlock Holmes"

Milverton, the king of blackmail. How dare he stand in front of me again when I was the one who ended his life!

"I need you to agree to the engagement with Miss Fiona proposed by your parents and her parents."

Sherlock crossed his arms as he rolled his eyes. "Nah, no thanks. I will pass, you can sign the contract yourself"

"Okay, how about this" Milverton rearranged his glasses as he stepped closer to Sherlock and started talking in a quiet manner. "I know about your relationship with William James Moriarty, you better agree to the engagement, unless you want to see him in jail?"

Sherlock widened his eyes as Milverton stepped a few steps away from Sherlock. "What do you mean?"

"You see the Moriarty family history are rather interesting and I did some research and found out some information that I shouldn't see. The information could send the whole Moriarty family into jail. So, now I propose to you two choices."

Milverton walked towards the Ashford family as he smirked. "One, agree to the engagement and the secret will be kept silence and I will destroy all of the evidence regarding to that precious information and you can never go see the Moriarty again" Sherlock glared at Milverton as he continued.

"Second, walk away from this engagement and I will reveal the secret to the world. Now, what will you choose?"

Still the same person as before, damn you Milverton. Sherlock cursed under his breath as he dug his hand through his hair furiously.

Now I don't know for sure if Milverton is bluffing about how he could have the whole Moriarty family in jail with this so called 'precious information' so I better not test the water.

Sherlock looked at Milverton, "how can I be sure that the information even exists?" "I thought you would say that, see here Sherlock Holmes, the evidence to back up my statement is kept safely in my office and if you think about breaking into my office to destroy it, I have it backup in my computer"

Well now I know what to do. Thank you for over sharing.

"I will agree to the engagement in one condition, let me go see the Moriarty one last time, to... end things with them"

"No you cannot—" "Wonderful! The wedding will be in a week, please be ready!" Mr Ashford cut off Milverton.

"A week?!"  This is going to be harder that I thought..