Old Flames, New Beginnings

Chapter 5

Valentina's POV

"He's just a fucking pawn, Fernando!!, I. WANT. THEIR. LEADER." I said while gritting my teeth to control my rage, "Val I swear to God, we fucking got him but that bastard of his man saved him!" He said and I could sense from his tone that he too was Hella angry, I nodded at him and soon we heard another scream, the scream of that bastard!!

Flashback (yesterday)

I came to the headquarters with Fernando because they found that bastard of a man, We reached there and all I could hear were gunshots, we all took out our guns and ran front where the gunshots were heard, As soon as we reached there, I saw a familiar man hiding behind the wooden table in the corner, I took baby steps towards him but soon heard a gunshot and I turned to look behind, when I turned back the man was gone, he looked unpleasantly familiar, I was thinking about him when Fernando came to me and said "he ran away!", I gritted my teeth  and growled "how?!" He looked down and said "His man was dressed like him, he helped him run away" I released a rageful breath and said "Where is that motherfucker?!, take me to him" he nodded and asked me to follow him, I obliged and he took me to him.

We reached there and I saw him tied to the chair, he was shot in his legs and an arm, I looked at him with emotions like rage, anger, and hurt, I walked to him and asked him, "Who do you work for?", he chuckled and said, "Why do you think I would tell you that?", I smirked at him and said "Because you love your daughter and not to forget your lovely wife and oh how did I forget that she is pregnant, your brother's dead I bet you wouldn't like your remaining family be dead or would you?!" As I finished all the colours drained from his face and truth be told, it was a sight worth watching, he gulped, looked at me and said, "You can not do that, you are just trying to manipulate me!" He said this to me more like trying to tell himself,  I sighed and said, "You people don't believe me without proof, do you?" I looked at Fernando, and he nodded and started the projector where a video of his family at home was playing, I looked at him and said " Now do you believe me, Lorenzo?" He started sweating but was adamant about not telling us the truth when I decided to work my way, I took out my pocket knife and went towards him, my heels clicking on the wooden floor, I sat in front of him and cut his pinky finger and said: "You better tell me what you know, or I'll not hesitate to behead you Lorenzo but not before torturing the shit out of you!" He laughed and said, "Like hell, I'll tell you anything about him" I glared at him and cut another two fingers of his, he screamed but did not tell me anything.

Flashback end

My men were still torturing him, he had lost all ten of his fingers, two toes and one ear, he was on the verge of dying but he didn't tell us a thing. He is too loyal to be Russian, it seems that he is from among us but how is that possible, I know about every single person under me, but it seems that there are things still hidden from me I came out of my thoughts when I heard Fernando say, "He agreed to tell us a thing or two" I nodded and left with him, upon reaching there I saw his almost lifeless body still tied to the chair, he looked at me and said, "He's a person very close to you, your highness" and he died, I asked my men to take his body to his family and I left there with my mind revolving around his last words, a person close to me? who could that be? With these thoughts, I reached home and called it a day.

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