Empire- An Au Hs Fanfic (COMPLETED)

Chapter 36

I woke up and got dressed in a pair of black jeans with my white croptop over it. I slid on my white heels after brushing my teeth and hair. I walked downstairs and set the oven on, brewing a fresh pot of coffee for the boys and left the note with the food plan on the fridge. 

I drove to work and sighed heavily as was immediately pulled into a meeting with Felipe, Octavio and Marcus. 

"Tell me." I said as I sat at the head of my table. "Bad news. We lost 6 stash houses to Omaha. This is terrible." Marcus, Felipe's brother and my floor manager said and I sat up straight. 

"What?" "There's a problem. Dakota is the one sending the hits on it. She captured Roman and has been getting intel over everything through him." Octavio said and I bit my lip. Dakota was a very mean woman who lived for the soul purpose to stop distribution of my coke and would stop at anything to ensure her country of Brazil would remain coke free. She captured one of my good friends Roman who should've known better than to rat, he'd be taken care of accordingly. 

"What does that mean?" I asked and was really nervous. "Leslie. Your husband's here." Jan rang through the phone but I stood quiet for a second. "Send him through." She hung up and I looked at the men. 

"We will continue this tomorrow morning. I will have a solution to this. I assure." I promised and shook all their hands. "Since when are you married?" Felipe asked and I chuckled. 

"Recent. To the gringo from Brazil." "I told you." He declared and I laughed, hugging them all before Harry walked in. 

"You okay?" He looked at my face and I nodded, hugging him tightly. "What's wrong?" "I don't want to talk about it. I want to go home and get dinner started." I sighed and decided to take the rest of the day off to think about this mess. 

I bit my lip as I drove home behind Harry home. What the fuck was I going to do? I was so torn by the fact that this was the absolute first time in history I've been stressed about work. I parked in the garage next to Harry and we walked in to see the boys eating the spaghetti. 

"Niall! You fucking ate it all!" Louis yelled and I chuckled. I went into the fridge and pulled out a large container of spaghetti. "Here." I pressed a kiss to Louis's cheek and all the other boys. Harry just watched me as I walked upstairs to change.

"What's wrong?" Harry asked as I slipped on a pair of tights with one of Harry's shirts. "Work. Stress. I'm fine." "Tell me about it." "I'm fine. I don't want to talk about it." 

"Baby, this isn't a relationship. It's a marriage and if we want this to work we need 100 percent transparency. You're my wife. I want to help you." "I'll be fine. I'm not holding back anything important it's just a personal work problem is all." I sighed and hugged his torso tightly as I thought about it.

"Have you ate?" "No. I want to take a quick nap first." "Eat please." "I will, after I nap. I promise." I pressed a kiss to his lips before going onto the bed. I could feel him staring at me as I laid in bed with my head in my pillow. 

I could hear him walk out to tend to our guest and left me with my thoughts and a heavy heart. I don't want him to stress about me, he has bigger things to deal with. I fell into a deep sleep.

I woke up and brushed my teeth before sliding on my white vans. "Do you feel better love?" Liam asked and I smiled softly at him. "Yes." I greeted the girls who smiled at me. 

"She's fucking full of shit." Harry's voice was on edge and annoyed from where he sat drinking his beer. I only rolled my eyes and went to the kitchen to cook dinner. Harry was outside grilling the burgers on the grill with the hot dogs while I got the other things ready like the 7 layer dip, burger fillings, buffalo wings, french fries and other things. I finished at the same time he did and he was just giving me dirty stares. He was clearly upset with me not telling him but I wasn't going to risk him getting involved and hurt. 

"Food's done." I called to the group who all ran over to the buffet of food that was set up on. I made Harry a burger with fries and wings on the side. He thanked me and gave me a look which I shook my head no to. I made myself a burger with fries, wings and a hot dog.

 I walked into the office in my house and took a bite of my food before turning on my laptop. I bit my lip as I did research over Dakota. She was a grade A military asshole who pried herself on killing any of those who tried to "infect her country with the poison of a white man's Christmas". She was insane, killing over 500 people and taking down whole cartels but she clearly doesn't know who the fuck she is messing with. I finished eating and sighed as I read up on her and her history.

"Why don't you just tell me?" Harry asked from the doorway. I looked at him with a frown. "It's work. I don't want to worry you." "You're worrying me worse by not telling me and pushing me away." 

I sighed and closed my laptop. "I'm not pushing you away. It's for your own good I'm not telling you." "Fuck you. You don't know what's good for me to begin with. Fine. Don't fucking tell me and have fun playing with your demons by yourself. I guess I'm not fucking important enough as your husband to know!" He yelled before walking out making my heart hurt.

I didn't want to hurt my husband. I love him, I just don't want him to get involved with my business like he doesn't want me in his. I walked out to my car with my keys and reached into the glove compartment to grab the tin box with my marijuana prerolls in it. 

I took one out and lit it once I walked to the driveway. I puffed it once and sighed heavily as I exhaled. I closed my eyes and let the herb calm my nerves and thought of a solution that wouldn't spark a rebellion. 

If I killed this woman it would spark a war I didn't want. I took a few more puffs and paced around the driveway, thinking. 

If I couldn't kill her what if I find her weak spot? Everybody's got one. I walked back up to see Harry staring at me from his cigarette with the boys. 

"Done?" He growled and I just rolled my eyes and walked back inside to the office. 

"I bet if I hit you in the right spot I can make you scream." I said outloud as I stared at the dark haired and black eyed woman on the screen.