Finding Leila

Gang?

Grayson's pov

I think I might have fucked up.

Before I went to Hawaii to get Leila, I told my men that if I wasn't back at a certain time, then they'd come for me. I had also told them everything about Leila. Everything they needed to know. I totally forgot about them, and I most likely just killed myself. I have to tell her the truth.

Ethan's pov

Being in this basement does not make me happy. I know it doesn't make anyone happy. I mean, it's literally a prison. Almost like the one I was in for five years.

I don't understand why Leila put me down here. I drop the love bomb and this is what I get? This is by far the strangest rejection I've ever gotten tbh.

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Leila's pov

I was kidnapped twice in one year. The only person I trusted the most was one of my kidnappers. Then he went to prison.

But did he go to prison? Everything that I know could have been scripted. Maybe Ethan wasn't in prison. Maybe he was secretly behind all of this.

I don't know anything anymore.

"Why did Grayson bring you here." I was talking to the guy that tried to strangle me. I think it's time to get answers. Right now I'm weak and I can't control my men if I'm weak.

"It was all part of his plan." I smacked him in the face. "What is his plan." I gritted through my teeth, getting angry.

"To get you. Why else?" Punching him, I stepped back. He's useless. "Take him." A couple people picked him up and took him out of a room.

"Boss. Ethan's screaming downstairs. It's incredibly annoying. Can I please knock him out?" I blinked at the guy in front of me, who looked like he was going to have a headache.

"Bring him up." I closed my eyes, hating what I was doing. I did not want to talk to him. Especially after our last talk.

When Ethan told me that he loved me, my mind went blank. I didn't know how to react.

When Ethan was sentenced 5 years in prison and I went away, I couldn't get my mind off of him. I had to find a distraction. That's when I saw that Grayson was coming after me. I needed to find someone who could keep me safe. So, I found a gang. More specifically, the gang leader. I told him everything, and he gave me his word that he would keep me safe. He lost his life last year when Grayson showed up at night. Ever since then, I've been the gang leader, and they protect me with their lives.

"Leila! What's going on?" I sighed, turned around to see Ethan sitting down in a chair. "Why don't you tell me." I looked at him coldly, trying to ignore that he has feelings for me. "What are you talking about?" He furrowed his eyebrows.

"What was yours and Grayson's plan this time to get me?" He looked at me as if he didn't know what was happening. But I knew he did know. "I don't have a plan with Grayson. Leila I just got out of prison, I didn't have any visitors during those 5 years, not even my family! I told them not to come. Please believe me Leila. This is the first time I've ever made contact with Grayson. I thought he was dead!"

The way he looked at me made me want to believe him. It made me want to hug him. Be with him. But I'm still missing something.

"Why did you come here? How did you know I was here?" I looked at him, desperately.

"My first thoughts when I got out of prison was wanting to see you. And when I heard that you never went to your aunts, my mind instantly went to you being kidnapped. I wanted to find you. I had to." Tears filled my eyes, seeing him in front of me. It's really Ethan. "I got on the plane to get here, but there's something going on. When I got on the plane, I had to tell them that I worked for Scott. Which, I don't. Scott is dead, I can assure you. But, they were going to take me to Alaska. There's people after you, Leila." I rolled my eyes, laughing.

"There's only one specific person coming after me. And that's Grayson." Ethan furrowed his eyebrows in confusion. "When you left, I had to become who I am right now just to get away from Grayson. But now I have him in my hands. And I can do whatever I want to him." He looked down, ashamed.

"Leila, I'm so sorry. I had no idea." I nodded.

"It's fine. You didn't know." There was an awkward silence after that. What now? I've always ended conversations with killing people. But I don't want to kill Ethan. I believe him.

"Let me talk to Grayson. When he said sorry to you, that's the first time I saw my actual brother since we were taken from Scott. Surely his mind is in a different state." He looked at me.

"I don't know, Ethan," I laughed. "I can't seem to know anything anymore!" I sat down on the floor, grabbing my head. "First I kill three of my men, get choked by a stranger, you show up." Ethan was by my side when tears started to slide down my cheeks. 

"It's okay to not know things, Leila."

"No it's not! If I don't know anything, then I'm weak to the gang and I could get killed if they start questioning my strength." I whispered, hoping nobody was hearing anything except Ethan. "Gang?" I rolled my eyes.

"Really? That's all you got out of that? You're not gonna say anything about me being killed?" I raised a brow, making him smile. "Why are you smiling?"

"Because of you." He smiled wider. Here I am, tears coming down my cheeks, and he smiles at me? Wtf Ethan.

"Well stop it. This is serious. My life's in danger." I sighed, looking away.

"Then get out of the gang." I laughed.

"It's not that easy. If I want out, I have to die."

"If that's what we have to do, then give me the gun."
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Sorry I haven't updated in awhile I've been really overwhelmed with school but hopefully I will post another chapter before monday:))

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