Dangerous Illusions

Chapter 18

Daniel p.o.v

"I'm telling you, it's defiantly not a conversation that I've ever heard before. There is more to her than what we know Jade."

After Elna wanted me to leave I called Jade and Jax over to my room. I told them some of what happened, and we have been trying to figure out what had actually been going on.

"Listen, Daniel, I would love to help you, I really would, but I'm already involved in some other stuff at the moment, some of them including the task you had us do to find information on her. But I don't want to get involved in this. If she wants to tell you, let her come to you out of her own will, don't push or force it, Daniel."

I hated it when he becomes all smart, but it's why he's the one that plans all our attack strategies. He's right though, I want Elna to come to me, I don't want to force her as he said.

"Jade's right you know, if it's true what you told us that went on in that conversation over the phone, it means she is in even more trouble than we thought. If you want to know what it meant, then you will have to show her some respect and help her where you know you can without invading her privacy or putting her guard up even more between you two. She needs to trust you if you want her to open up to you," Jax told me, while I just stared at him dumbfounded.

"Since when did you start giving speeches?"

"Since you needed it,"

"You know, you're starting to sound a lot like my mom," I said, and he put his hand over his chest where his heart would be, in fake hurt.

"Alright you two, now Daniel we gave you some advice, but I'm guessing that's not the only reason why you called us over, is it?"

I sighed and pinched the bridge of my nose while closing my eyes and shaking my head, "The gang right outside of town on the western side, the Vice Bloods I think, started to attack other gangs. I don't know what their deal is, but I didn't trust them, it doesn't look like they actually want to attack us, but I don't want to take any chances, so could you find what you can on them?"

"Alright, we'll see what we can do. But for now, take care of your lover problem." Jade said and smirked before leaving with Jax right behind him.

Shaking my head, I went to the bathroom to take a shower and think about my plan on how to get Elna to open up...

Unknown p.o.v

While working on my computer and planning an attack on another enemy gang, I heard a knock on my office door.

Frowning I stood up and made my way to my door taking my gun on my way, no one usually comes to my office at this time, so I'm just taking extra precautions.

I opened my door pointing my gun at the intruder, only to come face to face with a shocked and worried face of a member of my gang that's also one of my most trusted family members.

"Oh, Robert," I said while lowering the gun to my side, "Come in would you? You know how I hate talking in the hall," I said and walked back to my desk sitting in one of the chairs looking at Robert as he sat down with the same mortified expression on his face. Robert isn't one that worries a lot, so this caused me to go into a panic state almost instantly.

"What's wrong with you?" I asked him as he just continued to stare at the ground and ignoring me, sitting like a statue.

"Robert! Would you answer me, please? You know I don't like being ignored," After I said that, I caught his complete attention.

"You're not going to like what I have to tell you, you know..."

"Does it look like I care? Spill. Now,"

"So I did some family research, starting with our great-grandmother. I looked up some family heritages, houses, history, the normal stuff,"

"Yes...and?" I asked him almost scared to know,

"I found some...information,"

"Okay, would you stop speaking like this and cut to the chase...I have some work to get to, you know the attack on the Black Dragons on the Northern side of town, so speed up the process would you,"

Robert sighed and stood up, running his hand through his hair, "You know what, it's impossible. Forget I ever came to you with this nonsense." He said and smiled sheepishly before turning around and making his way to the door, but just as he grabbed the door handle, I called his name which caused him to paused and look back at me...

"I know this isn't nonsense to you, it's obviously bothering you. So I'm not asking you this because you're one of my gang members, I'm asking you because you're my brother...What's wrong...?"

He sighed and looked me in the eyes before asking me a question that caught me off guard, "Whatever happened to Maddie again?"

"M-Maddie? She was kidnapped, remember?"

"She was your wife, didn't you go after her?"

"I did. In fact, I searched for months, but they send me a video afterwards, where they shot her. She's gone, Robert..."

"How long was she gone? Eight months?"

"Yeah, about eight. Why are you asking about her?"

"Didn't it looked like something was off about her before she was kidnapped? Like she was gaining weight and hiding something?"

"What are you implying?"

"Man, for a gang leader that leads the second feared gang, you sure are stupid... It adds up to nine months, Jack," He said with an unreadable expression...

"She was pregnant before she disappeared..."

"W-What? Are you saying she was having my kid?" I asked him in shock and disbelieve,

"More like kids...she had twins, girls to be exact actually,"

"S-So you're saying that I'm a father to twin girls?" I stuttered and he nodded while I went back to my desk,

"There is something else to add though..."

"What?"

"The...people...that were looking after them, they were the people that killed Maddy,"

"What!? So two murderers, are looking after my daughters!?"

"No, they didn't look after them, they abused them,"

I took a deep breath to calm my nerves, first of all, why didn't Maddy tell me that she was pregnant? Those were my children as well! Then secondly, how dare those pigs take my children and abuse them!

"Do you have a photo of them?" I asked and he nodded while taking out a folded piece of paper from his jacket walking towards me. He handed me a picture of two beautiful identical brunets laughing, hugging each other.

"Did you happen to get their names?"

"Apparently their names are Elna and Elizabeth..."