The Leaders

Chapter two

I see out of the corner of my eye he is staring at me. I move a piece of hair behind my ear and I hear him gasp slightly.

"What?" I turn to him

"Your neck, the long scar. What happened." He says staring at a hole into me. I flip my hair back and say "nothing that I want to get into at the moment."

He nods and turns back slightly but I can still feel his eyes on me. We arrive at wherever we are. Jakob gets out and hands me his hand to help me out. I take it but when I am out I adjust myself and walk up to the building by myself. Jakob comes up beside me and places his hand on the small of my back and says "Braydon this is not a place for you to be mad at me. I need you to stay by my side the entire time."

I stared at him for a moment and then step away from him so I could place my hand on his arm. "Now do you have your gun?" He asks

"I never leave without it," I say as I lift my skirt slightly to show where my gun was.

"Good not sure how this is going to go but I need you to act like we are together for the time being."

"What?"

"You and me we are dating. Follow what I do and you should be fine." I nod and realize I know where we are and it was not a very good person at all. My dad has had this guy under control for some time now but the guy still had information that we needed. Jakob rings the doorbell and I look up at his face and see how he wasn't showing any type of emotion at all. I take a deep breath and the door opens up. A young girl says "Master Langston is in his study follow Marie." She gestures to another girl inside the door.

Jakob nods and whispers to me "Showtime babe." We follow the girl back to Mr. Lenard Langston. A very despicable man who thinks he always has the upper hand. I don't know what the plan is for today but Jakob does so at least one of us knows what is going on. We reach his study and the young girl says "Good luck" before rushing away. Jakob knocks on the door and it opens up to find my dad and Jakob's dad sitting down facing away from us. I don't let my emotions show through my face but I squeeze Jakob's arm slightly.

"Come in we have been waiting on the stars of the show," Langston says. I follow Jakob to two chairs but I keep an eye on my dad. He is tapping his fingers softly on the arm of the chair. He is tapping out be timid and be quiet in morse code. I know it is directed towards me because I am a loudmouth.

"So my beautiful Braydon Lee how have you been." I want to say something snarky but Jakob squeezes my hand and I say "Wonderful."

"Really I thought you would be more upset since your father won't give you the company."

"It is my father's choice and I respect that and I do not think it concerns you," I say with a slight smirk but I see my dad's face tightened and Jakob squeezes my hand again. "With all the respect in the world Mr. Langston but that is a choice that my father has to make and I know that is not why we are here."

"Smart Girl you have raised Mr. Romano but she is a little mouthy. That is understandable because your gentleman probably didn't tell her what is going on here today." Not one of us had a reaction to what he said and that clearly made him agitated. "Oh, I forgot I am sitting in a room of highly trained assassins who can't show their feelings." He says sarcastically. I want to say something but Jakob says "Get to the point Lenard some of us have an empire to run."

"Yeah well too bad I think I will string this out a little longer," Lenard says

"Lenard what are you needing from us today," I ask trying to keep an even peaceful tone.

"Well, you see all I need is you my lovely one." I mentally throw up but before I can say anything Jakob says "Why do you need my Fiance?"

"Your Fiance? Since when I am pretty sure your family would have announced it the minute it happened."

"For about a year now we kept under wraps so we could enjoy it ourselves," Jakob says taking my hand again and giving it a small kiss which for some reason sent butterflies to my stomach.

"Where is the ring?" Lenard asks. Thankfully I was wearing my grandmother's ring today or else we would have been screwed.

"Right here," I say as I hold out my hand to him. Lenard gets up and looks at the ring and says "Ooo a classic older style ring."

"Yes it was my grandmother's," I say and place my hand back on Jakob's.

"Well isn't that dandy, well Ms. Romano and Mr. Fazio this great and all but it doesn't spoil my plan. Ms. Braydon Romano, you will be mine soon enough."

"You see here is the thing Mr. Langston no I won't because you are surrounded. You can not escape this. You see while you thought I was lost in all of this, well no I wasn't. Now, Anthony, you can come in and take him out to the officers. My Bodyguard came in and grabbed him with a few other of my father's men following him. I turn to the three men standing behind me shocked.

"You two." I point to my father and Jakob "Are in some deep shit. What if I wasn't wearing Nana's ring? What if I didn't see you code you tapped out dad. What if I didn't recognize one of the girls from the news. This result wouldn't have happened. And you?" I turn to Jakob's father "You went right along with it not saying a word. Wait till I talk to my mom and Tiana."