Bad Blood - (Fransykes)

Chapter ten

A/N: I feel like I've stared at this for too long and now I don't like it? 😥 And of course, it's 98686932848912 words long 😂 I'm going to try my hardest to try and bring some well needed fluff to this story because it desperately needs it and Josh needs some sweet caring loving too 💓 x

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Oli's POV

With a heavy gaze I glare at the video call that was put on hold on my computer. Internal fear rises from within me like wild fire as I'm reminded of the despicable and unforgettable deal I made with my most hated enemy.

A lump appeared in my throat and I swallow thickly to try and get rid of it but it was as if it was there to keep me choking on my words. The deal I made with him is unbreakable in our community and these sorts of deals are made to be unbreakable so that we keep within our pact and no blood is spilt. But what I promised is my own blood and I'm terrified of what I'm going to have to do to get out of it, if I can...

A shadow looms over me and I'm quickly brought back to reality, Nicholls followed me into my office and I fear what he knows of Fuentes's incoming calls. My palms begin to sweat and my stomach turns but I refuse to let him see me weak and have the word guilty written all over my face.

"How often does he call in?" I demand to Nicholls keeping my back to him.

"Every few days or so, despite that I have already told him of your absences." He informs me.

So Nicholls already told Vic of my unexplained absences but he keeps calling in regularly anyway... My throat goes dry knowing the reason behind this, he was checking in on Sonny's health. The air almost leaves my lungs but I hold my breath.

"What has he told you?" I ask sceptically fearing the worst. Fuentes wouldn't discuss our deal with anyone, that information was strictly forbidden and stays between us but I had my doubts. Paranoia was eating away at me constantly and it was a disease poisoning my mind on a daily basics.

"Nothing, just that you owe your end of the deal and he won't stop until he gets it." I sense Nicholls shrug his shoulders and I relax a little until he explains further.

"He seems strangely interested in the baby..." I hear him drift off and I swear my heart skips a beat in sudden fear. My office falls under a deadly silence and my anxiety creeps in causing my breathing to hitch up. "Oliver, what have you promised him?" he asks warily as if he knew of my guilty crime and the anger buried inside of me quickly rises.

"That's none of your fucking business!" I growl and spin around with a harsh glare mask over my face.

Nicholls flinches at my explosion of anger but quickly recovers. His shocked features revert back and narrow his eyes at me, reading past my hot headed temper and into the truth what lies behind it. He's known me for far too long to know when I'm slipping up and I won't let him hang around long enough for him to discover what I've really done. He opens his mouth but I don't dare let him speak afraid of the words which fall out of his mouth.

"Get out of here, I have business to attend to!" I seethe making Nicholls sigh in defeat before hesitantly leaving the room.

I feel slightly better now he's out of the room knowing I don't have his judgement breathing down my neck. But the worst only waits behind me, the call waiting beyond the screen. What the fuck was I going to say to him?

I anxiously slump down into the chair and with frighten eyes I stare back at the video call on the monitor which was on hold. I begin biting my fingernails as anxiety riddles through my begin as I try to wreck my brain to come up with a believable explanation of why I no longer can keep up my end of the deal and suggest something else without it looking too suspicious. Do I tell him the baby is still sick? Josh is still in a coma? Fuck, I need to buy us some time so I can figure out what to do but time isn't on my side! I can't back out of the deal, its unbreakable and we shook on it. There's no going back...