HIDE ✔︎

Chapter 22

This was a very good question, Eddie was a little awkward and looked at Ella. "We thought you were thieves that broke into our house..." he said.

The rest were dumbfounded, "You mean that you kill the robbers who break into your house? Are you insane?!"

That made Eddie roll his eyes, "We weren't planning to kill you. None of you died anyways."

"What if someone actually died?!" Mia couldn't help but shout out.

"I said we weren't planning to kill you so no one would have died." Eddie sounded like he and his siblings had planned everything out beforehand, like everything was under their control from the beginning. That was kind of scary...

"But...you should have called the police if you thought that we were criminals." Lucas pointed out. This time, Ella spoke up in her quiet voice.

"Phones weren't working." They all looked at her in surprise.

"Seriously?!" Mia couldn't help but doubt that.

"Really, phones aren't working, there's no signal." Devin turned on his phone and showed them his phone screen.

"Then how were we able to message each other?" Lucas asked, remembering that he and Devin had messaged each other before.

"There's something known as open internet." Eddie rolled his eyes for the nth time. Devin nodded, agreeing with him.

Although hints were much clearer to them but naming it as a misunderstanding was a little unsettling and unacceptable to them.

"You all inflicted such injuries on us. How will you explain that to the ICF?" Emily murmured but her voice was heard by everyone in the room. Eddie gave her a scary look while Ella looked coldly at her which made Emily shrink back.

"Self Defence." They both said at the same time and turned their heads away.

"S-s-self defence?!" Lucas said through gritted teeth, "You call this self defence?!"

"It was self defence." Eddie was adamant on that fact, "Although we might have gone a little over board." He admitted like it isn't a big matter at all. "And anyways, it's not like you didn't injure us as well." He pointed at the dried blood on his forehead, the scratches on his arm he got after falling on the table and the gunshot wound on his shoulder and then at Ella's leg which was still bleeding.

"But that was also self defence!" Jack felt wronged as he was the one who had thrown Eddie on the table. Eddie smirked at them.

"Failing to complete your mission and in process, hurting a bunch of children." He gave an evil smile, "I wonder whose side people will take...if this goes public."

If this goes public? Not only would it ruin the reputation of their team but people would definitely side with the kids and no one would even look at their injuries. They definitely could not let this go public.

Devin's laugh was heard as he gave an amused look to Eddie, "You're a pretty smart kid aren't you? Then even if the matter doesn't go public, how do you think the ICF will deal with you? They aren't known to be very forgiving when it comes to their own interests." His eyes took on a sharp glint and there was a faint threat in his voice.

Eddie was silent as he thought about it.

"They can try." Ella said and looked at Devin with emotionless eyes that held a mysterious coldness in them.

Devin smiled, "Confidant?"

"We've got our backing as well." She said.

Devin raised an eyebrow and stared at her for a second then plopped back on the sofa in a carefree manner.

"The ICF won't do anything, don't you worry about that." Devin's words caught the rest of them by surprise. They were a little disappointed because they had thought that their organisation will take revenge for them.

"Are you sure?" Lucas was still doubtful.

Devin nodded, "As long as I'm involved, they wouldn't dare." He casually said with a flip of his hand.

"You mean to say that you're taking their side?!" Mia gave a shocked look to Devin. He nodded and slowly said, "We entered the wrong house, that was our mistake and we caused inconvenience to innocent civilians which is against the rules and we will probably be getting penalty for that. Moreover..." he stopped and looked over at the siblings, "Even if we don't decide to make it public, who's going to stop them? Once it's out, it's out."

He made sense and the rest felt that as well. They all went silent for a second and the cold aura that the four of them were emitting didn't help them to relax as well.

"Anyways." Devin looked at Ella with a sheepish look, "My teammates are hurt pretty badly, can we bother you to get us some first aid?"

"First aid?! This needs a fucking hospital!" Mia shouted and pointed at their injuries.

Eddie chuckled, making Mia give him a glare. Ella nodded at him and he went out of the room and returned with a few first aid kits.

"Here you go. Knock yourselves out."

The phone signal hadn't returned yet so they couldn't call the ICF medical team so they had to make do with the first aid kits. Some wounds like Tyson's fingers and all the broke bones couldn't be tended at the moment so the rest had to endure it till the ICF was notified.

On the other side, Ella was tending to Eddie's wounds. He hissed as the cotton swab touched the wound on his forehead. With each hiss, his glaring eyes fell on Jack who constantly felt shivers run down his spine.

Devin looked at Eddie, who was being tended to by Ella with an unfathomable gaze. Although it wasn't very obvious but she was being very gentle with him.

"Devin, let me treat the wound on your chest." Lucas saw the gnash on his shirt and came forward to help him bandage it but Devin sized him up instead and shouted, "NO!"

Lucas was startled and turned to where Devin was staring at and suddenly felt his eye twitch.

"Should I call Emily or Mia to do it for you?"

Devin glared at him, "NO!"

Lucas rolled his eyes and left the bandages and ointment beside him. "Do it yourself!" Devin stared at the bandages and narrowed his eyes, "Tch!"

Lucas walked back to Mia while grumbling. He couldn't figure out why Devin was being so moody right now.