Chapter 49

I arrived home after lunch with Harry to see Anne smiling at me. "How was work?" "Good, I just have to grab a few things before leaving." 

"Where are you going?" Harry asked me, confused. "To see my brothers. I need to alert them on the issue. The team as well so Michael can go out and do recon on these guys." "I'll go with you." "No, baby. It's fine. Stay here with your mom and I'll go." 

"No, I don't feel comfortable with you traveling by yourself." "I'll be fine. I promise." "Please." "I'll go with her if it makes you feel better." Gemma offered and Harry sighed. 

"Fine. Drive safe, I love you." Harry caved and pressed a soft kiss to my lips. "I love you too." I smiled and grabbed the keys to Harry's car since I was almost out of gas on mine. 

"You taking mine?" He asked and I nodded. "Bring my baby home with no scratches or I'll divorce you!" Harry called making me giggle as I walked out to the car. 

"Ready?" I asked as Gemma got in, she nodded. She was moody with me and I came to the conclusion she didn't like me. I was alright with that, she could stab or shoot me and I'd still be nice to her for the simple fact she's my husbands sister. 

"Are you even in love with my brother or do you use him for money?" She asked, anger in her voice. "I am in love with him. And to answer the second question, contrary to popular belief, I'm actually richer than your brother. I don't need his money, I'd be completely fine if he was a dirt poor farmer." I answered honestly and continued driving. 

"Can I ask you something?" I asked, tapping my lip. She nodded, giving me an eye. "May I ask, why you don't like me?" "You seem too perfect. I hate it, you might have my brother under some kind of trance or spell and my mom, Robin too but there's something off about you." I nodded as I soaked her words in.

"I'm actually not perfect. Your brother seems to think so but I'm not. I think he's the perfect one." "Tell me one of your flaws then." "I have a scar that runs up my back along my spine. It's a battle wound from a traumatic event in my past." I leaned forward a little and exposed my scar to her. 

"Falling off your bike is not traumatic." "I actually got it when my dad made me go to his best friend's house who he swore he could trust. I went for a summer and they abused me like I was an animal, cutting me open and poking my organs if I didn't complete their task. I got that when I refused to give a blowjob to one of them so they tied me to the table and gave that little beauty to me with a scythe." 

"Miracle you didn't blow them." "I was 8." My voice trailed off and her face softened for a second before hardening again. I tried my hardest to be nice to her as I found it increasingly difficult. 

"I'm sorry." "Don't apologize if you don't mean it. It's fine if you don't like me, I won't treat you any differently than I would your mom or step-dad. You can honestly shoot me, stab me or even kill me and I will never change the way I look at you." 

"Why?"

"You're my husband's sister. Harry is a different story, he'll actually do something to you." I rubbed my eye and let go of the wheel for a second to stretch before putting one back on. 

"Noble." "I try to be." I shrugged and continued my path to my brother's house. "Where are we going?" "My brother's house. I have something to discuss with all of them." I picked up my phone and dialed Nick.

"Hello?" His voice rung through the bluetooth. "Nick, gather the team and our brothers please. I have some troubling news." "What? Are you and Harry divorcing?" "No, nothing like that." I chuckled and he let out a sigh of relief. "Thank god, I thought I was going to have to kick his ass if he hurt my little sister, not that you can't handle yourself. What's the issue?" "I'll explain when I get there, I'm about 20 minutes out." 

"I just have to call the team." "Leave Jess and Seb out of it please. I need them to focus their attention on the girls." "Okay." Nick hung up and I bit my lip, sighing heavily. 

"Hello?" I answered my phone. "I haven't heard from you since the trip." My mom's voice was laced with hurt as I bit my lip harder, punishment for making my mom cry. "I know, I'm sorry mom. I didn't mean to. I've been busy, I just got into town yesterday morning from a work trip." 

"Oh." Was all she could say. "I didn't mean to hurt you mama. You know I love you and you're important to me." "I know. How's Harry?" "He's good. His family's in town for a while, he bought his mom a house out here. She's moving in soon, it's by where you live actually." "Oh, a new friend for me to talk to?" "Yeah, I'm sure you'll love her." 

"Are you coming to the boys Halloween party?" "For sure." I grinned and hung up with her. I pulled into Nick's driveway a few minutes later. 

"There's a lot of cars." "Don't worry. I won't let anything bad happen to you." I said getting out the car and waited for Gemma to follow me. I opened the door to Nick's house to see everybody in the living room, even my team. 

"What's going on?" Danny asked and everyone mumbled their agreement. 

"For starters, this is my sister-in-law Gemma. Gemma this is my brothers Daniel, Alex, Derek, Josh and Nick. My team Mel, Anthony and Michael. You've already met Sebastian and Jessica who aren't here today." I introduced Gemma to everybody before she took a spot next to Mel and Anthony. 

"Okay. Well I brought you all here today to-" I was cut off by Jessica, Sebastian, Lucy, Maricela, Manny and Martin coming in. 

"Well. You didn't think we wouldn't find out you brought the team together without us right?" Sebastian grinned and they said hi to Gemma. 

"Okay. Well not that everybody's here. We have a big issue. I was visited by two DEA agents who tried to get me to take Harry down, of course you know as good as everyone else I'd rather die that to have my husband away from me." I began and my brother's sat up, tearing away from their wives. 

"What?" Anthony's voice was alarmed. 

"You heard correctly. They're onto me and my production with my hotels. I paid them off, of course, but this brings a more alarming matter." I paused in the middle of my pace in the front of the living room. 

"If Harry goes down, you do too. As partners we're all at risk. My empire, Sebastian's, Anthony's, Mel's and everybody here is effected by this. We need to ensure that the evidence is destroyed which is why I propose war. War against the DEA." I paused and Nick yelled profanities.

"Shut up, I know. I know what you're thinking. But I know something you don't. I have several videos of the DEA threatening me, several pieces of evidence that would put the DEA under public scrutiny. For example, I know Henderson owns a prostitution ring and has been sleeping with Matilda, vice president of the united states. He has been screwing around with her which is why I have taken the liberty of converting all of my dirty little secrets about the DEA, FBI, United States and all major people after us into flash drives. I have made a copy for each of you and it's set to sync, so if I add new info it updates to all of yours. You need a special password when you enter which is going to be a set of numbers written in Croatian numerals. If you get the password wrong 3 times, the data erases from your drive so if it caught, they would never know. It doesn't affect the rest of ours." I set the box of drives onto the middle of the room, watching my brothers eye them.

"Full proof?" Jessica asked and I shook my head. "One is my husbands. Now, as I was saying. I propose war. Dear brother of mine, we need to act accordingly. We are the worlds most powerful people, sitting in here now. We of course need to add in the fact my husband is powerful too." I played with my eyelashes for a second before going back on task.

"Who the fuck is going to mess with the 5 kings." I motioned towards them before moving to my team. "The wolves." I pointed to Anthony and Mel, that was their empire's name. "The Lions." I motioned to Jessica and Sebastian. "The panther." I said to Michael who smirked at me.

 "The twins." I motioned to my sisters who only smiled. 

"The spades." I was done motioning to people. 

"And of course, the reaper. Everyone fucking fears me. I have allies around the world and at any given moment I could initiate bombings on anybody I want. We of course, have our cousins from the west coast and my Russian army who demands to please my every whim." I said smirking devilishly, everyone gave me smirks of the though of what we could accomplish. 

"We are going to war ladies and gentlemen. Are you in or out?" I asked, clapping my hands and everyone grabbed a thumb drive. 

"We're in." They all said and I smirked in triumph.