#TALK TO ME#

ALEX'S POV

Sitting in a car with Jake and Lester bickering under their breath I learnt another name; Dan. I saw him earlier and remembered his butter coloured hair.

"Where we headed?" I ask Mythias.

"It's a surprise." With that we reach our destination in no time. As I come out from the van I see Lester being taken into yet another enormous house. I follow just to hear Jake cursing at the doctor. I left them and followed behind Mythias and Dan.

"Where do you think you're going?" Mythias asks raising his brows.

"I was just following buttercup here..." I say giving them both a grin. While Mythias gives me a glare Dan just keeps a straight face as they proceed ahead.

"Stop. I need to know what's going on...after all it is my fiancé who got us in this mess." I say smirking their way as buttercup nods his head and I follow right behind into an office.

"Ask away." Mythias says to me which I fall silent just thinking about the endless questions I had in my head.

"Ok. Who was Grey Well and what did you find in his file?" I ask catching them off guard. It is where this all started, how his mother died being traced to Dorstel then upon inspecting the bullet in the basement with Jake I noticed a file with a name 'Grey Well'. I flipped through but didn't find the cause of death and that's where I had stopped.

"Grey Well. Stationed to kill at a specific person on that night but as a working theory we think he was ambushed. The shot fired and killed mother but by whom is unknown to us."

"Cause of death?"

"An arrow." As Mythias replies buttercup hands me a file with a picture of the weapon.

"A broadhead shaped arrow..." I mumble knowing the one place I recognized this from.

"Know something we don't?" Prompts Mythias.

"First, who was the original target?"

"Your father" Was the short reply as I nod my head not minding one bit if he died. He was the one who killed mother and my brother. I had an older brother named Theodore. Besides his cute name which I called him by Theo he always had his game face on.

I told them a bit about my mother and brother and about how father always abused me until the last thing he did to me that made me who I am was when he raped me. The guys didn't react as I continued though a penny for a thought was what I was curious for.

My brother was the one who taught me to protect myself. Fight. Control. Patience. The last thing he taught me was how to fake a smile. He was the one who could lie and fake laughter though I could see straight through him.

After that, he disappeared just like how mother was gone so was he. They left me and all I wanted was to join them.

After explaining to me how he (Mythias) wanted to torture his mother by killing my father I realized we weren't looking at the bigger picture.

"Do you have this Arrow by any chance." I speak after a while catching their attention as Buttercup (Dan) gets up and returns with a steel arrow looking to be as sharp as surgical tools.

I hold my breath as I remember from when I was young being taught to shoot an arrow. My mother told me a secret how she would hide a note inside the arrows for me to find and so from then on I collected all the arrows opening each one on the day of her funeral for she had told me just hours before.

I tap the end on the table and tap it again to hear an echoing sound. I flipped the arrow and I begin to unscrew the bottom and when it opened, out slipped a rolled up paper.

I open it to find something I had not expected. I showed it to them to have a read too. The words were clear as day.

Mother was dead it read. As if I hadn't known but who else could've known about the hidden notes she kept for me. A few moment's went by until I hurry out of the room in need of fresh air.

I only spoke of this to one person and if I'm right will it mean that I have been lied to my whole life?

"Who did you-" I hear Mythias begin to speak from behind me when I give him an instant reply. Not knowing who to trust anymore.

MYTHIAS' POV

"Jace." Alex utters as my fists clench hard. I should've finished him when I had the chance.

Feeling a wave of guilt hit me and imagining the rough time Alex must be going through I decide to tell her the truth about her brother...hoping she won't hate me after.

"Your brother came to me in need for help..." This caught her attention as she turned around and took her seat on the couch.

"He asked to join The Black Anarchy despite the knife symbol on him. I knew he was from your father's mafia but after some research I found that he was in fact your father's son. I was actually looking forward to having him on our side but for men like him there's always a reason for betraying one's own mafia. " I stopped and looked out the glass window overlooking the beach remembering that day.

"He was to play the Russian roulette. As you know that chance of getting hit by that one bullet is- well it depends on destiny. But before he placed the gun to his head he said to protect his sister. Now when he, you know-" I looked back to see her turn away covering her face as I skipped that part where he died. I wanted to hold her and make her feel better, anything to see the beautiful smile on her face. Since when did I think her smile was beautiful?

I cleared my throat and continued. "As you know once someone plays the Russian roulette and does not make it, we have to kill their entire family but as his request you were excused because of and if it weren't for the symbol of the anchor one of my men tattooed on him you wouldn't be standing here."

"Sitting. I wouldn't be sitting here dumbass." She says while rolling her eyes and walking away from me. I didn't think that was a normal reaction but then again we all have different ways of showing it. I was expecting her to let a few tears drop but none fell as far as I could tell.

I distract my thoughts away from her and get back to everyone else informing that Jace was nowhere to be seen. Like he fell from the face of the planet but there's only one person who could find him. With the right people and minds anything is possible.

Jake started off with Jace's online status, showing pictures from a year ago when my eyes fixate on one specific one.

I tell him to click into the picture and see Alex doing a hand stand while giving a kiss to Jace. (PICTURE AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE)

My jaw hurt from clenching too hard as I direct the guys to leave to prepare for tomorrow tonight. Now the house was left empty but the outside was heavily armed.

I walk around the house only to find her in the kitchen which reminded me of the leverage she had against me.

I still had to punish her...and I was looking forward to fulfilling it.