THE EXCHANGE

The poor man had to let me go completely mortified. He looked like he would have bitten both our heads off. I understand his pain as at the same time I don't. I know that was a low for me, using a child for a bargain.

But it had to be done. The other player goes dirty all the time and much as I value being noble and having a little decency, I had to give him a test of his own medicine. He is actually lucky I didn't have her head sent to him in a box.

I want my revenge and I will get it but not with the poor child. Somehow ,seeing as she's already involved. She came in handy though, saved my life and now I have to deal with what put it in danger in the first place. Livo!

The truck we are in is kinda dark inside with four of Tiger's men there with me. Livo is at the front with the truck driver. Tiger insisted we meet Feng at one of his bases . The murderous look he gave Livo got me suspicious. I just hope Feng has an escape plan plus back up in case of an ambush. I'd like to think Tiger has a sniper waiting for the exchange to happen before bullets fly around.

"I think you should remove these expensive looking jewellery from my wrists now ." I say to the man seated on my right with a forced smile extending my hands towards him.

He twitches his mouth at me then shakes his head.

"Boss says, not before we reach base. Now sit still and shut up! " The man to my left yells.

I wasn't even talking to you!

"Okay big guy settle down. " I tell him mockingly.

He growls.

"We are almost there. " I hear Livo's voice announce.

"I'm going to enjoy beating the crap out of you." One man tells Livo.

"I can't wait to get this over with, then have you to toy with. " Another adds with a sick evil laugh.

"Oh, he is mine! " I hiss.

I get to beat him up first and if there's anything left to beat up then they can touch him. They laugh at me.

"Like you will be there to do it. " One man says mockingly.

Of course, double crossing is Tiger's forte.

"I'll kill you all. And I will enjoy it. " I say quietly letting it hang in there.

It does for a few seconds before they burst out laughing again. I'll have the last laugh. I know I somehow have to kidnap Malia again to make it alive out of the base. Damn Feng, we did have the upper hand so why couldn't he agree to have the exchange at a suitable location! I feel blind and I hate it.

As the car zooms into the compound of the abandoned old factory , I start to calculate where it would be convenient for a sniper to be positioned. Looking at the building with a really weird plan, it's kinda hard to decipher that with tinted windows too.

We seem to drive around for a while before getting into an underground drive through which is so dark. I can't make out anything. All I know is that my legs are shaking a bit from the anxiety building up. I try to calm myself by taking deep breaths.

Soon the back door is thrown open and I'm carried out like a bag of cement. I mean, way to sweep a lady off her feet.

"Hurry up, we get the girl and go try our new punching bag. I'm so excited. " Someone says actually sounding excited.

"I can offer you guys a better deal. " I say quietly again.

"What? And pay us with what? Boss has all your assets seized. " They laugh at me.

I grind my teeth in annoyance. Exchange glances with Livo who seems embarrassed. He shouldn't be, he's just the guy who betrayed me, gave me up to my perpetrators along with my family fortune and then confessed his love for me. Nothing out of the ordinary. That's in fact an average guy's life work.

Maybe if he was honest at some point and told me about his family I would have figured out how to help him. We could have played Tiger. But he chose to serve that master and lie to me. I would have made a quite lenient master and protected his family who saved my life.

He betrays me continuously for months then still has the audacity to confess his... love?!

"Move! " Someone commanding me after removing the cuffs brings me back to reality.

For a moment I see, I hadn't paid attention to my surroundings. Far off from where we are standing, there are two black SUVs. A couple of armed men are scattered around the cars. Feng is nowhere in sight with the girl. What is he up to?

We keep walking towards them but a few more steps and there is firing on the ground. So we stop abruptly Tiger's men taking out their guns. Weird thing is that the other men look relaxed. They don't even take out their guns. One of them steps forward.

"Walk any further and the motion detector guns go off. Only the boss gets to walk towards us. " The man says.

What? That gets two guns pointed at my head and another pressed against my back.

"Not before we see the girl. Sorry, boss's orders. Our boss. " One of Tiger's men informs him.

"Oh right, we don't have any girl. Your boss should have told you, as soon as you drove in here he got a call to go pick his girl at some park. The thing with such deals is that you can't underestimate your opponent. You also should try to have the upper hand when you can. Most importantly, don't be last to get to your mentioned location. Your opponent might just be tempted to buy off your sniper while waiting for you. Money can do wonders. Now let the lady come to me because the motion detector guns in a way, "He scratches his beard furiously, "Look I don't understand most of these tech shit but I think she makes them active somehow. If she dies you all die. "

I chuckle lightly. Feng with his tech and brilliant mind. I don't even want to know how I make the guns active. I smirk and turn around to face the men with guns still in my face.

"You should really take up my offer. Your sniper bought what they sold, I think he had a great idea. I'm killing the cat and taking back my family fortune. It's either you are with me or against. I kill those against just so we're clear. " I say quite smugly.