Chapter 5

James McAllen POV

A week passed by and everything was calm, we decided to have a meeting, the new information was starting to help, we noticed some of our areas where our sales and partnerships lowered considerably, showing that this was all planned for a long time but it was being made in an unnoticed way. If it was a good plan? Yes. If I enjoyed finding this out? No.

Each partnership I lost was money that I could be making, and if it was noticed right away all of this could be avoided. But still, here we are after more than an hour of analyzing everything we found out in the last week.

"I don't know how long this has been planned but it's starting to seem personal. If someone wanted to piss us off or to challenge I don't they would do all this" Mason says after a few moments of silence while we tried to process all the information

"This is way more than a challenge, the fact that Alison was in the middle of it proved it from the beginning." I say standing and turning my back, I just wanna punch something, I'm mad at all of this

"We are almost there, we are close to finding out who he is, we have to keep our calm and we will destroy that motherfucker" Alex says and he was way more confident than he ever was in the last week, I mean this doesn't help us know who the person is but we can always ask around and we know more names with these pieces of information

"What the fuck..." I hear Mason say and we turned to him and he looked at the phone and he looked paralyzed

"WHAT?" I ask almost yelling to take him out of the trance he was in

"One of your clubs was set on fire" he says and I was fuming, the club only opened at night, clearly this wasn't an accident but when he proceeded to talk again everything shifted so fat "They found a women's body there, all carbonized, they are deducting that it has between 20-25 years old and between 1,60m and 1,65m. It matches Alison's description..."

When I heard those words all I know is that not even he could believe what he was saying, everything that happened after felt blurred and slow motion. We ran to 2 different cars, two bulletproof SUVs. We can't take any risks and we don't know if this is a trap. Driving there felt like it was taking forever, I don't know how many tickets I may have gotten, I exceeded my speed by a lot, I ran a lot of red lights, everything was being ignored.

When I got there I jumped out of the car and I saw Alison's car in the street, Alex went with me and when my team saw us we immediately walked in. I heard the steps behind us but I was just completely numb, I just kept staring to the body in front of me.

"I need to know if there's any way to verify that it's really Alison" I finally say after some minutes without being able to pronounce any words without choking. I would only believe with 100% sure that it's her, until then it's a lie. Alison couldn't die, not her, please. Not her.

"As you saw her car is outside, we have phone, her keys, her wallet... Everything verifies that it's her" one of them gets closer to me but I pick the stuff from his hands and start to walk out. I couldn't have failed so badly in protecting her. This is all a lie, right?

"NO! PLEASE NO! NOT HER! NOT MY BABY! ALISON PLEASE NO" I heard Alex screaming, the tears running through his face, his knees hit the ground. It finally hit him, I saw the pity in my teams' eyes, the guys couldn't comfort him, they were all clueless and I... I just couldn't believe that easily, I don't it to be true and I prefer it that way.

"JAMES DON'T DO THAT! FOR FUCK SAKE, ALEX NEEDS YOU RIGHT NOW! YOU ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON FOR HIM! DON'T TURN YOU BACK JAMES!" I hear Ethan screaming in desperation while I walked to the exit

"I need to be 100% sure"

After that I ran to my car, I made all the way back the same way I did the way there, I went to her house and everything still seemed to last forever. I got there and I picked up my copy of her key, I made it the way she moved in.

I saw myself in the entrance mirror and saw all the tears rolling down my face, I didn't even know I was crying. Shot! This can't be real.

"ALISON! ALISON WHERE ARE YOU? IT'S JAMES!" I screamed over and over, no answer was ever heard. Shit. Shit. Shit. I kept repeating that word in my head, I felt like shit, this situation is shitty and I looked all over this god damn house and she wasn't here.

My phone started ringing and I saw it was Mateo but I couldn't answer it and confirming that it was all true. She was gone. I looked at the mirror when I was leaving and punched it with all my strength at that moment. Was it stupid? Very. But fuck it, I looked and all I saw was the failure, I failed. I didn't protect her like I should have, like I promised myself and Alex that I would.

I went home ignoring the fact that my hand was bleeding. I opened the door and went straight to the bar that I had on one corner of my living room and grabbed a random bottle, threw myself on the couch, and started drinking.

I just didn't want to think more, I can only imagine Alex's state. Fuck Alison. Fuck. If I knew this life would cost me her life I would give up all this shit in a heartbeat, I would let go of the money and the power if I could keep her. She's so fucking important to me and now only shows me this. She and Alex are the best I have, and now part of it is gone? Shit.

I was starting to fall asleep when I hear a noise on the upstairs floor. Is it my turn? Fuck it. I don't even care. I dropped the bottle which I only took a few sips from and grabbed one of the guns I had hidden in the support table of the living room. Time to get my revenge.