The Bunker

I finished adding several tight plaits to the front of her hair on either side and leaned back a little to check her face. Her little sleepy smile brightened with her eyes, and she stared at me in wonder.

Come on now, I know I saved her, but she should be admiring herself. I don't know if I could go through eight years of that. I smiled back at her and tugged on one of the plaits.

"Very Viking-like," I nodded in approval.

"Where is my axe?" She shouted, pumping her fist in the air and scaring me and the girls too close to us.

I laughed and apologised to them on her behalf, but they smiled and turned back to talk to the officers with the lawyers at their side.

"I'll buy you one. You will need it one day, little sister-"

"I'm definitely older than you,"

"I'm taller,"

"You're with Nexus, though,"

"We will talk about that later. Want to check out the bunker with me?" I switched that track as fast as I could.

Sophia jumped off my lap and grabbed my hand to pull me off the chair. We stopped at the police officer who jumped on Nexus and tapped her on the shoulder. She rolled around in surprise and went to grab her gun with lightning speed.

'Daria!' Ad boomed, forcing me to jerk back and grab Sophia with the back of my arm and throw her behind me.

Woah!

I stepped back, pulling Sophia behind me as Nexus grabbed her wrist and stood in front of me. I screamed in surprise and went to grab Nexus, but Rain appeared from the left and ruined my path.

"Move," I cried.

The guns from the officers around the room raised and pointed at Nexus with a click.

I froze in absolute shock, not moving a muscle but moving my eyes to each officer.

This isn't good.

I raised my hands in surrender and cursed my inability to control the situation. I will have to look into putting some higher-ups in my horde.

"Ferona, charm them now," I hissed, watching the film of her charm move over the entire room.

Ad!

The film turned into a river of pink paint flowing around the room and circling the heads of each police officer. It spun faster and produced a brighter colour that spiked green. It evaporated with a pop, and the guns were lowered, and they shook their heads like a herd of dazed zebras.

 No, that was too close. Did Nexus nearly die?

'He would have rewound it,' he rushed out.

I know, I guess, but that is not the point.

The woman who was meant to be his friend, then again she was trying to shoot me and not him, stared at him with wide eyes, and she fumbled with her gun and dropped it down her side.

"Why? Why did you get in front?"

"Are you joking? She is my life," he growled, turning to look at me and softening his cold eyes.

"I was coming to tell you that we need to go downstairs," I said with a furrow of my eyebrows.

I stepped up to Nexus, and he turned back to her. She stepped back and shook her head for a long time. She turned to look at the other fellow officers, and they narrowed their eyes at her when they realised that they had nearly killed someone related to the lawyer that they knew well, including their clean reputations.

I shook my head and took Nexus' hand to drag him with Sophia to the direction of the club downstairs.

"How does she do everything you tell her to do?" Aaron whispered next to me, and I smirked at his discretion.

"If I told you that, I would have to kill you," I whispered back with a wink.

I was not entirely lying. He straightened his body, and we walked into the empty basement. They were all upstairs, so it was an empty room filled with cheap bunk beds.

Okay, it is giving that horror film based on true stories feeling.

'Nothing based on this,' Adam shuddered around my brain.

That was an uncomfortable feeling, much like this entire month.

"Where is the door, Ferona?" I growled, turning to her with sharp, cold eyes.

"I make a lot of money-" she started weakly.

"Are you being serious right now? You. Are. Done. You will never sell another person to another person again. You will never indulge in your fucked up sexual fantasies with my men, and I will bury you in my garden if you even think about looking at anyone in my organisation. You will stand behind me for the rest of your miserable life, and you will fucking shut up and deal with it. Do you understand me?" I was screaming in her face like a drill sergeant by the end, and most of those around us besides Nexus, Sophia and Aaron were at least five to eight feet away from us with wide eyes and raised eyebrows.

"I was just following my family," she continued, proving that she does not understand the gravity of her new and forever situation.

'Well, for as long as we win,' Ad snickered, and I laughed.

"You love your brother, don't you?" I purred, and the guards behind her perked up at this.

Oh, that man will need to be monitored at all times.

'I've set him up on an alert in the mob map,' since I've got Nexus back, he's been incredibly helpful.

"You will never figure out how I have you, but if you don't want to have your kinky brother under my control, I suggest you shut up and do what I say instead of finding loopholes; remember that your brother is currently obsessed with little Molly and she is obsessed with me. Ergo," I leaned into her ear, "You're mine."

Her pupils shrank, and I smirked at her, sighing as I turned back around and clapped. Her slouched body clicked past me and went to the far-right end of the basement, turning to look at me as she placed her hand against the bare concrete.

I raised my eyebrow as I walked over and saw the wall scan her hand with a green light that gave me a shiver. Previously, without a single seam, the wall opened inwards, revealing a giant door that hissed and popped when the seal broke.

Ad, where did she get this? It's hermetically sealed.

'I am checking now. That may be available in an upgrade.'

Interesting.

I grabbed the back of her suit jacket and yanked her behind me, rolling my eyes and snickering as her heels became entangled, and she fell onto her side. When she started to cry, everyone laughed at her and followed me into the passage and down the stairs as they lit up.

Are we meant to feel sorry for her? Am I meant to feel sorry for a trafficker, really?

Over my dead body.

'You can get these features for your safe room at the level 20 upgrade.'

Oh, I am fifty per cent of the way there. Fuck. This is a lot of stairs. Having to go up and down them after what she makes them do is one hundred per cent a torture tactic.

We reached the bottom of the stairs and a vast, pure white room filled with rows and rows of double beds, each with a different cover, and I froze. My ears started buzzing as the brilliant white walls and floors blinded me. I sucked in a breath and made a move to step back, but Nexus grabbed hold of my hand and wrapped it around my back to pull me into his side and kiss my cheek softly.

"We are not there," he whispered in my ears, pushing the buzzing away and throwing a blanket of darkness over my eyes.

I blinked as the brightness calmed, and my heart returned to a steady rhythm. I swallowed hard and turned to face the guards.

"Go on in and get your family," I muttered, and they rushed off into the place that was too clean and clinical.

I do not need any guesses to know that Craver built this place and participates in the personal security industry. I blinked again and looked at Ferona cowering between two police officers.

"That mansion that you own and clearly hold interesting parties in?" I questioned with a twisted smile, and Nexus turned his head to snap his eyes down at her.

She got on the floor on her knees, raising her hands in front of her like she was trapped in a terrifying, dark place.

"Yes," she squeaked.

"Does it have a bunker like this?" I asked in a sweet tone.

"It has two," she mumbled as she closed her eyes.

"This bitch," I roared, kicking her in the chest and watching the policemen's eyes widen in shock as she hit the stairs and her head cracked off of them.

"Oh my god," one of the officers cried, and the other went to grab his walkie-talkie, but I reached for his hand first and shook my head.

"She needs an ambulance! You kicked her onto the stairs. She might have cracked her head."

"She does not need anything. She'll wake up in a minute," I sighed, pulling the officers into a charming cloud of liquid pink.

"Oh, okay then. Whatever you say," they replied in unison.