FLOW PLAN

DANTE'S POV

I got rid of the director's body once I was done with him. I deliberately tortured the director next to Adrian's room to traumatize him. I know he heard all the screams and shouting. I actually burned the director's body because I couldn't be bothered with burying it. Kent kept to his promise and arranged for the director's children to be taken to safety and watched 24/7.

By now, I'm sure Veronica knows that something has happened to the director. I'm sure she has doubled security at erotica.

"You think we did the right thing?" Liam asks, as I stand in a room with him, Kent and the other men.

"We got a location, didn't we?" I say impatiently.

"We all know that wasn't about some location." Kent says and I want to punch him in the face. "Colton would have given us the location anyways. It was about revenge and we all know it." Kent says.

"I hope you're not about to judge me. Try putting yourself in mine and Liam's shoes. You'd do the same." I argue.

"Probably. Maybe I'd do even worse. But right now, we need to think about our next course of action. These people aren't stupid. They know you're on to them now. We have to act smart. We have to do everything exactly as we've planned. We let Adrian attend the meeting with Veronica, we get Colton's sister, and then we raid erotica."

"Or we could just go to erotica now. We don't owe Colton anything anymore." Headshot proposes.

"No, Kent is right. We can't cross Colton. We promised him we were going to get his siter and that's exactly what we're going to do. If Colton finds out we're no longer with him, he might back away and stop helping Adeline. He might betray her because we betrayed him. It's too risky." We have to think about this very thoroughly.

Killing the director may have caused more harm than good but it is something that needed to be done. I needed to save Adeline's honor and after what that man did, I couldn't just let him roam around freely and give him the opportunity to do that again. Veronica already knows about my existence and the fact that I'm the one who has been killing all her men, this changes nothing.

"Veronica is going to be more careful now that the director is dead. She'll be expecting us to attack her any moment now. I'm sure she knows we know where erotica is located." Liam says pacing back and forth in the room, worry clearly etched on to his face.

"What if he does something to Naomi to get back at us, Dante? What if she kills her? What if she tortures her? Are you sure we did the right thing in killing the director? What if we made a mistake?" Liam starts breathing heavily as he speaks.

I'm stressed. I'm stressed and I need to think and seeing Liam panic right now isn't exactly how I hoped tis day would go. I need him to calm down and I need us to think about a solution together. he can't lose his mind now.

"She's waiting for us. Let her. She doesn't know that we went to the FBI. She doesn't know that Kent is helping us so she'll underestimate us. Right now we have the backing of the best FBI detective in the city. We'll be fine. We just need to prepare ourselves and push through with this plan like we planned. The detective was never part of our plan, I admit that now. I killed him for personal reasons and personal reasons only and I fi had to go back in time and do it again, I'd do the exact same thing without blinking. I don't regret what I did."

I say without blinking. "She's not going to hurt Naomi." I say to Liam. "That'll be too easy for her. She knows that if she kills Naomi right now, then she has nothing else against us because we all know by now that she's not going to kill Adeline because she wants to sell her. Naomi is the only thing she has on us right now. Maybe she'll threaten us with the fact that she still possesses Naomi, but she wont hurt her."

"Those are all just theories, Dante. You heard the director, we do not know these people and we have absolutely no way of knowing exactly how far Veronica is willing to go." Liam says and it hurts me to see doubt in his eyes. I need him to have more faith in this.

"I need you to trust me, Liam. I need us to not lose hope now. The meeting with Adrian and Veronica is soon. If that meeting goes successfully, then we might have Veronica in our gras and all of this will be easy for us." I say.

"What if we don't get her? What if she manages to escape? What if something goes horribly wrong?"

"Then we fucking keep pushing until we get Adeline and Naomi back god damn it!" My voice comes out loud and commanding.

"I'm never going to give up Liam! I don't fucking care how long it takes. I don't care what the fuck goes wrong but the fact that I still have air inside of me. The fact that I am still alive and not dead is enough reason for me to keep pushing until I find her. Until I get her out of there I will never ever stop okay?"

"Fine." He says softly. "Fine."

"Okay then." Kent says walking towards me. "We have the location of the location of the meeting with Veronica. I'm going to get some men ready but I can only get so many men as I can. Now that the director is dead, there is going to be a new investigation to find out what happened to him. Things are going to be pretty tensed in the office."

"Things aren't going to be tensed when I send them the proof of the director's involvement with erotica." I say under my breath with a deep voice.

"When did you get that?" Kent asks me with wide eyes.

"Doesn't fucking matter. But I'm going to do everything to make sure that the FBI's focus isn't on the director but on erotica." Kent nods his head as I speak. He doesn't need to ask me many questions, all he needs to do is act and leave the rest to me.

Once the entire FBI board finds out about the director, they're going to forget about him in a second. They're going to understand why he has been brushing away the erotica case for so many years and all the attention will be on Kent and his new case and that's exactly how I want things to go.

"You know what Dante, on second thought, I don't think we should put so much focus on the director's death." Liam says and I turn my gaze towards him. He has eye bags and his eyes are so red you can literally tell he has trouble sleeping and it's all because he decided to follow me and kill all those men.

"An investigation about the director's death is inevitable. He's literally the director of the FBI." I say to him.

"Yeah I know, but let them wonder. Don't let the world know he was involved with erotica." As Liam speaks, I can see where he's going. Veronica.

"We don't want to let veronica find out that we are involved with the FBI. The director dying is already a big deal. Imagine if the world finds out that he was involved with something so scandalous. It'll be all over the news. News that will inevitably get to Veronica who will inevitably find out about our involvement. We do not want to let that happen."

"He's right." Shadow says. "We need the element of surprise. Right now the bitch underestimates us. She thinks you're a one man army. She thinks your out numbered so she wont even be expecting you to erotica."

"That's a good idea. When we storm the place, she won't't be expecting to see FBI agents." Kent says.

"Okay." I say simply. "But something keeps bothering me. Now that she knows we know the location of erotica, what fi she decides to change the location of the auction?" I ask and all the men look to me in confusion.

"That's where Colton comes in I guess." Kent says. "He's going to have to find that out for us."

"What if he refuses?" Liam asks.

"He can't. He needs us. For his sister." I state.

"I guess we have a flow plan then." Headshot says. "Now we just need to carry it out well. We can't make any mistakes."