*Bryson POV*
Caine and I left Jade in her room, and we closed the door behind us. We turned around only to come face to face with Krista Kingston and Emma Branson. I looked over their shoulders and spotted a few guards with them.
Krista had a knife to my throat, and Emma had a knife to Caine's. "We have a lot to discuss with the two of you. Follow me." Krista said dangerously low. I gulped inwardly and looked over at Caine. He just shook his head, and we followed Jade's grandmother and her aunt to wherever they were leading us.
Once we descended the stairs and a metal door was opened, I started getting a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. Where were we at? Caine looked at me and gulped loudly.
Krista entered the room and spread her hands wide. "Welcome to the torture room, boys." She said, smirking darkly as Emma closed the door behind her. The two guards stood off to the side of the room.
"Why are we down here? We made a deal with your son." I said out of frustration, but I felt uneasiness being down here. Was Anders going back on his deal with us? Were Caine and I getting killed before we had a chance to win Jade back? Anders wasn't even close to finding out who my father was or what connections he had here.
My father knew this family inside and out. He never stepped foot in Landon's house, yet he knew it like the back of his hand. He used to work for Landon back in the day when he had found Krista and brought her home.
I am actually surprised that Landon didn't recognize my father's voice when he spoke to him.
There was no way Anders went back on the deal. This had to be something more. It just had to be. "My son doesn't know what I am doing, nor do I need his approval. He may be the reigning Mafia King, but I gave birth to him. I will always be a Mafia Queen, even if I am currently retired." She says smugly, then looks over at the guards.
"Dean, would you be a darling and strip these boys down to their boxers and tie them to the chairs, please," Krista said, smiling mischievously.
"Yes, my Queen," Dean says and walks over to Caine and me. He grabs my shirt and tries ripping it off my chest. I pushed his hands away and punched him in the face.
"Get your goddâmn hands off me motherfûcker," I growled viciously and then felt a pinch in my neck and turned around to see Krista with a syringe in her hand.
She waved bye, and then I crumbled to the ground unconscious.
* * * * * * * *
I groaned loudly and blinked my eyes a few times. I opened my eyes up and noticed Krista and Emma standing in front of me and Caine with smug satisfaction.
I looked over and saw Caine groaning and moving his head back and forth. He was stripped down to his boxers and tied to a chair. I gritted my teeth and looked down to see myself in the same position.
"Whst the fûck is the meaning of this?" I snarled viciously.
"I want some answers from you, but I also have a few questions for you. I suggest you tell me what I want to know before things get ugly." She snapped out.
"You couldn't have just asked us without drûgging us and stripping us down to our fûcking boxers? What the fûck?" I strained out. I was absolutely livid.
"Did you give my granddaughter the same luxury?" She said, raising her eyebrow. I opened my mouth to respond but then closed my mouth back up and frowned.
She was right. We didn't do that. We did what the fûck we wanted and didn't think about the consequences because we didn't care at the time.
"Who is your father?" Emma asked calmly.
I shook my head in defeat. "I can't tell either of you until I speak to Anders. I made the deal with him. Please don't force me to tell you. It's his right to know. He and Jackson are the main people who deserve to know first since my father is after them for killing my Uncle Frank." I said softly.
"Your precious Uncle Frank hurt my baby boy. He râped him, drûgged him, and almost took my son away from us. He wanted my son as his own little fûck toy along with Carly. So don't you dare tell me that I don't have a right to know shît, you little bâstard. I have every right in the world as his mother. I will always defend my family until the very end. Now, answer my fûcking question!" She said with a venomous tone as she placed a knife at Caine's throat.
He was still unconscious, but he groaned out in pain from whatever she had injected him with.
I choked back the vomit, creeping its way up my throat from the horrific scenes playing out in my head. How could Uncle Frank do such a thing? Hearing again what Anders and Carly had to go through made me ashamed of having Frank as my uncle. "Please don't hurt my brother. I'll tell you, but please don't hurt him." I choked out.
Caine was like a brother to me. I couldn't let anything happen to him. I hated my father more and more that time was passing. It was his fault that this was happening to me and Caine. He did this to us. He lied to us all those years, causing poison to run through our veins. To make us hate this family and for what? All because of a woman, he said he loved more than my mother and because they killed Uncle Frank. My uncle deserved whatever he got. My mind was made up. I was going to tell her.
I opened my mouth to respond when pounding on the metal door distracted me.
*BAM*
*BAM*
*BAM*
"KRISTA! I SWEAR TO GOD IF YOU ARE IN THERE, YOUR BACKSIDE IS GOING TO BE SO RED YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO SIT FOR A FÛCKING MONTH. OPEN THE GODDÂMN DOOR." Landon yelled angrily.
Krista's eyes widened with fear, and then she gulped inwardly. I watched in fascination as she closed her eyes and took a deep breath, and then let it out slowly. She squared her shoulders and opened her eyes again. There was a strong defiance shining in her eyes.
"GO AWAY, LANDON. LET THE WOMEN DEAL WITH THIS." She screamed back angrily.
"WOMEN? EMMA, YOU BETTER NOT BE IN THERE TOO." Tommy growled viciously.
Emma looked at Krista and gulped loudly. "I told you this wasn't a good idea, Krista. I knew we were going to get caught." she whispered frantically.
I wanted to laugh, but I couldn't because I knew I was probably going to be the same way with Jade. Hêll, I already was to an extent. Caine, too.
"Finish what you were going to say, Bryson. I want to hear it from your mouth before my overbearing and overcontrolling husband breaks the door down," Krista gritted out.
"If I tell you, do you promise not stand in mine or Caine's way of earning Jade back? She is the only deal breaker in all of this. She's worth everything to us. She is all that we want." I said with a fierceness.
"Why do you want my granddaughter so much?" Krista growled angrily.
*BAM*
*BAM*
"I'M GIVING YOU TO THE COUNT OF THREE KRISTA." Landon snapped, "ONE," I looked over at Krista and squared my shoulders the best way I could. "TWO," Landon growled in frustration, "Because we love her. Truly and irrevocably." I said softly. "THREE," Landon shouted out as sparks started flying in the middle of the door.
"Fine. I promise I won't stand in your way. If you love her like you say, then I will stand aside," she whispered as she placed the knife at my throat, "but if you ever hurt her, I will cut your balls off and force them down your throat. Do you understand me, boy?"
The door was almost completely off the hinges. I looked at her and swallowed nervously. "I understand. My father's name was Steven, and he used to work for your husband." I said softly.
The door came crashing to the ground, and Landon and Tommy came barging in.
She smiled smugly and patted my cheeks. "Good boy," then walked over towards an outraged Landon. "Don't get your panties in a bunch husband. They are perfectly fine." Krista says, laughing softly.
Seconds later, Krista and Emma are flying in the air and hanging over their husband's shoulders. "We have some punishment to take care of. You know better than to go behind my back and bringing Emma into this? You will be begging me for release tonight, and it won't come." Landon says darkly.
"What? N-no, anything but that. Please, Landon." Krista whimpers softly.
"Kitten, I warned you several times about this. Now, you will have to deal with the consequences as well." Tommy says, chuckling.
"I'm sorry, Tommy, please, I will do anything." Emma whimpers softly.
"That you will Kitten, that you will." Tommy says dangerously low and spins around and stomps out of the room. Landon spins, and he's heading out of the room as well.
"Dean, release those two, and make sure they are clothed before they go back upstairs." He snapped out.
"Yes, Landon, right away." Dean rushed out and ran upstairs to get what I am assuming is clothes. The other guard pulls out a knife and cuts the ropes off of us. I rush over to Caine and pat his cheek.
"Bro, wake up. Come on, man, you gotta wake up." I say frantically. "He's probably going to be out for a while. He was given a stronger sedative and an injection to make his insides feel sick. He will survive, though, and feel a little better before he wakes up. Believe me, you don't want to fûck with Krista Kingston. She plays dirty when it comes to protecting her family." said the guard.
I nodded my head in agreement and looked back down at Caine. Dean rushed back in and handed me some clothes. "Thank you." I said roughly. "You're welcome and listen, I'm sorry. When Krista sets her mind on something she is determined to go through with it, even if she knows she will get in trouble with Landon. She loves her family and protects them fiercely." Dean says with pride.
"It's all good, man. As mad as I am, I respect her even more now. She had her reasons, and I understand. I would probably do the same dâmn thing, but it's probably bloodier." I say chuckling as I quickly get dressed and then dress Caine.
Dean and the other guard started laughing. I looked at them with raised brows. "What the héll is so funny?" I scoffed.
"That was just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Krista Kingston, dude. That was her being nice. She is cold-hearted and cruel when she wants to be and where it concerns her family. She will gut you and then rip your insides and choke you with them with a smile on her face. Don't underestimate that woman or Emma either. They have a darkness inside, but they don't let it out unless it is necessary." Dean says, shuddering and looks over his shoulder cautiously, "Carly learned from them, so be careful where her daughter is concerned. Good luck, bro. You are definitely going to need it when it comes to the women of this family."
Dean and the other guard leave the room quickly. I sit there with widened eyes, and my heart skips a beat. Well, shît.
If that was her being nice, then I would hate to she her get really mad.
Caine and I were in deeper than we thought, but I didn't matter, Jade was worth it.