Chapter 18 - PETTY

Luna Morris I never believed when people said facing The President or The King is like meeting god. I had to meet Clyde's grandfather, who was the King of Denmark, and I felt fine. I've met other important people from London. I felt wonderful, but seeing the alleged leader of the Bloodhound scared the shit out of me. Something about him that made people take a step back and admire him. If Clyde looks like a bad boy who kills for sport, this man is the devil himself. "I think the pigs have begun to fly," Ares said. "Luna, this is Asher Serano. Asher, this is Luna Morris. She's my girlfriend." Clyde introduced me to him. Asher gave me a small smile and a nod. "Nice to meet you, Ms. Morris. I've heard a lot of things about you." Asher said politely. "Nice to meet you too." I smiled. "You've got a lipstick stain on your lips," Asher said to Mason, who grabbed a glass of champagne. "And on your cheek." He added. Anastasia held Mason's hand and avoided Asher's eyes. "It's my fiancee's. She gave it to me earlier," Mason said bluntly. "I thought you were coming back tomorrow." Kayden took Asher's attention from Mason and Anastasia. "This is getting boring, and I'm outta here." Mason turned to Asher, and they were looking at each other silently. Mason pushed Anastasia away from him. Asher grabbed her by the arm, preventing her from going away. "You know what to do," Asher said to Kayden, and he nodded. Asher then turned to Clyde, who had been silent after introducing me to him. "Mikael is doing a transaction a few blocks away from here. Go to the headquarters to take over. I'll take care of the rest here." He commanded him, and Clyde nodded. "Ares, take me home," Anastasia begged him, but Ares raised his hands. "You had your death wish, Ana." She tried to escape Asher, but he was holding her hostage. "Let's go. I'm taking you home," Clyde said, and I nodded. "How about Anastasia?" I asked, and I regretted it when Asher's eyes found mine. Anastasia looked at me like she was asking for help. "Don't even think about it," Asher said to Anastasia. "Let's go." Clyde pulled me away before I could say something. I stopped him when he was right at the ballroom door. "We need to get Ana," I said, and Clyde shook his head. He grabbed my arm and dragged me out. "Daisy is still inside!" "Clyde!" I pulled my arm away from him. Instead of stopping to talk, Clyde picked me up on his shoulder. I punched his back like a mad woman, and he put me in the car. Blanc closed the door, and he told him to go straight to my apartment. "Why did you do that? Asher was holding Anastasia hostage!" I can't believe this man. "Never get in between Asher and Ana. It's an unspoken rule. You won't be alive if you intervene in those two." Clyde warned as he took out his phone to call someone. He suddenly talked in a different language. Was it Russian? "Blanc, take Luna to her apartment. Pull over now..." Blanc pulled over, and Clyde turned to me. "I'll see you tonight after I'm done with work." Clyde kissed me and got out of the car. A car picked him up right away. He left me so confused. Clyde Nielsen I put my earpiece on and started tracking and hacking inside the black van. Kayden gave me a heads-up earlier before going to the charity event. "I'm all set," I said. "I'm all set. Back up will come in 5 minutes," Kayden said. "Good, they're currently negotiating. Have the backup to stand by near the bridge." Asher said to Kayden, who's currently telling his team what to do. "We have five men there and ten more by the South," Kayden said. My eyes landed when my software started to move, and it meant Mikael was going to access his phone to receive the money. "Entering the vault," I said. Mikael worked for The Bloodhounds as one of our researchers in our lab. Asher sent him to give Pavel the prototype of the new weapon that we're inventing. He betrayed us by giving Pavel the failed prototype and selling the real ones to the Italian mafia. Mikael got caught last week and has been on a run. Asher has been watching all of his moves for the past week to see all the people that he's offering. "20 million on your way, Nielsen," Asher said. I quickly set my software to catch the 20 million dollars and put the money into our account. I could hear commotion through Asher's earpiece. He's there at the spot to kill everyone. "Sending them to you, Grant." My work was finished when I found the 20 million dollars in our account. I put Mikael's bank information into my email and sent it to Asher, who will take care of it later. The van took me back to the headquarters, where Mason was currently driving his car around the racing track right behind our headquarters. I gave a sign to his guard to tell him that we needed him. "Clyde!" I looked up to see Anastasia waving at me. "What the hell are you doing there?" I asked. "Help me." She said, pointing her finger at something. I narrowed my eyes at her. "Leave her the fuck alone, Nielsen," Asher said through the earpiece, making me chuckle. "Serano told me to leave you the fuck alone," I said, and Anastasia rolled her eyes. "Asher can fuck himself!" She screamed. "You hear that?" I asked Asher. "Crystal clear." I ignored Ana when she called me. I went down to B1, where my computer room is. I went there and put the information in the buyer's bank account. I ran it down through the hacking program I made to extract all his money and move it to our account. "Extract the buyer's money, just to be petty because that asshole ruined my night." I said and Kayden chuckled. "How much is in there?" Kayden asked. "113 dollars left."