Chapter 50

The screeching of car tyres and the sound of heavy footsteps of not one but three persons got Victor attracted away from the mountain of paperwork on his deck.

The door to his home office was opened with a bang and in came his son and... Love with a panicked face on.

"What the hell happened?" Victor asked.

"Before we say anything, please call Nicholas over. We have some questions and I have a feeling that he would be the one to give me the answers I need." Raphael announced. Victor looked at Raphael in surprise, the man standing before him wasn't looking like the man that left Victor arms early this afternoon with smiles on his face.

Victor knew that something serious had happened so he didn't waste any time. I'm calling up Nicholas.

"Hello Victor, surprised to hear from you." Nicholas picked up after the first ring.

"I need you to come over to the house now." Victor told him, staring back at the boys in his office with distressed yet calm faces. "It's an emergency." He hung up.

"So is anyone going to tell me why you broke my door and why look on your faces?" Victor Inclined, hoping that either one of the three would respond to his questions or at least give him a hint that would ease his worries a bit but he was met with only silence.

Victor looked at the three petite males on his office couch. Raphael was a totally different man from this morning with an alert, anxious but deadly look on his face. Raphael was back to being a stranger or just being a bodyguard while Ravi have a dazed downcast look, almost like he was an edge and lose control almost any second from now and as for Adrian, Victor knew without a second that he wasn't like the rest that had tried to conceal their emotions. Adrian is an open book. He had tried to put on a false brave look but all Victor saw was a gloomy look.

Something terrible had to happen to get them into this state and Victor was itching to know what happened.

"What's the emergency Victor?" Nicholas said barging in with Nate directly behind just like the other had done.

Victor felt like the world was again his office door because it was literally hanging off its hinges.

"You are fixing that door and I don't know what the emergency is... You can ask them if you want to." He said pointing over to Raphael, Ravi and Adrian sitting on the couch...well Ravi wasn't sitting because the second Nicholas turned towards them, he literally threw himself on him.

The both fell on the floor and held on to each other like their lives depended on it.

"What's wrong baby boy? Come on, talk to me." Nicholas cooed into Ravi's ear which made him cry more.

This went on for a while before Raphael decided to help put us out of misery.

"We were shopping in the exclusive part of the store when Ravi called over and told us of the creepy encounter that he had a store attender but we couldn't find the woman that he spoke of so we brushed it off as he was just seeing considering how we have been shopping of almost 4 hours on an empty stomach so we took him to a cafe not far away store." Raphael explained, a bothered look clearly shown on his face, "things were a bit tense... Because we all knew that Ravi didn't hallucinating that woman in his head, I mean I have seen Ravi hungry so many times and this have never happened and also from what I heard, you guys just sent one of the most wanted man in the world to jail and that spooked us a bit and then Ravi's phone rang so he searched for it in his purse but the thing is...he didn't bring out a phone but a letter."

"A letter?" Victor asked.

"Yes, a letter and the contents were what one would consider a threat." Raphael turned to Nicholas who still had a sleeping Ravi on him and was still on the ground before saying, "it had your name in it too. She said that she was a good friend of yours Nicholas and I have a feeling you have answered the question that is hanging above our heads."

Nicholas couldn't believe it. He knew for sure that Anika was behind it but what he couldn't believe was why she would go after Ravi. He has nothing to do with her and he would be damned if he left anything to happen to Ravi. Just when things are settling, Anika decides it is time to show her and he is ready for her this time around.

"Yes, I do know who she is." Nicholas announced, "she is my psychopathic ex girlfriend. Her name is Anika."

"Wait, hold up." Adrian says for the first time, "ex girlfriend as in the one that lie to you and was fucking your father behind your back."

"Yep, the same one."

"That bitch!" Adrian screamed, "so SHE is the reason why Ravi looked like his world was coming to an end? God I wanna kill her!"

"Calm down baby, let's not get blood thirsty...yet." Nate said, trying to calm his angry lover.

Nicholas stood up with a sleeping Ravi in his hands, "let me put him to bed and then I can... would tell you everything I know."

Nicholas carried Ravi through the stair, to his room and placed him on the bed. He ran his fingers through his curls and traced over his red soft lips.

The man could literally feel his heart beating over the boy that laid gorgeously on his bed, he knew it was only a matter of time before he falls in love with him and to his surprise, he head wasn't telling him to run because he knew he deserved to have real love and there's is no other one he would like to share that experience with other than Ravi.

Nicholas placed a kiss on his lips and exited the room after locking the windows and the doors... obviously. He might be acting out now but he didn't care at all. He didn't want to take chances with Anika.

She was a bitch and always will be but it would be stupid to underestimate her. She trained and studied in that hell hole with them so she knew their moves but he still wanted to be a step or two ahead of her. No more surprises.

"Victor, can you please other two guards to watch over Ravi and check up on him maybe every 30 minutes. I don't want to take chances." Nicholas asked.

"Sure." He said picking up the phone. "Done now Nicholas, the floor is all yours from the top."

Nicholas sighed, he wasn't up for talking about his past but Ravi is now involved, he has no other choice.

"We both met in a Russian boys academy. That was the place my father sent me to a few days after he shot my mother in the head. I hated that place even before I got there and acted rebellious but that didn't last long because my father, as an influential man in the academy, made my life 10 times more miserable than others. You see that school to outsiders is a place to just discipline rebellious children, that was how Benny and the others ended up there. But you see, the school was used as a cover to train children abandoned or sold by their parents as assassins or spies and I was enlisted by Marcus." Nicholas said, "Even before I entered the school. Marcus made sure I had no interactions with any other students and any time I tried to make friends, I was punished but when Anika came to the school, she talked to me and nothing happened so I thought why not and from then on we became very close."

"But hold up, I have to ask." Raphael interrupted, "weren't you at least suspicious in the tiniest bit? I mean it is a school for boys and then all of a sudden, a girl shows up and she talks to you but you didn't get punished as you usually are? Come on, that must have been a big red flag to you."

"Yeah, everything you just said was true and I asked her why she was in a school of boys but she only told me that her father owns half the Academy and that shut me up and as for the sudden stop in my regular beatings, I was too excited to even think of that. Anika was a very social person and made friends with Benny, John and Jimmy, Peter, Antonio and Nalee. These guys were amongst the few kids that were sent to the Academy for discipline."

Everyone listened with wide ears as Nicholas explained every event in his life that involved Anika.

It made Adrian shed tears because now he fully understands the abuse he had gone through in the past and why it was easy for him to be taken away from that tiny room when they were still captives while Nate felt sorry and even looked up to Nicholas more than before.

In his eyes, Nicholas is a brave man, not only for his past but because he was willing to open already closed wounds just to keep Ravi safe.

Nicholas might not know it now but he was definitely in love with Ravi.

"So what happened after the party?" Victor asked.

"Well after that day, things got back to normal...well as normal as an everyday spy and hired killer considers normal. I got back to work while Anika stayed home because she was pregnant and wanted to take no chances and she agreed so a month after that day, I came back home to find Marcus and Anika laughing and making jokes like old time friends... It felt weird but I didn't comment because it was a two against one game and I wasn't up for it. "

*****9 years ago****

I walked in and saw Dad and Anika laughing like friends and making jokes.

"Hey son, I see you are back home."

"Yes and I wasn't expecting to see it in my house." I said.

"Your house? I thought Anika paid for it all?" He cocked his head to the side.

"Um i-i"

"Yes, I did Marcus. I paid for everything here, it's like he is freely living in my house without giving or doing anything in return." She said with sneer directed at me, "but I was hoping that you could do something about that."

I was hurt deeply, I wasn't used to this kind of treatment from Anika.

Who am I kidding, Anika has been acting this way for a very long time but I still love her so much besides she is pregnant with my child and I need to treat her right and that includes making excuses for her in my head.

"Yes, from the look of things, he definitely needs the help if he is going to properly taking care of a gorgeous woman like you." Marcus said placing a lingering kiss on her cheek. I was expecting Anika to move away but she even learned more.

I coughed, "can you stop kissing her and tell me what the hell you both are talking about."

"Well, Marcus here came to offer you a job and before you say anything, I have already accepted the offer."

"You already accepted the offer without talking to me about it." I was filled with bewilderment at the lack of concern towards this issue.

"There is absolutely nothing to talk about Nicholas. You start working for Marcus next week or you wouldn't be seeing any of us and by us I mean me and the baby." She threatened.

I knew I had no choice. I wanted to be here with my child no matter the cause and I am also doing this for Anika because I love her and I also know that she is dealing with depression.

***Present Time***

"What! She was depressed?" Adrian asked.

I nodded, "I found Anti-depressant pills and I also found a letter from a therapist I never knew of about her not attending her therapy sessions and not taking her pills and how her schizophrenia would get worse if she doesn't."

"Oh so now we've got a psychopathic angry ex-girlfriend watching our every move! Just great." Adrian exclaimed.