The three people left Frederick's cell and went back to Valarie's office. They were silent all along. But once they closed the door to the office, they could not control themselves any longer.

"What the hell did we just find out?" Preston was the first one to break the silence and shook his head, unable to make head or tail of what he had just found out. It was just too much information to take in, especially in the last two days.

"I am not sure myself," Valarie said dropping her files on the table. Just like the other two, she too was perplexed by the turn of events and just to think that all the troubles their nation had to go through had been planned by the father and the son duo made her feel sick. The man she had respected as a senior once upon a time was such a scoundrel. The memory itself made her lose her mind and she now had an immense urge to kill the man responsible for all the problems.

Ryder was the only one who seemed calm among the three. It was not that he was not affected by what they had heard. No. He too was spooked to think how cruel Frederick was. However, he was more worried about Maggie now. To think that she was undercover in a gang so vicious and horrible made him jittery and apprehensive. His mind was only filled with her thoughts and her alone.

"What are we going to do next?" Preston enquired, not noticing Ryder's weird gaze. However, Valarie did not miss it. She could decipher what he was thinking and just the thought of it made her all the more miserable.

"Maggie has promised to contact me once the meeting with the man called Godfather ends. So, let's wait until then before we make a decision." Valarie replied, her eyes not leaving her best friend. There were visible changes in his face and she could the slight sparkle in his eyes. "And this time, Ryder, you speak to her."

The man blinked in confusion on being called out of nowhere. He looked back and forth between the two wondering what they had even discussed right now. "What?" His cute face made Valarie to giggle.

"I said you will be speaking to Maggie when she will call me."

"Can I do that?"

"Definitely. At least you can make sure that she is safe. I know how badly you must be missing her."

"Thank you, Val. Thank you so much." Ryder plunged forward and hugged his friend. The force he had used was too much for the girl to bear and she staggered back a few inches trying to support herself.

"You are welcome." Valarie chuckled and patted her friend's back in happiness. She had got her friend back and that was all she needed now. Although Valarie stopped patting him, the man did not pull himself away making the duo look at him in bewilderment. "Umm, Ryder. Is everything alright?"

"Yes, why do you ask?"

"Because you are crushing me."

"Oops, sorry." Ryder released her immediately and scratched his neck letting out a cheeky smile.

"Not issues. In the meanwhile, let's take some rest. We might have to wait for an entire night to hear from her again." Valarie said and the other two men nodded. It had only been around an hour since Jared left the Intelligence and there was no way the meeting would have ended this soon. So, the three people decided to crash at Valarie's house in case Maggie called them in the middle of the night.

While the three friends, especially Ryder was fretting over Maggie's wellbeing and safety, the girl in question was waiting calmly along with the other gang members in the warehouse. They had been called for an emergency meeting and she knew the reason for it. Jared's ill deeds had been discovered although he was not the one to be caught.

'Who knew that Chief would be such a bastard? To think that the man was hiding in the Intelligence...' Maggie thought and pushed her glasses up as she leaned against the wall beside her.

Everybody around her seemed to be visibly nervous and she could even see the way their eyes were moving towards the entrance every now and then, as they waited. She could even hear hushed whispers of anxious words while they spoke among themselves. Neither Jared nor his assistant had arrived yet and that was all the more agonizing.

Among the horde of nervous men, Maggie was the only one who remained unnerved. Other than the excitement and eagerness she had to know who this Godfather was, there was no other feeling in her. She pushed her glasses that had slid down her nose once again when she heard a commotion from outside. "It seems someone is here."

Just like her, everybody's eyes were trained at the entrance only to see an exasperated Jared with his scared assistant following him. Jared loosened his tie before he removed it completely and threw it to the ground with full force. "Fuck." He then kicked the only chair in the warehouse and the sound of it crashing with the glass partition behind it reverberated loud in the room.

To the men, it was a sound of death. They had never seen Jared this irked and that was what made matters worse. They had no idea what lay ahead for them and that if they would even make it out of the warehouse alive that day. Cold sweat started to run down their spines and their hands turned clammy. However, they still tried to put on a brave front.

Jared was so pissed to death by the turn of events that his hands were craving for blood and he was having a bloodlust. Unable to control himself any longer, he pulled out his gun and he shot the man who was standing in front of him, petrifying everyone in the room, including Maggie.

The man dropped to the floor and he died within a minute. Still not satisfied, Jared shot the man beside his first victim and this continued until there was only one bullet left. By then, seven heads had rolled to the floor. Jared then pointed the gun and this time, it was directly aimed at Maggie. She raised an eyebrow at him challenging him to go ahead if he wanted.

Although she was putting on a brave front, only she knew how nervous she was from within. She clenched her hands, her eyes not leaving Jared's pitch black orbs. Finally, after a long moment of silence, the sound of a gunshot resonated through the warehouse. The last bullet had been fired through the gun.

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