SWNOVELS Chapter 44
44 The Beasts called Men
Third Person POV
FIVE MONTHS LATER
Jason. Charlie, Kai, and Ben, leaders of the Irish French American Mafia, were buried in their respective duties. Jason and Kai
spent their days training with the men, running orders around the world with such vigor and malice. They increased their
production ten–fold and although shipments were still ambushed, only one in every ten raids were successful and each attempt
ended in a bloodbath. No mercy was their new motto.
Charlie was busy opening new businesses and merging with companies to keep up with the expansive illegal tender that their
mafia was overhauling.
Jason, Kai, and Charlie would spend their evenings at various bars and strip clubs. They would drown themselves until they felt
numb, allow women to feast upon their flesh and shower them with pleasure just to ease the pain in their hearts. They killed
people, young and old, men and women in flashes of anger without mercy and without a second thought. Their men were always
afraid of the monsters who held the seats of power, but now they quivered in their shoes at merely breathing in their presence.
Each man had their way of coping at the loss of their girl. They missed her presence. They missed her wicked sense of humor.
They missed touching her and watching her reactions. They were angry, sure, but more deeply they were depressed. She was
theirs and she was gone without a trace. Each day that she wasn’t found, brought out more beast than man. Even Thomas and
Draco kept their distance.
But Ben was a little different. He was the only one who channeled his rage into productivity. Ben spent his days with his nerds,
coming up with more and more advanced technology. But at night, when the others were passed out drunk, Ben was combing
through security footage. He hacked every network he could get his hands on, developed a new recognition software, continued
to look. He would only close his eyes for a few hours in the early morning before starting back up again.
It has been five long tortuous months since Aurora disappeared. There was an explosion in one of the warehouses at the other
end of the compound. To the men, she somehow left during that time and it short wired most of the cameras. Even our secret
cameras and tracker they slipped into the necklace she always wore was not responsive
either.
Every time there was a lead on her, a person of interest brought in, a smidgen of hope, it would disappear before anything could
be done. The footage would disappear. The witnesses or people would be missing or dead. The soldiers who saw her flee, dead.
The guard at the gate, dead. The store owner in the next city where she got gas went missing two hours before they arrived to
question them and his whole building was destroyed in a gas leak explosion“. They were running in circles. The guys knew she
was smart and resourceful, but someone had to help her and that was the most upsetting of all.
It was particularly infuriating for Ben as he prided himself on being the best in the tech world and they surrounded themselves
with the best! How someone managed to be two steps ahead when they were already seven steps ahead
themselves.
He spent hours each night combing through logs and surveillance. He knew he was missing something and he knew that it was
going to be obvious once he found it, he just had to find it, so there he sat at his desk, surrounded by his closest nerd herd and
they got to work like they did every night.
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One particular might, at about three in the morning he and his nerd squad were searching the archives and one of his pals,
Christina, mentioned something about all the raids they have been getting in the last few years. And something clicked where
Bem decided to have his team pull all records from the last five years and that night he started writing a code that could truck
digital footprints. He was going to find the traitor and hopefully Aurora, if it was the last thing
he did.
It was a typical Friday night, but Jason in a moment of sobriety today during his combat training realized that he had not spent
true quality time with his best friends in months. So he sent out a text demanding Charlie, Ben, Kai. Thomas, Draco, and their
visiting buddies Tom and his husband Camden to meet at the billiard room tonight for
drinks and tun.
Tom and Camden were part of their main of course, but Tom was one of the commanders for their European division.. Tom grew
up with Kai and them when Charlie and Jason came into the picture, the guys all clicked instantly and became good friends.
Jason evem presided over Tom and Camden’s wedding a few years back. They were in town to pick up their new baby twins
Common and Tabitha who were graduating from the NICU in the morning. Jason, Charlie.. Ben, and Kai all helped sponsor them
and helped make all the arrangements. Tom was just as cruel as the lot of them and when it came to his family, he could match
Rai’s sadism. Those kids were going to be very lucky.
“To the newest Collin Family additions! And to the last night of sleeping for you my friends” Jason raised his full glass of whiskey
to the other men who were taking sis of their amber liquids around the pool tables. Thick Smoke filled the room as each men let
their Cuban cips in the trays.
“Salute!” they cheered. Tom and Camden were beaming. For the first time in months, the guys were smiling and enjoying each
other’s company.
Draco, Kai, Jason, and Camden were playing pool. Tom and Thomas were entranced by the video game consoles playing some
sort of post–apocalyptic shooting game, and Ben and Charlie were trying to outshine the other on the various arcade games like
PacMan, Galactica, and Pinball.
Jason got a text from his phone and it was confirmation about a new huge shipment. It made him happy.
“We got the Weisman deal bitches” Jason cackled, lining up his sont on the pool table and let it fly, sinking three balls.
“Yes!” He celebrated.
“Seriously lay?” Charlie was exhausted. “How much prode this time? And when are we doing this” He was already trying to
assess the new properties he was going to have to invest in
“Next week. And we are looking at...Three hundred and nineteen...billion” lason said seductively, pausing sporadically for
dramatic effect. He was in his element. This was by far one of the lingest diralls they ever received. They had been working on
their products and proposals for months before Aurum and presented it two weeks ago.
“FUCK!” “NO FUCKING WAY!” “HOLY SHIT!” was just some of the obscenities the guys screamed out. This was going to be a
massive operation but it was going to be beyond lucrative..
“And that is why ladies we are the fucking best!” Jason smirked and raised his glass to all his closest men who followed suit and
they all clapped and cheered. They celebrated their victory.
“With such precious cargo, we should do the Sleeping Beauty Charlie said, a little tip Jason just nodded and it
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caught the attention of the others. Kai and Ben nodded and the others were confused.
Draco spoke up this time, genuinely curious because he was one of the main strategists: “What’s the Sleeping Beauty
boss?”
“Hmm, remember that shipment a few months ago where we changed plans last minute and had you run all over town and we
wouldn’t tell you anything about it?” Jason said sternly. Draco just nodded. “Well, that my friend was what we called Sleeping
Beauty!” Jason downed the rest of his drink in two large gulps, the burn on his throat made his wince a bit. He was feeling all
warm inside now and they all got back to playing and goofing off.
What they didn’t notice was that Thomas had slipped out of the room and walked down the hall, entering a spare office space,
and getting out his phone to make a very important phone call.
In the billiard room, Ben got up to go to the bathroom. He exited the room and went down the hall. The same hall that Thomas
had sequestered himself in moments before.
Ben was too busy answering his texts and went to the bathroom with ease.
He did his business and spent a minute splashing water on his face and combing his unruly hair. The countless nights. of staying
up and combing through files was tiring. His muscles ached, his head hurt, his eyes always felt like they had lead in them. He
needed sleep but he couldn’t rest. He knew he was missing something and he knew it and it was driving him crazy. He couldn’t
believe there was someone one step ahead of him.
He started to head back to the guys and he past a door that was slightly open. It was a small office space that they usually kept
closed. He went to shut the door when he heard Thomas talking and what he heard had him reaching for his phone and his
gun.....
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