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(33.5) Find Him

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     "Where the fuck is he!?" I shouted at the man who was also guarding the second floor of the household last night; my hand still around his neck.

     "D-Don R-Romeo...p-please...I swear...I-I don't k-know..." the pathetic man answers me.

     "That's not the answer I'm looking for," I angrily told him. 

     I tightened my grip on his neck, but when he looked like he was about to faint, I let go of him, making him fall on the floor. But while he was catching his breath, I grabbed the gun from another soldier who was standing beside me and quickly shot the man on the floor right on his face.

     Everyone inside my bedroom gasped from shock. Mat even had to step away just because of the blood that quickly stained the floor.

     "Don Romeo, these two were also guarding the first floors while we were having our meeting," Antonio said as he arrived at the scene.

     He immediately notices the lifeless body on the floor, but he doesn't say anything. Instead, he pushed two men in front of me.

     I glared at the two soldiers standing in front of me, their whole body trembling from fear.

     "Let me ask you worthless men again. Where the hell is my lover!" I shouted right at their faces, making both of them flinch.

     The man on the right quickly held his chest and bowed his head, "I failed you Don Romeo! I was not able to see anything while you were..."

     I didn't even let him finish as I shot him right on the head as well.

     His lifeless body immediately fell beside the other dead man on the floor.

    Everyone inside the room became ten times more tensed as I pointed the gun at the other man this time.

     He immediately went down on his knees and said, "I'm so sorry godfather! Please! Don Romeo! Please don't'-"

      I was about to push the trigger for the third time but Mat suddenly touches my shoulder and said, "Don Romeo, I think that's enough. You killed all the cooks and all the guards who were assigned on the second floor. Nothing will happen even if we end up killing everyone here."

     I took a deep breath and put the gun down.

     I was gripping on the gun until it hurt my hand.

     I was so furious.

     So lost.

     Julien was missing, and the only thing I found was poison on his food and tire tracks leaving the household.

     And like magic, not even a single soul has seen him being taken away.

     "I will call every soldier who were on duty while we had the meeting last night. There were 20 soldiers who were asked to guard the outside of the household, I'm pretty sure one of them could have seen something suspicious at least," Antonio stated.

     He walks towards me and continued; "I'll ask them to gather at the lobby for interrogation."

     I looked back at him but don't say anything.

     I went out of the bedroom and walked down the hall. Mat, my uncle Antonio, and the rest of the soldiers, following behind me.

     "Where are you going?" I heard Mat ask from behind me.

     "I'm going to find him on my own since no one in this pathetic household could do it for me," I say as I continued walking.

     Mat grabbed my arm again to stop me, "Don Romeo. You already sent 30 men to find him. You need to stay here so we could keep you safe. People were able to get inside and take him like it was the easiest thing in the world. We can't risk something like that to happen to you too," Mat says.

     I pulled my arm away from him and looked straight at his eyes. Then, I grabbed him by the collar and pulled him upward until he could be lifted from the floor.

     "Julien is the only reason why I'm here, and he's the only reason why I'm still alive. If something happens to him..."

     I stopped, because the thought of Julien getting hurt in any way almost made my heart ache even more than it already has.

    "I am willing to kill everyone in this household just so I could find him. I am willing to trade my own life just to make sure he's okay," I seriously tell Mat, but Mat didn't even look terrified at me at all, like he perfectly understood what I was feeling.

     "We will find him. I promise you that," Mat said with a determined voice instead.

    "He's right, so please Don Romeo, let him go," uncle Antonio said this time.

     I took a deep breath and looked at everyone's terrified stares.

     I gripped on Mat's collar harder but decided to let him go.

     "Search the whole area. Search the whole fucking city if you have to," I say as I looked at the soldiers behind me.

     Without waiting for their response, I walked away and continued, "FIND him."

     "Yes Don Romeo!" I heard my men answer before they could go down the stairs

     "Is someone missing?" I asked as uncle Antonio and Mat continued to follow me.

     "There is actually. A veteran soldier named Aaron Rodriguez. The other men said he's been gone since last night," Antonio immediately answered.

     I stopped walking, making the two stop walking behind me too.

    "Aaron Rodriguez," I repeated.

     I clenched on the gun at my hand and immediately ran to the meeting room, the two still following behind me.

     I was about to go inside the meeting room to see Aaron Rodriguez's files, but before I could even get inside the room, someone suddenly runs towards me with a phone.

     "Don Romeo...It's madam Elizabeth Roselli," the man suddenly says.

     My eyes widened from shock.

     I looked back at Mat and Antonio who looked shocked as well.

     I took a deep breath and took the phone. I put the phone close to my ear but I didn't say a word.

     "My cruel son. It looks like you lost a toy."

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