The Greek Billionaire’s Indecent Proposal
Chapter 27

Xander’s POV

I walked into one of our safe houses, Joud and Hector behind me. I’d rather be with Soraya right now but I had business to handle.

“Our guys finally caught up with him in Libya, he sold half of the merch there and kept the money for himself, he says he won’t tell us where the rest is because it’s his insurance.” Joud explained.

“But that’s not the only issue Xander, he is working with the Italians. He has been feeding them information about our deals, they blew up two of our workshops, we lost a lot of merch.” Hector added on.

We walked into a workshop, a man was sitting on a chair in the middle of it with a black hood over his head. Four of my men were standing around him.

“Good job guys, Joud nodded his head at them.

“Leave us.” I ordered. The men walked off but made sure to stay within a distance where they could hear if they were called to return.

Hector grabbed the hood and pulled it off the man’s head. He looked around trying to adjust his eyes to the light in the room. He saw my face and his face went white as a sheet, I smiled. That is the exact desired reaction that I had wanted to see.

“Mr Adamos sir, I… I, I.” He mumbled.

“Shhhhh, I didn’t ask you to speak.” I shooshed him, putting my finger to my lips. “You my man have balls.” I laughed

“Normally I wouldn’t have a problem with you taking from me, even though I pay you way more than I should. I wouldn’t even come here myself to come and deal with you, I have people for that.” He was so nervous he could barely look me in the eyes.

Joud brought me a chair and I sat across from where the man sat.

“Mr Adamos, please let me explain, I…”

“Eugene, I said shut the f**k up. I even took the time to learn the name of the man that has been causing me a lot of trouble these past few weeks.” I shared with him.

You could see the panic in his face, I could almost hear his thoughts, he knew that there was only one reason that I was here and that the fact that he was seeing me for the first time meant he would not live to tell the tale of how he’d met me. I never met with the men that worked for me, I let my cousins deal with all of the minuscule things.

“I swear I didn’t mean to steal from you, I needed the money.” He cried? This big man who had somehow found the guts to steal from me was sitting here sobbing like a b***h.

“Shut it! Now I’m going to ask you a question and if I don’t get an answer I will torture before I kill you and then I will replace your sons and do the same to them, if you tell me, I will be merciful and kill you quickly and I won’t go after your sons. Got it?”

“Mr Adamos…” he continued to cry.

“Remove him from the chair and lay him on the wooden table over there.” I ordered.

Joud came forward and got him up from the chair and took Eugene to the make shift wooden table.

“Bring me my favourite gun.”

A man ran forward and placed a nail gun in my hand. I smiled and walked towards the table.

“My problem with you is that you don’t know where your loyalties lie, tell me about Moretti, what have you told him about dear old me.”

“Mr Adamos please, I’m begging you.”

I pressed the gun and it made a swooshing sound before the nail connected with his palm. He screamed in pain.

“I told you, you speak, I give you mercy and you die quickly. You bullshit me and I torture and kill you and your sons. In fact I think we have your youngest Tommy here with us today. Shall I ask Joud to get him?”

The man vigorously shook his head. His face was a mess with tears and mucous running down.

“You are making me talk too much, I don’t like to talk Eugene.” I pressed the gun and nailed his other palm. He yelled. “Joud hold his feet.”

“Okay, okay I sold the merch to the Libyans and some guys in Congo. I don’t know where Moretti is, I met him twice only.”

I pressed the gun and the nail landed on his knee and actually made a cracking sound. He yelled in pain.

“What did you tell Moretti about my deals?”

His breath was laboured as he answered. “He knows about your warehouse in Phoenix, he knows about your factory in Mexico, he knows about your deal with the North Americans.”

“Where is he” I asked.

“I don’t know where exactly he is, just that he has a deal going on with the Japanese, he travels between New York and there frequently, we communicate through a burner that he gave me.

“Where is this burner? What else have you told him?”

“That you got married recently and that you got a kid. We saw the lady at your hotel when she came in with a kid that looked exactly like you. I put two and two together and figured you were the kid’s father.”

I laughed out loud a menacing laugh that seemed to echo all over the building. “And he paid you very well for this info I assume.” I breathed in deep and closed my eyes. When I opened them again and I shot his other knee. His knee cap shattered. I shot the gun through his elbows then his feet. His screams just kept coming over and over again. Lastly I shot his wrists.

“I’ll let your son go, he’s too young to pay for his father’s sins.”

I walked towards Hector, “we carry on with the shipment, he might know we have a deal in North America but he doesn’t know how it’s getting there and when it’s getting there. As for this fool, let him bleed out. Joud, you Dorian and Mike up the security with the family.”

I gave the nail gun to Joud then I walked out of the workshop with Hector following me.

“You think that he will try and disrupt the deal?” Hector asked.

“No, this man is not looking to make money of me, he wants to disrupt me. I need to end his life once and for all. We have been at war for years now, this is more than just business.”

“You think he still wants revenge for the fact that you refused an alliance with him all those years ago?”

“Normally I wouldn’t think twice about him but he is becoming a thorn in my shoe. Find his location Hector, we need to end this.” I instructed.

We got into the car and drove off back home.

Sofija’s POV

I watched Soraya interact with the children while they played with a soccer ball on the grass. She had way too much energy to be running around like that, in denim shorts and a white t shirt with matching sneakers. She looked like a teenager, I wondered how she managed to keep looking that young. I was twenty nine and I looked my age.

My brother had initiated a complete lock down for a little over a week because there had been a security threat, this was going to get in the way of my plans. I needed to make sure we all went to the gala next week Saturday. My plan had been working so good, Xander and Soraya were sleeping in separate rooms even though they were getting along better since the night he cooked for her .

He had been too busy to spend time with her because the men had business to take care of but I’d see them during breakfast making lovey dovey eyes at each other.

Stacy was sitting on a lounger next to mine reading a magazine while she drank some tea that Helga made for her as per my mother’s instructions. Everyone in this house seemed to get A class treatment from my mother except for me her own daughter.

I focussed my eyes back on Soraya, she was standing with Ajana who was talking none stop. I rolled my eyes. When I had been pregnant I had hoped that I would be carrying a boy but when the doctor told me it was a girl, Joud had been so excited about it that I could not share my disappointment. Women in my family were praised highly for giving their husbands first born sons as heirs and I had failed at that mission. Joud had not minded though stating that we had time to have another child.

Ajana put her arms around Soraya and hugged her tightly before running off to play with the boys. Soraya walked towards us and sat on the lounger on the other side by Stacy’s.

“Ajana really likes you.” I said and smiled trying to look friendly.

“She’s such a sweetheart, she has a beautiful spirit. Soraya replied.

“She probably gets it from her father.” Stacy butted in and smirked at me.

“Well having a beautiful spirit doesn’t really get you anywhere, nice girls finish last.” I retorted.

“I don’t think so, I think that she has a very special way of seeing the world and it’s beauty, she might be sweet natured but she is not naive, she fights for what she believes in.” Soraya added.

“I have not seen that side to her, you must be talking about the wrong kid.” How could she think she knew my daughter better than I did? Ajana was like a little mouse, too scared to speak up. She spends too much time reading and running around with the boys instead of taking interest in her appearance. All the girly things I had tried to push her towards like ballet, gymnastics, modeling, she rejected and Joud encouraged her saying that if she wanted to run around with her cousins I should let her be. “I organised for the kids to get ice cream since we were supposed to go out on a ice cream date. Soft serve with some toppings. It’s gourmet ice cream of course.“

I was trying really hard to be nice to these women just so my plan could go without any hiccups at the Gala. I hated every moment, every time I looked at Soraya I just wanted to scream and her little brat was becoming more confident and comfortable with being at the estate.

“Aunty Soraya can we go swimming?” Jovan ran up to Soraya and sat next to her on her lounger.

“Aunty Sofija has a surprise for you, after the surprise we can definitely go swimming.” She ruffled his hair playfully. This mother Theresa act of hers was annoying me. Jovan ran back to the other two and told them the great news.

The housekeepers brought out the ice cream station and Soraya and I walked with the kids, she let them dish for themselves and supervised as they put some toppings on their ice creams. When they were done dishing they sat on a picnic blanket and talked amongst themselves.

Soraya dished some ice cream for Stacy then asked me if she could do the same for me.

“No thank you, so many calories, I prefer frozen yoghurt. Stacy just because you are pregnant it doesn’t mean that you get to eat anything you want you know. Weight gain during pregnancy is real, you don’t want Hector to start looking else where for intimacy just because you have grown too podgy. Ask Soraya… oh but you were a single mother for years so I guess no one cared if you grew fat.” I smiled.

“I actually didn’t gain a lot of weight, I guess I was lucky.” She looked chuffed with herself. “Stacy you don’t have to worry about any of that, Hector is not shallow, he loves you and gaining weight is part of the pregnancy. It all goes away while you are breastfeeding.” She added.

I had had enough of this stupid day so I bid them goodbye and left them while I went to go and think about my next plan.

Soraya’s PO

Stacy and I watched Sofija walk away and Stacy burst out into fits of laughter. “She has definitely got a few screws loose. I hope you are not buying that act of hers.”

“Stacy, I really don’t want to keep fighting with her, I just want peace.” I sighed. “Already I am struggling to come to terms with the fact that this right here is my life” I gestured around me with my hands.

“How are things between you and Xander? Have you confirmed the pregnancy?” She looked at me.

“No, anything that I ask one of the helpers to get for me, somehow Gaia or Xander replace out. I don’t want them to know that I might be pregnant. Things between us are wonky still, I haven’t spent time with him because he has been leaving for work right after breakfast and coming back really late.”

“Why don’t we quickly rush to my bedroom, I have two extra unused pregnancy tests”

We got the nannies to watch the kids then walked up to Stacy’s room. I was so scared as I took one of them from her.

“This one tells you the results and how far along you are.” She smiled.

I took it and headed to her bathroom. After peeing on it I covered the tip with the lid and washed my hands.I stood there just watching the stick. Stacy came in just as it was reading out my results.

I sank to the floor as I saw the results. I was three weeks pregnant. Stacy shrieked and clapped her hands. “We are going to be pregnant together at the same time.”

“Please keep it to yourself Stacy.” The panic made me feel dizzy.