The Greek Billionaire’s Indecent Proposal
Chapter 53

Soraya’s POV

“Why are you hesitating, a Dona doesn’t hesitate to pull the trigger or she dies.” Michail was trying to antagonise me. The horses had calmed down and the stables were quiet once again except for his taunting.

“Because you were once Xander’s father in law, you’re his family.” I said, I couldn’t even hide the disappointment in my voice but at least my voice sounded more calmer than I actually felt.

I looked at the kids by my side, Kai had managed to calm Ajana down even though she still looked like a deer caught in headlights. She kept peeping at the man on the ground even though I had repeatedly told her not to look. In the middle of holding the line while talking to Xander, my phone battery had died. I wondered what was taking the guards so long to reach the stables, Xander should have gotten ahold of Simon by now.

“Well this automatically makes me an enemy, he will be coming after me.” Michail smirked disgustingly.

“Why is it that people who supposedly care about Xander want to hurt him?” I asked him.

“Xander should have taken over my empire as well, that was the whole point of bringing him and Hera together. When she died I thought since I don’t have another daughter and Basil was already married to that stupid waif he calls a wife and convinced himself he was very much in love instead of agreeing to marry Sofija then maybe I could convince Gaia to marry me so we could still be one family.” He looked bitter.

“But you are already married.” I said knowing very well that he looked like the kind of man that wouldn’t let that fact deter him.

“Wives come and go, whether it’s by divorce or death.” I stared at him in horror and he laughed. “Yes yes I do what I must to get what I want.”

“Knowing Gaia, she turned you down didn’t she?”

“She laughed in my face and said I was ludicrous, she said she had pledged to herself that her husband would be the only man she ever loved and married. She was always prissy and full of herself, who did she think she was laughing at me? I’m Michail Kastellanos, my family name was bigger than the Adamos family name at some point. Xander was smarter than his father you know, when he took over from his father he grew this business to three times what it is today.”

“You are selfish Michail, I don’t know who was after Hera but it wasn’t an enemy of Xander’s but yours! Xander loved her, you are the one that messed up! Take responsibility for your own failures. You made an enemy of someone like you are doing now.”

There was a rustling behind me and I thought it was one of the guards, I turned to look but there was no one but the rustling came again. It was from one of the stalls. Something didn’t feel right. I turned my head to look at Michail and he was smirking like he knew something I didn’t. I didn’t know how many rounds were in the clip of the gun or how many men Michail had on the grounds.

Suddenly I heard gunshots, this was not just a kidnapping mission. There was no way Michail would attempt this and leave witnesses, he planned to m******e the entire family. I had to get the kids to safety. I quickly put the safety of the gun on and shoved it my jeans by the back of my waist then I grabbed the kids hands and yelled for them to run. At that point I remembered the stable office had an office, it had to have a lock. I heard footsteps running after us but I kept dragging the kids with me.

Oh God I had to get the kids to safety, I didn’t care what happened to me. We got in there and relief flooded through me as I saw the keys behind the door as I shut it. I turned the lock.

“Ajana sweetie you have to be brave for me okay? Everything is going to be okay, your uncles are coming.” She nodded but flinched when whoever had been chasing us banged on the door really hard. The windows were opened so I scrambled to close them first as the banging continued.

“Leave us alone!” Kai yelled.

“Shhhh honey don’t say a word.” I extended my hand to him gesturing that he should come closer to Ajana and me.

I kept checking if there was another way in to the office as I saw a figure of a man walking past the frosted glass window. There was a door leading to the toilet. My adrenaline was just pumping through me, I ran to the toilet and closed that window too but something stressed me. If whoever was out there with Michail broke the window in the bathroom they would be able to come into the office.

I grabbed the office phone but I realised I hadn’t memorised any of Xander or Hector or Stacy’s phone numbers. “Oh God please don’t let them break the windows.” I prayed out loud.

“Soraya! Open the door, do you really want to scare the kids by having us break in to the office.” Michail yelled.

“Mommy, daddy will come.” Kai said putting his hand in mine. “He came the last time.” He looked at me with so much seriousness on his face.

“Kai honey, I’m going to do something but you can’t be scared and you have to remain quiet okay? I’m going to lock you and Ajana in that big locker over there but you have to be quite please. Okay Ajana?”

She nodded, her thumb was back in her mouth and she looked distressed.

“I don’t want to leave you mommy. Daddy would never leave you.” Kai’s little hands were balled into fists.

“Honey I can’t fight back if I’m worried about the bad man harming you and Ajana. You are not leaving me, you are helping me okay.” I assured him.

He didn’t look convinced at all but he nodded. There was a fingerprint padlock and I was willing to bet that only the stable manager could unlock it. I would deal with that later on.

“Go in, both of you.” I got them in there. “Don’t say a word.” I closed the door, it had riff openings on it so I knew they would be able to breathe in there. I locked the padlock, even if they would break into the office they would struggle with the padlock.

Suddenly there was shooting just outside the office, then there was silence.

“Soraya! Are you in there?” Someone yelled from outside. It was Simon, I let out a sigh of relief.

“Simon? Is that you?”

“Yes Madam, Michail took off but don’t come out. Stay in there, I need to replace Kai and Ajana.” He said.

“They’re in here with me.” I told him.

I opened the door, he was shot on the arm but he didn’t look like he was bothered by it.

“Get in, we have to stop the bleeding.” I said to him.

“No, close that door Soraya, I will stand guard.”

“They will shoot you down right in front of that door, you can’t protect us if you are dead. Get in here!” As I was about to close the door, it was pushed open with so much force that we were pushed out of the way and fell to the ground. Two men stood over us.

Xander’s POV

I had a feeling that Michail would cause some sort of road block, if he had helped Moretti with the first one then he would definitely orchestrate the same plan to keep me from the house.

The chopper I used with some of my man landed on the grounds just next to the orchard, only eight people had managed to fit into the standard size chopper and that was pushing the limit. When I got off I took of running. I didn’t know what Michail’s plan was but I knew that he would kill anyone that stood in his way.

Hector and Dorian would still be stuck in the roadblock but I had warned them about it, to be careful incase they were ambushed. I had called John and asked him to get the ladies and Soraya’s parents to the safe room. The employees would go into another one.

Kai had said they were by the stables, I had heard the horses in the background. One of my men was with me as we navigated our way there, this estate was too damn big. I heard gun shots ringing from different areas and that made me nervous but I couldn’t worry about that, I had one goal and that was to get to Soraya and Kai.

We reached the stables and I ordered the man with me to go the one way and I would go the opposite direction. More gun shots sounded, then I heard fighting coming from the office. I saw Simon and Soraya just fighting outside the office with two men. Simon looked hurt but he held his own.

Looking at Soraya use her practice to evade the man who towered over her made me proud, she used his big stature to her advantage, she was faster and she ducked and swerved as he tried to grab her. She landed a punch on the man’s jaw but she got distracted when Simon got thrown across the room. The man grabbed her by the neck and began to squeeze tight. For a few seconds she panicked but she cupped his face and jammed her thumbs into his eyes, he began to yell and he let go of her.

I took out my gun and aimed, the man that was lifting Simon up to his feet dropped dead. I aimed again and the man in front of Soraya staggered and fell to his knees before he fell to the ground. I could see her panic as she looked around until she saw me then she ran towards me. My arms went around her and I held her tight just inhaling her scent. I kissed her deeply.

“I’m so sorry Angel.” I whispered. “I keep putting you in danger.”

“It’s not your fault.” I looked into her eyes and I knew she meant it but it didn’t take away the guilt. Matthew would have all the argument he needed to tell me I was a danger to my wife and son.

“Where is Kai?” I asked her. She was still breathing heavily.

“In the locker with Ajana, Michail is still here somewhere.” She said as she walked towards Simon. She made him take of his shirt and gave it to me to rip it then went to tie it around his gunshot wound.

“Everyone else in the house was sent to the safe rooms except for the ambushed male housekeepers,we lost four. Simon g*****d. He was bleeding through the shirt.

“I think they hit a vein.” I said to him, we need to get you out of here before you bleed out.

“Daddy?” Kai called out.

“Yes son, I’m here.” I walked towards the locker.

Kai began to cry. “Daddy, I knew you would come.” He wailed then Ajana started to cry too.

“It’s a fingerprint lock.” She said to me but looked confused when I took out a pocket knife and started to peel of the front part of the lock and flicked a small little button that unlocked the padlock.

“I can unlock it.” I smiled at her then opened the locker. Kai jumped into my arms and sobbed into my chest.

It’s okay buddy, we are going to get you out of here. I signalled for Ajana to come out too and she fell into my arms too.

“Okay I need to get you to safety and I need to fly Simon out of here.”

I called the pilot of the chopper and arranged for him to return to the chopper to fly Simon out. The man that I’d come to the stables with found us.

“Take Simon to the chopper, I need to get my wife and kids to the safe room.” I ordered him.

Hector sent me a text to tell me that the threats by the house were eliminated but there were more within the estate.

“How do I get you there without putting you in danger?” As I asked that, Michail and two men walked into the stable office with guns pointed at us.

“Give me the boy.” He said.