Chapter 35: chapter 35

Xavier's POV-Its past midnight and I am still up. Rocky had called me multiple times and informed me that 'no one went in and no one gets out of the house'. That means everything is fine there but still, I am very restless. I should be assured but this feeling was not going away. I could not sleep so I out of the room. I had nothing to do. I went downstairs and walked to Mark's room.The lights of his room were on.Maybe he is up too. I knocked on his door. He let me in. "Why are you not sleeping?" I asked."I can ask the same question. Why are you wondering in the middle of the night like some lonely ghost?" He said."Could not sleep. I am having this really bad feeling. I don't know what to do?" I confined in him."Go and meet her.""Right now?""Are you... I mean not right now, tomorrow." He said."Will it be okay to go and see her? I mean, we have nothing left to say." I asked hesitated."Do you really have nothing to say to her? After knowing about her husband, do you still want her to stay there? We don't know what he would do to that kid?" He said frustrated."That's the point, Mark. We don't know what he will do? That means we can not be sure if that man really wants to harm her. We can not just accuse him and take away her wife just because we feel he is not a good person." I replied. I tried to make him understand my point."Why do I feel that you are trying very hard to keep her away from you? You don't even want to consider this aspect. Xavier... Boss, what are you afraid of?" He asked. I didn't know why his question shook me to the core.I am not afraid of anything. Why would I be scared if she comes back? But she will be my weakness if she came back. What if she doesn't want to stay here with me? What if I will not be able to protect her? She has seen me covered in someone else's blood. I... I am afraid. I, the boss, am scared that she will hate me."You are right. I am totally screwed. I haven't noticed this, how much I let her come in my heart and mind. I have changed so much." I said. I still can't believe this."That's true, you have changed a lot. Otherwise, you would not be sitting here and talking your heart out with me. How long it has been? Maybe 5 years or more that you have any long talk with me." Mark pointed out. "You were so busy changing everyone's life for better that you stopped living for yourself." He said."No one deserves to live a life of danger. All of my men deserve to live a happy life with their families. I am doing everything to make that possible." I said."I know what you are doing for all of us. That's why we all respect you." He said. Then he chuckled. I looked at him."I never imagined that a day will come when you will tell me about a girl. You were always this stone face type of kid." He smiled remembering our old time."Yeah, I was not like you, a playboy. I was never interested in women." I replied."That's why I sometimes doubted that maybe you go the other way around. But thank god it was not the case." He joked. I hit his stomach. "Ouch... Sorry. Kidding...just kidding." He apologized."She is good for you." He said in all seriousness."But she is not mine. She is someone else's." I said looking down."But that someone is a bastard." He said"We don't know..." I was cut in mid-sentence by the ringing of my phone.It was Lucas. I picked it up."Boss, I need to tell you something very important. Where are you? You are not in your room." Lucas said hurriedly."I am with Mark in his room." I replied.What could be so urgent? He sounded out of control. It usually never happens."I will be there." He said and hung up."Who was it?" Mark asked."Lucas," I said, and then Lucas barged in the room.He looked very disturbed and unfocused. He is a total gentleman but if he looked like this that means the matter is very serious."What happened?" I asked him."It's about Ms. Isabelle." Lucas said."What about her?" Isabelle's name got my full attention."I had this unsettling feeling, I don't know why? I had to do something about it. About her husband. I didn't like that guy. I had this bad feeling about him." He paused for a few moments. "So I investigated him. And you will be shocked by what I found." He said."What the hell Lucas just come to the point." I growled at him."I found that he has a history of drugs. He used to take it and maybe still do. He has loan sharks chasing him. That's why he never stayed in one place for more than 4 months. These past years, he runs around the whole Southside of the country...""What the f**k? How could that be possible? Isabelle never told us about any of that." Mark sat on his bed."She didn't know. Like she did know that her husband has been with different women, even after their marriage. All those women were either prostitutes or girls from the bar." Lucas added."That's fuc*ed up." Mark intervene again.My mind was not working. I am serious. Nothing was coming into my mind. These all information was burning me down."There is more." Lucas said."What more?" I asked. My own voice sounded foreign to me.I could feel Mark and Lucas both got on alert."He... He went to jail, two times, for abuse and assault cases, both times. One of the women died because of his physical torture. And... " He hesitated."Out with it Lucas." I threatened Lucas." They both were tensed."And he might be the one behind Isabelle's father's death." He said.That's it. I had it enough. I picked up the nearest thing to me and smashed it into the wall. "You did this to that kid. You send her away with that psycho bastard." Lucas said with so much hatred and anger."Now is not the time..." Mark said.I was so out of it that I didn't realize that I was choking Lucas to his death. Mark was the one who pushed me off from Lucas. I knew I screwed up. I knew I made my life's biggest mistake but I didn't want him to point it in my face.Please...Please, Isabelle. Please be safe. I am on my way. And this time no one will take you away from me.********Hello dearies.So finally Xavier knows the whole truth about that Richard.Let's see if Isabelle is fine like Xavier hope, in the next chapter.See you guys soon.