From Bullets To Billions novel Chapter 412

Chapter 412: The Guardian

In one of the containers, the door was basically shut , left only slightly ajar , allowing those inside not to see what was happening directly in front of them outside.

Two guards stood by the entrance, two men from the Black Hounds. They leaned against the cold metal, faces carved from the same dullness as the container walls, watching the gaps between crates like hunters waiting for movement.

Inside that particular container were Anton and Sheri. Both looked slightly nervous. Anton , especially , was biting his nails, fingers worrying at the skin as if nail-bitten edges could steady his thoughts. The metal box smelled of dust and old oil. Light from the narrow opening slashed across the floor and cut their faces in half, leaving the rest in shadow. The air inside was still; the world outside was a muffled roar.

"What is going on, Anton? Do you have any idea what you’re doing?" Sheri asked. "You’ve gotten involved with these dangerous people. It feels as if this has gotten seriously out of hand.

"How do you think this will benefit you, or the Stale family, in any way?"

Anton pressed both hands over his face and his fingers curled, almost clawing at himself. He rocked on the spot like someone who had already decided how the story would end and now tried to will his courage into being.

"SHUT UP, SHUT UP!" Anton shouted. His voice snapped and ricocheted off the metal. "Why do I have to listen to your whining and nagging when you’re not even sleeping with me! This is all deserved because of you!

"First they’re going to deal with Max, then they’re going to get the Billion Bloodline group to pay out, and as for you, you are going to keep your mouth shut about everything.

"Unless you want me to make sure that these guys deal with you right after getting the money.

"Right now, they’re listening to me, so the only reason you’re alive is because of me!"

The words landed like blows. Sheri shook her head slowly, as if to clear dust. The anger in Anton’s voice made her feel more isolated than the walls did. Did he really believe that? She tried to measure him against the man she thought she knew and found the distance between them had widened into something she didn’t recognize.

Although Anton shouted those words, Sheri only shook her head. The money wasn’t even coming from him. It had come from the Bloodline group. Take Anton out of the picture and they were simply holding Sheri for ransom so they could collect money.

Her mind rushed in a loop of what-ifs. She worried because, seeing how large and organized this group was, if her family knew how much danger she was in , if the Stale family knew about Anton as well , could they even do anything? Or was the group that had captured them too powerful for even her family to act?

She thought of the Billion Bloodline group. They had already done so much for her family in the background , favors and hidden rescues, quiet help when things were worst. If the Bloodline group learned of this, would they step in? Or, because Sheri had no real relation to the whole thing, would they simply look the other way? The idea of being discarded, of being treated like a negotiable object, tightened behind her ribs.

"I wonder how the Billion Bloodline group will act to all of this... they’ve already done so much for me and for us, and with no relation to the whole thing, I imagine they will just chuck me to the side," she thought, anguished and raw.

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