“Where can Jimmy be?” Charles questioned.
“Or could he have betrayed you?” Grey reasoned it for a moment.
“I doubt it.It can’t be.Jimmy will not betray me.” Charles sighed.
“You can never be sure of that.Perhaps, he was the cause of what had happened to Aphrodite.”
“He’s not, Charles.I’ve seen the camera.Jimmy didn’t even enter the building.”
“Alright, so where can he be?”
“He’s obviously with Giovanni.If he is, then damn!” He released a sigh.
“I have to get him back.”
“You will not, Grey.You will let him be.He’s gone for good.”
“No, Charles.I have to get him back.He’s one of my men now.So, I have to protect him.”
“But boss, you can’t enter Hercules’s base now.It’s very dangerous.”
“Not today, Charles.I will think of something.Call me when Aphrodite wakes up.”
“Alright boss.Are you really alright?”
Grey released a sigh.
“I’m fine.I will talk to you later,” he finished and hung up.
Then, he remembered what he had promised Alfred at the party.He was going to think about exposing his identity, even if it was only his name.
Giovanni would be very upset about the award that he had won and he would do anything to bring him down.
Jimmy felt exhausted.His swollen eyes closed slowly but a rain of water jerked him up.It was another round of water on his head.
Mark bent before him slightly so that he would be able to look at Jimmy very well.
“Jimmy, do you really want to suffer?”
Jimmy made a slight smile, which almost immediately disappeared as it has come.
“Are you going to keep torturing me? You know how stubborn I am.”
“You are too stubborn for your good.And you will just die.Giovanni doesn’t care about you.He can kill you for all he cares.”
“Exactly,” Jimmy said softly.
“Giovanni doesn’t care about anyone.He’s nothing like Hercules.I’ve seen Hercules deal with his men.He doesn’t do like you.He treats them very close.That’s what I want.”
Mark shook his head briefly.
“You are going to die if you continue to do like this.Giovanni will kill you, do you hear that? Besides, the new boss who you swore your allegiance doesn’t even have your time.He doesn’t even feel like getting you out of this misery.Is that who you should stay with?”
Jimmy regarded him for a moment.
“You don’t understand what you are saying, Mark.I do.Besides, do you think that Giovanni wouldn’t eliminate you one day? You should join Hercules while you still have the chance to.If you show how him how serious you are, he will accept you in,” Jimmy informed Mark.
“I can see that he’s still babbling about Hercules,” a voice said suddenly.
“Which means that you didn’t torture him very well,” one of Giovanni’s men stepped inside.
Mark turned to look at him, a bit shocked.
“What are you doing here?”
“To ensure you do your job smoothly.Giovanni sent me here.Mark groaned inwardly.Good, so you are here to spy on me.You think I won’t do my job very well?”
The man ignored him and walked to Jimmy.
“He doesn’t really look like someone that has been tortured.It merely looks like you guys have been talking.I should get this started with.” Mark looked at him.
“I will handle it, get out.”
“Oh, you want me to inform the boss? I’m sure he’s going to kill you immediately if he discovered what you have been up to. Should I still go ahead?”
Mark groaned and stepped back.
“Fine! Do it!”
The man regarded Jimmy for a moment before he walked away, and moved to take a metal torturing equipment.He stared at it longer than he should have before he moved closer to Jimmy again.
“Why don’t you start talking, Jimmy? This is going to hurt a lot.”
Jimmy gave a sly smile.
“Fuck you!”
“Good!”
The man laughed and pressed the burning metal on his lap.
Jimmy swallowed the scream but the pain became unbearable and he screamed out loud.
Giovanni released a sigh.
“Good, we have to do something about Grey.He’s becoming a thong in our flesh and if we don’t do something, it will really affect us very much,”one of the elders muttered. Giovanni asked one of his men to pull a quick meeting that night.
Grey was back and there was no reason to dilly-dally.
“The fact that he deceived us once should be taken into consideration.Why aren’t we even exposing his identity to this world? Especially now that he’s back and still refused to do it.”
Giovanni reasoned it for a moment.
“What benefits would that do to us? Grey would only get the recognition that he avoids. And recognition is useful to him.” He muttered.
They all went silent for a moment, as they all thought about it.
“Then, why don’t we expose his name then? We should take that step to confuse him.We should tell the world what his name really is.And the fact that he has disguised himself as one of the workers in Protos Pubblicita.This will give the public what to talk about.”
“Yes,” another elder chimed in.
“That will definitely take the news off us for us, it will buy us time.And Protos Pubblicita will be thrown off-guard by it.Everyone will be scared.”
Giovanni nodded once, as he reasoned the idea.
“It’s a nice plan.We can use that to divert the attention because I’m sure people would be talking about me and Alex by tomorrow morning.”
“Exactly! That’s ok for now.Though, I think we still have to think of something faster.That little boy call Grey cannot defeat us like this.We will not go down.”
Giovanni nodded once.
“I will get back to you when I have something.For now, send a word to one of our partners.We should have it before morning.We can’t give the public any chance to talk about us.”
They all nodded in agreement.
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