Falling | Mxm (Completed) Chapter 72

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“I think Aiden’s in danger.”

The word danger kept ringing in Edwin’s ear. It took him a good three seconds to collect himself and put the phone on speaker.

“What- do you m-mean in danger?” His throat felt dry, like he hadn’t drunk anything in days.

“I saw a bunch of giant men taking him and another guy to this building. I don’t like the aura of this place, Edwin. Do you know what is up, or is he really in danger?” Vincent said in a quiet tone. There was a voice whispering something that could not be heard on this side of the line but showed that Vin was not alone.

“Hi, this is Ian. Could you send us your location? Are you still at that place?” Ian said, and pressed a few keys on the keyboard.

“Yes, wait..” A few seconds later, Edwin’s phone showed a notification. Ian saw the numbers and entered them on his laptop.

“This- This is in the middle of nowhere!” He semi-shouted and was about to send the location to the police officer he knew in that country when a message showed up on his screen. Realizing what it was, his eyes widened and his lips parted.

“Guys… Aiden just sent a message.”

“What!?” Nearly everyone shouted in sync.

Edwin sat next to Ian, looking at the screen in search of the said message. “Where? There’s just a bunch of codes here.”

“This is a language we created. A code language just for the two of us.” Ian explained with a voice not louder than a whisper.

“Well? What does it say?” Brad asked and wrapped his arm around Max, who seemed to be on the edge of breaking down.

“We’re fine. Stay put. We’ll be back. Don’t reply.” He bit his lip. Where was Aiden that he had to use their code language to send him a message like this?

No one said anything after that. If Aiden told them to stay put and not do anything, that was what they were going to do.

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“Why are we in separate vans?! We can all fit in one!” Aiden asked as soon as the van started. Luis made himself comfortable in his seat.

“I don’t know. I guess they wanted to make a good impression!” He chuckled.

“Good impression, my ass. The whole crowd was dying from the heat! I will never perform in this hall again.” He groaned, remembering the fan that had fainted due to the high temperature. He himself had gone dizzy and went backstage to get some good amount of water to dehydrate, and well, some magic medicine they injected him with that cured all his cells and gave him a ridiculous amount of energy. That shit was good! He should have asked them what it was.

“Then don’t. I’m really sleepy. I know you won’t sleep now, so just wake me up when we arrive at the hotel.” Luis said and closed his eyes, drifting to the dreamland a second later.

Aiden raised his eyebrows due to the surprise. Luis was never that tired to just ditch him and sleep. He shrugged and took his phone out, wanting to message Edwin. But then… what happened then? He couldn’t even remember unlocking the device. Everything seemed to have gone black after that.

Waking up slowly, he winced cos his head was throbbing so bad, he couldn’t even open his eyes completely. He wanted to massage his temples to ease the pain a bit, but soon he realized he couldn’t raise his hands. Trying a bit more and failing, he suddenly forgot all about the pain and opened his eyes wide, checking his surroundings.

He was in an unfamiliar place. It looked fancy, but… where was he? And then he remembered Luis. Looking around, he didn’t find his manager in the small room.

The door opened and a couple of giant men walked in, followed by an old man.

“Oh! So it’s you.” He chuckled sarcastically and shut his eyes tightly to maybe get rid of the throbbing in his head.

“Yeah. Who else would kidnap you and bring you to such a fancy place?” The old man laughed while lighting his cigar.

Aiden hummed. “That is maybe your only charm. Now tell me where my manager is.” He looked straight into the old man’s eyes.

“He is alive and okay. For now. We’re just keeping him in some other place.” He paused. “For insurance.”

Aiden narrowed his eyes and licked his dry lips. “What do you want?”

The man smiled widely and took a chair, placed it in front of Aiden, sitting and crossing his legs like a king. “Now we’re talking. There’s something I want you to do.” He took a puff of his cigar, holding the smoke in a bit longer before letting it out.

“Of course. What is it this time?” Aiden asked and tried to change the position of his arms cos they really hurt.

“I love how you’ve become such a good boy. Remember the first time? You were so arrogant back then. Made me want to explode that genius brain of yours.”

“Would’ve been better. I choose death every time over doing shit for you. But then you always play dirty like the piece of shit you are.” He spat and earned himself a very strong punch right in the stomach. His breath hitched, and his eyes widened in pain. A few drops of blood ran down from his bottom lip, landing on his jeans while he was bent in half with his head low, panting.

“There’s someone important I need you to find. She’s been captured by one of the underground networks. I don’t know which one. I need you to help us find her and get her out.” The old man threw the rest of the cigar out of the nearby window and closed it again.

“That’s not a hard thing to do. One of your little hackers could do it as well. There was no need to bother yourself with all this drama.” His voice was weak and hoarse. He felt like throwing up. He didn’t want to get involved with the underground networks.

“Yes, but then they would leave traces. You’re the only one I know that never leaves any trace behind.” A fistful of his hair was grabbed and his head was yanked back harshly as the old man’s face came close to his. “You see, you’re my favorite bitch out of all my bitches.”

“Bitches can always chop your dick off when you’re balls deep in their throat, you know.” Aiden moved his head out of the tight grip, however painful it was.

“Yeah, but then you have too many loved ones. You don’t want that blue-haired slut of yours with a nasty scar on his face, do you?”

Aiden hissed at him and gritted his teeth.

“That’s what I thought.” The old man patted Aiden’s cheek two times before stepping back and sat down on his chair, gesturing to one of the men to free his arms. A folder was thrown at him by his feet. Something the man loved to do.

“All the info you need is in there. We need this girl back as soon as possible. You should find where they’re keeping her and then hack the security system for us while we go get her out, capiche?”

Aiden swallowed painfully and bent down to grab the folder from the ground. The girl was really beautiful, but she had gotten herself into some fucked up situation. Basically, she had stolen a large amount of information and then had gotten caught by some nasty mafia. It was now a matter of time before they would start torturing her.

“I wanna see my manager first.” He said, looking up from the documents. “I have to confirm his well-being.”

The old man groaned. “He’s fine! Do the job fast and both of you will be set free like nothing ever happened.”

“I. need. to see my MANAGER!” He insisted firmly. “I won’t do shit until you take me to where he is.”

It took them two days to finally realize that Aiden wasn’t joking. He hadn’t eaten either. So they were left with no choice but to bring him to where Luis was. It was way out of the city, in some ruined building, surrounded by an endless amount of trees. For a second, he wondered whether that place had any access to Wi-Fi. He saw Luis. They kept him locked up in one of the rooms, with men watching the whole place. Aiden reassured his manager that everything was going to be okay before he sat behind the computers they had prepared for him. He knew the guys back at home would be panicking by now, not knowing where he was. The risk was high, but he had to be quick and send a message to them, ensuring them that they were fine. He almost got caught by the other hacker that was observing him, but he sent it after all. Now he had to do what he had been asked and then get the hell out of that place with Luis.

Looking for someone in those shady places wasn’t an easy thing to do, but it was easy if you knew where and how to look. It didn’t take Aiden much time to find the girl in one of the nastiest, most scary places on earth.

She was being held in one of the most protected bases of the organization. The hacker, or rather his spy, informed the old man and two hours later he was there.

“That didn’t take you long! I’m seriously surprised by your work every time.”

“I just wanna get away from you as soon as possible.” He murmured and rolled his chair aside for the man to see the information on the screen and look through the security cameras that Aiden had access to now.

“Okay. We’re going to get her out tonight.” He patted Aiden’s hair like a fucking dog.

“Well done, kid.” He was about to leave and Aiden was back at his spot behind the desk when they saw the girl being dragged out of her cell by her hair. There was no sound, but it was obvious the girl was screaming in pain. She had a very small and delicate figure. Aiden seriously wished he could rescue her on his own right now, but that would only get him killed.

The old man was not happy about what he was seeing as the girl was tied to a bed and a notification popped up, saying that a live broadcast had started. The hacker next to Aiden clicked on it and it showed the exact room. The lights were all red, and the girl was screaming in horror, begging the man with the mask on to let her go. That she didn’t know anything. The man in the mask whispered something in her ear and her soul seemed to have left her body with how she went quiet and her body went limp, like she had given up on her life already. He started torturing her, breaking her piece by piece and asking her repeatedly if she was ready to confess. Each time, she would shake her head, screaming she didn’t know anything.

Aiden couldn’t watch anymore. He lowered his head, closed his eyes, and was about to cover his ears when the rough fingers in his hair made him look up again.

“Don’t you dare look away from her. This is all your fault. You wasted two days and now she’s being tortured because of you. Look what you’ve done. All that’s happening to her right now is your fault.” And then the fingers were gone and Aiden’s head hung low as tears started running down his face.

“Get ready to get her out. And Robert, keep your eyes on that brat. We’ll need him to take care of the security alarms soon.” The sound of the footsteps and the girl’s endless screams kept digging into his ears as the images of her being tortured filled all of his being. His body began trembling as he couldn’t get the old man’s words out of his head. It was his fault. It really really was his fault for finding her late and now she was a toy to break for that masked man.

When he pressed the last key on the keyboard and sat back, it was already dawn. He had taken care of everything like a robot after having cried for an hour straight. As soon as they made sure no traces were left behind, the old man told them to let Luis out. The manager was in the black car, waiting for Aiden to get in so they could leave that damned place.

Aiden stopped on his step and turned around to face the old devil.

“This was the last time. If you ever contact me again or ask me to do anything for you, I’ll take my life. With me dead, you won’t be able to blackmail me into doing your dirty work anymore.” His voice had no emotions to it, nor did his face. He felt empty. Like the place where his heart had been was now nothing but a dark black hole. He knew that the devil in front of him knew he was being serious. He wished that he was being clear enough cos he was sure he would never ever do anything for him again. He would rather kill himself.