Page 56 of Kidnapped By the Boss

Chapter Nineteen: Vincent

Returning to work was meant to make me feel better, but I spent the entire time pacing and worrying about Katya and Sascha being away from the estate. I’d been in constant contact with Mitzy, who had only reported a wonderful time had by all, but it didn’t stop me from thinking that something was going to go wrong.

Fortunately, right around the time that Katya said she and Annie would be back, I got a ping from security that Annie’s car was approaching the gate and that they could see both Annie and Katya were inside and unharmed. It made my stomach finally stop bubbling, even more so when Katya and Annie were walking into my office about five minutes later with Sascha in tow.

“I’m so glad you two are back. That was the most stressful few hours of my life,” I told them. “Mitzy said that lunch went great. You didn’t have any problems on the way or during. Was the ride back okay, too?”

Katya and Annie exchanged a look and my stomach immediately started to bubble again. “What? What happened?”

“Someone tried to hit us,” Annie explained. “I saw them coming and stopped just in time, but…”

She looked at Katya who was averting my gaze nervously. I stood up and walked over to them, setting my hand under Katya’s chin to tilt her head up to look at me. “It’s okay, I won’t be angry with you. Just tell me what happened.”

“The person who tried to hit us…” she started quietly. “I think they were intentionally trying to hit us where Sascha was.”

A furious tingling started at my feet and rose all the way up through my body until it was plucking at my ears. It felt like if humans could turn red from anger like they did in the cartoons, I’d be a tomato right now. I was looking at the terror on Katya’s face and how tightly she was gripping Sascha, and I felt like exploding.

I wasdoneletting these people threaten my family.

“I’m sorry if it makes you mad at me, but I need you to stay here,” I told her. “With Sascha. Protect him.”

“I’m not angry,” she said, shaking her head. “I’ll stay. You were right, it was dumb to leave.”

“No.” I put my hand on the side of her face. “You’re allowed to want to go have lunch with friends outside your home. I should have eliminated this threat a long time ago.” I leaned in and kissed her then said, “Please go inside the house. I’ll send your mom as well—do not leave. I’ll have the house and the front gates well guarded. You’ll be safe.”

“What are you going to do?” I said. “We still don’t know where they’re hiding.”

“They’ll come out. They keep coming out. This time, I’m not letting them get away from me.”

Katya nodded again before softly saying, “Please be careful.” She looked at Annie. “Both of you.”

“I’m going to end the people that keep trying to hurt you, Kat,” Annie said. “You’re my best friend, and I’m sick of this shit.”

Katya gave both me and Annie tight squeezes before taking Sascha and making her way back towards the house, of course with a couple of my soldiers accompanying her. As soon as she was gone, I told Annie, “Go get Taylor from the containment unit and meet me back here strapped for war. We're ending this right now. They tried to kill my wife. They tried to kill my son. My patience has run out.”

“What about the containment unit?” Annie said. “Who do you want guarding it?”

“I don’t give a shit about that right now. Lyn can’t get out. Just get Taylor and get back here immediately.”

She nodded obediently. “Yes, Boss,” and ran out.

I quickly contacted Mario and Devrick and called them to my office immediately, and they both came without hesitation. By the time they got there, Annie and Taylor were back and armed as well. I’d taken a few moments before everyone got there to pull out the best of my own weapons and pulled on a bulletproof vest under my suit jacket. When everyone, I didn’t even bother having them sit.

“I don’t care who you cross paths with, if it even looks like they’re buying fucking toilet paper for these bastards, I want them in body bags, is that clear?” I said.

Everyone nodded. “Yes, Boss.”

“I’m taking charge. They’re going to follow me, I know they will. Each of you needs to pair up with one of your trusted soldiers and have an additional car with two more of them following behind us. I want a fucking caravan. Wait for my signal—you’ll know it when you see it. One of them will lead us to the boss. We’ll find it. I was trying not to cause anymore bloodshed, but now that they’ve gone after my wife and my son, I don’t care about that. This is war now. Whichever one of you comes across Antonio needs to bring him to me. I want his head. No one else.”

“Yes, Boss.”

“Any soldiers you aren’t taking with us, divide them up into two-thirds and one-third. Send the larger group to the gates and the smaller to the main house. Katya, Annika, and Sascha are in there. I don’t want anyone getting close.” I stuck my gun in my waistband and said, “Let’s go. We’re not coming back here until these guys aredead.”

Everyone did what I asked, then we lined our cars up and drove them off the property in a big row. All of the soldiers were standing in rows in front of the gates, and parted briefly just to let us through. I was at the head of the crew and turned in the direction that we always went when we usually ended up with tails from these guys. I drove ahead to the point where we typically gained the followers, and as expected, a car pulled out behind me.

I took a few turns, making sure that the car was following me, and it continued to keep up with me. When I was confident that this car was one of The Wreckers tailing me…

I slammed on my brakes.