Charlie

As I slowly opened my eyes, I saw Jules walking away from her sons as they watched, never taking her eyes off her, bewildered that she had come in the first place.

But she had not come for them, she had come to help me.

As she walked back into the shadows and disappeared from view, their shoulders fell in surprise and hurt, that their own mother would turn her back on them. Yet there were no tears, no emotions shown on their faces, I could only see through their body language that they were upset, of course something like this would make you upset. 

"What the fuck do we do with you now?", Adam asked no one in particular as he looked up dramatically into the sky. They all ignored his remark and stared at their father laying on the ground in front of them, the youngest brothers forming tears in their eyes. 

"We make a deal", The eldest said with a determined look on his face before Adam turned to him, curious with what on earth he can offer. 

"I know all the bank accounts, the offshore accounts, each and every building that we use for our...business, our very large range of business", He said with a straight face as Adam looked him up and down with a smirk on his face. Adam squatted down to his level and laughed. 

"And why can't we just go in your house right now, and check through all the papers, run through all your computers and find everything we need", Adam asked him loudly as men all laughed at the Spanish heirs. This seemed to anger them as the eldest quickly stood up with his fists clenched, yet my brothers didn't even flinch.

"I don't appreciate the disrespect your men are handing to my brothers", He said through gritted teeth, on cue, the men all laughed louder with my brothers staying radio silent, the cousins stood with each other, just watching the theatrics. 

The eldest just stood with tight fists as his brothers all stood up beside him, attempting to calm him down subtly with one of them putting a hand on his back, trying to comfort him. 

"You can try to do that, but your men blew up our office with all the papers.  And our computers have an automatic system that wipes the drive if it is not checked within ten minutes, and I think it's been past ten minutes", The eldest said, now with his new found confidence. Adam looked at him for a moment with almost a slight bit of admiration before going back to his straight face. 

"And I know that right now, there are other groups that are interested in my father business, yet non of them know how it works, how to get what they want and how to make money off it without being killed for sticking their nose in", He said with more confidence, it was growing every second that Adam didn't kill him. 

My brothers stared for a moment, as though they were discussing it together in silence, my cousins watched in curiosity, my grandpa and uncles were making orders to men, raiding the house and putting the fire out.

"We heard that you are being groomed to become the next boss. Why you Adam? There are many other candidates, better ones stood right here", The eldest said, glaring at him. Adam smirked and shook his head slowly at him, my brothers smiled. 

I don't get it, this world, this business. 

"Maybe, who knows if your going to be around to see who takes over", Adam said with a straight face, going back to his serious and boring personality. The eldest nodded and held out his hand, glaring at Adam as he thought for a moment about what it meant to agree to form an alliance, something they had never done. 

Adam sighed before reaching his hand out, agreeing slowly to the silent clauses as the brothers surrounded their father, staring at his face before cursing him for his cowardly ways. 

"We will make a contract for you. But for now, don't leave town, we will have our men watching your every move", Adam said with a smile as he clicked his fingers, causing everyone to move at the same time but my family, staring at the Spanish with a distrustful look on their faces. 

"Oh, and form an alliance, cause any sort of problem or issue within another group of interest, we will discuss how cowardly your father was as he shot himself in front of his children and stole a 10 year old girl just to get some leverage. We own you now", Adam said with a grin on his face, obviously enjoying the threats as I now realise Raymond was fixing my wounds.

My family turned away from the Spanish and headed to their cars, chatting and laughing to each other as the heirs of the Spanish kneeled in silence towards their father, speaking under their breathe as if they were praying or talking to their father. 

I felt sympathy for them yet not empathy, I didn't know my father and from what I can tell, he wasn't worth knowing so I never knew the pain of losing a father, can's miss what you never had right? 

Aiden and Max helped me towards the car as I watched them comfort each other, I heard Jules's name a few times before they nodded at each other, breathing heavily as they lifted their fathers body off the ground together, their heads held low as his blood went on their clothes. 

"We need to get you to medical right now Charlie", Raymond said in my ear as I nodded, not before he stuck something in my arm and I was out like a light ten seconds later.

Sam

"Holy Crap", Ebony said in surprise as I told her every single thing that had happened since the last time I saw her, her mouth wide as she listened. Then it was my turn as she told me everything that had happened to her and what she had seen throughout these past hours. 

"Did you see Charlie?", I asked her quietly as she shook her head with a sorry look on her face, sitting in silence for awhile. I hadn't seen Charlie in weeks, ever since he went to England, which I now know is because Jules got hurt and James was in serious danger. 

"He is okay", She said with a reassuring smile as I nodded. 

"Are you alright back there little ones?", Scar face asked us as Ebony replied for the both of us with a quick yes. I stared at her before she nodded as she understood what I meant.

"Is Charlie alright?", She asked for me as Scar Face nodded. 

"Yes, he was retrieved an hour or so ago, he is now at the family hospital being treated for some wounds that happened whilst you were at the Spanish", Scar told me truthfully, something I truly appreciated as no one tells me the truth, especially adults. 

"Are we going there right now?", Ebony asked as Scar Face nodded. My entire body just lit up automatically knowing that we can finally see each other again. The entire rest of the car journey I stayed silent as I bounced on the inside with anticipation, yes I was angry with him, he lied, told me nothing about Jules and James and then left me with strangers. 

But I can be angry later, right now all I could focus on is seeing him again. After a few moments, the car suddenly came to a halt as Scar face pulled out a gun from the side compartment. 

"What's wrong?", Ebony asked as she shielded my body from anything from the front of the car. Scar face just stared at a woman and a child on the side of the road, confused on what to make of it. I peeked through Ebony as I saw Jules and James staring at me with a grin on their face.

I quickly threw the car door open as Scar face yelled for my name, Ebony doing the same. I quickly ran towards Jules as she opened her arms out for me. I hesitated for a moment before running into them, clinging onto her as she patted my hair down. James then hugged both of us as he grinned at me.

"I missed you so much", He said to me with a grin as Jules pushed me away slightly and smiled at me. "

"I missed you too Sam, and Charlie, you got any idea where he is?", She asked me as I turned to Scar face, who was now stood behind me with a gun aimed at Jules. I waved my hand at him as he glared at me. 

"It's okay, she's a friend, a very good one. She is also a good friend of Charlies", I said to him as he nodded, putting the gun back into his pocket and looked Jules up and down, as though he had some crazy way of telling if someone is good or bad.

"Alright, let's all go together, now", He said carefully as Jules and James nodded in agreement. Charlie is going to be so excited to see all of us together, we haven't been the four of us in so long.