Chapter 219: Catching Ghost and Eavesdropping

Elias’s POV

We walk into the home gym and find the man named Ghost, Shin Hanbin, sitting on the bench. The hacker sits up straight as we walk in.

"Who are you?" he asks in his language, and I look at Kai, giving him the go-ahead to play the mediator. My understanding of Korean is quite good, but my communication is limited.

"We are Elias and Kai, but I have the feeling you already know who we are" Kai says, gesturing to himself and then to me. Ghost looks guarded as he eyes us up and down. This is the automatic effect we have on people. We have the power to scare them without speaking.

"We need your expertise" Kai says and Ghost turns away from us.

"I don’t work for men with no morals" he says.

"You didn’t seem to care about our moral stance when you were dying in your father’s cage" I say and he looks at me with disgust. I remember it clearly. It was all because of him I got shot in the arm and nearly missed Noah’s birthday.

"Do you remember, Ghost? Your own father kidnapped you, isolated you, and starved you for days but we saved you without morals being involved" I rub it in his face, and he rises to his feet. The man doesn’t give me a response as he starts to pack up his things.

"What can we do to make you work for us?" Kai asks and Ghost continues to ignore him. "Money?" Kai asks.

"There is nothing you can do to make me do your dirty work" Ghost spits out.

"Fame? High-end gadgets? A ticket out of this place?" Kai lists the desires of every other normal man, but Ghost only throws a dirty look over his shoulder at my brother. I don’t negotiate. Death doesn’t wait for a man. I am not Chaos or Famine, I am Death.

"Your brother’s head on a silver tray?" I ask and he stops walking.

"I will kill you if you touch Seoha" he growls at me and I give him a chilly smile. "If it means protecting my omega, I will not hesitate to touch Seoha. I won’t only touch him; I will bleed him dry" I say.

"My baby brother is pregnant. You wouldn’t hurt an omega with child" he whispers in horror and it’s Kai’s turn to join in my game.

"You called us men with no morals, what makes you think we will suddenly develop morals for your brother?" my little brother asks and Ghost clenches his fist. He has gotten the power he has over the underworld by hiding, but now that he has been exposed to us, he has no choice but to bend.

"Fine" he says.

"Perfect. We will travel tomorrow" I say and when I pull out my phone to inform the pilot to get ready for a flight by tomorrow, I see a message from Lucas.

Lucas:

Urgent info.

Goldsmith is moving and we need to think fast.

Family call is ongoing rn. Join in with Kai.

I show the screen to Kai and he nods. We don’t go to my room so as to not wake Noah, so we go to Kai’s room. We join the family call and nod in greeting.

The faces on the screen are grim. My mother looks calm as always, Damien is frowning, and my father looks the way he does when he’s bloodthirsty.

"What is going on?" I ask.

"Have you secured the Ghost, or do I have to come there and find his ass?" Damien asks harshly and Kai nods. The simple nod passes the message that we’ve accomplished that goal.

"We have a problem. The business front that is about to be exposed is causing more trouble than expected" Mom says and Dad mutters something under his breath about hurling a dynamite at the FBI office.

"We need a smoother way to sort things, and I am willing to get us to use Winslow" Mom continues to talk like he didn’t hear my dad’s comment.

"Winslow? Noah’s home?" I ask.

"Yes. We can comfortably set up a faux fabric trading factory there; due to the climate, they have silkworms in abundance and it sells well. We’ll employ a few Winslow men and get them to do the job" my mom says.

"Good, it will become a landing spot for the drugs I’m shipping in two weeks" Dad says and I rub at my temple. Noah will not like this. He still has morals and won’t agree to letting us drag his precious home into the dirty business side of the underworld.

"Yeah, so about Winslow, there’s an even bigger problem. Governor Goldsmith is coming back" Lucas says and Damien laughs.

"He wouldn’t dare. We flushed him out like a cockroach" my older brother says and Lucas shakes his head.

"Well, just like a cockroach the bastard is coming back. You guys flushed him out but didn’t erase his position as the leader in the eyes of the law" Lucas states and my eyes widen a fraction.

Shit. I didn’t think this through. The bastard Governor sacrificed his son to us in order to spare his life, signed the marriage contract, and then fled from his own city...I interpreted it all as eternal surrender.

"Fuck" I curse.

"He can’t come back, right? We fucked him up" Damien says.

"He can technically come back. Our natural constitution states that a realm shouldn’t be without a leader for more than three months. That law was written because our animal sides are prone to become rogues without a clear hierarchy" I state the law off the top of my head.

"That is a messy fuck up on your end, Pocket watch. You were too busy chasing omega hole to remember this loophole" Damien hisses and I maintain an emotionless face. This is bad. I never make mistakes, how the fuck did I miss this?

"Lucas, what else do you know?" I ask.

"I know that Goldsmith is being backed by some government bodies who consider Winslow to be in a state of anarchy. Ah, yes, and that dog Julian had been getting some mafia clans to be on their side" Lucas gives us the download of what he knows and we all go quiet.

"How do we counter this?" Silas speaks for the first time on this call.

"We go to fucking war" Dad growls like a beast and Mom shakes his head in disapproval.

"No. We have to play this game smartly. The government is suddenly on to us, causing large-scale trouble will be like shining a spotlight to ourselves. We also need Winslow as a base for our supplies, remember?" Mom asks and Dad groans, leaning back and folding his arms. His one blind eye makes him look menacing.

This is fucked.

"We have to employ Elias’s philosophy. When you shove a city down, place a puppet leader, and control the people through him. We need someone clean to represent us" Kai says next to me.

"But no one is trustworthy in that city, and no one is popular enough to control the whole city’s view" Silas says.

"Noah exists" I say and the call goes quiet.

"He’s still passionate about his people. What makes you think he’d serve us?" Silas asks thoughtfully, and I steel my heart. This is business, this is war, there is no room for emotions and weakness.

"He is my possession, I know what buttons to push, and he has no reason to betray us. He’s already married to me, bound to me, and is carrying my pup. He’s the easiest thing to use" I say and Silas nods.

"Alright then" Damien says and the rest of us nod before moving on to other topics.

Noah’s POV

I told myself I’d never eavesdrop again...yet here I am hearing my husband call me the ’easiest thing to use’.

I’m just so stupid.