Chapter 204: POWER
Author’s POV
The clock on the wall seems to tick slower with the buzz in the room.
In less than ten minutes the room is filled with five powerful men and six guards; three from each side.
The five men stare at each other. No one is talking. No one is moving. The air would bleed from the tension if you stabbed it with one of Taesan’s swords.
Kang Taesan is behind the wide desk, chest bare and face set in a deathly scowl. It’s his signature look.
Junho is standing right behind his captain, body tense, brimming with the dark energy to protect and kill.
The three Deus brothers are sitting on the black couch; they sitting in order of birth from first to last.
Damien Deus, the oldest, is wearing a smile. The kind that makes you wonder if you made a mistake and how close you are to war.
Elias Deus, the middle child, is staring blankly. His hands are resting on his crossed legs, he looks...presentable, but the depth in his dark eyes is a warning sign.
Kai Deus, the youngest, is wearing a bored expression. His posture shows that he doesn’t want to be here, but the pursing of his lips shows that he has a devious idea stewing in his head.
Taesan rests both of his hands on the table and leans forward in a way that shows his broad shoulders off.
The change in posture seems to amuse Damien as the man’s smile grows even wider, disturbingly so...
"Welcome" speaking in English, Taesan breaks the silence and Damien leans forward, his brown eyes are glimmering with devilish intention.
"Sick tattoos you got there" he says, squinting to take a better look at the tattoos decorating Taesan’s chest.
Damien is a big man himself. He’s not as broad as Taesan, but he’s big enough to intimidate a whole room.
"Is...’Sooin’ that pretty omega with the brown eyes?" he asks and Taesan’s eyes widen a fraction.
"What?" he growls at the mention of his daughter’s name and at the reference to his mate.
"You know, brown doe eyes, small waist...pretty lips"
"Damien" Elias sighs his brother’s name and Damien’s smile turns to a frown, "what?" he asks.
"Sooin is Taesan’s daughter’s name" Junho answers in a tone that is barely hiding his anger.
"And the omega?" Damien hums.
"The omega is mine. One more word about him and there will be a problem" Taesan says quietly, eyes resting on the dormant sword that is lying in the middle of the table.
"Didn’t you learn to not challenge a god?" Kai Deus asks, tipping his head back.
His eyes are blue; they look kind but they also have the same darkness of a Deus in them.
"Enough. I have no time to waste" Elias says, checking the watch on his wrist, and everything mellows for a few seconds.
"Shall we proceed?" Elias asks and Taesan nods, relaxing his tense muscles slightly and Junho goes to the shelf to pick out a file.
"This is the person we want taken out" Junho says and hands the file to Damien.
Taesan is surprised that Junho is standing by his side like this. Wasn’t he opposing this plan just minutes ago?
But even if they don’t agree, Junho is faithful to Taesan.
He hates what his best friend is calling to himself, but he loves his best friend more than this.
"Hmm...Kang Ryujin, head of the Kang mafia clan" Damien reads the first page of the document.
"He has been the leader as long as we have been alive" Junho says, nodding his head to show how serious he is.
"And? The clan seems to thrive, why would we help you pull it down?" Elias asks, taking the document from his brother and flipping through it.
"There has been at least a twenty-percent increase every five years. He’s resourceful to the underworld" the man says.
"With every increase, there’s a mafia code that’s broken" Taesan responds, scowl deepening as he addresses Elias.
"In a world where war is inevitable, we are all bound to break a lot of laws" Damien says while his brother continues to read.
"Yes, but I’m sure that even a man like you doesn’t break moral codes" Taesan says flatly.
His jab is simple.
"I have moral codes? Do I?" Damien asks and the room grows tense again.
He doesn’t.
Damien respects lines, but if he chooses to erase them, he will do it without blinking twice. He is war after all.
"Trafficking, rape, molestation..." Kai reads out and Damien lifts a brow like he’s saying ’so? We are the underworld after all’.
"All these are done to girls all under seventeen" Elias completes and the glint in Damien’s eyes dies.
"Why?" Damien asks.
"My grandfather wants an heir. He wants an heir that will be a better monster than me" Taesan answers.
"So he’s impotent and daft" Elias concludes and Junho crosses his arms, "yes, he thinks the inability to have more kids was his wife’s fault"
"Where is the wife?" Kai asks.
"Dead. He killed his wife, killed Taesan’s parents, tried to groom Taesan" Junho lists only a small number of sins.
"He also tried to use my daughter" Taesan says, and Damien’s always smiling face hardens into a frown.
"How old?"
"Six"
"We kill him at the end of the years, we already have a list of targets" Damien says, getting up and straightening his suit.
"The end of the year is too far" Taesan gets up too.
"Why haven’t you killed him yourself?" Damien asks and Taesan presses his lips together.
The oldest Deus is starting to annoy him.
In Taesan’s head he has pulled out his sword; he has made just one movement and Damien’s head is rolling on the floor.
"We are gods because we are not careless. We will come back when we come back, till then...what do you have to offer us?" Kai says in a voice that sounds less bored than his expression.
"What would you like?" Junho asks carefully.
"That omega...how well does he take-" Damien’s words end when a sword is placed at his throat by Taesan.
Instead of getting angry, the man only throws his head back to laugh heartily.
There will be...there is a problem.
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