Captive Mate BL-Chapter 618: - - -
Shaun said nothing to the gun pointed right at his head when he stepped in, he expected this welcome and the only reason he had been quick to put himself in danger was for Eatonโs sake.
They would probably be better off trying to take the Mafia King by force, and he was well aware of how dangerous Mafia King Asher was. ๐๐ซ๐๐๐จ๐๐ฏ๐๐ ๐๐๐.๐๐ผ๐
"Itโs an honor to finally meet you in person," Shaun began smoothly.
"Get to the point," Asher bit out, gun held steady.
Shaun remained unflinching despite the barrel nearly shoved right up his nose. "Alpha Eaton has a proposal for you," He dropped all pretenses.
Eaton had pressed upon how cordial he needed to be but Shaun had completely run out of patience.
Asherโs dark expression didnโt change, just behind the High Council member, Jael stood calmly, gun still in his hand.
"Side with the High Council and Haines will be all yours." Shaun said calmly.
There was tense silence for a few long seconds, and the Asher cracked up. The Mafia King laughed hard enough for his eyes to water, wiping his eyes with the hand that held the gun.
"The High Council sure seems to have a lot of time on their hands." Asher muttered, already over the conversation. His mate would be here soon, he wanted to clear up this mess quick.
Shaun didnโt say more, instead, he took out a heavy, silver signet ring. It bore the symbol of a wolfโs head with a gaping maw, it was a very notable symbol. The seal of the High Council.
Asherโs eyes widened a fraction, the ring was so important that it never left the fingers of the High Councilโs head. Yet it had been brought to his turf over a silly request.
His surprise was only momentary, "Tell Eaton he can fuck himself with his signet ring, and get off my turf before things get ugly."
Shaun was quick to rise to his feet, the ring was proof that the High Council meant their word, it was up to Mafia King Asher to decide what he wanted to do with that information.
"Iโll be waiting for your decision," He said with poise as he rose to his feet, quick to leave without any further prompting.
Jael didnโt accompany him this time, staying behind in Asherโs office. He said nothing, waiting patiently until his Mafia King did.
His loyalty was to Asher, not to his Mafia House, not to Haines. If his Mafia King wanted to take the High Councilโs offer, he would go along with it regardless of his opinions.
Asherโs response was a scowl, shooting a smoking hole through a far wall. "Why the fuck would I want to be the High Councilโs lackey?" He muttered, pissed now that he was thinking it over. "Should have shot a hole through that bastardโs lips.
Jael smiled for the first time since he got the call, "If theyโre so quick to bring out the High Councilโs seal, theyโre not going to give up so easily."
"The next person that shows up in my parking lot is getting shot," He said decisively, looking like he would like to call up Shaun Levine just to tell him that.
Jael picked up his ringing phone as Asher kept scowling and cursing, the High Council were being uncharacteristically open-handed. It was almost like they knew something about Asher that no one else did.
He frowned as he got the thought, only to be distracted by the news that Caspian had shown up. He got up to go get him personally, worried that the High Councilโs men were still lingering around.
Caspian had a smile on his face as he got out of the car. "You didnโt have to go through the trouble to come pick me up." He half-scolded, holding on a little too tightly to the cutesy basket he had brought with him.
His off-shoulder top had ruffles around the wide stretchy neck, it was pastel yellow with patterned flowers, and it made his hair glow.
Jael could see his bodyguards eyeing the basket like they were trying to figure out a way to take it from him but from the looks of things, Caspian seemed to have been holding onto it the entire car ride here.
He had been about to offer to take the basket but he wisely didnโt, having a gut feeling that Caspian wanted to be the one to carry it.
"I was already outside," He lied glibly, leading the way around to the back entrance.
Asher was all smiles when they showed up, his gun stowed away out of sight.
Hell, Jael always wore his guns but something about Caspian made him want to put them out of sight as well. There was something disarming about the Omega, he would look right at home in a stately mansion, violence kept the furthest possible away from him.
It wasnโt lunch yet so he didnโt linger in Asherโs officer, giving them privacy this time as he wandered to find something to keep himself busy. There was more than enough to do because the men were all to eager to bring complications to him to deal with.
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Shaun didnโt keep Eaton waiting, ringing up the other Alpha as soon as he was in the car driving to the airport. He reported everything that had happened word for word.
Mafia King Asherโs response had been expected, if anything his reaction had been pleasant because it wouldnโt have taken much out of the trigger-happy Alpha to put a bullet in him.
Shaun had hoped it wouldnโt come to that, just as they couldnโt send men to directly threaten the Mafia Kings, he had hoped the courtsey would be extended in the other direction.
But then again, they were Mafia Kings, if they followed the rules, there wouldnโt be a war. He knew without being told that Mafia King Asher had turned down the proposal because he had known that he would have to become a puppet of the High Council, not because he cared about stabbing the other Mafia Kings in the back.
