He is feeling the same pain he uses to implicit on others.
"I am Kiara's brother" Ed, who was talking since earlier said very sternly.
Kiara's brother…
Isn't she supposed to be an orphan…? then how is she connected to the council leader?
His mind started going haywire because of all these shocking surprises. Council still has many secrets under the wraps.
"And if you want your wife alive and conscious, better come as soon as you can. Otherwise I am so sure all her blood will be drained off" Ed chuckled.
Johann's eyes became red and his lips began to shiver. He couldn't comprehend what to do…
"Where should I come?" he choked. After thinking for a while, he didn't get any other alternative but to listen to that person.
His wife is his everything. He has left her alone once and he don't want to live without her right now…
"Figure it by yourself…. genius" Ed chuckled darkly and ended the call.
….
Almost after one hour….
Johann hurriedly made his way into the abandoned building…which was supposed to Braxton's secret branch quarters right in the heart of capitol of country X.
But as soon as he entered the big hall, what he saw there totally made him speechless. He was stunned to his core….
His wife is in there but she was not chained or tied up. She is just sitting on one of the sofas….
She didn't even seem like she was kidnapped and got tortured by someone…. In fact, she looked very fine. However, something changed in her. She looked different…
But he couldn't put his finger on what it is…
But that didn't matter. She is safe and it is all he wanted. If it was his people, they would have surely tortured her….
"Lily, are you fine?" he rushed towards her at the same time his brain processed all this information. He couldn't help hug her tight to his heart. "Don't worry honey, I am here and no one can harm you…. I am here" he stroked her hair and kissed her forehead.
While he comforted his wife, he heard someone clapping their hands as they approached him from the door behind him. "So…. sweet. I never thought a heartless person like you can love someone this much. Love is really blind isn't it, Mrs. Warren?"
Johann could only hear that persons sharp and dangerous voice but couldn't see him. He is still standing, leaning on to the wall. The place around him is very dark that they couldn't even differentiate between the person and his shadow.
"But only some of that blind people will have a maturity to differentiate weather it is true love or something else which was done on bases of their selfishness" the person in shadows continued.
Johann didn't fail to notice the people from council who are surrounding the big, dark hall. He tightened his arms around his wife and pulled her closer to him and whispered. "Don't be afraid love. They can't harm you till I breath my last breath" he protected her with his body as he pulled her in his embrace.
As soon as that words left his mouth, the person in shadows started laughing as if he listened the best joke ever.
"Very funny…" that person said in middle of his laugh. "Haha…. now you will understand how betraying will feel like" he mocked and Johann's face etched with confusion.
It is only when he noticed the expression of his face.
She is not afraid nor worried. She was not even panicked….
She is sad…very sad and her eyes brimmed with guiltiness. She is biting her lips….as she tried very hard not to sob.
"Love…" Johann panicked.
He almost understood what is happening here. His wife was not kidnapped….in fact she is the one who helped council to trap him.
What all that happened till now is just a trap to lure him…
But he didn't from when she is acting like a double spy….no, no…. not a double spy because she was not aware that he was using her as a bridge to find out what all was happening in Jean and Scott's side…
And now…. she knows everything.
"You helped them to trap me, didn't you?" Johann asked his wife. His voice didn't have even a tiny trace of anger nor resent, because he clearly knows who is in loss here.
He is the first person to betrayed her…. not she.
"Hmm…. not bad…not bad at all. You are really a genius." The person in shadows chuckled. "Your wife is more afraid of you than us. And in fact, a week back, when I told her about you, she didn't even believe me till I showed her who you really are. And it is very bad that you opted to betray her not once but twice. Mr. Johann or Victor Wright…whatever you prefer…but how can you even call this as true love when you are doing these many things behind her back"
Meanwhile lily couldn't help but sob. Her heart couldn't take this anymore….
The only person she loved this much and trusted more than she trusts herself was someone who have been lying to her all along. He was the one who betrayed her the most….
So much that, she almost helped him to kill her best friend Sophia back then and her daughter Jean now. She couldn't help but feel guilty…extremely guilty.
"I loved you so much Victor. So much that I never suspected you of anything. But you…. you shattered my heart, ruined my self-respect and made me hate myself the most" she began to cry.
Johann's face etched with guilt and agony as he looked at his sobbing wife. He extended his hand to wipe her tears off but she smacked it hard and moved away from him.
Her eyes are filled with hate and disgust…
"What's wrong in what I did? I am just taking revenge for my master…" Johann scoffed as he looked at the person who is still in shadows.
"Oh…is that so? Then whatever you are doing is utterly wrong" saying so he stepped into the light.
Johann gaped and inched backwards with his hands covering his mouth…
"You…" he choked with surprise and he is dumbfounded to see that person standing right in front of him…
He never expected this twist…
The person standing in front of him is none other than Edward William Braxton…. who is famously called as Edward Wright.
"Yes, it's me…Johann" Edward smirked.
"How?....I mean….what are you doing here in council. You are the son of second young master of Braxton. You are supposed to be hating council…" Johann almost shouted in shock.