Chapter 235 - Let Her Decide

"There's indeed something important that I need to tell you guys. But let's wait for Simon and Leo, they will be here in a short while." Shadow informed everyone when he noticed their questioning looks.

Even though most of them just nodded their heads before returning their attention to the food, there was a particular person whose eyes were still trained on him. 

He gave her a small nod, assuring her that everything was alright without speaking those words out loud.

Emily could do nothing more than just trust him. All that she wanted was to not hear any kind of bad news.. Her attention was pulled away when her phone started ringing. She looked at the screen to check the caller ID.

"It's a call from one of the sponsors. I need to take this. I'll be in the conference room." She told her brothers who nodded their heads as they watched her walking out of the office.

Giving a last glance at the men present inside the office, she finally closed the door before walking away towards the conference room at the other end of the hall.

- - - - 

It didn't take long before Simon and Leo were also walking inside their brother's office but they were not alone, Kaiden also accompanied them.

"It feels like whatever you are going to tell us isn't something normal," Crist commented as he shifted on the couch to make some space for Leo.

"Em is still not here," Daniel pointed out as he looked at the entrance of the office. It's been over fifteen minutes since she left.

"She's still talking to..."

"She's still on phone..."

Kaiden and Shadow spoke up at the same time, causing a deafening silence to take over the room for a couple of seconds. 

"Let's wait for her then." Domenic was the first one to break the silence as he looked at Shadow to hear what the man had to say.

"Actually, you guys can first take a look at this," Shadow responded as he took out his phone and after browsing through it for a couple of seconds, placed it in the centre of the coffee table that was loaded with lunchboxes and empty juice bottles.

Everyone's attention moved towards the phone and they watched live footage of a man who was tied to a chair in a dark room. It didn't look like he had been beaten up, yet. He was just tied and left there alone.

"Who's he?" Mark asked as he observed the man closely, trying to recall if he had ever seen him before.

"The fifth Master." That's all Shadow said in response but that's all he needed to say because as soon as the others heard it, they all knew exactly who that man was.

"Where's he? Let's go and settle our records with him today." Mark was the first one to speak as he hurriedly stood up while staring at the man in the video. His eyes were no longer calm or contained any sort of kindness. Instead, he looked like someone who wanted to either kill or be killed.

But Mark was not the only one who seemed to be more than ready to kill the so-called Fifth Master. Almost everyone present in the office was eager to do that. 

"You are wrong, Mark. You can't settle your records with him because there's nothing to settle between the two of you. If there's anyone here who needs to settle things with him, then it's Emily." Shadow spoke as he picked up his phone and stopped the video for the time being.

Everyone was silent as they tried to decide what to do next. The only person who looked calm was Shadow, probably because it was not his first time seeing that Fifth Master. Though he had already spent half a day taking out his anger on that man, there's still too much bitterness and anger left in him.

"What's your plan then?" This time it was Kaiden who took the initiative to ask the question. Though he almost appeared normal as usual, Shadow could clearly feel that his wolf was almost on the verge of going insane.

He was about to stand up from his seat to move closer to Kaiden so that he could help him calm down but then he realized that Emily was finally done with her call, meaning she would be back in a minute or so. He decided to stay sitting in his seat and just answer the question. "We should tell her. Let her decide what she wants to do. She deserves to know and it's up to her. Whatever punishment she will decide for him, let's respect her decision." 

*****

When Emily returned to the office almost twenty minutes later, the last thing she expected to see was Kaiden sitting there with her brothers and Shadow.

The intense atmosphere inside the office was so heavy that she almost started feeling suffocated.

"Did you guys fight? I know that I took a little bit more time to finish the call but how come you ended up creating such a tense situation in such a short period? What exactly happened?" She questioned them as soon as she reached the area where they all were seated on the couches.

"Angel..."

Emily almost felt her heart stopping to beat as she heard Kaiden calling her so endearingly but this time it was not because her stomach was filled with butterflies, rather, it was because she could feel her brothers' gazes on her.

She turned to glare at him but didn't get the chance because he was already speaking again.

"Come here..." He even stretched one of his hands out towards her while waiting for her to walk closer to him.

This time, it took everything inside Emily to not blush in embarrassment. She had no idea about what was wrong with that man but she definitely was not prepared to listen to his indecent requests. At least not in front of her brothers.