Chapter 171 A Dead End

"I'm so glad you could make it", Mona said as she hugged her best friend Demi. "Thank you. I know you had to leave class..."

"What's wrong with you?" Demi gave her a once over. She chuckled, "It's not like I haven't bunked classes for you before."

Demi's smile faded as she realized something. Mona was anxious and evidently desperate for any help she could get to achieve her current goal: saving her relationship with Ian. A certain bitterness washed over Demi's form. But seeing the look on Mona's face, she suppressed the feelings and walked on ahead.

"Come on", she quietly said.

Mona followed behind before they caught a taxi to the gym. Yes, they were headed to Pedro and Enzo's. A few minutes later, they alighted from the taxi when it stopped at their destination. Demi took care of the fare before Mona followed her in.

Mona felt her palms grow sweaty as her heart thudded in anxiousness. They took the elevator that took them to the third floor. Mona watched Demi's back as the latter walked ahead of her. She could not help but feel like her friend was being distant. She sighed. Was she asking too much of her?

Demi raised her manicured fingers and knocked on the door. One knock was enough as Enzo immediately answered the door. He gestured for them to get in and showed them a seat before he settled on a double sofa.

"Look what the wind blew in", Pedro chuckled as he walked over with two drinks in hand. He passed one to Enzo before settling down before the man. "I would offer you some but you know", he chuckled.

"Quite hypocritical of you don't you think?" Demi countered with a cross of her arms against her chest. He could sell them drugs but not offer them alcohol.

"Well", Pedro gave an innocent shrug. "You told my men that you had an interesting offer for me."

"It's not an offer per se.... It's more like a favor except we have common interest", Demi explained.

Pedro sighed looking bored out of his mind. "You're wasting our time."

"Emily Stanford!" Mona blurted out earning the attention of the two men.

"The same Emily who was our client?" Enzo arched an amused brow to which Mona nodded.

"Well, she's on our radar. But what about her?" Pedro asked.

"I want her dead! She's a constant both-"

Mona was interrupted by the sound of the two men laughing. If anything, they looked amused before a serious expression settled on Pedro. "Little girl, shady as our business is, we can never lay a hand on a pregnant woman. The child did no wrong to us, why should we harm it?"

"Well, at least find her, so I can teach her a lesson or two!" Mona screamed as her eyes shone with frustrated tears.

"Find her? Don't you know where she lives? I thought you're dating her friend's grandson", Enzo spoke this time.

The two girls exchanged a look of disbelief before looking back at the men. Mona scoffed before her lips curled in a sneer, "You don't even know she left West Village?"

It was the men's turn to look at each other in shock. Amy had left? When did this happen? How did they not detect her absence? Why didn't their men report anything out of the ordinary? How was it difficult to report about a departure concerning someone they have been monitoring?

"Let's go", Mona stood up. "They won't help us."

Demi saw the disappointment on her friend's face and followed after her. The two men were left in thought. Emily Stanford had actually left. So she meant when she implied didn't care about their relationship. It was indeed their business.

Enzo leaned back in his seat and took a sip. "What an interesting woman..."

"Interesting indeed....", Pedro agreed with a hook of his arm over Enzo's shoulder.

Meanwhile, Mona was wiping silent tears as they walked out of the gym. This bothered Demi to a multitude. She sighed as she walked beside her.

"Maybe it's high time you accept things as they are between you and Ian?"

"Accept what?" She stopped and turned to look at her with angry tears. "This is all because of that woman! She went and left this mess behind for me to clean up! She did! Things are not ending like this!"

"Mona...."

"No!"

"Ian is just in a messed up state, he didn't mean anything he said earlier, everything will return back to normal. I know this. I know him! I.....", She sighed and wiped away her tears with the back of her hand and sniffled. "I'll see you tomorrow."

Demi watched her friend walk on as her shoulders visibly shook with her quiet sobs. She didn't know where she was headed. But Demi got one thing right from her interaction with Mona. Ian was the center of the problem. It was him they needed to take care of.

With that thought, she walked back to Pedro and Enzo's office. With a knock, she was let in. Enzo was surprised by her visit.

"Back so soon?" He arched a brow.

,m "What about Ian? Ian Thornton", she emphasized a little anxiously.

Enzo was alarmed by the name and anxiously looked around before shoving her in. He locked the door behind her and faced her with a grave expression.

"What about him?" Pedro asked.

"Can't we take care of him? He's not a pregnant woman and is definitely the problem in this when issue", she explained looking at the two men in hopes of getting what she wanted. If it happened, maybe Mona would finally look at her as more than a best friend.

"We can't touch him", Enzo answered without batting an eyelid.

"Why not?" Her features pulled in frustration.

"He's a descendant of a member of the Night Wolves, if we touch him, they'll come for us, my business, you, your family, your little friend, and everyone related to you even if they're not family. That's why. I'm not going to risk any of that, but feel free to do so at your own risk", Pedro said before walking to seat behind his desk. "Yeah, they mean to erase the existence of anyone that crosses them including those who knew of that person's existence."

She sighed. Her family was one thing but she couldn't risk losing Mona. That would be too much of a loss to her. The situation had now reached a dead end. Could she accept such a result?