Billionaire Mafia's Manny
Chapter 68

Chapter 68: Chapter 68

The door suddenly slid open with Siri’s voice detecting a strange person in the building.

’Sebastian, there’s an unidentified lady in the house; please check her out; she might be a threat,’ Siri announced.

Sebastian sat straight on his plush sofa, slowly tapping his fingers on his thigh, "Ignore, Siri." He quietly commanded, pinning his eyes on the approaching Ash.

’Alright, stranger successfully ignored,’ Siri replied.

Ida walked in with Ash beside him; Jasper trailed behind, slowly maintaining a distance from the two.

"Boss," Ida and Jasper bowed as they reached in front of Sebastian.

Ash timidly bowed her head too, looking very small beside the guys.

"You said you have something to say, Ash," Sebastian stared at Ash.

Ash nodded, "Yes, Mr. Orion," She replied.

Sebastian looked toward the dining and frowned.

Zeno was sitting beside Ken as he fed the boy while Nicholas decided to rest his arms on Zeno’s sides, caging him as he placed his hands on the table.

His fists automatically clenched beside him, he thought he’d be able to endure the tortuous sight until the moment when Zeno turned his face to speak to Nicholas and almost jammed his lips with his.

"Boss?" Ida dared to move a little closer as he called to Sebastian.

Sebastian slowly blinked away from the annoying view and faced Ida.

"Get Julia," He moved his icy glare to Jasper as he ordered.

"Yes, boss," Jasper immediately turned and walked out of the house.

"Take her into my office, Ida," Sebastian stood and walked past Ash, heading right toward the dining.

"Yes, Boss. Come on," Ida placed a gentle hand on Ash’s lower back and directed her towards the office.

Sebastian reached the table and paused beside Zeno.

"You need to work," He placed his hand on the table, just beside the plate Zeno was scooping from.

Zeno and Nicholas turned to look at Sebastian at the same time.

He had suddenly appeared and spoke beside them, talking to them without them hearing him approach.

Nicholas gently leaned away from Zeno and walked over to Sebastian.

Zeno turned to Sebastian, briefly looking at his eyes and quickly turning to Ken.

"I’ll-"

"He’s not going, Dad, he’s feeding me," Ken pointed his finger to his chest, frowning at his father.

Zeno saw that Sebastian was about to say something mean to the boy so he gently stood up and faced Sebastian.

"I’ll just hurry up and-"

"Are you refusing my order?" Sebastian narrowed his eyes and gritted his jaws.

Zeno sighed, why was he feeling like there was just so much tension in the air? Especially with Sebastian standing so close to him.

"No, Boss, I’m not," Zeno lowered his head.

"Sir, you asked for me," Julia’s voice diffused the thick air around them as everyone turned to look at her.

"Finish up with Ken," Sebastian informed.

"Yes, sir," Julia replied and smiled at Ken.

She knew that they were now on a mission to terminate the evil and cunning Darren, and she would be the happiest person if they succeeded. She knew the evil that man had done with Mr. Glen and they deserved to be punished.

Julia stepped forward and held Zeno’s arm, "I’ll take it from here," She smiled at him.

Zeno nodded and stepped away from the chair.

Ken had an unhappy look on his face but Sebastian wasn’t in the mood to entertain his tantrum.

Zeno patted Ken’s shoulder, "I’ll see you later, buddy," he gave the kid a fist bump and stepped away from the dining.

Sebastian automatically turned and followed Zeno as he walked toward his office.

He was about to enter his door when he felt Nicholas’ hand on his shoulder.

"What?" Sebastian turned his face behind him and stared at his friend.

Nicholas sighed and shook his head.

"You have to take it easy on Zeno; the guy’s done nothing to you; he’s not your father, who you should be angry at," Nicholas spoke quietly so Zeno wouldn’t hear them from inside the room.

"And you’re speaking as what? His boyfriend?" Sebastian raised his brow at Nicholas.

"I love that you’re wishing me well, dear friend, but I’m not his boyfriend yet, hopefully, soon. But I’m speaking as a friend," Nicholas replied.

"And since when do you lecture me on how I treat my workers?" Sebastian turned to squarely face Nicholas.

Nicholas stepped back, raising his hands beside his head, "You’re the boss, Sebastian," He said with a smile.

"It’s good you know, Nicholas," He replied and turned away from him.

Inside the office, Zeno was standing beside Ida and they were both standing behind the sofa that Ash was sitting on.

"Check your phone, Zeno. You caused a lot of chaos yesterday...where the fuck did you run off to?" Ida asked in a whisper.

Zeno frowned and fished out his phone from his pocket.

He quickly read the message Ida had just sent him, shock marking his face.

He turned his head to Ida in surprise.

"He took care of me? Called a doctor?" Zeno whispered.

"And refused to eat all day," Ida added.

"So it’s true...damn," He felt guilty.

He suddenly remembered feeling lightheaded when he stepped out of the car that night. He recalled feeling like he was having a heavy fever, and he remembered hearing voices in his head; he couldn’t recall everything, but he knew that he felt better the next morning.

Guilt was eating him up. He acted so ungratefully by leaving Sebastian’s side the moment he woke up and going on about his day with Nicholas.

The door was pushed open and Ash startled, shrinking back on the sofa.

"Relax, Ash, no one’s going to hurt you," Zeno placed a gentle hand on Ash’s shoulder.

At that moment, Sebastian walked through the door and saw Zeno’s hand on Ash’s shoulder. He felt like he wasn’t going to be able to survive that day.

Every damn little thing Zeno did evoked indescribable jealousy within him. He felt like he wanted to chase everyone away and just lock Zeno and himself up in a room.

He removed his eyes from there and walked around his table, sitting on his chair.

Nicholas walked in after him and sat in his usual spot in front of the table.

"Hello, Ash, I’m Nicholas. Heard they got you from Darren?" Nicholas questioned.

"I ran away," Ash replied, removing her face from him.

"You have the ground, Ash, what do you have to say?" Sebastian was speaking to Ash but his eyes were locked on Zeno.

Zeno transferred his weight from one foot to another and slowly removed his hand from Ash’s shoulder.

Ash released a sigh and placed her hands on her thighs, she was really scared of Sebastian.

She’d heard a lot about him from Darren’s discussion with his men. Even Darren feared him, so who was she not to fear Sebastian Orion?

She kept her eyes lowered to her hands before she spoke. "Darren...he trades underage girls and-"

"We already know that Ash; if that’s all you have to say, you can leave; I’m busy," Sebastian frowned at her.

Ash gulped and shook her head, "No...I mean, he really trades underage girls-"

"Lead her out, Ida," Sebastian ordered.

"Just hear her out!" Zeno blurted out, a bit more commanding than he should sound.

Everyone paused, Ash was breathing like a dying lizard. She knew Sebastian couldn’t stand the disrespect. And Zeno had disrespected him in front of people just because he wanted to defend her.

Ida snapped his head to Zeno, giving him the ’Are you for real?’ Look.

Nicholas sat quietly, ready to calm Sebastian down in case he wanted to react overboard.

However, Sebastian surprised everyone by remaining calm and unfazed.

He just stared at Zeno for a while, surprisingly finding out that he wasn’t even bothered that he raised his voice at him, he kind of found it endearing.

For the first time, Zeno was openly speaking freely to him amid people, he felt like he’d won a point over Nicholas.

Now Nicholas wasn’t the only one who Zeno spoke freely with outside, he was starting to be himself around him.

Zeno felt Sebastian’s gaze on him and realized his mistake, what had he been thinking?

He needed to apologize immediately.

’I’m-"

"Let’s hear you, Ash," Sebastian interrupted Zeno.

He knew Zeno was about to apologize, and he didn’t want that; he never apologized to Nicholas, so why should he apologize for speaking freely with him?

Ash was surprised by Sebastian’s reply, as were Zeno, Ida, and Nicholas.

They’d never seen Sebastian so calm in their life.

Ida partly knew the reason for that, but Nicholas was lost for what to think, he thought his friend was acting strange.

Zeno just stared at Sebastian, feeling like there was something Sebastian wasn’t saying out loud, and for some reason, he wasn’t feeling threatened by it; he was rather feeling as if Sebastian was silently encouraging his attitude, which was the first time.

"Darren has an orphanage where he claims to do charity for the homeless and unwanted kids..." Ash started.

"He poses as an angel who adopts children out of barren couples. However, the reality of it all is that both his clients and him are just devils in an angel’s clothing," Ash spoke quietly, but the look on her face was so full of detest.

"I’m sixteen, and I was raised there, too; I don’t know how I got there, but all I knew was that I grew up thinking that place was home. They tend to train kids who are two to three years like normal kids, but once you click four, you’re made to understand that you’re just an object made to serve whoever paid highest for you," She paused, clenching her fists.

"He only has rich barren couples, never average or middle-class couples; it’s always millionaires from both the country and outside the country; those are his partners who he sells the children to. Once a child is at the ripe age of eight, he’s ready to trade with his partners; that child faces the worst experience anyone or any child could face, sexually, socially, domestically..." Ash trailed off, tears falling from her eyes.

Sebastian smirked coldly; just when he thought he had enough to get Darren locked up forever, he just kept getting more and more exciting information.

"You know where this orphanage is, right?" Sebastian asked darkly.

Seems like he no longer needed to do much, things had just fallen into place.

"Yes, Mr. Orion, I do," Ash replied, looking forward to watching Darren crumble down.