Five minutes later, the Nighthawk team swaggered back in and reported respectfully to Ryan.
"There were fifteen of them and they have all been taken care of."
"That was fast. You guys have improved again", Dan eyed them proudly while he saying this.
"Do you find out the room he put her in?," Justin asked in urgency. The 'he' didn't need to specified as they all knew who they were referring to.
"The master bedroom, it should be."
"Let's go then!", Dan said impatiently as he waved his hand.
They continued moving silently towards the master bedroom. They still couldn't stop their amazement at the interior of the house though. If they hadn't been here themselves, they would never have thought that the inside of this abandoned building was actually so beautifully decorated.
As they got closer to the master bedroom, they could hear the frustrated voice of Tyson's.
"Why the hell are you not eating?! Have something, will you? You don't want anything to happen to the baby, right?"
The person he was coaxing was obviously ignoring him as they heard nothing after waiting for a while. They then heard Tyson's angry but helpless voice,
"What should I do to make you have some food?!"
They heard a low, hoarse but hopeful voice, it was Nina's.
She said, "Send me back home and I will eat."
Justin stiffened when he heard her voice, the emotions he had been putting a tight leash over threatened to overwhelm him then but he finally managed to control himself to remain calm.
'This was not the time for it'. But you could still see the tears swimming in his eyes and the reddened rims around which showed just how much he was restraining himself.
On the other hand, Nina's words seemed to have angered Tyson as they heard him shout loudly, making the building echo with his voice.
"Send you home?! Not in this life! You have no way of escaping me, Nina. You belong to me, only me! This is your home! You hear me, Your home is where I am. If you don't want to eat then don't!"
Consequently, they heard his furious footsteps coming out of the room and heading towards them followed by someone else's footsteps, probably the person he was speaking to earlier.
Ryan signalled silently to One to capture him when he comes out.
"Why! Why! Why?! Why am I still not good enough for her? What does that b*stard have now that I don't? Why does she still wants to go back to him? Why?!", Tyson ranted furiously outside the room.
"You should calm down, Sir. You don't actually plan on letting her starve to death, do you?"
Tyson seemed to deflate instantly after which he gave a helpless sigh and turned his back to him.
"I can't... I can't do it, Derek. I know it makes me pathetic but I just can't f*cking do it! Aren't I stupid? Huh!"
Derek kept silent and said nothing in reply because he knew that although it seemed like the question was directed at him, it was actually a rhetorical question which meant his answer wasn't required.
Tyson was about to say something more when his eyes widened abruptly. He stared incredulously at the man in front of him. He turned around in panic to order Derek when he saw the other man has already been disabled by an unknown man standing behind him.
He watched his arch-nemesis walk towards him and every step seemed to step heavily on his heart. Seeing him getting increasingly closer eventually made him regain his senses amidst his panic as he began shouting.
"Guards! Guards!"
"You don't need to trouble yourself, All your guards are no more", Justin told him indifferently while no emotions could be seen in his eyes.
"W--what! What do you mean?..No...", He wasn't able to complete his words when he saw Ryan, Dan and the other three members of Nighthawk walk menacingly towards him.
Confusion appeared in his sultry eyes as he asked.
"Ho--how did you get in?"
"Through the back door", Dan told him as he smiled sinisterly, making his feminine face appeared even more sinful.
"Now let's get down to business."
When Tyson saw Dan's sinister smile, he seemed to see his future if he ever got captured by them. He estimated the distance between the master's bedroom and him and decided that if he could take Nina as an hostage, he could probably make it out alive.
Justin looked at him and guessed his thoughts, he signalled to One who happened to be the one who disabled Derek. So the moment Tyson decided to make a run for it, One dealth him a heavy blow on his stomach showing no mercy at all.
Tyson staggered before collapsing while painfully clutching his stomach. It felt like his internal organs were in fire and he finally felt regret. He really did regret it.
Justin walked silently like a predator towards him and bent down and slightly lifted his chin upwards. He had a cynical smile on his face as he said with chilliness in his voice.
"You've got guts, Tyson Peters or should I say Tyson Simmons? You captured my woman and also wants to gobble up my company? With just you? You must think too highly of yourself!"
He then stood up and took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped his hands carefully like he had touched a dirty thing.
Afterwards, he had the leisure to admire how the shock in Tyson's eyes changed from disbelief to resentment to hatred then finally to resignation.
"...I still lost to you in the end.." He murmured before letting a member of Nighthawk drag him away without resisting.
Justin stood motionlessly in front of the master's bedroom and hesistated to enter.
Ryan and Dan walked up to him and slapped his shoulders playfully before saying.
"Go get your woman, Bro. You shouldn't let her wait any longer."
'Yeah, he shouldn't let her wait any longer'
He thought to himself in determination and thus,turned towards his sworn brothers and said two words, he didn't wait for them to reply before opening the door and walking in
"Thank you."
* * * * *
Nina thought she must be day dreaming, because she seemed to have heard Justin's voice after Tyson went out of the room.
This made laugh in mock to herself as she mused.
'How can he possibly be here. Tyson had said that this was an abandoned building from the outside and no one would bother to search such an abandoned building'
Even though she understood this, she still couldn't help but feel a pang of pain in her heart when she though she would never get to see her family and friends again.
Selena, Brian, Sophie, Mrs. Walters and… Justin.
She caressed her stomach lovingly while looking up with lifeless eyes towards the ceiling as she laid on the bed. Teardrops fell silently front her eyes disappearing silently into the sheets.
Nina..
Her tears came to an abrupt stop when she heard someone calling her name softly, it seemed to be... Justin's... Voice?!..
She smiled in ridicule to herself once again and whispered, 'I must be hallucinating'
"Nina", the voice called out again but this time she finally heard it clearly!
It was Justin's voice!
She jerked up from the bed and stared in disbelief at the man standing in front of her bed. This made her open her eyes wide but then thinking she might be dreaming, she shut them close again. Then after a while, she opened one eye cautiously while feeling strangely timid that she have really have seen an illusion.
But on seeing the person in front of her who was obviously real but seemed to be hesitating on whether to move closer to her or not while watching her carefully as if afraid she would disappear the next moment...