What’s going on? I texted back as I ran into David’s room and turned the TV on.
All will be revealed in due time.
Where is Jakob? I asked, my heart pounding as I fumbled with the numbers on the remote and changed the channel to 1003.
You’ll see. Steve texted back immediately.
I sighed at the message and then looked at the TV screen. My heart dropped as I saw Jakob and David in a dark, dingy room somewhere. Jakob, with a grimace on his face, was standing next to David, who was tied to a chair and looked panicked.
“The papers were at Larry’s wife’s house, just like she said.” Jakob’s voice was cold. “You didn’t tell me she was Larry’s daughter.”
“I didn’t know at first.” David’s voice was bitter. “Not until you were on the island.”
“You know Larry is Maxwell?”
“What?” David’s jaw dropped. “That bitch never told me!”
“Don’t worry. I’ll take care of her.” Jakob walked to the side of the room and I could barely see him in the darkness.
“You got what you wanted. You can’t keep me here,” David grunted. “You won’t get away with it.”
“It’s nearly done now.” Jakob slammed his hand down on the table. “Everything is working out perfectly. I’ve done what I had to do. What’s hers is mine and what is mine will be hers.”
“What do you think she’ll do when she finds out?” David’s voice was low and he smirked at Jakob from his seat. “You’ve got me tied up here so I can’t leave, but you’ll have to let me loose at some point.”
“We’ll see about that.” Jakob’s voice dropped to a low rasp and I shivered. “I might never let you loose.”
“Bianca will find out, you know.” David sounded scared now. “She’ll find out the truth.” My heart stopped as I watched them both. What truth was David talking about?
“What truth is that, dear brother?”
“She’ll find out that the kidnapping was your idea.” David’s voice cracked as he struggled in his seat. I could see the tightness of the rope around his wrists and I felt my own wrists scratching as I remembered the feeling.
“Why would she find that out?”
“I think it would make a big difference to her to know I wasn’t the mastermind behind the kidnapping. When she finds out it was all your idea. Did you like tying the rope around her body and her wrists?” David hissed. “You’re a sick fuck, aren’t you? I know she has a cute little—”
“Shut up.” Jakob slapped David across the face and I gasped. I was starting to feel woozy from watching the screen and took a step back.
“Or what? You’re going to kill me?” David laughed. “Killing me won’t stop the truth from emerging. Wait until she finds out that it was you who wanted her out of the way. Wait until she finds out that it was your company that bought Bradley Inc. That it’s you who doesn’t want her stopping the merger.”
“That kills you, doesn’t it, baby brother?”
“You were always jealous of me and what I had.” David spat at him. “I had everything that you wanted. I even had her.”
“You never had her.”
“That’s what she likes to say, but I fucked her in every hole she has and she loved it. She was begging me for more when I had her in the bed.”
“You sick fuck.” Jakob slapped him again and David laughed.
“She’ll never trust you, you know. Not now and not ever. Not when she finds out exactly what you did. Not when she finds out why.”
“What are you talking about?” Jakob’s voice went cold as ice. As did my face as I took a few steps closer to the TV screen.
“I’m talking about her father.”
“What?” Jakob grabbed hold of David’s shirt. “Think very carefully before you speak next, little brother.”
“I’m talking about your whore of a mother and Bianca’s father.” David laughed. “Does Bianca know that her precious father was the one cheating?”
Jakob stood there still as a statue and my hand flew to my mouth to stifle a gasp. All of a sudden my father’s grief made a lot more sense. Larry’s wife had been right. They’d all been evil.
“And not only that . . .” David’s eyes narrowed. “Does Bianca know exactly what happened to her father? I think she’d be interested in finding out more about his death. Don’t you?”
“What do you know about her father’s death?” Jakob tightened his hold on David’s shirt.
“I spoke to Larry, who spoke to Steve. I know who Steve was working for,” David spat out, and then smiled a wide, evil smile. “And all hell’s about to break loose, dear brother.”
“You spoke to Larry?” Jakob’s voice dropped. “If you want any chance of getting out of here, you better tell me what game he’s playing.”
“Death was just the beginning,” David said slowly, and I froze at the familiar words. “You’ve been a bad, bad boy, Jakob.”
“What does that mean?”
“You thought the target of everything was Bianca.” David laughed. “But you were wrong. The target has been you, all along.”
“What?”
“It’s game, set, and match, Jakob. You’re going to lose everything. Once Bianca knows the truth about what you’ve done, it will be all over for you.” David laughed. “It will be all over.”