CHAPTER 258

Chapter 258: A talk

Gregory looked at Grey. "You think something is amiss?"

It was evening already and the elders gathered at Alfred’s house. Thomas and Gary have arrived with the rest of the men but Charles told them to stay at his house. The meetings with the elders have to come first.

"We need to move faster. We need to make Giovanni think there’s really no Hercules," Grey started.

"How do we do this?" Jayden demanded.

"Anything that will strike as suspicious. Get the men to guard my estate unnecessarily. Get a man to go to my estate dressed like me. There should be a mask and others," Grey explained.

"What do we do with Gary then?" Charles asked suddenly. "Grey feels something is way off about him."

"You need to ask him questions when he gets here. I mean he would definitely have the answers to what we want."

Grey thought about it for a moment. " Let's play it slowly. We don’t really know at this moment if Gary is a spy or not. We have to be careful. And for the meantime, we still have to continue pretending

Hercules doesn’t exist. Let's have more conversations about it."

Alfred nodded briefly. "Then, we can take a shift and discuss at Charles’ house.

"Yes. But I, Gregory, and Charles will have to meet with Gary. We will give you feedback depending on what he says,

Grey added.

"Yes, let’s do that immediately," Gregory said and stood.

Grey looked over at Alfred. "How is he?"

Alfred sighed. "Still the same. He's not showing any signs of responding to treatment. Though, the doctor said it would take a while."

Grey nodded briefly and stood. "Let's talk later then."

Grey, Gregory, and Charles arrived at

Charles’ house in their cars.

Thomas was in front of the door, with his head bowed.

Charles regarded him for a moment before he walked inside while Grey and

Gregory followed. Gary was at one side. looking lost with an expression that was hard to read.

Gary was the first person that Grey watched out for the moment he was inside the living room.

Charles opened his mouth to say something but Grey beat him to it.

" Where have you been, Gary?"

Gary looked up, slowly. There was a flash of flicker across his face.

"I couldn't alert you after Fred’s escape as I decided to go after him."Charles regarded Thomas for a moment. Leave with the men!" He ordered.

Thomas bowed slightly before he walked out with the others.

Charles walked closer to Gary.

"Is everything going well?"

Gary looked again.

"Yes, everything is fine," he responded. owns all content.

"Then, what about_," Charles was saying but Grey cut him off again.

"Do you have anything to tell us?"

Charles regarded Grey for a moment, skeptical as to what he was doing.

Gary shook his head briefly. "I tried to stop Fred from escaping but I couldn't, I deserve death!" He bowed slightly.

"But" Charles started again but Grey interrupted him the second time. He showed a frustrated look. Gary knew what he wanted

and he doesn't even need to start explaining but Gary was acting as if he didn't understand anything, as if he wasn’t the one he

planned everything with. Something was really wrong somewhere.

"Leave! We will speak to you later," Grey ordered.

Gary bowed slightly and walked out of the living room without another word.

Charles turned to look at Grey. "Why were you interrupting me?"

Grey shook his head briefly as if to make him stop talking. He instead walked towards the door, opened it, and pulled out his head to check if there was anyone around. Satisfied, he closed the door and walked back to Charles.

"Coast clear, Charles. We can talk now.

"I was going to ask Gary some questions but you were stopping me."

"Something is going on, something really strange is happening with Gary," Gregory observed.

Charles raised skeptical brows. "Then we should ask him," he was getting frustrated.

"No," Grey shook his head briefly.

"Gary doesn’t want to talk. For some reasons unknown, he’s avoiding talking about the plan. Why do you think that is happening?

"Well, I was going to ask him if you hadn’t stopped me," Charles stressed.

Grey shook his head again, slowly. "You aren’t seeing what I am seeing, Charles. Gary is avoiding the talk because there's something else to it. For some reasons unknown to us, it looked like he was protecting us from something," he explained.

"This was why I had to check out for the men." He added.

"I think Gregory is right," Gregory chimed in. "It looks like he’s scared of something."

Charles reasoned it for a moment and slowly released an exasperated sigh. ‘ What do you suggest we should do now?"

"I will do this. Just do me a favor of separating your men between me, you, and Gregory. Then you can leave the rest to me," he assured them.

Gregory nodded. "That's cool too. I believe in your plan."

Charles nodded and walked out of the living room while Grey turned towards Gregory.

"Don't forget what you and Charles are supposed to talk about when I’m out. I’m going to be having a drive with Gary. It looks like he doesn’t want to talk here for a reason and I will find out today."

Gregory nodded briefly. "I understand."

Grey nodded once and walked out of the living room. Ten of Charles’ men were in the garden and Charles was discussing with them.

"Is anyone set? I need one of your men to drive me to the cinema," Grey said suddenly as he moved closer to Charles.

Charles looked at him. "Don’t worry, Gary will drive you over.

"Then, I need him now," he expressed and started towards the car. Gary hurried to the car before him to pull the door open for him.

He then hurried to the driver’s seat.

Where are we going?"

"Anywhere you will be very comfortable to tell me everything."

His response shocked Gary so that he looked back at him. "How did you know?