{Frank}

Ever since Victoria and Walter left the house I hadn’t been feeling at ease at all. I sent two of my best bodyguards with them. That’s all I could do for the moment. But Victoria’s right, she can’t keep living on the edge, always worried, always watching her back, that’s not a good quality of life to live.

As I was in the middle of doing paperwork I got a phone call. It was Leon. “Hello? Any updates?”

”They’re fine for now Boss,” Leon said. “Although it seems as if Ben’s been visiting them more often and taking them to a dojo in town.”

”Hmmm, he might be trying to train them in self defense or something like that. Which is a good thing. The more they’re able to at least defend themselves the better,” I said.

“Agreed, but we could teach them just as much as Ben or any of his stupid mafia,” Leon whined.

I snorted. “If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you’re jealous of Ben.”

”Who wouldn’t be? Victoria’s the-“ Leon started. He stopped himself. “Nevermind.”

I raised an eyebrow. “She’s what? You know something that I don’t know about Victoria don’t you?”

”Yes, but I’m sworn to secrecy,” Leon admitted. He muttered under his breath, “I’m loyal to the crown.”

”The what?” I asked.

”Nothing Boss,” Leon said.

That made me wonder about Victoria’s real identity. She might be more important than I realized. If that’s the case whoever kidnapped Victoria must be a very important person as well. It made me curious and I wanted to find out who Victoria’s real family was but I didn’t know where to start looking. So I called my team that’s good at finding out about these things.

I dialed the number and Johnny picked up on the first ring. “Hello?”

”Johnny, I need you to look into something for me. You remember Victoria Lee, the popular artist? Well she got kidnapped by her real family about a month ago,” I said. “I need to confirm something for me on who her real family is. Apparently Delilah got Victoria from a surrogate but she doesn’t know the identity of the surrogate. I want you to find out the identity of the surrogate.”

“That’s going to be a tall order Boss, but I’ll see what I can do. Do you have any DNA samples from Ms. Lee?” Johnny asked.

”Yes I do,” I said.

”Alright, send me the samples and I’ll get to work,” Johnny said.

I ended the call and with my curiosity growing I couldn’t wait until I got results. Little did I know the results would blow my mind.

***

{Alastor}

“It’s about time you came home!” Karma said as she greeted me at the door.

”Yeah, yeah I know,” I growled.

”What’s the matter baby? You seem stressed,” Karma said.

“You have no idea,” I said.

She led me over to the couch in the living room and sat down next to me. When she leaned in for a kiss I pulled back.

“What’s wrong?” Karma asked.

”Is there some reason you decided to have the humans kidnap my son and the future ruler of Hell?” I asked.

Karma snorted. “It’s not my fault that humans run with their wild imagination. I only told them of the vision I saw. I saw a vision about a plague that may or may not wipe out about a third of the human population around the world. Oh and my vision included a demon and a box of some sort.”

I groaned, “Seriously? Those crazy humans have this stupid idea that Pandora and her box has something to do with that. So she got kidnapped along with my son for twenty-six years! Her name isn’t Pandora anymore. It’s Victoria.”

She gasped. “Oh no! I’m so sorry. I know humans are crazy but I didn’t think they’d go so far as to steal from the Royal Family like that.”

”Did you not hear what I just said?" I growled. "The humans kidnapped my son! My first born son! And the future ruler of Hell!"

"Yeah, humans are the definition of crazy," Karma said. She paused and she looked like she was in a trance.

I knew that when she went into that trance she was seeing a vision. When she snapped out of it she gave me an evil smile and I knew that smile meant something good.

"What is it?" I asked.

"Victoria and Walter are both destined for greatness! My powers told me your son's name was Walter now," She explained. "Of course Victoria's first obstacle will be dealing with her so-called 'family' and then finding her box. Once she finds her box she'll be unstoppable! And I'll help you get all the names of the humans and demons that are involved in this shit. On one condition."

"Depends on what your condition is," I said, giving her a sideways look.

"You've been neglecting your wives a bit lately. I've heard complaints from wife number two and number three. Although you don't seem to have that much trouble spending time with your first wife," Karma said. I could hear the jealousy in her voice. But she did manage to keep herself somewhat composed as she said, "The condition I purpose is that you spend time with each of your wives for two weeks. You have seven wives and that includes me. So that's seven days in a week, so you spend time with one of your wives each day. As long as you have sex with me and your first wife at least once, at the end of the two weeks I'll give you the names of every single human and demon that was involved in the kidnapping and now involved in the monitoring of your son and the future ruler of Hell. I think that's a pretty fair deal, don't you?"

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I thought about it and she's not wrong. I have been neglecting my wives lately because I've been so obsessed with trying to track down everyone who's been involved in Walter and Victoria's kidnapping. I had been trying to deal with the stress by taking it out on the inmates but maybe I needed something else.

So I nodded my head and held out my hand. She shook it and I smiled. "Deal."

***

{Frank}

Johnny made quick work of what I gave him for information. It turns out that a guy named Stanley (and I have a feeling that's not his real name) is the one who's in charge of a mafia that owns the mafia that Ben runs. There's two different mafia's in this city and the smaller is owned by the bigger one. The two mafia's are: Satan's Crew and the Royals. The Royals own Satan's Crew, so they're the ones that call the shots and that's probably how Ben was able to find Victoria and Walter so quickly.

It made me wonder if he was just sitting on the information until his Boss gave him the okay to give it to me? I have so many questions but I have an idea that Ben won't give me the information even if I tortured him for it.

Stanley is also running the Royals with a guy named Alastor. An interesting name and it made me wonder why Alastor's parents would name him after a demon. But based on the conversation that Delilah overheard when she rescued Victoria and Walter, Alastor is crazy so maybe his parents were right with that name.

So basically Victoria is a mafia Princess and Walter is a mafia Prince.

The surrogate that gave birth to Victoria was kidnapped from the mafia and I have a feeling that Issac was involved in the kidnapping somehow. From what Johnny was able to find out was now people who were involved in kidnapping Victoria and Walter from the mafia are starting to turn up dead.

I just attended Walter's "parents" funeral a couple of weeks ago. It made me wonder if his parents were involved as well. There's a lot more to this story than I realize. A lot of people were involved in this stuff and Johnny just scratched the surface of the iceberg.

With the information that I found out, I decided to pay Victoria and Walter a visit just to see how they were doing. I had a feeling that if Stanley and Alastor wanted to come for their children again, they could do so in the blink of an eye. I wasn't sure how I felt about that. Alastor tricked Victoria and Walter into thinking that he had a cure for their illness. But then again maybe he did because they seem to be feeling better except for a few bumps and bruises that Alastor gave them.

When I got to Victoria's house I knocked on the door. Leon answered it. "Oh, hey there Boss."

He let me inside and said, "What brings you here for a visit?"

"Well there's something that I want to speak to Victoria and Walter about. Where are they?" I said.

He hesitated. "They're in their room."

I smiled. "Let me guess, they're having sexy fun times aren't they?"

Right on cue I heard Victoria calling Walter's name out and moaning. "Yes! Baby… Fuck me harder… Walter!"

I chuckled, "Yeah I can wait."

"Are you sure?" Leon said.

"Yeah I'm sure," I said. "Remember Leon you work for me, and if I give you an order you follow it unless you don't feel like working for me anymore. Got it?"

He nodded. "Yes sir. I'll go see if they've at least climaxed by now."

I snorted as Leon went upstairs and knocked on the bedroom door. I sat down at the couch in the living room waiting for them to come down. When they came down I stood up and greeted them. "Victoria! Walter! How are you two doing?"

"We've been doing fine lately. How are you?" Victoria asked after I hugged her.

"I'm good. I'm just curious about some things," I said.

Victoria sat down on the couch and Walter sat down beside her. She raised an eyebrow. "What might that be?"

"Is your real dad the leader of a mafia? The Royals to be exact?" I asked.

Victoria's eyes went wide. "How did you find out about that?"

"Let me guess, you did your homework on us finally didn't you?" Walter asked before I could say anything. "I don't blame you. I'd be curious too if my adopted child got 'kidnapped' by people who claimed to be her real parents."

I raised an eyebrow. "Why did you put the word kidnapped in air quotes?"

"Because it's not kidnapping if we willingly went with the person," Victoria said.

"But Alastor said that he tricked you into coming with him. That's still kidnapping in my book because he coerced you into coming with him," I said.

Victoria and Walter exchanged a look.

"Do you wanna tell him or should I?" Walter asked.

"I'll tell him," Victoria said. She looked at me. "Before I tell you anything, none of this conversation leaves this room, got it? Because if you breathe a word of it, I'll deny it and your accusations will backfire on you."

I nodded. "I'm really curious to know what's going on. Although I could try and find out on my own. I'd rather hear it from the horse's mouth so to speak."

Victoria rolled her eyes. "Obviously. Well, the thing is everything looked like a kidnapping because Alastor set it up that way. To him he was just taking back what was his and Stanley's. And I agreed with that. I went twenty-eight years in this world growing up in an abusive household with people who weren't my real parents. I didn't know that my real parents loved me and wanted me to grow up with them raising me.

"I found out that Delilah only kept me because of Jaxon and Jenny. What kind of mother does that? A mother with no heart that's who. A mother who would keep a child as their emotional and sometimes physical punching bag just to blame that on the two children that she already had because they were 'attached' to me. You know how fucked up and wrong that is?

"The man who I thought was my real father kidnapped me from my actual father. I have no idea why he did it though. I'm just glad that my real father actually loves me."

I frowned. "Really? Because that's not what I heard from Delilah when she rescued you."

She gave me an evil smile. "That was a set up. I had some loose ends to tie up here before I go start my new life learning to be the next leader of the Royals."

I paused. "Huh? Isn't the leader of the mafia usually a man?"

Victoria snickered. "Typical, that's a stereotype. I'm actually the first born so that is my birthright. Anyway, Alastor got word that Delilah was coming to rescue me so I let him beat the crap out of me for trying to escape. That was all a set up to make Delilah look like a hero. And the plan worked because the news and the media are praising Delilah for being brave enough to go into the lion's den."

"But why? Why do you want Delilah to be the hero?" I asked. "You hate her!"

She nodded. "Oh I hate her alright! There's only one reason that I want her to be the hero for now."

"And that would be?" I asked.

"One word… Revenge," Victoria said.

I was confused by that statement. "But why would you get revenge by having Delilah save the day."

She gave me another evil smile. "You'll see. Because once Delilah falls and she will fall, she will fall HARD, VERY HARD! For now, just sit back and watch the show."

I had no idea what to say to that. But I had a feeling that whatever revenge Victoria and Walter had in mind that it was going to be grand and honestly I couldn't wait to see how everything played out.