I looked over to Ryan who nodded, singalling to me that the last guard was dead. Just as he did, the rest of the guys came out of the van and began making their way towards the warehouse. We gathered around the back.
"Matt, Ryan, Christian you take the back. We'll take the front." I said, referring to me, Chaz and Jaden. They all nodded and began making their way around, ensuring each had the weapons they required. Quietly and quickly, I pushed open the door checking to see if anyone was around, and to my surprise there was nobody. I motioned for the guys to follow behind me as I stepped closer into the house. As we walked in, I heard a voice from down the corridor, and my ears immediately perked up at the sound of Marissa's name.
"He has her with him, they're in South America." Someone explained as I felt Chaz and Jaden's eye's immediately glue to the back of my head.
"What about McCann?" As I stepped closer, I noticed they were all in a meeting room with the door wide open. As we were walking closer, Matty, Ryan and Christian turned the corner. I shook my head in the direction of the room as they nodded and followed up behind us.
"Yeah, what about me?" I asked, holding the gun firmly in my hands, the guys standing behind me. I immediately noticed that non of them had weapons, putting me at an immediate advantage over them. "Rogan, good to see you." I said, recognising the guy standing at the front of the meeting as Danny's previous right hand man. "Who are these?"
"New members." He stood proudly. "We're expanding McCann."
"As are we," I lied, "now where is my wife and kids?" I growled, pointing my gun to him.
"You seriously think I'm going to tell you?"
"I'm sure you will when I'm pointing a gun at your head."
"She's in South America!" One of them exclaimed, causing my head to snap towards them, my gun still pointing at Rogan.
"That doesn't help much, where about's?"
"Shut the fuck up Jason!"
"Another Jason?" I grinned, "Jason's are always helpful." I could see from the look on his face that he was only young, probably no older than 17. "Come with me Jason." I demanded, grabbing his arm and dragging him out of the room. "Boys keep an eye on these lot. Nobody leaves, then we'll take care of them afterwards." The fear in Jason's eyes was evident, and I knew that I was going to get answers out of him.
"That's the office." He pointed to a room on my right side, as I nodded and pushed open the door, allowing him to walk in before me. As he walked, I could see his whole body trembling, and I could see a lot of myself in him, particularly when I had just started the gang.
"Take a seat, Jason." I said, gripping onto my gun. There's no way in hell I'm going to hurt this kid, and I'm not going to kill him either. "Now, you know where Marissa, Drew and Alyssa are?"
"Yes, they're in South America."
"Where about's in South America?"
"Brazil. In the five years he was away he moved a lot of his bases to all different parts of the states, and many of them to South America."
"Do you know the exact address?"
"Not off the top of my head but I can try and find it on Rogan's computer." He offered, to which I nodded and stood behind him, watching every click he made. Eventually, he found some sort of file and scrolled down, where there was an address written across the bottom. "That's it." I nodded and tapped it into my phone.
"Thank you Jason."
"A-are you going to kill me?" He stuttered, shutting the laptop but remaining seated.
"No, I see a lot of myself in you."
"What do you mean?"
"I started with gangs when I was young, so I know how you feel, and I can tell you're a new member." I replied, to which he nodded.
"I only joined a month ago. I didn't want to but they forced me. They were going to have me as an insider to your gang."
"Is there any insiders at the moment?"
"No, me and a couple of other guys we're going to. But I'm telling you Jason, Danny is scared of you."
"I know he is."
"He's put extra security up so when you do go you're going to need 100 to 150 men. He know's your gang is bigger and better and I think even he knows that you're going to kill him."
"I will, now that he has Marissa and the kids."
"He's not harming them- he won't. That video was to try and scare you, but he has no intention of harming them."
"I know he won't, and he know's what will happen if he does. Listen Jason, I'm going to give you a choice here." I offered, as he nodded listening intently. "You seem to know a lot about what Danny will and won't do, don't you?"
"Yeah?" He trailed, his eyebrows furrowing together.
"I want you to help my gang." I stated, sitting opposite him. "I want you to help us with locations, what he'll be doing.." I trailed, "are you up for it?"
"You walk free." He was about to say something, but I cut him off, "with the risk of Danny's men coming to find you and killing you."
"Won't that happen if I join your gang?"
"I'll keep you safe, personally."
"What about Rogan and those other guys in there?"
"They'll be dead by the time we walk out of this room. So it's your choice Jason."
"I'll help you guys."
"Great." I smirked, standing up and leaving the room, motioning with my hand for Jason to follow. "All done boys?" I asked, peering my head into the room to find that not a single soul was alive.
"We couldn't get anything out of them boss."
"Jason's been great help. So great that he's now joining us to help find Marissa and the kids. Jason this is Ryan, Christian, Chaz, Jaden and Matty." I told him, pointing to each one of them as he gave them a small smile.
"So, back to Alex and then destroy the evidence?" I nodded and followed them back outside.
"I'll stay here with Jason and Matty." I said, holding the two of them back. The rest of the guys nodded and piled into the van, speeding off down the road to get some supplies from Alex, a previous member of the gang who can construct a bomb almost quicker than I can. "So have you had any training Jason?"
"Non at all. They were hoping that you would take me in and train me so that I could report back to them. Danny wanted to see how you train your men so that he could do the same." I looked over at Matty and saw he had a confused look on his face.
"Jason is new to the gang, they were going to make him become an insider for our gang."
"Danny wanted me to keep an eye on you all because he knows that you were all bigger, better and smarter than he was. Oh, and Jason, there's a camera at the back of the house which Danny can hack into, should I go disable it?"
"Matty will do it." I said.
"It's already done."
"Where's the camera then?"
"On the floor."
"Go get it." I mumbled.
"Sure boss." He replied, jogging away to the back of the house.
"Thanks for not killing me." Jason muttered as he kicked some stones beneath his feet.
"Truthfully, I usually would have, but I know how you feel because I started in this industry when I was young and it's pretty scary. Sometimes I wish I never got involved with it, and especially now that my families lives are in danger. Since you don't have the necessary training you won't be going out, you'll just be keeping us updated on Danny, and then you can walk."
"What do you mean walk?"
"Be free of all this gang stuff."
"What about you?"
"I got myself in a stupid position and I'm never going to be completely free of all of this." I laughed, but there was nothing funny about the situation what-so-ever. "I thought I had killed Danny, and the whole gang settled down for a while. I got married, had kids and everything was fine for a few years but Danny showed his face when we were on our family vacation to Canada."
"I hope they're back by Christmas." He said, but that was only a week away and even although I was doubtful, I was hopeful.
"I hope so too."