Eighty-Seven

Axel’s POV

Ever since I began the mission to take back everything I’d lost in full force, Prince had been calling often for updates and to show his support. Despite my hyper-independence, at a time like this, I genuinely appreciated his concern and I also felt empowered knowing that someone believed in me to turn things around despite everything that had happened recently with the last shipment.

Even now, he’d called to check in and get updates on how things had turned out so far and as usual, I was willing to share every single detail with him, even though my hold on trusting people had dwindled greatly after being betrayed by Lisa.

“How’s everything going? I hope everything’s in place now.” Prince asked and I could sense that he’d been a little tense because he knew how delicate this mission was to us, we needed a big win so badly.

“We’ve successfully landed on the remote island where one of our safe houses is located, as per your insistence we've also set up security to the max and