Arranged Marriage To The Princess Of The Red Scorpions

Chapter 228 - I'll Handle

Lena still hadn't woken up by the time the movie had run through the second time. At least it wasn't a body move to watch again. He had turned the sound down in order to make sure that the noise wouldn't be too loud for the princess.

Samuel was now in a bit of a predicament. He was quiet comfortable in his current position with the princess, but his bladder was however protesting as he had been there for over six hours.

Not only did he need to use the restroom, but he knew that dinner would be ready soon. He might not have been as hungry because of all the snacks, but he was fairly certain over the fact that the princess would be since she had been asleep for a few hours.

He wasn't exactly sure how best to get her up, but he presumed it would be to try and wake her up rather than moving himself out from under her. Even if he tried to do it gently, she might wake up from the shift in position.

"Princess, it's time to wake up." he told her in a low tone of voice as he ran his hand through her hair. He was honestly surprised by how she always slept when they were together since it always seemed like she was a light sleeper at night with how early she woke up each day.

Aside from a huff sound in her sleep, it seemed as though she had no interest in waking up even though he was doing his best to try and coax her to go do. He even tried kissing her cheek but this didn't seem to have much affect on her aside from making her turn his face away from him but still keep herself tucked against his shoulder.

Samuel hated to wake up her up, but he really couldn't sit there too much longer without it being a problem. He had also missed two calls from Jovani earlier that he knew he was going to have to follow up with as well. He didn't want to have to tell him that it was because his fiancé had kidnapped his shoulder and he didn't want to risk waking her up so he couldn't go anywhere to take the call.

He wasn't certain if it was a miracle or perhaps a curse that a knock sounded on the door of the entertainment room and Julius entered. He assessed the situation quickly enough to see that his niece was asleep.

While Zane was a forwardly intimidating man, Samuel wasn't yet certain what to think of Julius. He certainly didn't have as much of a presence as his brother did, but he was still a daunting person in his own right.

"Do you need help with her?" He asked as in a hushed tone of voice. At least from what he could see, it seemed as though the other had been trying to move Lena. Rather than verbally replying, the other man simply nodded his head in an affirmative answer.

Julius made sure to move everything around on the table and in the area so he didn't bump or accidentally step on everything. He didn't want to make any sound that could wake up the princess before he could come and pick her up.

Unlike the fiancé who had been trying to be careful, Julius shifted his hands so that he could pick Lena up with ease. She hardly stirred when he did this.

"It would be better for her to be here still when she wakes up." Julius told him as he did his best to indicate to the other to fix the blankets so that he could set her back down after he had moved out of the way.

It wasn't the most comfortable place to sleep but it would have to do for the time being. Trying to get her down the stairs would result in a larger risk especially if she ended up unexpectedly moving.

Julius helped him to tidy some of the stuff up before turning the movie back on. He was abut to leave the room but stopped when he saw what was in. Without asking anything he already knew that it would've been his niece who had picked this movie.

Once they had left the room and the door was shut behind them, Julius started talking.

"I was originally coming to tell both of you something but Lena can be caught up on it later." He told Samuel as they stated descending the stairs.

"Hester found some of the information that we were looking for. It's a weak connection, but it is all we have to work with for the time being that creates the connection between the man who murdered Ashton and Marcus, your and Jovani's cousin."

"And what connection is that?" Samuel asked interested to hear what they had found out.

"Well it seems that it is actually a client of someone me and Zane know. A Richard, I believe you met him last night at the club?" He checked. Zane had already told them that he had bumped into Richard while they were at the table. He just wasn't sure if the younger man remembered who he was.

"I vaguely remember him and that he said he had a meeting and was waiting on someone." Samuel confirmed as she tried to remember back to what had happened the night before.

"Richard isn't to blame as he didn't know anything about this though. Turns out there was a deal to sell him some information that's pretty high security level stuff. The catch was though that he had to sell him in exchange everything he knew about us." Julius explained as they began to descended the second flight of stairs.

"He rejected the man's offer?" The younger man then asked to which Julius shook his head.

"Not quite. Zane has gone to meet him now. Richard simply said that he needed more time to think about the matter before he decided what he wanted to do and if the price the other was offering was enough." Julius answered as they entered the room that Hester was still in.

"If it wasn't for the fact that Richard had reached out Zane and let him know and asked if they could talk about this, we probably wouldn't have easily been able to uncover this." He admitted.

Even when they hadn't seen him for years, Richard still somehow turned out to be one of their most useful intel people. He was good at keeping a low profile and making it seem as though he knew far less about anything that hen actually did.

"So what's the plan then?" Samuel asked as he looked at Hester's computer. The other was still pulling up a bunch of different files on the man and whatever else he could find.

It wasn't an easy job however as much of what he encountered had been carefully hidden and encrypted at a high level that was hard for even him to decode.

"Well, Zane thinks that it might be best to go ahead with a deal but to trick the other man into giving away what he knows without Richard actually having to sell him anything serious." Julius explained.

"It would be a bit of a hard thing to accomplish as there would be need to be someone else with Richard who could help pull this off." That was the sticking point that they had kept coming up against. Who could they send that wouldn't be easy to recognize but that could still help them get the job done.

"Why not me?" Samuel suddenly offered catching the other two men off guard. They both gave him surprised looks.

"I might not have  lot of skill, but the fact that I'm not well known might come in handy in this type of situation." Hester looked uncertain about this suggestion but Julius thought about it seriously.

"You'd have to ask Jovani about that and we'd need to bring Lena and Zane in on this conversation as well as Richard since he's the person that you would be working with." He replied as he pulled out his phone. It was something that he could text his brother about now and that they other could discuss with Richard if he saw it while they were still there together.

"I need to call Jovani back anyways over something else. I can let him know that I want to discuss it tomorrow." Samuel told them as he got ready to step out of the room to make the call. Julius stopped him however before he got that far.

"This is something pretty serious that you would be volunteering to do. You need to think about that and decide how you want to approach this situation yourself." Julius advised.

He didn't think that the other was incapable of doing it, he just wanted to make sure that he knew what he was getting into.