Fate's Dark Side Chapter 720

"He does not like taking photos, but there is one I took of him when we were hugging, so all you will see is his back. I took a selfie of myself hugging him. I do not know if it will help." She said, and Erik nodded.

"Good enough for me," Erik said, and she requested her phone.

A Kappa searched her handbag and went to her. With guidance, he could scroll through her phone until he got to the picture she wanted to show us. He brought the phone to Erik, and Erik smiled.

"He is the one. The son of a bitch. Now I know how Yuri found out about AgK32," he gritted his teeth. He was enraged. It was so intense that I knew there was more to it.

"Tell it all now," I told Erik, and he seemed worried.

"I told him I was coming to the north," he confessed, and I ran my fingers through my hair. Erik was unknowingly the leak.

"What else did you tell him?" I asked him, feeling impatient, and he bowed his head.

"I pleaded with him to help me mobilise some Stepanovs to join my warriors based on my discussion with you, Leo. I told him that if the King gave us what we wanted, we could use the army to push Yuri back for peace's sake. Had I known Yuri had bought him over, I wouldn't have," he said, sounding betrayed.

I could not fault him at all. I had gone to him to help us gather a Stepanov Army to help us push back. What were the odds that he would know Ighor was a two-faced bastard?

"Increase the security at the airports and seaports," I ordered Bryce. We need to catch this bastard, we need to alert Jake, and we need to secure Stepanie because she knows where the children are.

It sounded crazy, but the dots connected in my head.

"This hearing is now dismissed," I said, and people murmured.

"Be on your guard and increase your securities at your various estates. The North might undergo a brutal, aggressive attack by these people," I warned the nobles, and they began to move faster than they were initially.

"What about the prisoners?" Bryce asked me, and I looked up at Sylvester and Tamia where they were. They were both standing, and there was fear in their eyes. They had connected the dots too.

"Secure the prisoners in the underground prison, for now," I said, unable to think of anything other than the Volkov children and their safety.

We moved to the top of the building to board the helicopter. We moved quickly, and some of us were making phone calls. There was a need for urgency, and we all knew it.

Andrew was utterly speechless. I bet he had no clue of anything we had learned.

So much for wanting us to team up with Yuri; we would have fallen into a trap.

"Have you been able to reach mother?" Sylvester asked Dominic, and he shook his head.

"What about Jake? Has anyone called him?" David asked, and Marcel nodded.

"I am waiting for him to call back," Marcel said.

"His son said he went horse riding and will ask him to call me when he returns. I have told his son Donald to start evacuating the people of Brighton. He said they have no bunkers and nowhere to go right now. That is the biggest problem," Marcel added, and the helicopter lifted into the air.

Linda, Nicole, and Tamia were as white as a sheet. Their children weren't safe.

"Do you think they can successfully abduct your mother?" Tamia asked Sylvester, and he could not answer.

"If they take her, they can use her to force Jake's cooperation and also try to get the location of our children from them. I say we move the children," Linda said, and Amelia shook her head.

"I say you don't," Amelia said sternly.

"Stephanie will never give up her grandchildren, and Jake would never do anything that will hurt Stepanie. They will die first before giving out the location of the children. Give them some credit," Amelia said, trying to be the voice of reason.

"If you move them now, they will be exposed. I say we catch Ighor and send troops to Brighton from the east to defend them," Amelia said, and I shook my head.

"Max and Kyle are occupied with tracing out the people that were abducted," I argued, and she nodded.