Spade parked his car outside his warehouse, it had been a while he had been here, since the whole Nate issue and the marriage contract, he seemed to be too occupied to even come check on the warehouse, thank God he had Matteo and a few other trusted men here that were keeping an eye on things for him.

He stepped out of the car and walked towards the metallic doors, pulling it open he stepped inside the cold warehouse, facing a flight of stairs that led down to where all operations were being carried out, he took the stairs, walking down with power and confidence.

He reached the end of the stairs and pulled open the metal door, making a loud creaking sound, he stepped inside the huge room. It was not crowded today with too much of his men, there was a round table in one corner of the room as men gathered around playing cards and cheering, on another part of the room was another table, some of his men were there with guns, cleaning and arranging them.

He stalked by the men on each table, hearing their low murmurs of 'boss' as he just walked barely even giving them anything other than a grunt, he passed the middle of the room and headed towards another door that sat at the far end of the room, it was a single door.

He stopped in front of the door and pushed it open, stepping inside the almost dark corridor, his eyes moved towards the end of the corridor and he sighed out walking towards his office here, it was the third door on the left side of the corridor.

He stopped in front of it and latched his hand on the knob, turning it and opening the door, it wasn't locked so he stepped inside. The room was dark but since he'd been walking through the dark corridor, his eyes didn't need time to adjust to the darkness as he could see almost perfectly well.

His eyes moved to the single chair in front of his table and saw Matteo sitting down on it casually, as if he owned the office, twirling the chair around. "Thought you weren't coming" he muttered his eyes trained on Spade.

Spade let out a deep breath as he grounded his teeth together. "Quit whining" he grumbled out and he heard Matteo snort out, he took off his jacket and placed it on the chair "You ready"? He asked and the blonde just nodded as they both walked out of the office, heading back towards the door through which Spade just walked in, but before reaching the door, they both took a right turn and headed down another long hallway, going down a flight of stairs at the end of the hallway, they stopped at the last one and pulled open the single metallic door, and from the entrance they could both see the man gagged and tied down to a chair.

Spade stepped into the room first and Matteo followed right behind him, making the man tied on the chair to squirm as his eyes widened in horror and fear.

Matteo's face had moved from the calm and cool look he had on, to a dangerous and heartless one. He could flip the switch like that on his emotions, asides being in the mafia, it had something to do with his childhood.

They closed the door and it made a loud noise, making the man on the chair flinch in fear as his scared eyes moved from Spade to Matteo

"Hello Lucas" Spade muttered with a sinister smirk on his face, he saw the fear and terror in the man's eyes, the shimmering of tears, he shoved his hands into his pockets as he took slow steps towards the man. "You didn't think I'd forgotten about you, did you"? He asked and the man just made muffle sounds shaking his head in fear "I gave you ample time to think it through and then when I come back, you'd be ready to tell me the truth" he muttered before standing behind the man, letting his hand rest on his shoulder, he gave it a light squeeze, the man eyes moved to his shoulder as he saw Spade's ring clad fingers, he swallowed and frightfully looked away "Whoever you're working with clearly doesn't care about you, because if they did..." He paused walking all the way to the man's front and leaning towards his face "you'd be out of here a long time ago, but here you are" he mocked looking the man over, bruises were scattered all over his face, his clothes was stained with blood and his face looked like if he'd have to endure any more torture, he'd die "So why don't you do yourself a favor Lucas, and tell me who they are, tell me who you tipped off about the shipment, and why you're covering up for them" he muttered, his minty breath fanning the man's face, the man just kept shaking his head as he looked at Spade's eyes and then at Matteo "What? No? You don't wanna tell me"? He asked as if teasing the man. "Oh" he muttered before his hands went to the duck tape on his mouth, he peeled it off with so much force that the man feared his skin would peel off with the tape. He grimaced and groaned, breathing hard

"I'm telling you Spade, I'm not working with anyone, I didn't do it" he whispered, making Spade smack his lips and leaned away from the man

"So you're sticking with this lie" he muttered to no one in particular, with his back to the man his eyes found Matteo and he nodded, flicking his head towards the man and Matteo with his hard stare and his eyes looking as ruthless as they can get.

He stalked towards the table on the side of the room, taking off his jacket he placed it on the table, slowly folding the sleeves of his buttoned up grey shirt, the man on the chair could feel the terrors in his body as he watched the blonde.

Matteo examined each item on the table until his eyes landed on one of his favourite, he smirked and picked it up, looking at it like a child looking at his favourite toy. He turned around and faced the man, holding up the item of torture, the man's eyes widened in terror as he swallowed hard, making a loud gulping noise.

Matteo's stalked towards him, with slow, dangerous and terrifying steps. With each step he took closer to Lucas, he could feel his soul leave him, he'd heard about Matteo's method when it comes to torture and it wasn't pleasant.

He stopped in front of the man and gripped his face, making him look at him, Lucas was already shaking with fear, his hands trembling as he struggled

"See I'm not like him" Matteo started, his voice sounding dead, far from the chirpy and carefree voice he always used, even his eyes no longer shone bright blue, they were now darker, making the blue look depressing and cold, steel cold. "I don't waste my time asking questions, you know what I want and if you don't give it to me, things are gonna get really bloody, and I love when things gets bloody" he muttered with a dangerous glint in his eyes and lopsided grin, on his face. This made Lucas to swallow hard as his eyes started watering again and he starts shaking his head violently, making muffling inaudible sounds. He sighed out and pulled up the plier in his hand, his eyes moved from the item to Lucas as he could see the fear In his eyes, he drank in the terror in the man's eyes

Slowly but surely he brought the plier closer to the man's face, he tried to move his head away from Matteo's grip but the man's grip was hard on his face as he pried his mouth open, hearing the choking sounds coming from him.

He placed the plier on the front tooth of Lucas, as he watched the man's eye's widened, he smirked and pulled with so much force, hearing the ripping sounds and the screams coming from the man, as blood spluttered out of his mouth, staining Matteo's shirt, he pulled the plier out of Lucas's mouth and examined the teeth he'd just forcefully pulled out, looking back at Lucas, seeing the chunks of blood that dripped from his mouth, falling on his chin and drooling down his shirt, as he made gurgling sounds, as if drowning in his own blood.

Matteo felt his whole body relieve with tension as all the nerve on his finger tips, his neck and his feet felt like they'd been stretched in a sweet massage. He felt free and relaxed, like hearing Lucas scream and wither in pain was the most soothing sound he'd ever heard.

He released the ends of the plier and the tooth he pulled out fell on the concrete floor. Spade just stood watching with so much interest, his expression stoic and bored, his hands folded across his chest, with his legs spread apart.

Matteo did the same thing on another tooth, pulling it out and having more blood splatter on his shirt, everything that came out of Lucas's mouth was blood, no single saliva, he was missing two teeth as that space in his gum was bare and dripping with blood.

Matteo's hands were covered in blood, both his hands. He had a crazed look on, and he no longer felt his usual self, it was like he was in a trance as he stared at Lucas with an evil smirk.

Lucas's forehead was covered in beads of cold sweat as he was panting hard, while blood dripped from his mouth down to his chin and shirt, he could no longer struggle, as the sounds that could be heard in the room were the sounds of his hard and shallow breathing.

His head lolled to the back as he passed out, Matteo smacked his lips, before standing up straight, walking towards the table, he dropped the plier with a loud thud, he picked up his jacket, wrapping it over his shoulder, he turned around and walked towards the door "I'll come back when he wakes up" he muttered before walking out of the room leaving Spade there, Spade didn't say anything or react to Matteo as he heard the door close, his eyes remained on the man passed out in the chair. He kept wondering why Lucas was covering up for whoever he was working with.

Two things must be involved, either they were paying him really good, for him to be ready to die covering up for them, or they had something on him, maybe blackmailing him or threatening him with something.

Either way, they were really good, because Lucas was holding strong on what he was saying, about not knowing anything about the shipment. If Spade hadn't watched the video of him at the dock, five minutes prior to when the shipment arrived, he was caught on the CCTV, selling information to the sane people that came back to attack Spade's men and took the shipment.

If Spade didn't see it, he would have believed Lucas, because in a way, he was reliable. He had been working for Spade for over 3 years, and Spade was beginning to trust him.

With one last glance at Lucas, he walked out of the basement, shutting the metal doors with a loud creaking sound, as much as he wanted to just put this mystery man at the back of his mind, he couldn't.

He still posed a great threat to him and the sooner he dealt with it, the better He couldn't be distracted with that, not when they were this close to the big auction coming up in Italy.

*****

With a heavy sigh, Nate stepped out of his car, the evening sun hitting his pale skin, as he squinted his eyes and walked into his apartment building, he entered and walked through the lobby, seeing the security guy there, he just gave the man a curt nod as he walked towards the elevator.

He entered and pressed the number to his room floor, waiting as the door closed and the elevator started moving, his mind drifted to Matteo and all the times they'd rode this elevator together, he smiled as he recalled how easy it was to have a conversation with a total stranger, and feel comfort.

Over the course of two weeks since they started talking, they'd gotten pretty close, to the point that they even hung out in Nate's apartment once after that night he'd stumbled upon Nate in his apartment.

The elevator dinged and Nate stepped out heading straight for his apartment, fishing for his keybcard in his pocket, he pulled it out, his eyes looking up as he stopped in front of his apartment door.

"You're back early"? He heard the voice before he looked up and saw the blonde stepping out of the wall, just ahead the right corner of the floor He relaxed as his eyes met with familiar blue ones, he slowly let a lazy smile tug at his lips

"Hey" he muttered before putting his key card on the slot and his door made a swooshing sound and opened up a creak, Matteo walked towards him, his hands shoved inside his pocket, he was putting on a brown long sleeve round neck and black slacks, his blonde hair scattered with some falling over his face, his shirt was folded on the arm, stopping just close to his elbow.

As he stood in front of Nate, Nate's eyes raked through his body discreetly, and his eyes landed on the small tattoo that was peeking on his arm, it wasn't too visible but Nate could see it looked like little lines drawn upward like tally.

He teared his gaze away from his arms and looked up at him, Matteo wasn't as tall as Spade but he stood about 2 inches taller than Nate, with his slightly muscular arms, he had a calm look and his blue eyes radiated with positivity as he stared down at Nate.

"Hey" he muttered back, Nate didn't know what to say again, he blinked once before gesturing towards the door.

"Wanna come in"? He asked and Matteo just nodded as Nate led the way, he stepped in front turning on the light, and Matteo followed closely behind him "What can I get you"? He asked as he took off his suit jacket and dropped it on the couch, Matteo stood right behind him

"Anything" Matteo whispered into his ears startling him as he almost jumped, laughing nervously he turned around and faced Matteo, they were so close that he could almost feel the breath of Matteo on his skin, he could feel his face heat up, making him lower his head and gaze He let out a nervous laugh as he scratched the back of his head

He walked away from Matteo "I don't really have much at home, maybe water" he muttered as he cursed at his stupid heart for raging so wildly, not seeing the smirk on Matteo's face as he watched Nate walk into his kitchen.

He liked teasing him like this and seeing his face so nervous, the way he would stutter and go all red, he looked cute and innocent "Water would be nice" he muttered before looking around the living room.

The kid really didn't have much in his living room, a small flat screen TV, average couch, an attached kitchen to his living room, one or two paintings hung up on the wall.

Matteo heard his footsteps as he walked out of the kitchen, standing just a few feet away from the blonde, he handed him the glass of water "Here" he whispered and Matteo pulled out his hand from his pocket and took the glass from him, with a small smile, he pulled it up to his lips and drank it, Nate looked away quickly feeling his hands sweat and his neck heat up

"Thank you" Matteo whispered handing him back the glass, he smiled nervously as he took the glass and walked back into the kitchen, he walked out again, picking up his suit jacket from the couch.

"I'll.. uh.. I'll just go change up quickly, I'll be out in a minute" he rushed out nervously with a stutter, Matteo just nodded, his eyes trained on him, watching Nate squirm and act all nervous in front of him was definitely amusing and funny, he watched him walk into the bedroom, in a haste.

He let out a light chuckle as he situated himself on the couch

Nate entered into the bedroom, closing the door and resting his back on the door, he let out a breath he didn't know he was holding, his hand went up to his cheek as he tapped on it lightly, feeling his heart beat wildly in his chest "Stupid stupid Nate" he muttered before letting out a deep breath and flinging his jacket on the bed

I like how Matteo and Nate are establishing a good relationship

It's gonna come in handy in the future 😊😊