The Billionaires Desires novel Chapter 40

Nathan’s POV 

Two months and two weeks…

That’s how long we have been in this God forsaken island. At this point, I don’t think we are going to make it out alive. The bad guys are not ready to give up on their search for us, or should I say for me, I think their boss ordered them to bring me back either dead or alive.

We keep maneuvering this island like a bunch of criminals, trying to evade their eyes and get away. But they never gave me a chance to escape, they blocked off every route that we can use to get off, they keep pushing us deeper into the island. We have not been able to find anyone in this island, the only people in this island are those guys with guns that wouldn’t stop chasing us.

I have been trying to keep up with my grumpy helper who never passed on any chance to abuse me and tell me how much he hates me. He said he is stuck here with me, I have no idea what he meant by those words, and I would love to find out why he is helping me, but he never gives me any chance to ask any questions or find out anything about him. Although I still think that he knows much more than he’s letting on.

The bad guys have all the equipment’s and supplies that they will need to carry out this search for as long as it takes, they are so many and they spread themselves all around the island, creating traps and barriers all around. If it weren’t for this guy, I’ll be dead a long time ago, I can never seem to detect any of the trap, I had to learn to walk extremely carefully so I don’t trip on a tripwire trap.

These guys are so deadly, you would think that they are trying to catch a wild animal or something dangerous.  They carry high tech weapons, top grade weapons that cannot be found easily by ordinary mercenaries. I’ve seen them fight, I know a little about top grade weapons so I’m pretty sure that they can’t get these weapons from just anywhere, they must know a dealer, their leader, whoever he is must have connections deep in the underground. I shudder to think about what he is capable of, something tells me that it has something to do with my uncle and his three evil friends that have shares in the company.

Yeah, I know it may not be them, I could just be exaggerating. But that’s all I got, no matter how hard I thinks about it, they are the only people I could think of that could do this to me. They have tried something like this a couple of times in the past, although it wasn’t this bad and they have never been successful. My family has connections deep in the underworld, my father and grandfather was friends with Costello’s father, now, I’m also following the family linage because I am friends with Costello.  I am sure that Costello would never betray me this way, it’s got to be one of his rivals that is supplying these guys with all these weapons. I had always known that my uncle would coerce them to get rid of me so his son, Travis would be head of the family and chairman of the company. 

My uncle is the only one I know that is capable of something like this. The first time he tried something like this was when he convinced one of his friends to buy off the shares of some weak members of the board of directors, trying to unseat my father as chairman. They never knew that my father already bought off the shares of those guys, he had kept it hidden from everyone so they had no idea that my dad had transferred those shares to me. We have sixty percent of the company shares, so even if they had bought a few share from those guys, they still wouldn’t have gotten the company. 

It had been such a bloody fight between then, they had practically done insane when they discovered we have beat them to it, we have purchased the shares without their knowledge, making us the highest shareholders in the company. If you pull our shares together, we have over seventy five percent of the company’s shares, there was no way they could defeat him, so they gave up on that idea and plotted to steal funds from the company and make us go bankrupt. My dad would have never seen it coming, if it wasn’t for Costello’s father who found out and pointed it out to him. Our company had just won some government contracts that is worth billions of dollars and dad was just about to import some materials that would be used to finish the projects. 

He had no idea that everything was a lie, the contracts were all faked by my greedy uncle and his cohorts. Their plan was to trick my father into spending all the company’s funds on the contract while in actual fact, all these money was piling up in their foreign accounts. They had been so surprised when my father called a meeting of the board of directors, telling them that the deal was off. He never asked any questions, he never mentioned anything about their deceit to anyone, he simply called the deal off and turned his eyes the other way, ignoring them all, acting like nothing had happened.

If only he had been stringent on my uncle, I’m sure he would have learnt his lessons by now. But dad could never do anything to hurt him, he always thought that he would turn a new leaf if the gave him another chance, he believed that he was going to change someday. But he never did, he never even thought of changing, not even once. Now he has succeeded in getting me trapped in this fucking island. He had always failed in his attacks against my father because my father was smart enough to listen to the advice of those around him, he always listened to Costello’s father, following his instructions to the latter. I wish I had listened to him too, he had asked me to cancel this trip because the circumstances surrounding this trip doesn’t seem right. I could have listened to him and stayed back, but I wanted to please everyone, I wanted to do everything the family asked of me so I could concentrate on planning my life and rebranding the company.

Now I’m stuck here with this douchbag who doesn’t want anything to do with me and a bunch of maniacs out there trying to kill me. We have barely survived these few days, we could not find any food or water anywhere in this island, it’s just looks like we are the only living things here, I mean apart from the animals running about and those lunatics chasing me. Once in every week, a helicopter lands on the beach side of this island, dropping more weapons and foods for these guys. Between that few hours that that helicopter would be here, the guys would be a little bit distracted, giving him the perfect opportunity to sneak into their hideouts and grab a few supply’s that we would need to survive on this island.

I’m Pretty sure that they have no idea that they are the ones keeping us alive up to this very moment. There is no way that we would have survived this long without food and water. To them, this is just a job, they wouldn’t have cared less even if I were the son of a king, they would have killed me anyway because it is a job and they are ready to round it up and go searching for another idiot like me that wouldn’t just listen to instructions. They would stop at nothing to finish this job, I had suggested to this guy that we should go over and bargain with their team leader, who knows, he could be the greedy type that would accept more money from me and then he would betray his boss, helping us get off this shitty deserted island.

As usual he had blatantly refused to give in to my request, he called me a foul and said I had a death wish. I was fucking pissed off by his reaction, he makes it seem like I have no clue about anything in life, he makes me doubts in my capability, making it seem like I could do anything without him. I decided to teach him a lesson, I would show him that I’m quite good at closing business deals and making my clients change their minds and accept any deal I offer them. I have worked in our company for a while and I also run my own private companies that I run in the secret. I believe that I have gotten all it takes to change the mind of anyone and make them listen to me and bend yo my will.

He asked me to sit still at our little hideout while he scouts the island and searched for anything that we could use while we wait for help to come to us. I waited a while, letting him head deeper into the woods before jumping down the cave, heading to the enemies camp, searching for the leader of the bad guys. I am going to try and bargain with him and see if he would be so kind enough to help us sneak out of this island without the knowledge of the other guys, I wouldn’t mind paying him ten times what his boss was paying, or better still, I could employ him to work for me, paying him much more than he could ever imagine, I’m sure I can pay him enough to buy his loyalty.