Thread: Coercion WHO: Paxton, Davian and their father WHEN: Wednesday afternoon WHERE: Kitsune dormitory
"Sir? I can't hear you. There's an odd clicking on the line."
On the other end, someone fiddled with the phone and then, loud and clear, started berating Paxton. The demon sighed inaudibly as he listened to his father. Apparently, the search for Ambriel had taken a turn for the worse. Demon politics. Apparently, a pair of infamous demon bounty hunters had captured the angel and had figured out his connection to Davian. (Which was all Paxton's fault.) And now they were extorting their father, because if he didn't cough up the money they would sell both the angel and the valuable information that the Rivera-family had been protecting and harboring a wanting fugitive and a proponent of the Lord, nominally their divine enemy.
Fuck.
Paxton let his father's words wash over him, walking from his dormitory to the Kitsune. Davian would want to know this and Paxton wanted to be there to calm him down. This was bad. If this came out, it would be the end for the Rivera family - or, at least, it would be the end of their reign. He wondered who the bounty hunters would sell it to. The Marquis family? The Derettis? The Neidlich clan?
When his father was done ranting, Paxton was already ascending the Kitsune stairs. "I know I fucked up, Sir. Please, while you deal with those bounty hunters, I will try and launch the buy-out we've been talking about. It might give you a more solid position." His father agreed tersely. Paxton knocked on Davian's door and then walked right in, still listening to his father. When it seems the man was done, Paxton added: "And, Sir? I'm so-"
He had already hung up.
Paxton swallowed and looked at his brother. "I... I have news. Ambriel has been taken hostage."