Chapter 390: Finishing Off Douglas
Jonas couldn't help but feel bad for Elin. He understood her reasons for not wanting to be the one in front of Douglas when they confronted him. However, Jonas was very confident that Douglas didn't suspect Elin as a threat just yet. Nor should there be a reason for him to think that Elin wouldn't be alone.
Though, Jonas felt that they shouldn't meet with Sonya just yet, even though Elin wanted to check on her.
Jonas vetoed that idea simply because while they were visiting her, they'd likely lower their guards and if Douglas appeared in that time, then they'd have lost the element of surprise. Which would be essential to dealing with him. Since he could remove any memories that he felt like. As well as the fact that Jonas was very confident in Douglas being a collector. That he viewed Elin as part of his collection, even if she wasn't the main focus for him in regards to his collections.
Unless he viewed Elin as a potential bride, but that was another matter that Jonas had a feeling that Elin didn't need to know. As he was pretty sure that Elin would be even more hesitant to confronting Douglas with that in mind. Even though that merely added another layer of protection for her.
As such, since they were getting close to the area where Douglas had been posing as Grisha, Jonas started falling behind. Giving him and Elin distance so that when Elin encountered Douglas, Jonas would have enough time to enter the shadows and could then kill him before he even realized he was in danger. Before Elin even had a chance to implement any plan that she might have come up with. Which Jonas wasn't sure would actually be good or not, given her lack of skills with any kind of weapon.
He hoped Elin merely thought that her role would be to merely talk Grisha into leaving everything and everyone alone, but with how he knew Elin had been in the past, he doubted he'd be so lucky to have her go that.
Though the worst part was that they really had no idea where Grisha currently was. It was entirely possible that Jonas would be the one to encounter him, despite all their precautions. Which certainly would make things difficult. As Jonas was pretty sure that his existence was only a possibility to Douglas and that he wasn't even aware of him. He at least hoped that was true, since he didn't have any way to prove otherwise.
It was just merely his own suppositions and conjectures that he led him to believe that. Yet, since he didn't know how Douglas actually thought, it was possible that he'd merely taken the fact that Elin had been able to escape and realized that she wasn't by herself anymore. Or that he'd actually looked around the entire perimeter of his trap and found the tracks that both Elin and he had left after they left the barren rocky surface of that part of the mountain.
Every so often Elin would look around, and Jonas wished she'd stop. He was pretty sure that she was looking to see if she could either find Douglas or if she could find something to get it so she wouldn't have to be in that position. The main reason he wished she'd stop was because he worried that Douglas would get suspicious about if she was looking for someone who was otherwise keeping an eye on her.