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CHAPTER NINE: ACCOMPLICE
Victoria lounged at the edge of the huge swimming pool, her bare feet dipping into the cool water every few seconds just to feel something. A wine glass sat in one hand and half an empty bottle of red sat sweating on the stone beside her. She was sunbathing, or at least pretending to. Truth was, she couldn't sit still even when she tried to look like she was living the best moment of her life. Her silk robe was loose around her shoulders and her sunglasses hid her eyes, but her jaw kept tightening. “Have you heard anything about that brat?” she asked, not even turning her head. She knew he was there. He was always there. Behind her, in the shade of the big umbrella, stood David. Her assistant. Her fixer. Her accomplice. He adjusted his glasses once, slow, like he always did when he was choosing his words. “No, ma'am,” he said, voice flat and careful. “The last time he was seen was two days ago. He was trying to escape the cops.” Victoria sucked her teeth and the sound was shar
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE CIRCUIT
Alex couldn’t breathe. The cheers were too loud. The smell of blood and gunpowder was stuck in his throat. His hands were shaking so bad he had to press them into the dirty ground just to feel something solid. “Welcome to the circuit, Alexander.” Giff’s voice was calm. Too, too calm like he was welcoming Alex to a birthday party, not a slaughterhouse. Alex stared up at him. “What the hell is this?” he managed to say, his voice cracking. “This?” Giff gestured to the pit with his cigarette. Ash fell onto the dirt. “This is where men like you come to be reborn. Or die trying.” Below them, the man with the gun collapsed. While tow new people jumped on him instantly. No one pulled them off. The crowd roared louder. Someone threw a bottle into the pit and it shattered over the bodies. Alex scrambled to his feet. “We have to stop this. People are dying down there!” Giff turned to him slowly. The smirk was gone now. His brown eyes were empty. “And who’s going to stop it? The
CHAPTER 7: BLOODIER & SCARIER
“Blood for blood?” Alex asked, his face drained of all color. Karina didn’t say anything. She only nodded once, then leaned forward until her face was inches from his. Her voice was smooth, but firm. “You can’t?” Alex looked confused and couldn’t even make up a word. “I—” “Then there’s no way you’ll survive out there, Alexander,” she replied as she leaned away from him. “Your enemies will come for you. And there’s nothing you’ll be able to do about it. You’ll fail. As usual.” She said it like everything she was saying made perfect sense in his ears. Alex couldn’t form a word, but he knew these people already knew what he had been through. And they were offering help. But it was in some kind of gruesome way. “Who’s this Giff?” Alex asked, staring deep into her eyes. “Someone that will help you,” she stated. Almost immediately, the door opened. A man in a clean tailored suit stepped in. Probably in his early forties. Tall, with bob curl hair. Beside him was another subtle
CHAPTER SIX: CIRCUIT.
Alex was woken up by a loud knock on the windshield that pulled him out of a deep, restless sleep. He wiped the sweat from his face with trembling hands, and only then did he realize that he had actually slept off in the car. But there was a bigger problem. Who was knocking on the windshield at this time? It was already dead night in the middle of a forest, so who in their right mind could possibly be out here. He adjusted his eyes through the darkness, and that was when he saw figures standing outside the car. Then one of them leaned forward and knocked on the windshield again, harder this time. “What the fuck is happening again?” Alex muttered, his voice shaking with fear. Of course these people couldn’t be cops. They were definitely mobs, or robbers. He watched as another person knocked on the window and shouted at him to open up. “Pull this shit down,” one of them said through a mask. Alex knew instantly that he was in serious danger, so he tried to start the engine
CHAPTER FIVE: LOST IN THE WILD.
He was still on the dirty floor with his back against the gate, when he suddenly heard movement behind him, like the sound of footsteps from about four people walking toward him in unison. He quickly got up to his feet with his heart pounding, and when he turned around, to his greatest surprise, it was Elena, his stepsister, being escorted by three of the security men. His late father’s loyal security. His palms turned white as he gripped the iron bars of the gate with all the strength he had left. “You leeches,” he said through gritted teeth, his voice shaking with anger and disbelief. Elena kept a small, practiced smile on her face as she approached, stopping just inches away from him with the gate being the only thing standing between them. For a long moment they stared at each other, neither of them willing to look away first. “So it’s you who has been making so much noise here, isn’t it?” she asked, holding the hem of her dress in a stylish manner as though she had not
CHAPTER FOUR: GRACE TO GRASS
After he left the gates of the villa with nothing but the sound of his own voice echoing behind him, Alex got straight into his car and drove away from the place that had once been his home and into the cold night with a heavy heart. As he drove through the empty streets, the streetlights passed over him in quick flashes, and with each passing light, more thoughts crowded into his head until he could barely breathe through the weight of them. He already knew, deep down, that things were not going to be easy for him anymore, and he already knew that from this moment forward, his life would never remain the same again because Victoria had made it clear that she intended to silence him completely. He could not afford to wait for her to make the first move against him, because if he did, then there would be nothing left of him to fight with. He had to start now, but the question that kept running through his mind was how, because how was he supposed to conquer a woman who now had every
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