Never Trust a Bob [Solace]

Okay so the combination wasn’t bad at all, he actually managed to get the right ingredients, but he actually wondered if it would be better to add more syrup or more alcohol. Maybe he would think at that some other time, for now he has a new client that asked for some beer. When he wanted to pour in the glass he noticed that there was none left. ”Could you come back in 5 minutes? I need to change the keg.” It seems that it was a peaceful day since the man didn’t say anything and just returned to his table. Maybe the universe wanted this day to be peaceful since the main fighter was injured. A bit disappointing.

”Wait a bit, going back fast.” This time he was talking to Secret, but it didn’t take him too much to go and pick a new keg, since the door was behind them and the kegs were next to the door. Picking a new one he easily rolled it back and changed it with the one that was now empty. Picking a glass he poured in beer and after that sent one of the waiters to give the man what he wanted and to get the money for it. Now that he finished with that he concentrated his attention to Secret again.

”Okay, so I thought of different things we could do to that guy, if your imagination can think of something else just tell me. First thing we could do to the one whom broke your arm is the classic put his feet in a bucket of cement and after that throw him in the ocean, should be fun. Next we find out where his parents live and send them two suitcases, in those suitcases is their son. Another idea is to tie his legs to a car, and arms to another car. After that both cars go in different directions, or we could put him in the lion cage at the zoo. Which one would you like?”

It seems that Secret liked all his ideas, and there were four people that picked on her. Well he was sure that those guys didn’t pick on her since nobody sane in their mind would do something like that. He took out his phone and before pressing the call button another client came asking for a drink. He put the phone down and then started to mix some ingredients. The resulting drink ended up being brown and very creamy. For a moment Alex shook his head because he thought of something that looks similar to the drink he just made. ”Your drink.”

With another client satisfied he returned to his phone, picking it up he pressed the call button and placed the phone at his ear waiting. It didn’t take too long before someone answered. ”Hey, I need your help with something. I need you to prepare three cars, a strong chain, some rope, the good kind, not the one that breaks easily. Some cement, a bucket and call the cleaners too, things will get dirty.” With that call finished it was time for the next one. Again pressing the dial button he waited for someone else to answer. Tapping the pen against the piece of paper a smile appeared on his face when someone answered this time too.

”Hey, I need you to get me 4 people. I will message you their descriptions. It’s time to have some fun, I bet you got bored.” With that finished he closed his phone and placed it back in the pocket where its place is. Pouring some whiskey in Secret’s shot glass he looked at her with a very serious face. ”I need you to either tell me the names of those guys or how they look.”

What Alex liked about this girl was that she didn’t ask any questions, in a way it was good, on the other hand he still has to keep his family and his past a secret. There was a rule of silence in every mafia in every country, you were not allowed to talk anything related to the family, and you weren’t even allowed to give information to the cops when you are caught. That’s why the mafia was so feared; nobody wanted to mess with it. The information they kept locked about everything related to them made them invincible, you could never find anything about them. So when you hear a rumor about what the mafia does, it never mattered, you would never manage to solve anything.

So why were these things bad? Because he always had to invent a lie about his life, and always had to be careful, he couldn’t mix lies so forgetting a detail about what you said could lead to disaster.

But at the moment none of those things mattered, he waited for Secret to write the names of the guys that won’t catch the end of the day. You could say that Alex in this moment was Secret’s guardian angel, and he was going to give divine punishment to those that hurt her. ”Anyone else you want to add to this list?” he asked while forming a number on his phone and pressing the dial button.

”DO you want to watch? Or are you okay with just knowing something bad happened to them?” And he almost forgot the most important thing; usually he doesn’t have to say it so he just continues like nothing happened. ”Don’t tell anyone about what happened right now or you will be in great danger.” When he said that he was very serious, it wasn’t meant as a joke to just scare her, if she actually talked to someone about this her life won’t last that long. And it wouldn’t be because Alex does something to her, but other people would surely go after her and try to kill her. In the world Alex lives in, a small mistake was enough to end your life.

As they were talking the pub was slowly emptying, Alex was doing his job of serving the clients and Secret was taking care of the money. When the last client left he decided it was okay for them to talk a bit more normal, he tried to whisper until now, even if the music was covering some of his voice he couldn’t be careful enough in this kind of situation. Turning off the music he pulled a chair and sat in front of Secret. His legs were hurting a bit since he barely managed to sit down and took a pause, but he wasn’t going to complain about that since he didn’t want to make Secret feel bad.

Pouring a shot of vodka in two glasses he handed one to Secret and he took the other one downing it right away. ”Great part about a job like this is that you can drink at work.” He put the glass down. It was time to answer what she asked, she was curious when it came to how she would witness the executions, anyone would be curious when it came to something like that. But lucky for him the answer was easy.

”We just go there and watch, nothing else. Maybe if you are lucky you can either drive one of the cars or push the guy in the ocean. Other than that there is nothing to do. But I have to say, there is a certain satisfaction when you watch someone that is about to die, when you watch the fear in their eyes.” Maybe Alex was talking too much, he said something that could scare someone, and if he continued he would have said other things that would have scared even Secret. He knew the parts that he said weren’t enough to scare her, so he just stopped there. ”Sorry, I was talking too much, so do you want to go? Everything will happen tonight.”

She wanted to go, that was in a way perfect, he felt glad that something like this was happening, that he could share with her such a nice view when it came to killing people. He couldn’t explain what he was feeling, but he was sure as hell that he would never tell her that he is glad she comes with him; from some unknown reason he felt that something like that should never leave his lips. Maybe he should toss away these feelings for the moment and concentrate on the task at hand, and that was to take the girl to the place where the executions would be.

He got up and offered her his hand. Again out of instinct he did that, another question came in his mind as he did that, did he actually want to hold her hand? He was so confused by all of these things, but now that he made the offer he couldn’t take it back, it would be rude of him and Alex didn’t want to be rude with Secret, she was a good friend and she would always receive Alex’s help when she needs it, even when she doesn’t need it he would offer his help. And besides that he has to spend more time with her so he could convince her to stay home and rest.

”Then if you don’t want to miss anything we should go. I have a feeling they already started to prepare the cement for the first guy, and the cars should be there any second.” Usually when someone ordered something in the yakuza, the task was finished in the next two days. Since in this situation they were talking about some bullies, it should be easier to get them. So that means that tonight would be the last night those guys would have in this life. ”Oh and I will let you kick them in the balls if you want.”