“Sara, no. Yes, you were going to act as the new queen to the Savage Serpents, but Haris was going to be the real brains behind the operation.”
“Haris couldn’t tell a knife from a gun even if I held it before him. He was stupid beyond recognition.”
“He wasn’t the smartest of the bunch, but his family trained him to fight.”
“Only with his fists. He was cruel and physically abusive, Denis.” My dad laughs as if he can’t believe what I’m saying is a problem. He is the embodiment of why women chose the bear over the man.
“Sweet child, marriage isn’t based on love. Besides, I could never let you run everything on your own. Even if you are the smartest Serpent.” Now we are getting somewhere. I always suspected Denis to be a raging misogynist, but this is absurd. I am the most skilled fighter in our organization, the smartest one, and the most manipulative one. You don’t want to close a deal? Watch me change your mind.
“Denis, cut to the fucking chase. You didn’t want me to run the Savage Serpents entirely on my own for one reason,” I tell him while remaining completely emotionless. While I am portraying myself as calm, I am anything but. The rage is building up insideof me. I position myself a little bit more steadily. I uncross my legs and let my feet hit the floor. My underarms are now leaning on my upper thighs.
“You are a woman, Sara. I could never let a woman do everything; women can’t do that. I would rather eat a dick than see a woman at the helm of my organization.” There it is ladies and gentlemen. I scoff and I start laughing like a maniac. Once I calmed down, I can see Amar has set his drink down. He is like a child who is watching a fight between his parents. Useless.
“Denis, you were afraid because I could do your job better. And I did, didn’t I?” I ask him. He is gritting his teeth.Get mad, asshole.
“All of the clients of the Savage Serpents have told you business has been extremely good. More hits, or should I say, better-planned hits that don’t result in cleaning up?” If steam could come out of someone’s ears, it would have been out of my dad’s. While my dad was completely in charge the last couple of years, clients started dropping him. It was all due to the incoordination and sloppy work of the assassins we had back then. Their screw-ups forced us to clean up for free. We lost a lot of money from it. That’s when my dad had me come in to take over some tasks, and once I did, business was good again.
“You had help. Your cousin Eldin helped you.” He can’t bring himself to admit I am justthatgood.
“No, he didn’t. Yes, he was helpful, but I was training him,” I tell my dad. He furrows his brows at me.
“You see, I think Eldin will be a great Serpent King.” And with that, my dad stands up and points his Glock at me. I smile at him.
“Is this what has become of the great current Serpent King? I could vomit of how pathetic you are,” I tell him while making a disgusted face. Denis looks at Amar and nods at him. The shortguy is now pointing his assault rifle at Adam, and he is just laughing. Did Amar honestly think he could scare Adam?
“Amar, shoot him,” my dad commands him, his fingers move over the trigger.
“Amar, stop. Before you shoot Adam, let me tell you something about my dad.” My voice is strong, and Amar lowers his rifle.
“My dad promised you a seat at the table, but how could he? All of the seats are filled up. You should have done your research, leech.” Amar’s eyes open wide, and he is looking mad. He now points his rifle at my dad.
“Do you also know the true meaning of power, Amar?” He shakes his head without even looking at me. The number one rule as a Serpent Savage is, that if a higher-ranking officer talks to you, you must look at them. Like I said, he is completely useless, and a testament to what my father has become. Desperate.
“Me. I am the true meaning of power. And one more thing, you didn’t look at me.” Amar realizes his mistake and looks at me. I bite my lip since I am in my element and I snap my fingers at Adam.
“Rage.” And with that one-letter word, Adam points his rifle at Amar and shoots him through his skull. My dad looks at the dead body that’s lying in front of him, and he grips his Glock even tighter. He looks at me and then at Adam.
“I hope you are ready to die, Sara,” my dad tells me. Adam doesn’t have enough time to stop my dad from shooting me, so I close my eyes.
“No!” I hear Adam shouting. Before Adam can shoot my dad, something happens and everyone frazzles, except me. My dad’s gun is empty of bullets. He throws the unusable firearm onto the floor, and remains quiet. You could hear a pin drop in the room.
“Oh, I had a backup plan. You see, a day before the wedding I had a feeling you would do something, so I emptied your favorite Glock.” When the words leave my mouth, they cling to the walls. The grey cages are eating every word up.
“What the fuck did you do?” Denis asks me. I stand up and I pull the blade out of the waistband Adam put on me earlier on.
“You have become predictable, an abomination to this society. You forgot the weight of a loaded gun. For special events, you always carry your favorite gold weapon.” This is only the beginning.
“The only abomination is your subordinate to your father!” I sigh at his childish outburst.
“Anyways, you haven’t used your Glock in a while, so I emptied a night before the wedding.” I wiggle my eyebrows at him. This always made him mad but I don’t fucking care anymore. I am mad too.
“I will never let you have the throne. Do you hear me!” What’s this yelling about?
“I don’t want it, Eldin will take over,” I tell him.
“Eldin is weak like you. He will run it into the ground.”
“No, he won’t, because I taught him. Anyway, you have two options now. Either you die with dignity, or you die with me killing you very slowly.”
