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We arrive at the hotel and I park, closing my door, gun at the ready. Theo is at my side and another car pulls up with Diego and crew.
The group of us head in, right to the room.
I kick open the door.
Frank is in his underwear and I’m about to take him down when Diego bursts in and barrels past me. He knocks Frank flat on his ass with a punch to the face.
“Really?” I ask as the other men drag him away.
Theo is still next to me, gun lowered and we both look at Diego.
Diego shrugs. “He hurt my car.” He shrugs again, “So I hurt him. A little.”
Okay, yeah, I get that. With a signal, we all roll out. The men and Theo with Frank and I go with Tizio via the front desk, and Tizio drops the manager some cash to have not seen anything.
It’s easy enough, this kind of place will see or not see anything for the right amount, and from the look on the guy’s face, it’s definitely the right amount.
Our package bundled, we head to our building, the one with our offices and a bunch of legit businesses.
Bypassing the security and front desk of legit people, Diego clears the way for us, and we take Frank down to the basement.
The men chain him up and Theo starts to peruse his weapons of choice.
I slide on my special studded leather gloves and lay into him, making Frank groan and cry out. Then he passes out
Theo and I exchange glances.
“Weak,” I say.
“This isn’t going to be as much fun as I’d like,” says Theo as he dumps ice water over Frank, then sets to him with a hose of cold water in the face until he wakes.
I grab his head and make him look at me. “Real nice,” I say, “going after a girl. Real fucking manly.”
“You think this is gonna be a cake walk?” asks Theo, “think again, mother fucker.”
“Frank? You like selling drugs to girls? I punctuate each word with a punch, making him howl. “Beating them?”
I’m guessing he was behind Ellie’s hospitalization. It doesn’t take him long to answer.
“That little whore, Ellie?” Frank shakes his head as Theo hones a knife in front of him. Frank’s eye is swollen shut, and he’s bleeding from where I’ve punctured the skin with my gloves and we haven’t even really started.
This is just a burst of adrenaline talking. I’ve seen it before in men. And I don’t think this one is going to last.
“Ellie.” I hurl a right hook into his face, ripping into his cheek with my glove, knocking his head back against the wall he’s chained to with a sickening crack, and knocking out a tooth.
The ricochet of the punch’s force rolls up my arm. Damn it feels good.
He spits out blood, voice slurred. “She was gonna tell.”
“So, you hurt her?” I ask.
“Big man,” says Theo.
“Real big,” I say, pulling the gloves off and looking at the gleaming array of instruments laid out.
I let Theo carve a little with his knife and Frank screams out a small whine. I pick up pliers.
“So, big man, why target Mia?” I ask, my voice even and cold.
