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“Why call me then?” I growled angrily. “You just need another easy mark for you and whatever thugs you hang out with, to rob blind?”
“That was a mix up,” she uttered so quietly I barely heard her.
“What? Both times?” I sneered, knowing she was full of shit.
“Look Grey, I’m sorry about that, okay? It wasn’t supposed to go down like it did.”
“Whatever you say,” I dismissed her apology as she stopped at the end of the second hallway and turned into a room at the back of the property. I followed her in, looking around the space before me for whoever she had set me up with this time, but the room was empty apart from some old, battered items of bedroom furniture and a mattress on the floor, covered with some tatty looking blankets. “What do you need from me? If you’re not going to listen to reason, I have places to be,” I told her, trying to sound pissed to mask my inner agony at knowing I wasn’t going to get through to her once again.
“I…I need your help, little bro. I got myself into some shit and I…I’m screwed if you don’t help me,” she admitted, her eyes flitting around the room to avoid mine.
“Help you how? What are you into?”
“Me,” a deep voice came from behind me. I whipped around instantly taking a defensive pose and wishing like fuck I had texted Declan earlier.
The guy, who I found stood in the doorway of the room, was not intimidating in the least, standing at around five and a half feet tall, skinny, and pretty frail looking. He was wearing a navy suit which hung from his slight frame and the silver chain I could see at his open collar looked as though it was weighing him down and causing the slight hunch he had going on. His hair was slicked back with way too much product and he had a bad case of adult acne on his face. No, he didn’t intimidate me in the least. The two brick wall looking motherfucker’s who were behind him though did. They were both as big as Dec, if not bigger, and the way they were looking at me, like a toy they wanted to get their hands on, had me taking a step back.Such an idiot, Grey!
“Little sis over there is into me for five grand,” the weaselly looking one went on with a sneer.
“And who the fuck are you?” I asked, determined to stand my ground, and hoping to fuck Dec arrived before it went down and I got my ass kicked.
“He’s Markovich’s son, Grey,” Leah told me, her voice trembling.
“Is that supposed to mean something to me?” I looked between Leah and the weasel, making sure to keep a watch on the two brick wall fucker’s at all times too.
“Peter Markovich,” Leah went on like I should know the name. I shook my head, completely clueless and Leah sighed like I was tryingherfucking patience. “He’s a fucking mobster, Grey. I…I didn’t know what I was getting into until it was too late.”
“How the hell do you wind up owing a fucking mobster five thousand dollars?” I raged.
“The how isn’t the issue here. Me getting my cash back is. Little sister assured us you were good to cover the debt. That true or not?” the weasel asked.
“Fuck no! I’m not paying you a damned cent!” I growled.
“Grey please!” Leah cried. “Th-they’re gonna make me work it off if you don’t. I…I can’t do that.” I looked to Leah and saw genuine tears in her eyes. She was scared.
“What does that mean?” I pushed.
“Clubs. They own strip clubs. They can make me work in one of them if you don’t do this and it…it’s not just stripping,” she whispered the last part, but I got what she was implying. I stepped forward to try and hug her but she backed away before I could get to her.
“Just come home with me, Leah, please, then all of this will be over,” I pleaded.
“No,” she gasped as she started shaking her head vigorously. “I can’t. I just need this, Grey…please just pay this and I promise I’ll sort myself out. I’ll get straight. I just need you to cover this for me so I can breathe for a while.”
I closed my eyes and dropped my chin to my chest as I fought to keep breathing through the pain that was crippling me. There was no way I was getting Leah out of there like I wanted, and worse than that, I was going to be forced to pay for her to be able to continue the self-destructive mission she had been on for far too long.
Part of me wanted to put my foot down and say no. I hoped that maybe this would be the wake up call she needed to change the one way spiral her life was headed down, but I couldn’t do that. She was my sister and if I walked out of there and refused to help her, who knew what would happen to her at the hands of fucking mobsters? No, I had no choice. I had to pay this debt to keep her out of the clutches of these deviants and whoever else they’d happily sell her to.
“Fine. I can get the money, but I’ll need a few days,” I sighed.
“Ain’t got days,” the weasel countered. “The debt’s overdue as it stands. Needs paying today, one way or another.” The way he looked my sister up and down with a disgusting sneer on his face made me feel ill. “Know which payment I’m hoping for,” he added as he rubbed his hand over his tented crotch and smirked at Leah. Before I realised what I was doing, I had stormed over and smashed my fist into the fuckers face, his nose instantly exploding with blood.
As he leaned forward to cradle his nose, crying out in pain, his two minders stepped forward. I braced myself for them to come at me, but they were so much faster than I anticipated. I got a few hits in, but before I could do any damage whatsoever, one of them had my arms pinned behind me. He held me in place while the other laid into my sides with a few powerful punches, that instantly stole the breath from me.
“Stop it!” Leah screamed. “He said he’ll pay it. Leave him the fuck alone!”
I took a hit to the face before the guy, now holding me up rather than restraining me, let go and I dropped instantly, my sides screaming in pain as I hit the filthy, hard floor. Blood filled my mouth and I could feel my face swelling. Leah tried to help me up but I held a hand out to ward her away as I struggled to get myself up.
Standing upright was a painful battle, but I managed it and when I did I was pleased to see the weasel fucker still bleeding profusely from his nose.
