Chapter 36 Making him regret
Adrian forced me to take a bath and change before he took me down to the basement, as a kid, and an adult, the basement as always been an off limit place, it doesn’t matter what I hear, what I think I heard or what I smelt. I didn’t have any right to head toward, it was the one place in the house I was not allowed to be anywhere close to.
My papa never wanted me to see anything, but now, what he pushed me away from, I had to embed it in order to protect him.
Adrian held my hand softly as he leads me into the place, my stomach twisted in knots and my nose picked up a lavender scent, that’s mama’s favorite flower.
As we reached into the basement, a gasp falls out of my lips.
“Are you sure we are in the right place Adrian?” I asked.
“Yes.” He said pointing to the man tied to the chair by the end of the room.
There’s a swimming pool here, it was not too large neither was it too small, it was the perfect size, and toward the other side, it’s a hot tub, and then the little space where the man is, there is a sofa and a tv.
I had expected it to be riling with blood and not filled with lavender and beautiful scents.
“I want to talk to him.”
“To make him speak, we have to do many things.” He said to me and I nodded.
“I am not scared, he was not scared when he hurt my father and I am not going to be scared either, I need to do this, I have to do this.” I stated and he nodded.
When we got to the place, he made sure I sat on the sofa before pulling the blinds off the man, he looked scared.
“Don’t be scared, what’s your name?” Adrian asked an the man didn’t speak. “It’s important you know that, when I ask you something you have to tell me, or else, you will pay for it, and make no mistake, your friends are not coming to save you, you know that as much as I do, they can’t fight with an army of mafia men.”
“What did you to my father?.” I asked, I meant to say what did his friend do but it don’t matter.
I watched as Adrian placed his hand in the air, and I didn’t speak.
What he did next, I never thought he will do that, he placed a slap on the man’s face and the sound of it echoed through the room, my mind filled with thoughts when a whimper falls off the man’s lips.
“It’s Toby.” He stated.
My heart skipped a beat and I held a large amount of the sofa, holding on to it tightly when my eyes were on his.
“We didn’t do anything, do you think we are that dumb that we will attack a mafia king, we have no power, we have no strength, the only relationship we have it’s because of the water and no mafia king can take it away from us, that’s the only way they speaks to to use the waters.”
“That can be arranged, I have can you killed, your members killed and every leader of yours and the water will be free, anyone will be able to use it.” Adrian stated.
Since it won’t belong to anyone after they all die.
“Unless.” Adrian was saying when Toby glanced at me for a moment before he looked away instantly, my breath hitches.
“There is a key that opens the dam, without it, the water is of no use and we are the only ones that have it, unless you intend to tear down the dam, which will made the bad water mix with ours, leading to no use of water ever.” He stated.
“As much as this is fascinating, I need to know, what happened at that meeting? What did your friend do.”
“He is not my friend.” Toby yelled and this time. A knife went through his body, my eyes wisened in shock as I stared at him cough out a bit of blood.
A part of me wanted this to stop, but there is a larger part of me that wanted this to continue, a part that recalls how I saw my father, apart that is is not forgiving and wanted him to suffer, wanted him to be hurt and wanted him to pay for what he has done. That’s the part that I cared about, the part that I cherished and the part that knows better than I do.
I watched as Adrian pulled the knife out of him.
“You are going to bleed out, I can see a ring on your finger, is that what you want for your life, have he become a window and not only that, you know what happens in little gangs, when the wife is all alone, do you want that for her.” Adrian asked
I was curiously to know what did happen? I wanted to figure out what was happening and I didn’t even understand.
Yet I didn’t ask, because I need to know more about my father.
“He is not one of us, I mean, the guard that was meant to follow us for sick and instead he sent his cousin to replace him, our boss didn’t care because he just wanted this to be over with.”
“When did he send the cousin.”
“The morning of the meeting.”
“And you didn’t confirm if it was his cousin or not, that’s why you are still small.”
“We did, there was ID, he had some pictures and we spoke to the sick guard.”
“The ID could have been fake, and so could the picture and you know how easy it is to make someone do what you what, it’s called blackmail, how fucking dumb do you think you are? Your boss is going to get killed for this, every one of you.” Adrian yelled.
“We didn’t do anything.”
“You were negligent and because of that someone got hurt.” Adrian yelled, I could tell he is angry.
He is not going to make him cry, he is going to make him regret everything that happened.