Chapter 14

I entered the warehouse, almost flinching when I saw Godzilla's descendant flatten a beer can with his large boot. Reaching a black painted door, he hammered his fist on it.

A girl wearing only a purple thong and a matching coloured neon baseball hat swung the door open and popped a bubble in his face.

"Tell boss the new transfer is here" came his gruff voice.

She turned her cat-like eyes towards me, took a sip from her champagne flute and turned around; sashaying back in.

My tour guide followed her straight in. We walked past some men sitting in random spots, smoking and drinking and a bartender that glanced at me before looking away, going straight back to his work.

She pushed open a wine coloured curtain and bee lined to a man seated at the head of the table along with King Kong. I stood at the entrance, and watched the girl curl unto the boss' lap and collect his cigar, placing a sheet of paper in his hand.

The gatekeeper walked out back the curtain and the man beckoned at me to come closer whilst staring at the paper in his hand.

"What is your name?" He asked making me frown. I was a hundred percent sure he was holding my info.

"Runn-"

"Your real name" he grated lowly; almost threatening. I flexed my shoulders to release the tension that accumulated between them since I entered this room, it became worse now that every activity seemed to have halted.

After clearing my throat, I said-

"I'm sorry, I cannot tell you that" his eyes hardened before I continued, "for confidential reasons"

He started laughing as did the rest of the men and women present.

Then slowly, he lifted the woman on his lap and stood up and walked to a bar situated at the opposite of the room and poured himself an amber coloured liquid. The girl walked over to him and returned his cigar and murmured in his ear.

He smirked in returned and grabbed a fistful of her behind making her giggle like he just made her day.

"I'm assuming your disguise is also for confidential purposes, no?" came his voice again, this time mocking.

I locked my contact covered eyes with his brown ones.

He strode over to me and blew his inhaled tobacco in my face. I flexed my jaw in irritation, holding my breath so as to control the cough that tickled the back of my throat.

"Here we work with trust and honor and if you can't lose the get up then we cannot accept you"

A chilling laughter reached my ears. It was filled with utmost discomfort, scorn and sick amusement.

"Sorry to break it to you brother, but there is no honor among thieves" the accent was American and something I couldn't recognize.

I looked around the room but didn't find the source of the voice but whoever it was angered the boss immensely. The subtle twitch of his eye -despite his otherwise composed facial expression- told me so.

I cleared my throat and recaptured his attention.

"I intend to cause a lot of trouble no matter how short my stay here would be and believe me, you wouldn't want it to be traced back to you"

He raised a brow then nodded.

"Are you a good interrogator?" he asked and began to walk towards another door making me wonder just how much of those I would have to walk through.

"I would say so"

"What sort of nonsense is-" he cut himself off and breathed sharply out of his nose "yes or no"

"Yes" I didn't hesitate.

"Brilliant. There is someone who I would like you to get information out of but she is quite stubborn"

"She?"

"You see we are under a law to not harm women. Although she is seriously testing me" I was pretty certain the last part wasn't for me.

"Meet Egypt" he introduced when we entered. The woman was on her knees with her hands behind her back and a mocking smirk adorned her face.

"This is the part where you tell me her name, Matteo" she said with a head gesture towards me.

"I really really want to kill you" Matteo declared.

"But you can't, because I assure you if you do you are going to be receiving a lot of unwanted attention from people that wanted to kill me first so I kindly advise you to get in the line" she sassed.

"I'll ask you again. What is the deal?"

"I'll tell you again for the millionth time. That was a private conversation between my boss and myself. You are just a pock nosing prick that eavesdropped"

There was definitely fire in her engine.

Matteo looked at me and nodded. I swiftly swung my fist at her jaw.

Her head whipped in the direction and she released a breath then sent me a glare. I saw her pupils dilate and return to normal within seconds.

"I'll forgive you this time, try that again and I'll kill you"

An involuntary shiver crawled up my neck and Matteo stepped forward then cupped her face.

"I don't like hurting you. Just tell me and I will let you go"

"Kiss my black ass Matty boy" the ebony skinned woman replied dryly, making him sigh like he was exhausted.

He pulled out his phone and called a number, putting it on speaker.

"Hello?" a male's voice floated through the glossy device.

"Mr. Martin. I have your bodyguard here with me-"

"Put her on the phone" the receiver interrupted with a growl.

"I can hear you" Egypt spoke.

"Baby, are you alright?" came his frantic voice.

"You definitely have an interesting relationship. Does your wife know?" Matteo jeered.

"Callum Martin is my adoptive father, dummy" her reply came out as a rasp as she spat out blood.

"Matteo. You better not have hurt my child" the dangerous edge in his voice was clear as day.

"I didn't" Matteo replied with a daunting snicker.

"Send Taiga" Egypt cut in again.

"No" then the line went dead.

Egypt groaned and leaned heavily on the ground. Matteo stared at the device for a few seconds before he let out a sound of disbelief.

"You asked him to send just one person to rescue you? I'm disappointed. They better hurry though, your cracked ribs would only hurt worse as time progresses" Matteo walked towards the exit.

"Keep an eye- no, keep both eyes on her" he told me, "she's fond of tricks" he waved and left us alone.

We were both quiet for some seconds before she coughed again and looked at me.

"You have no idea what you've gotten yourself into, d'you?"

"Shut up"

She chuckled, "do you believe in any supreme being?"

"I said-"

"Pray hard, kid. You are going to see your maker today" she gloated and a scream rang through the building.