Page 57 of Little Nightmare

Our business was ours.

Theirs was theirs.

We walked to the elevators. I looked over my shoulder. Our driver was currently in the lobby on his phone.

Weird and he wasn’t acting according to typical protocol.

Raven started to get onto the elevator. I pulled her back and around the corner and put my hand over her mouth.

Footsteps sounded. “Yup, I understand, I’ll make it clean, they’ll probably be too busy to notice. Hah, right? Boss mad? Shocker. Yeah, yeah, heads will roll, the favorite phrase this week. I’ll call when it’s done.”

He was an idiot.

Nobody went after us without signing their own death sentence. He must be that green or that much in debt, myguess was the latter. People tended to become extremely blind to things when money was brought to the table.

He got in the elevator.

I pulled Raven with me and walked into the same one and pressed her up against the elevator wall and ran my hand up her thigh. “Fuck you’re so ready for me, aren’t you?” I leaned into her neck. “Go with it.”

"Ace!” She let out a moan. “We’re in the elevator. Aren’t their cameras?”

“Nope, not in this one.” I grinned, reached for my gun, quickly turning around and pointing it at his head before he knew what was happening. He’d been watching, distracted. “Hi sunshine, anything you’d like to tell us?"

He gaped.

"They must have offered you a lot knowing you’d probably get killed tonight, so that means they’re testing security. Well, they’ll have to get through me to get to her and I don’t fuck around.” I pointed the gun at his left knee cap and pulled the trigger. “Ouch, must hurt.”

He stumbled, grabbing for the side of the elevator car, screaming, “You lunatic! You broke my knees!”

I shot the other kneecap. With another scream, he collapsed against the floor as blood spewed down his pant legs.

“No,nowI broke both of your knees. Who do you work for?”

He went quiet. Then, through gritted teeth, he said, “Kill me.”

I shrugged. “Too easy. I’m more curious than anything. Why don’t you crawl back to where you came from and let them know I’d be open to talking so we can put all this violence behind us, hmmm?”

He frowned. “What?”

“You heard me.” I hit the penthouse button. “This is us. If you follow, breathe, or sneeze in our direction I’m putting a bullet between your eyes, got it?”

"Yes.”

“Good.” I pulled Raven with me off the elevator. “Have a lovely evening. What was your name again?”

He stared me down. “Chuck.”

"Night, Chuck.” I hit the down button and walked over to the penthouse door, scanned our key card and started shrugging out of my jacket.

"Brutal.” She sighed. “Even for you. He’s going to have to crawl to get anywhere. He’ll be wishing for death.”

"The human body can handle a lot, Raven. Besides, he was staring at your ass, and that’smyass.”

“Your ass?”

“Yes, I hissed. “Because your life is now mine, and your body as well, so staring at your ass is uncalled for. He’s lucky I didn’t kill him.”

She sat down on the white comforter and leaned back on her elbows. “Didn’t take you for the jealous type.”

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