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“Where’s your fucking laptop?”I asked.
“You’re going to have to fucking kill me before I tell you anything, you freak ass cunt!”
“Oh, now that’s not nice language at all.Should I rip out your teeth one by one?I won’t even need pliers.Wanna see?”I gripped his chin, forcing his mouth to stay open, then grabbed one of his crooked teeth and started to pull.His eyes watered and he started making more noise, so I snatched that little fucker out of his mouth, then flipped him over so he was on his back.I put a pillow over his face to muffle the pathetic sound of his wailing.
There was a knock at the door.“Boss, are you all right?”
Shit, should I let them in and take them out… or make this as stealth as possible?It wasn’t like I could have trusted this bastard to not cry for help.Best I took them out.
“Boss?”the guard called out again.When he didn’t get an answer, he replied.“I’m coming in.”
I hopped off the bed and met him at the door, grabbing his hand that held his gun out in front of him.That was a rookie mistake for this exact reason.It gave your opponent a chance to unarm you, which was what I did when I crushed his wrist.He screamed, alerting his partner.I kneed him in the guts, then gave him an uppercut to his jaw, knocking him unconscious.His partner shot at me and I ducked, but caught a bullet from his boss who was now shooting at me from across the bed.
The son of a bitch must have had a pistol in the room somewhere.I stood up and leaped across the bed, landing in front of Mr.Henley.I took another bullet to my thigh, fucker hurt like hell and I cried out, but that hadn’t stopped me from grabbing his hand and squeezing it until his bones cracked around the pistol.
“Ahhhhh!”he yelled, then I pulled him in front of me, using the bastard as a shield.
“Drop the gun,” I told his guard, “or he dies.”
“What the fuck are you?”the guard asked.
“Something you can’t defeat, so play nice or you’ll really piss me off,” I stated.“Now, drop your fucking gun.”Thankfully, the bruises I’d had on my skin from the two bullets I took were all gone, as was the pain.
“Do it,” Mr.Henley ordered and the guard obeyed.
“Good,” I said, then threw the gun I held, striking the guard on the right side of his forehead, knocking him out.Yeah, that was going to leave a mark.
I turned Mr.Henley around so he was facing me.He was grimacing in pain and breathing hard.Blood poured from his mouth where his tooth had once been.I was pretty proud of my handiwork.
“You are going to listen to me, you lowlife motherfucker.As you saw, I rendered your two guards useless in a matter of seconds.I also have no problem plucking every single one of your jagged ass teeth out of your mouth.Then I might start on your nails, seeing as I’m very skilled at breaking people with clever torture methods.But I’d rather not go to that extent.You stole something that doesn’t belong to you and I’m here to take it back.We can do this the hard way or the easy way.Either way, I’m not leaving until my mission is complete.So, what’s it going to be?”
“Who are you?”
“Who I am doesn’t matter.All you need to concern yourself with is what I’m going to do to you if you piss me off.So, easy or hard?”
“If I give you access to my laptop, I’ll lose everything,” he argued.“I have a lot of money riding on this deal.”
“So the fuck what?It was never yours to gain from anyway.Do you think I give a shit about your sob story?”
“I’ll double what they are paying you if you leave now,” he offered.
Okay, that was a tempting offer.“How much?”
“Ten thousand.”
“More like fifty,” I said.Actually, we were getting twenty, but I was charging him an extra ten for the hassle.
“I don’t have that much on me right now, but—”
“Then we don’t have a deal,” I snapped.
He growled at me.“I will hunt you down and kill you slowly,” he threatened.Of course, I’d heard such threats before.I wasn’t impressed.
“I wonder how you’ll be able to tell anyone to hunt me down if I cut out your tongue, cut off your hands, gouge out your eyes, and rip off your ears.You know, you can survive without all of those appendages and parts.Wanna see?”
“NO!”he gasped as he shook with a mixture of fear and rage.
Where is it?”
