Chapter 4

• “He told you no one can come in here. Except when I am eating. Said that man who was sitting, I was just like him, there were few people who sat down to eat with me, I didn't give that freedom to anyone, not to say that Antoine has been by my side all his life and only a couple of times he has sat at the table with me.
• “I'm not just anyone.” I mentioned appearing in his field of vision, I use the same demonic character and that is his father made deals with his own, Aleric on the other hand, he wasn't the type of person who was only interested in business, he doesn't care who he deals with, he won't change his attitude.
• “I don't care if you're a Petrov or if you're a member of the Yakuza itself, I don't like anyone entering my house, least of all without my permission. But since you're here and you've spoiled my food, what are you looking for?” he asked.
• “Look, you are fucking asshole, this is serious business, and I don't give a shit if it bothers you that I'm here or not, I come to do business, I don't come to socialize.” I mentioned smiling reluctantly, the atmosphere was tense and we have such a similar temper that we annoy each other. “And if my presence bothers you so much, we can lock fists right here”. I added putting both hands back on his desk, one in front of the other.
• “I'm not for your games little boy.” he appeared putting his hand on the waistband of his pants while looking at me seriously, I knew exactly what he would do, so I did the same, it didn't take us long to draw our guns and point them directly at our bodies, from outside appeared Antoine and Aleric's head of security, bad day not to have extra security.
• “You think so?” I answered haughtily, with a smile. “Now tell me, are we going to negotiate?”. I waited for him to nod, otherwise this would turn into a bloody duel, in which I was at a total disadvantage because he knew perfectly well where he was, while I had no idea.
• “Put the gun down, boy,” Aleric's father mentioned from behind me. “I had no trouble with your wretched father, much less will I have with you. I know your good friends, but you've got a shitty temper, both of you, so irritable”. He added, smiling sideways. I went over to sit at their table to discuss the topics they used to negotiate, but Aleric took the floor.
• “Only people I esteem and believe trustworthy sit at my table, behind that, only me”. He added, smiling. “You ceased to be when you decided to sleep with the one who was to be my future wife,” he said.
• “Well Aleric, I already told you that she didn't tell me at any time that she was engaged, it's not my fault that happened, she already leaves prevention, I'm more interested in life than hiding.” I smiled as I ran my tongue over my teeth in a smile. I “need weapons, different types, sniper rifles, rapid fire weapons, melee, I need to arm myself to the teeth for what I plan to do”. I mentioned again.
• “We haven't talked about quantity, and it seems to me that I will need time, I can't get what you ask for overnight, not to mention that I have “orders” before yours”. answered Aleric's father, he knew what he wanted, in this world nothing works without enough money.
• “I don't give a fuck! I'll pay you whatever you want for bringing me that shipment as soon as possible, you name a figure and I'll give it to you, you know that's no problem for a Petrov!”. he added. He looked at me and smiled again. “Vse v poryadke (Okay). —he replied. We shook hands to close that deal and then I left his house and headed straight for mine.
• Antoine looked at me from the rearview mirror, he knew I had a doubt, however, he was not able to ask it, he continued like this for a large part of the way until he decided to take out what he had stuck.
• “Tell me, what ails you so much?” I asked, staring at him.
• “Sir, I don't want to look like a weak man or an idiot, but it's just you and me, instead they are hundreds, and the weapons you ordered were also hundreds, as if to arm a battalion, which we do not have”. he spoke.
• “Don't worry”. answer. “We will get the men, for money many could sell even their mother”.
• We continued our way in silence, inevitably I thought of that girl, today, where her letter arrived, I had thought more about her, her words came to my mind as if I had learned them by heart, and perhaps, it has been, but I did not want to admit it.
• Maybe... Will it be for my house once all his confinement ends, as he mentioned in his letter, only if the address was correct, if not, I will only have looked like an imbecile believing something that was not? I wanted to see her, to know her, something in her writing provoked a feeling in me that I had never experienced, but I knew that she was a rat just like me and that nothing good comes out of mixing shit with shit.
• We entered the mansion, I looked in the newspaper, there are always needy people who offer their services, in addition to sending Antoine to look for people in the most remote neighborhoods of the city, I just hoped to find my army and be able to finish with all those scums that were usurping my throne in Russia.
• Moscow is my land and not even the devil would dare to try to get me out of there, these poor wretches have no idea who they messed with. I smiled devilishly, it was something I did when murderous thoughts took over my mind, and in that, I am very creative.
• Ivonne Wilson
• I just must spend this day, just this one, at dawn tomorrow I would be free, I could finally leave here, I would take what belonged to me and go as far away as possible from my aunt, I don't want to stay by the side of the woman who wiped out my family.
• “Tomorrow we'll finally get rid of this shit”. I mentioned smiling, my friend was next to me with a smile on her face, she knew what it meant, she would come with me, leave all these deplorable conditions, and come with me in search of something better.
• “You're right, so many years of waiting will finally have been worth it”. she replied without stopping smiling.
• Of course, they were worth all the damn time, I could not with the happiness that invaded my being, but, even so, I believed that Anastasia was even happier, is that her eyes shone just by looking at her.
• I was able to fall asleep past midnight, I looked forward to the hours passing as quickly as possible, but after a while Anastasia woke me up, I didn't know what I wanted, but it was a bad thing, I could see it in her countenance.
• “What's going on?” she asked curiously, surely, she had discovered something, those bad habits of walking through the shadows of the night.
• “There are some men outside who ask about you and they don't look like friends”. he spoke. “We have to leave quickly; I think you were right when you joked about your aunt and sent thugs”. he said in a half smile.
• “I don't think I've fallen that low”. I mentioned, although I knew of the scope of that woman, after messing with her brother”in”law or letting my mother see her wallowing with my father, she is capable of anything.
• “We have to get out of here, Iv”. Anastasia said, that's how she called me sometimes, I got up and put on slippers, the other things would be here, I wouldn't use time to take more things with us.
• “I follow you, Ann.” I also shortened her name; I suppose after many years of friendship we felt free to do so.
• “Let's go”. We left the room very carefully, but before we left some pillows to simulate that we were still in bed.