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Rafael

A chorus of agonized screams ricochets aroundet up froirls in the warehouse look up fro underwear, their little paper her than a da in my shit

“Get back to work!” I shout, and they all scurry on hat they were doing

My gaze snaps to where my second, Samuel, stands in theby his bound wrists, the s back and forth on the winch A crirey concrete Sa the same with his blade

“You shouldn’t drag out his suffering, Samuel Just kill him”

“No No, please,” thehis head weakly

The man is a rat who rolled over on us to the DEA, and he has the audacity to beg for his life

“TheyI hate more than a rat, it’s a pussy “They said they would protect me”

A laugh breaks pastinto the tense silence “I a him to look at me “There is no protection from me There is nowhere you can run Nowhere you can hide They played you They kneould kill you” A low keen slips fro

“You don’t want to die?” I ask with a smirk

“Please, I have children”

“I do not take betrayal well” I take a cloth fro his cheek “But I do not like to leave children without a father, and I am a believer in redes in his chains

“Thank you Thank you,” he breathes

“My reeing to terms he has not yet heard Because when faced with the choice, abut die “You will continue to ith the DEA and tell them whatever I instruct you to Are we clear?”

“Y-yes”

“Good” I grin So easy The only way to play the DEA is with their own dirty tricks They may threaten a man like Javier with jail if he does not coo to jail than suffer a cartel execution So very gruesome

“Betray ain, and it will be your children who pay the price” His eyes go wide, panic flashing through them Good In my line of work, you must become a monster in order to maintain power

My phone starts ringing, and I shove Javier away froblood over the screen Nero Verdi Fuck’s sake The h cocaine like its water I slide the answer button

“Samuel, drop Javier off and while you’re there, acquaint yourself with his wife and children,” I say over my shoulder