"Well, it didn't entirely go down as planned, but the goal was met. We got the diamond and we gunned down the tycoon, cheers to a successful operation" Alex said and raised his glass in the air. We all rose and clinked our glasses.
"Cheers!!!".
*Malik's pov
The whole thing wasn't as exciting as I wanted, except the bullet rain, that I loved, still, something more...hmmm. I looked around the table and my eyes landed on my brown skinned empress- Madonna.
Smiling and laughing like she always does, she's had my heart from the first day I saw her...wild, fun loving, smart, beautiful, full of surprises, capable of the impossible and worse than an over protective mother hen when it comes to her little brother- Audrey, I can feel myself scowling from just remembering that. I can't blame her for being that way, but how am I supposed to have her with the little guy hanging around all the time? I don't hate him but sometimes I wish she was just on her own yunno. He's a good kid and he makes her happy, how am I supposed to make her happy when she's practically guarded herself with his affection? it's like the only person registered in her brain for love is Audrey... maybe I'm jealous of him, I want the attention he gets from her, as often as he gets it from her, as passionately too.
No other woman compares to her, no one's more attractive, vicious, talented. completely brimming with vengeance yet smiling so sweetly.
she's just so...
"Lover boy, wakey wakey"
I snapped out of my trance and swatted away a hand dangling in front of my face with an onion ring. Kim pouted at me and I scoffed. "What Blondie?"I asked and took a swig of my beer, "So what's the deal with you and your brown skin hottie? any luck?"she asked. I turned to look at her.
she had slightly more makeup on than usual, for the occasion I'm guessing, her smokey eyes were wide open and boring into mine childishly, she was practically oozing with desire to get involved in in-gang love matters, might be a killer but a hopeless romantic first.
"None of your beeswax, buzz off"I told her and slouched in my seat. "Since when did you try to be funny? comon, I know you're frustrated here, you've wanted her for the longest time",she prodded.
this is starting to piss me off, I mean, why the hell would I tell a woman about my love issues when I've got guys in the same room, I might as well just tell the whole world I love Madonna.
"Ugh, fine, be that way... well I guess I should just let you know you've got competition -" "Chris would never-", "I saw a text from an unknown number on her phone, it said, 'Chocolate I'm in town, I hope you guys are in for late night ice cream, I'll pick you guys up at 8'... wanna know what her reply was?"she dared to ask. "honestly that scowl on your face right now is priceless so I'm just gonna show you"she dared say while giggling.
she took out her phone and typed stuff, then left the seat next to me to go bother someone else. a second after, my phone vibrated. I picked it off the table and ~Message from Kim~ flashed across the screen.
~Kim's Message:
Donna: YASSSSS💓💖🥰😘❤️💗💘😎🥳
Audrey: yeah whatever🙄 and quit calling her Chocolate!
Bet she's never wasted that many emojis on you now has she?😝 don't worry, we're the only two aware of it.... for now. ~
I gripped the beer glass so hard it broke in my palms, no one noticed though, everyone was talking loudly and animatedly about one nonsense or the other... except for Kim, she stared at me with that wicked smile she uses for her preys.
why am I even believing her crap?! I can't know for sure, and it doesn't mean she's into him! she could just be baiting him, I mean, I'm the one she finds attractive! I'm the one she said she could like.... why am I so fucking worked up!
I took out my phone to text the witch.
Me: Give me his location
Kim: Don't be silly, I told you just you and I know about it, I haven't asked Maurie plus she won't do it, she's not a fan of #Donik.
Me: what's donik?
Kim: something that still needs work. anyway, I don't know anything about the guy, she saved his name as Stranger💘.
~
My night was completely ruined at that point, completely fucked up and why?
My own name is saved as "Gears" on her phone, it's not even for a romantic reason, she just only ever really knew me as the guy who brings the gears and ammo.
Outshined by a fucking stranger!!!! a fucking stranger even managed to get a heart emoji?
I stood up from the table and walked out briskly, not bothering to say a word to anyone.
I got into my Volvo I parked at the my parking space and drove off to the one place that could put me at ease for a bit. Beerborn, my own club, where there's more booze, loud music and fuckin chics that haven't managed to make me forget about the woman I want. Paying amateurs a professional's salary, what the fuck was I expecting?!
I drove into my personal parking space beside the club. It's a way to alert people the owner's home.
"Boss you made it!" I heard a familiar voice holler. "Yo, what's good?!"I hollered back as I locked my car and made my way to the entrance. "Man there's a major cat fight up in VIP 1, Leo supplied the rest of the booze two hours ago, we've already got dozens of people drunk and passed out, also chics have been hogging the bar, Calvin's got them hooked on his skills, oh and...." Max went on filling me in on everything till we walked in the main building and his voice got killed off by the music.
I nodded at him and he left.
I walked around inspecting the grounds myself, and if I grabbed and grinded on a couple asses, consider it inspecting the merchandise firsthand.
Everything seemed to be in order.
I waved off some sexy ladies and made my way to my office upstairs. My office has it's own bar, lounge chairs, big screen, bed and a desk and chair through another door, and obviously a bathroom too.
I made my way to my bar and took out the expensive stuff, I filled up my glass and drank my fill. I threw off my jacket to my bed and headed to my work desk.
Maybe I was still thinking of Donna or I'd drunk a bit too much, for some reason, I didn't notice the door to my work desk was unlocked and I just walked into the dark room mindlessly.
Suddenly, pain erupted in my right arm, confused, I reached for the light switch with my other hand. The moment I flipped the switch, the blinding white light blinded me for a few seconds, then i noticed it, the blood pooling out of my right arm.
I turned to my desk and saw a big black man in suit sitting on my chair, tossing a gun in one hand and staring at me with a bored expression.
"Who. the fuck. are. you?!" I groaned, I reached for my gun in my jacket accidentally using the injured hand. My body felt numb with pain but I refused to show it.
"A member of the syndicate that wants Banks dead. If it were someone else, they'd probably offer you the option of ratting out your friends, but I find that unnecessary, my orders are to kill you ALL off, and bring back Banks body. So anything useful you could tell me before you die?"That motherfucker dared to ask, his voice is hoarse and husky as any big black devil I've had to tango with, still...
"Go fuck yourself, crazy" I said and shot at him.
He dodged and smirked wickedly at me, for a big man, he got skills of an Acrobat, he flung himself over my desk while firing at me, I ducked and dashed out the room, it's way too small for a gun fight.
I dove behind my lounge chair and took out the guns underneath and fired relentlessly at him. I heard that black devil chuckling. I grabbed the nearest stool and threw it up at him then released fire.
The big man swatted it away and it smashed into wall. He kept walking towards me, firing at me like he was trying to kill a damn cockroach with a gun. The pain in my arm kept raising with every move I made.
but no matter what I threw, how I fired, there wasn't any effect, he just kept walking towards me, shooting with that sick smirk on his face.
"You know Malik, or should I say Mad Rider, I'm disappointed, I was expecting a lot more action here, you're just running around like scared little mouse... hmmm... more like a scared bitch. Is it already affecting you or are you just scared?"he asked angrily, his psycho smirk turned into a bloodthirsty scowl in a second.
"W-whaa a-are..."
Poison
Everything slowed and my knees dropped to the ground, breathing suddenly became difficult. I heard him groan as my vision crossed. I could hear his footsteps getting closer but I couldn't move.
Then I collapsed on the ground and the sheer weight of something sitting on me made my eyes roll back. what is this? why can't I react...
I heard muffled noises everywhere, the music blaring from downstairs suddenly flooded my ears, along with those words before it happened.
"I hope Banks isn't this disappointing"
Then there was a snap,
A rush of pain,
and finally crazed screaming that seemed to make my own throat hurt more and more.
The room seemed to turn in and out of itself, then to blur and still I felt suffocated.
Maybe due to the poison or the pain, but a painful moment later, I was saved by empty darkness.