“I don’tknowwhat you’re talking about.”
“Please, you’ve been seen with Hart recently. So don’t lie.”
“I’ve been seen with Hart because we’re dating, not because we hired him.” I look around the space. “Normally, I’d say this isn’t a mob movie we’re living in, but it looks like we’re in one now.”
“I didn’t pick the location. You think I would ever be caught dead in this dump? When I found out Hart was the one coming after us, I had to hire someone else.” He waves around the space. “I can admit I much preferred Hart’s tower. But you got to him first. Are you paying him with sex? Cause I know you don’t have the money to pay him.”
“I’m not paying him at all. We’re dating.” I say the words like he’s an idiot, but he ignores me.
“How did you convince him to like dick?”
“He likes me. It doesn’t matter what parts I have.”
“Yeah, it does, fucking homos.”
“You know that raping a man still makes you gay.”
“It’s your fault,” he screams and stomps over to me. “If you weren’t so goddamn pretty like a girl, I wouldn’t have looked at you twice.”
A new voice enters the conversation, and I don’t like it. It’s cruel.
“Oh, he is pretty. Look at that mouth.” The gross troll of a man grabs my chin. I move my head down and bite him hard. He backhands me, and I taste blood, but I’m fighting this time. “Son of a bitch.”
Gross troll guy smiles while Chad is laughing his ass off.
“Looks like he’s got some fight this time.”
“Fuck you,” I snap. “It’s easy to be all big and manly when it’s three against one or you’ve got me tied to a chair after you drugged me. Like a fucking coward.”
“Listen—”
“What are you even doing here? You couldn’t get Daddy to solve your problem this time, so you had to run to this guy?”
“Shut up,” Chad roars.
“He’s got a good point.” Troll laughs.
“I hope he’s paying you enough, cause when my… Lex gets here, he’s going to fucking end all of you.”
“He doesn’t know where we are, and he’s going to be getting pieces of your body until he gives us what we want,” Troll says proudly.
Shit, pieces?
That takes some of the bravery out of my sails.
“Oh, now he’s starting to get it.”
“What do you want?” I ask.
“I want him to leave the city to me.” Troll frowns down at his bloody hand. “That hurt, you bitch.”
“Aww, did scary old me hurt the wannabe crime boss?” I baby talk to him.
“Wannabe crime boss?” Chad laughs.
“And what do you want?” I snap at him. “Mercy? Well, fuck that. You don’t deserve the mercy of death, so take what you have coming to you like a man,” I growl and bare my teeth.
Chad looks murderous for a moment, but he reins it in. “Hart will give us what we want, but he’ll never get you back, cause once I’m done with you, I’m going to let Travis here fuck your corpse.”
