Chapter Three
In the cell room...
As soon as the shooting started outside, the men strapped to the X tables, heard the window behind them shatter and someone climbed through the narrow opening.
Henry was still passed out, but Myron and Julius were very much awake.
A man they’d met once before and knew only as Shubert, came around to the front of them and stared at them as they were all tied-up.
“Well, well, well, what do we have here?” Then he snorted.
“Weren’t you guys supposed to create a distraction for us?
What the hell happened to that? We had to breach the front gate with no element of surprise. We were on our own.”
Myron shook his head. “The men who hired us got sidetracked by their own agenda. They tried to snatch two women from a local MC for revenge or some shit.”
Julius nodded in agreement. “And they got away with the snatch at first. But they fucking took the leader’s women.”
Myron scoffed as he nodded. “Yeah and that was a huge mistake, so they got caught shortly after. Which in turn got us caught. Then Leon showed us on his cell phone that they were both very dead.”
Julius nodded and shook his cuffs. “But we can do our part now. Let us loose and we can help out.”
Myron nodded. “The key is back there on the wall behind us.”
Shubert grumbled and found the key, then he said, “Hell, we can catch the old man from inside his own abode this way. The others outside might fail but with your help, we can still carry on with the mission. Maybe take some kids hostage or something.” He paused to grumble about dumbasses then cocked his head to listen to the shooting. Heading over, he unlocked the cuffs.
As soon as Myron was free, he stepped away from the X and grabbed his clothes putting them on. Then he rubbed his wrists. He waited until Julius was free and he also got dressed.
“Ok, come on we can still kill this Leon motherfucker,” Shubert said.
Now, the two freed men both locked gazes.
Myron grabbed Shubert by his shoulders and shoved him up against the X then Julius slid the cuffs around his wrists with two clicks.
“Hey, what the hell is this?” Shubert shouted as he tried to get himself free. “I’ll kill you. You two fuckers are done!”
Myron shook his head. “I don’t think so, buddy. Leon Vinciniti isn’t some weakass mob head. He never deserved what you assholes had in mind for him. I just hope he survives what’s going on outside.”
“Mr. Double G will kill you!” Shubert shouted. “He’ll just come in here and shoot you in the head and not think about it.”
Myron glared at him and said, “That was his plan all along, wasn’t it? We were never going to get out of here alive anyway.”
Suddenly quiet, Shubert didn’t say a word.
Myron could read the truth in his eyes. Then he reached for the gun at Shubert’s waistband. “Now we’ll see who gets shot in the head when this is over.” Then he struck him in the head.
Shubert flopped against the wooden X.
Julius looked at Myron and asked, “Now what? We can’t stay here. Leon will shoot us.”
Myron shook his head. “Not if we just stay here and wait for him to come back. We got nothing to lose. We’re dead men walking either way.” He sat down cross-legged on the floor and set the gun down in front of him.
Julius sighed heavily and looked at the unconscious Shubert on the X then down at Myron before he sat down beside him. “At least we stopped what he had in mind. Kidnap kids? That is insane. We got roped into this by threats to our family and there’ s no fucking way I will do that shit.”
Myron agreed, “Me either, man. And I’m sure sorry about your mom.”
Julius lowered his head. “Yeah, that was another reason I refuse to be a part of this. My mom. I want to do her memory justice and that means doing the right thing. This fucker was gonna wait for the battle to be over then take his kids and shoot Leon in the back.”
They both listened to the shooting going on outside. Neither man moved, they just sat there with a look of resignation on their faces. They had to face justice one way or another and running off wouldn’t help either. Leon wasn’t some dupe like the men who planned all of this assumed that he was.
When the shooting outside stopped, they braced themselves for the justice that might come to them but neither of them moved. They just waited.
Henry woke up a couple of times as he looked confused then he passed out again.
After an hour or so, Shubert groaned and came awake slowly.
He tried to get himself free from the X when he was awake enough to figure out where he was.
He pulled on his cuffs and tried to break loose but the cuffs wouldn’t budge.
Then he remembered the other two men and he twisted himself around to see them sitting there.
“You two are dead men!” he shouted. “I’m gonna put a bullet in both your heads.
You betrayed our mission here and you’ll pay with your very lives for this.
Double G won’t forget or forgive either of you. ”
Julius glared at him and replied, “They killed my mom, you fuck. You think I care about your stupidass threats?”
“You kidnapped my wife and if it wasn’t for Leon, she would be dead too,” Myron added.
Shubert muttered and let out a long groan.
The two freed men just sat there quietly. Neither said a word. Then they heard the shooting outside stop and the silence around the house grew.
A short time later, footsteps came down the steps.
Julius raised his hands and locked his fingers behind his head.
Myron followed suit.
The door was finally pushed open.
Leon, John, Iceman and Storm saw them immediately when the door opened to the cell area.
John reached for his weapon.
Leon placed his arm out to stop him as he studied the scene in front of them. He looked from them to the broken window and the new man cuffed to the wooden X. He raised an eyebrow and then he looked over at Julain. “What is going on here?” he asked softly.
Julius nodded at the new guy. “As soon as the shooting began, he broke the window and freed us. He told us the plan was to take your kids hostage then shoot you when you thought this mission was over. I think he thought you would be alone and he would just assassinate you after the fighting was all done outside. I think he was sent in to shoot everyone in the house after the battle outside was done. We couldn’t let that happen.
All this should have never happened in the first damn place. ”
Before Leon could even reply, sounds came from the door again.
John’s men were carrying in the few guys who had survived the battle.
Giovano was one of them. He stared at his man on the X and swore in Italian, “Minchia...You bloody fool, you weren’t supposed to get caught. Accidenti!”
Shubert sneered. “Yeah, I know, those men you hired were useless and stupid.”
Leon snapped his gaze over and said, “So, if I lived, you were supposed to hide, kidnap my kids and kill me when I came back in.”
Shubert shrugged. “Yeah sure, let’s go with that. Originally, the real plan was for me to find a place to hunker down and then kill you while you slept. Then I was supposed to kill everyone in this house. That’s what my original mission in this was.”
Leon walked over to him. Clenching his fingers into a fist, he punched the man. His head flew back hitting the wood of the X table as he was knocked unconscious.
Leon turned to Balard and John, then he nodded at Giovano.
“Dump him into a cell and then come back for this one. Chain them both to the wall with those steel collars. I don’t want them to have any chance to get free before I’m able to deal with them.
And don’t be gentle with either of them.
They better get ready for the same thing Henry got. ” He growled.
Myron nodded and glared at Giovano. “He got skinned, see his back?”
Giovano looked a bit green as he shuddered.
“Man, you had to know this wouldn’t turn out good for you, right?” Storm asked Giovano.
“And what are you? Just a servant for Leon, right?” Giovano insulted him.
Leon growled and stepped up, pulling his arm back, he popped Giovano in the mouth.
Giovano slumped in Iceman’s grip.
Leon looked outraged. “You and your friend there need to get ready for your one-way trip to hell.”
Storm smirked at the one-way trip line then he just stared at the two men being loaded into the cells. He watched as both men were fitted into a collar of heavy metal.
Finally, Henry was taken down from the wooden X and put into the cell cot. Then they locked the door behind him.
Storm turned to the other two men, Julius and Myron. He looked at Leon and asked, “And these two? What are you going to do with them?”
“They can be locked up in a cell across the way there.” He gave John a nod.
“Make sure they get fed. Looks like they are on the road to decency. There might be hope for them yet?” He then slowly looked over at all the others in the cells, steel collared and on the X.
“And I’m glad for it as decency is a rare quality these days. ”