BXBX NOVEL Chapter 76: Confronting Makary
Maybe it was the power of his charisma? Maybe the influence of his fame and power in this place? Or maybe it was the fact, that as soon as he came out from the car, a whole, small army of armed yet casually dressed men came out of their respective cars and followed him, quickly establishing a perfect, tactical control over the entire area.
\'Did those guys used to serve in the military?\' I thought, baffled when I saw how they left no spot, not a single angle, free of their observation and potential line of fire. What\'s more, when I focused on their positioning…
An undisturbed line of sight to all the nooks and crannies was one thing. But those mad lads actually made sure that they had all those present on the scene firmly within the cross of their fire...
Me and Fay included!
"I thought you were just going to give me a call," I casually mentioned, sending another shock to all those who were gathered on the scene in advance.
To everyone… but Fay, who couldn\'t care less as she observed the proceedings from just a step behind my back while keeping her arms crossed on her chest and her eyes darting all over the place.
From the extremely small wrinkle that appeared on her forehead, she also noticed the wonders of the positioning of Makary\'s soldiers.
Makary only spared me a single look before uttering an exhausted sigh.
"I didn\'t expect this woman to be THAT stupid," he spoke, fully ignoring my dearest of the aunts, speaking of her as if she wasn\'t present on the scene, just a few steps away from him. "It was my end of the bargain to keep her filthy mug away. I\'m here now to rectify this mistake."
As simple and as straightforward as only a soldier could put it. But quite frankly, I preferred this way of talking. We wasted less time on empty pleasantries this way.
"Then, before we deal with the issue at hand, there are three things," I announced and raised my hand up with three of my fingers erected. "First, I\'ve got a new shipment," I announced, intentionally using words that would invite even more confusion to the moment.
In the policemen\'s ears, shipment could only mean pretty much illegal stuff, from illegal immigrants, through weapons to drugs ending. For my dearest of aunts… Well, now that I\'ve slowly begun to realize that she was actually nowhere as big of a deal as she made me believe she was, I didn\'t really expect her to even notice me using those specific words.
As for the Makary and his men themselves… Well, they knew the truth, so there was no room for misconceptions here.
"Second, I\'ve got something that will put us way beyond any talks involving money," I kept speaking in the same, enigmatic manner as before. This time, however, not even Makary could possibly guess the exact meaning hidden behind my words.
After all, it still wasn\'t the right time for him to learn. Especially not with the police officers still hanging around!
"And lastly," I smiled at the man with a perverse confidence. "I would like you to find me a nice apartment, a top-level penthouse if possible. It cannot be, for me to keep my woman in such a run-down shack… can it?" I asked, leaning my head over my shoulder.
I saw what Fay did to the men who attacked. I initially believed those shredded corpses to be her mother\'s making… Only to learn the truth while bored out of my mind, traveling down south to the edge of the forest.
And if the worst came to be, I was quite confident that she alone would be enough to deal with this entire crowd, especially with how she had all the time in the world to prepare.
That, or I could just grab her and retreat to the other side, simply waiting for the other side out.
"That girl…" Makary focused on the very last part of my words, turning his eyes to Fay.
The girl herself didn\'t move at all. She didn\'t seem to mind Makary\'s look either, casually turning her eyes to contend his stare. Yet, when she squinted her eyes…
\'Shit…\' I cursed under my breath, panicking out a little as I rushed to dump all the free points I had left between my strength and agility.
\'Shit!\' I cursed again while I watched the numbers on my system display change. \'I should\'ve gone through all the changes to my system before going back!\'
Save for the two points I\'ve got for the level-up, I didn\'t touch a single other rewards that came with finishing two routes of the side-mission and thus completing it whole.
[Strength: 3.25] > [Strength 4.98]
[Agility: 2.25] > [Agility: 4.25]
[Usable points: 3.73] > [Usable points: 0]
With both my strength and agility growing so rapidly, my entire body tensed up, only to relax a mere moment later, once I suddenly grew used to my newfound power.
In the end though, Fay chose not to attack, opting to just roll her eyes and then turn them back to all the men swarming the place instead.
"It\'s better for you to forget you\'ve ever seen her," I admitted while the picture of those shredded corpses flashed before my eyes. "For if a single strand falls off her head…"
Recalling the sight of the mangled, brutalized corpses from back at the clearing was just enough to shake me a little. But imagine a scenario where Fay would actually get hurt…
I didn\'t feel hate, anger, or desperation.
No, I went straight past those points, opting for cold, seething, and calculative hatred and killing intent instead.
"Let\'s say I will no longer use your gang for a cover, for your gang will be no more," I informed coldly, looking Makary straight in the eyes while seemingly unable to see all his men around.
The man looked back into my eyes, seemingly unbothered by my threat all that much. This contest of stares lasted for a short while, before Makary, quite surprisingly, averted his own eyes, conceding in this small and ultimately meaningless contest.
"You think way too low of me. I\'m above hurting someone\'s woman just to get to them," he claimed only to shrug his shoulders. "I much prefer a simpler, direct approach," he added only to send me a furious glance.
That was his real response to my threat. And only now I understood that when he looked at Fay, he wasn\'t imagining all sorts of stuff under the influence of her beauty.
It wasn\'t lust that I noticed at the bottom of his eyes when he looked at her. It was the pity he felt when he imagined the scenario where we would end up clashing.
"That\'s not what I meant at all," I sighed and shook my head. "I didn\'t assume that you would come for her if something went wrong," I proclaimed, only to cross my hands on my chest, look the man straight in the eye, and smile. The smile quickly grew dark when I noticed the stares Makary\'s men were giving my woman.
"It\'s your men I\'m worried about. Or rather, how our relationship will sour if they come to fuck around and end up finding out whether I speak the truth or not."