Next in Line (Monarch of the Kohler Mafia) Book 5 of the Köhler Series

𝔽𝕚𝕗𝕥𝕪-ℕ𝕚𝕟𝕖 |𝑻𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆

Xerxes was fed up with Juan bullshit. The man had the nerve to show up at his swearing-in and after-party as he belongs within their mafia just to start some shit. Some people didn't know how to take a fucking loss.

Silently X walked into the warehouse with his men and Jj behind him. He didn't waste any time walking up the first man removing the dark pillowcase over his head. The man looked at him nervously as his eyes shot over to Jj with the spiked brass knuckles on his hands.

"How this is going to work is I ask you a question, and you answer to My Don here. If you can't talk, The Swedish Don will beat your skull in. Is that simple enough for you?" Elijah asked. The man nodded, looking to Xerxes and Jj.

"Do I get to live if I answer?"

"Hell no!" Xerxes said, making him look at X with pleading eyes. Around the same time, Caleb walked in with the twins and a few others.

"Do you know where Juan is at now?" Eli asked. The man shook his head no before looking back to Xerxes answering. "No, he just rounded a couple of men off the streets talking about he knew a sure way to take down the German Mafia."

Xerxes arched a brow looking over to Jj and Elijah. "So, you wanted to take me down? Now you in my shit begging for your life?" The man started to shake his head as Xerxes grabbed the first thing he saw on the table next to him. A chainsaw that he took rammed it in the man's stomach, cutting up until his top part of this body split apart.

"Uncover the next one," He said. Caleb complied. This one had already pissed himself crying and begging for his life. Jj laughed as X punched the man just for the hell of it. "SHUT THE FUCK UP!" X yelled.

"Please, I didn't ask for this. He told me that it would help me get off the streets. I needed the money. I have a baby girl, and I'm all she gots. Don please––"

"X, man, I'm all for the killing because someone threatens my family–––"

"Fuck no, Jj! Just because you took in Corey because your wife asked you to does mean I'm going to do the same."

"And so, what if my Karesta told me too. She's my Donna and Queen. I trust her instincts more than anyone else. She and I are a team... Damn, the man may be a better use to you alive than dead. He was promised money and probably not a lot. You smart enough, Xerxes, use your fucking brain." Jj said, making Xerxes sigh, looking at his brother.

"Brand him, Caleb."

"Sure, thing, Boss," Caleb said with a smirk. Heaven chuckled as his crazy ass hummed, placing the hot iron on the man's neck. "This brand doesn't mean I won't kill your ass. Trust me when I say we will do a full background check on your ass, and if anything comes back fishy. I'm cutting off your fucking head. Or maybe I let my dogs rip out your fucking throat. Now name," X said.

"Aaron... Aaron Dalton Miles, and my daughter's name is Fallon Miles. She at the local homeless shelter with a friend. I told them I had a job for tonight. I promise you I didn't know it was to try to take out the King of Germany until I got to the club." Aaron said, staring at Neveah, who looked down to the floor. Xerxes nodded as he turned to the next man letting Jj removed the cover from his head.

"You both can go to hell. I wanted all you fuckers dead. It's bad enough to have the former German Mafia King married to an American bitch. Now his son, then we have to deal with you Swedish assholes too," He said, making Jj look over to him with a wicked smirk. X didn't have to tell him a thing as he started hitting the man repeatedly on the side of his head.

"You don't have to talk. Your death is fine with me."

"Fucking shit, X. Are you going to stop J?" Caleb said as he noticed one of the man's eyeballs was stuck to Jj's brass knuckles. Xerxes laughed, uncovering the last person, which was an older woman sitting there with a smirk.