Indecent Pawn

Chapter Five

Antonio was more than pleased when they brought back the current thorn in his side. Dealing with a debt of this magnitude had been obsolete for some time now. The hands he sent to fetch him did a little number on the boy. He was knocked out cold on the hard slab of concrete. His suit was a tad bit wrinkled, probably from the trunk ride from the next state over. The audacity of this punk to think he could borrow money and not have to pay it back. What kind of fuckery did he think he was dealing with? When they drug him out of the casino he only had ten measly thousand dollars left to his name. That wouldn’t even tickle the amount that is owed to the family.

“Wake up!” Gio kicked Mr. Myers to wake him from his peaceful slumber. Antonio had just arrived to see Gio approaching from the rear. His guess was that he was checking on the guest appearance.

“…” Groans was coming from the worthless body. “Where am I?” He jumped to defense when the cold water hit his face.

“Your location doesn’t matter at the moment.” Antonio said calmly. “Where is my money?”

“Mr. Mucciono…?”

“I ask the questions and you answer. Understand?”

“Yes sir.”

“WHERE IS MY MONEY?”

“I don’t have it yet.”

“What were the terms of the loan and bet?”

“All bets settled at the end of the night. The loan was to be completed by the weekend.”

“Please enlighten me on the other bet you made across town.”

“Sir…”

“Stop. Before you begin with your excuses let me break it down for you one time. As I am sure you know I hate repeating myself. I ask the questions and you answer them, capisce?” Antonio cut off the man’s rant. They were all the same. Same excuses different corpse when it’s all said and done. “The other bet?”

“Yes sir. I thought it would be a way to gain back the money quicker. I placed half with Paolo and the other half with Lucian.”

“Did you not think that would be a conflict? Since you are quite seasoned in the gambling world. What is something like that called?”

“Betting on both sides of the pond.”

“You lost one and won one. That’s the way the cookie crumbles. Now I ask again. WHERE IS MY MONEY?!” Just then the woman of the hour walked up with his men. He had the wife snatched in hopes of him coughing up his funds.

Antonio turned his attention from the prick in front of him to the timid woman who seemed afraid of her own shadow. Speaking to the woman is what snapped the man out of his fuming. He was staring at the woman like he wanted to inflict some serious pain upon her. When her head snapped up at his bark is when Antonio saw apparently he already had. For some odd reason that pissed him off terribly. Women that put up with this sort of treatment was a waste of air to him. Low self-esteem females was a turn off completely. She was dressed in some very unappealing clothing, her hair was damaged, and her face was the playground for bullies.

The back and forth had gone on to a point where the sniveling woman was starting to become damn near annoying. When he first bartered his wife in turn for more time to get the money that he owes, Antonio wanted to shoot him in the head and say to hell with it. Three hundred and fifty thousand reasons is what’s saving his pathetic life. No way in hell was this woman worth that much money. From what he could tell just from looking at her, she wasn’t too much to look at. She had potential but if she wasn’t so sickly looking but other than that nothing. Even if it wasn’t nice to judge a book by its cover, her cover is doing a good ass job at concealing anything other than a punching bag.