Assassin's Secret

chapter 29

Mira's POV

The bar looks crusty, to say at least. But this is the last place where Nex was. Tia and I go to the bar itself, hoping that Stewie is here.

"You have to be 21 to be in- ah shit, not again." A man in his 50s said who I assume to be Stewie, but unlike previous guy he wasn't looking at me anymore, but at Tia. "Nothing personal, but assassins aren't my favorite clientele. You usually kill my regulars."

"Well then how about we make a deal, you answer a few of my questions, and in exchange I won't kill anyone, and even pay for my drinks." Tia said smiling.

"Deal." He said but clearly didn't want to make that deal.

"Perfect, in that case 2 martinis please, and what happened in 2005?"

Stewie froze and looked at her, then at me.

"You have the same eyes. My condolences. " He doesn't know who I am, but he clearly knows that I am related to Nex, "and I'm sorry but the deal is off, I can't help you. Drinks are on the house."

"Didn't think you are a pussy."

"Oh I am not, but it never ends good for people who talk about 2005, and the last person who asked me ended up getting shot in the head, and if they can kill him, I dont even want to know what they would do to me, so I'm sorry, but I can't help you."

"If he was killed because of that, I need to know." I finally spoke.

"If? He was. Nex was a good guy, I saw it in his eyes. He didn't deserve that, and neither do you. So do yourself a favor and stop looking and asking ."

"See Stewie, here is a thing, there is another person who is looking for information, and while we are here being nice and all, she will walk in, shoot everyone, and beat the shit out of you. So you got two options, one, wait for her to come, or two, tell us and we will do you a favor and tell Luna ourselves. "

His eyes widened when Tia said Luna. No one here dares to challenge her, she is too deadly. A few people even left the bar after hearing her name.

Hades might be famous in Italy and Europe, but here, here Luna is the Queen.

That's our favorite card to play.

"Fine, I'll tell you exactly what I told him, but keep me out of it I-" before he managed to finish a sentence, we heard a gunshot and a window shattered.

Tia and I immediately went under, pulling out our guns. Tia looked towards the window, "he is leaving", the sniper. But we are fine, he still has a chance so why leave, unless we weren't the target. We get up from the floor and look over the counter. Stewie is dead. Headshot.

I guess he was right after all, whoever talks about it, dies. It is our fault though, I doubt it's a coincidence that he got shot right after he agreed to tell us, it seems Tia is on the same page since she is looking for bugs.

And she got it. A tiny listening device, someone really doesn't want us to know, and now, no one will even consider speaking up, Stewie was killed like that. Nex was. People aren't dumb.

Tia starts running towards where the shooter was, I join. He is obviously far gone by now, but maybe he left something behind.

He did.

"This shell." Tia says looking at the empty shell from the bullet.

"What about it?"

"Shooter, he is one of ours."

"But if one of our men shot Stewie, that means that Nex- he, it wasn't Akela."

"I'm sorry Mira."