Shadows of the Underworld: Love and Redemption

Boss - *Diane's POV*

This isn't good. Knowing Valentina she might just tear that lady a new one! I have to hurry.

I thought to myself while running to my vehicle. I owned a 2018 Cadillac Escalade. I lifted the keys to press the button to unlock the doors and realized its not my keys, it was Bina's.

"SHIT!" I yelled. The sound echoed through the parking lot.

I am not going back upstairs. No time. I'll take Dean instead. Sorry, Bina.

I ran over to the car. It wasn't far away. Naturally, Bina and I parked next to each other. I unlocked it, hopped inside, and started the engine. 

Damn, that's loud! Here we go.

I put it in gear and headed out of the parking lot. I checked the rearview mirror while putting the window down and saw Bina standing at the door with the keys in her hand perplexed.

"SORRY!" I yelled at her, but she didn't even seem to blink. "I'm sorry Bina, I know you don't like people touching your car, but I have to go. You can curse at me later as much as you like." I  whispered to myself.

Bina is very protective of two things in her life, one is me and the other is Dean. One wrong word to her about me and she'll forget you are a human being. You touch Dean without her permission and you'll see a demon straight out of hell. One time she met some guys sitting on Dean when she came out of the store. She had asked them to move but they got smart with her. Miss No Patience Bina, chucked the dumbbell she had just bought at them. She sent one of them to the hospital after pounding the poor bastard. Can't blame her, she worked and saved to buy this car and the parts, she even fixes and modifies it herself. Total gearhead. 

I pulled onto the main road hitting the accelerator. The car dipped and jerked forward as if it knew there was a different driver behind the wheel. I grabbed onto the wheel as tight as I can

"Whoa! This is fast! How the hell does Bina even drive this damn thing? I barely pushed the gas and it's ready to eat the highway!"

I've got to remember this car is different than my jeep. I can't drive it the same. My jeep's a big body and this....this is a menace! Just gotta make it there in one piece. That's all.

I drove as carefully and as fast as I could along the road with my senses on high alert hoping that I didn't slide or get into any accidents. Thankfully I made it in one piece.

As I reached the door of the salon I could hear the commotion. I took a deep breath and walked in. It was not looking good. Valentina was yelling away in Spanish while Harley was trying to hold her back. "Tócame de nuevo y te cortaré la mano. ¡Hazlo!" The customer was just as bad.

"I'm not paying for this shit! I'll have you fired! Give me my goddamn keys or I'll call the police!" the woman was saying. The other two customers who were in there were trying to convince the woman to pay, give it a rest, and leave. She was not having it.

I stepped in between the yelling women. "Everyone try to calm yourselves. What seems to be the problem ma'am?" I asked the customer.

"And just who are you?" she asked with a disgusting tone of voice.

Keep it together Diane.

"I'm the owner of this salon. My employee called about an issue and I came to solve it as best I can. Can you tell me what happened ma'am?"

"Oh, so you're the owner. Well, you have to teach your employees how to treat customers because, on top of doing a poor job with my nails, she demanded payment for messing it up and disrespected me and also took my keys," she said waving her arms around a shaking her head. "Look at this shit. This is what she wants payment for." She stuck out her hands for me to see. "They look nothing like the picture!"