MR. MORENO'S SURROGATE ✔️

17 - Elijah

I couldn't sleep very well after me and Leilah sort of argued. But I'm asleep when I get a call.

"Fuck..." I mumble, feeling around for my phone. When I find it, I pick it up. "Yeah."

"We got a sitch," Reiner says into the phone.

"Like?" I say, rising from my pillow and rubbing my eyes.

"Murder. One of our men on the streets was attacked. He knows we're here."  he says cautiously.

"Shit," I say, getting up. "You know what we need to do. Suit up. Meet me at the location I'm sending you. We need to take care of this, ASAP."

"On it."

"One hour." I say.

I hang up and I begin to freshen up and suit up, my mind on one thing and one thing only. The murder of Samuel Alvarez. I'm suited up with a comm in my ear while I call up Reiner, getting in my car as I tell him I'm ready. I drive to the location I sent which is the place Samuel Alvarez resides. I get out of my car a few blocks from his place, and I meet up with Reiner.

"You clean up nice." he says with a smirk.

"It's been a while since we've teamed up," I say, nudging him. "We're gonna go in from separate sides. You go in from the bottom and I'll head straight up to Sam. Leave no evidence. I've got trackers on our suits and I have watches with both our locations on them. Do me a favor. Don't die," I say, handing him a watch and waking away as he laughs.

"You got it." Reiner says, laughing still.

I walk onto an empty floor and I take the elevator up, going straight up to Samuel. As I go up, I can see his men looking at me and instantly scrambling to the staircase to get to me. With an annoyed look, I tap in on my comm.

"I've got company. Take the other elevator up on the first floor." I say.

"On it. You're lucky I wasn't already in."

"Oh, shut up," I say, taking my finger off my comm.

The elevator door opens and I look at my watch to check Reiner's position. I look up from my watch and I start to make my way down the hall of the top floor. After minutes of checking every door, I stumble across another door with 'Meeting Room' splayed across it. So, with a smirk, I casually open it, walking in.

"Hey," I say, making every head turn to me. "You guys have any clue where I can find a Samuel Alvarez?" I ask.

"Who are you?!" one of the men say, holding up a gun.

"Listen buddy," I say, walking up to him. Quickly, I grab his wrist and I twist it to make him drop his gun, then I snap it, bringing him to his knees. "I'm the one asking questions here. Now, where is-"

"Right here." a voice comes. "Now could you let poor John go? He's miserable." he says.

I let him go and he gets up and runs out of the room, crying.

"Get that checked, would you?" I say as the door falls shut. My eyes fall on Samuel and I give him a glare. "You wanna tell me why some of my drugs are missing?" I say with an angry look on my face.