Shades of Black

Chapter 17

"Get ready quickly, Kai is waiting for us outside." Kat threw me my shirt.
It had been four weeks since Liam left for Spain. I occasionally went out with my family for picnics, dinners, to the beach.

These days were certainly the happiest, Micah, Amandla and I played basketball with Paps. We went to the amusement park, skated, ate ice cream at midnight.
I still missed Liam, I wore the halfmoon necklace he gave me.

He had not texted nor called, I had had this feeling the moment he told he was leaving.
I had told Kat everything about Liam and I. She really hated the idea, she told he was a casanova. I also didn't know whether to trust him or not.
He was probably fucking those hot Spanish girls and he refused to fuck me.

Kat was now telling me to get ready for a party. I didn't want to go but I had to get over everything. If I saw Liam again I would probably stab him.
Goodness, why was I thinking about him?
Anyway, this party would get me results because Xander Santos was going to be there.
I was supposed to finish him.
       

                             ***

We reached the party, there was loud music, people were smoking, drinking, dancing, wasted....
Kat compelled me to hook up with a hot basketball player, Caelum. He was black, sexy, had dread locks and a nice smile.
I drunk some much and kind of let myself get wasted.
I danced with Caelum, we almost kissed but I pulled a way.
He held me closer, "Hey sexy, I wanna kiss ya!"

Caelum traced my waist upwards, my body was feeling cringed up.
I stepped away from him, Liam's name played at the back of my mind. I cursed myself, if Kat and Mia were able to make out with different people, then what was my problem.
Caelum held my hand and as we getting out, one of his friends called out to him. They were speaking French, his friend congratulated him on getting me.

So I was basically a bet, I removed my hand from his and moved out.
I started walking alone, kind of wasted and I could barely see. I was blind in one eye and my spects were home.
The road was quiet and dark, I just wanted to sing.
I started singing Alibi, I danced in the road as though my ancestors owned it. I heard a vehicle coming from behind and decided to wait for it.
What the heck! It was some random guys from the party. "Hey come have fun with us, your drunk you can't move alone on this dark road.
"No it's okay, I want to walk." I walked away, two guys got down and followed me. I knew I could easily take all of them down.
But I was no moods of fighting today.

I just wanted to sing my Alibi and dance alone.
Lie! I wanted one of them out of the car. I was assigned to kill him. Xander Santos, he was a rapist , human trafficker and drug dealer from Mexico. Whatever he was doing at a teenage party.

They kept on following me, good, one of the guys following me tipped me. I squeezed the money and threw it at him.
They all got out, and started pulling me to the car.
Xander ordered in his thick accent, "No one touches her before I do." All the guys moved aside, he mercilessly pulled my hair and pointed a gun at me.

I instead smiled at him, before he knew it, I possessed his gun. Punching him,I threw the gun away in the bushes. Yeah, I know I could've shot all of them, but I promised never to use guns since Willow and Zahara's incident.

In no time, they had all surrounded. Their eyes were fixed on me with excitement and intimidation, cracking their knuckles and sneering at me.
I positioned myself and stood firm on the ground.
Yeah, I was never fully drunk.

The first attacker lunged at me with a flying kick but I held his leg, throwing him to the ground.
As the second one was coming, I dodged him and used this same momentum to fuel a lightning kai kick that sent him flying.
I ran first to the car before Xander could start it and pierced the tyre.
His men followed me, I didn't want to kill them but...

I picked another knife after calculating my movements. I started to slice them one by one.
When I was done, final target Xander was holding a gun.
"Put your...knives do..down." I dropped my knives, "Tell me where Manuel Salvatore is and you'll go safely. Not safely but whatever."
He shivered, time waster, I quickly removed a shuriken from my holster and threw it at his hand. I rushed to him and stabbed him twice in the stomach
"Bitch!" He cursed, "I don't know where he is but boss is coming for you, Black Shadow." My heart skipped, how the hell did he know.

He added, "Heads of different mafias are coming after you and you'll die at this young age. Mr. Liam Salvatore is coming for you." I gasped for breath, "How did you know I was Black shadow? Answer me."
My identity has never been this obvious, I threatened to
stab him again.
Xander held his stomach, "Everyone has realized that you only used knives and daggers.
You always leave shurikens after killing people, the shurikens are customized with an A on them."

Shit, shit, shit. The A was basically Alchemy. Mr. Jacob had to know about this, I finished Xander. He was meant to die anyway.
Mr. Jacob was the Deputy Director of The Alchemy. He was a man of few words, plus I didn't like the fact that him and I shared a surname. I headed  home.

                          ***
I got my laptop and decided to video call him.
"Mr. Jacob, ummm...do you have a minute." He nodded with a yes.
"You know that mafia lords are hunting for me, right? They fucking know how I kill now."
Mr. Jacob didn't look shocked at all. "It's only Liam Salvatore, he's your only threat. You've still not killed him."
I felt pangs of anger, I thought this last job was going to be easy.
"You have refused to give us any information about him." He added.
I calmly exclaimed, "I told you, Liam Salvatore is a very difficult person. We hardly spoke when he was in school, we didn't even connect. You very well know how hard it is for me to stay on long term missions."
I was going to win the world's biggest liar in time to come.

I was defending him because there was more to this. He wasn't as bad as everyone said.
Liam was bad because the so called heroes told stories about him. We were all murderers.
"Are you still there?" He asked, I snapped out of my thoughts.
"Yes, thanks for the conversation. Good night."