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4.10 Dangerous

My heart began racing. The rush had returned. I had no idea what we were doing in that field, but I knew it was dangerous.

I watched where I was stepping. Ry and his men were surrounding me.

"I am not in the mood to wait, Gene!" Ry shouted again.

The men started murmuring things to each other, but I focussed on Ry.

"I will fuck you up, Gene. You better have my money!" Ry looked very impatient.

Something moved at the shack. A thin figure stepped out. It looked like a woman.

"I asked for Gene," Ry said as the woman came closer to us.

The woman looked mean. She was - by my definition - a bitch. I saw the way she looked pass the guys and eyed me in a judgemental way.

"Is that your whore, Ryland?" she asked him.

"I will make you my whore if you do not deliver the money," Ry threatened her. She scowled. Was Ry a pimp as well? "Where is Gene? Is he picking up the final bills?"

"He does not want to come out right now," she said. The minute she spoke these words, Ry grabbed her and put his gun to her head.

"Gene, come out or you will find her pushing up daisies," Ry warned the man. When I heard the sudden shot, I fell back on my feet. One of Ry's men had to hold me up. Of course Ry had not shot her.

Slowly, the man exited the shack. As he came closer to us with a bag.

I recognised him. I had seen him before. I touched Ry's shoulder, "I know him!"

He did not turn around completely, "Where have you seen him before?"

I whispered the name of the last man who had ordered me. Ry nodded.

The man threw the bag at Ry's feet. One of his man checked the bag's content and nodded.

"So you deal with lawyers now?" Ry asked him.

"I do not!" he responded.

"I saw you at his parties," I interfered. "You sold him security guards, from what I heard."

"And who are you?" Gene asked me. I stepped out of Ry's shadow and smiled at him. Ry looked at me like I was crazy.

Ry let the woman go. "She is mine, and you better watch your moves, Gene. I will have my guys monitor you. We do not need you giving us bad business."

With that we went back to the car. I dared to ask, "How much money did you pick up today?"

Ry chuckled. He sat next to me again. This time I had the bag on my lap. His hand went to my hair and he caressed it. "A mill and a half, why, do you want a share?"

"I know what I want a share of and it is not money, Ry," I responded to him.

"Guys, Velvet wants to join the crew," Ry revealed to the men in the car.

They all started laughing. I did not find the case very funny.

"Thank god you are guys, right?" I scowled at them.

One of the guys in the front said, "You should be proud of your pussy power. People spent millions on that shit."

I did not know whether I should laugh or cry. It was a strangely uncomfortable suggestion.

Ry shut him up, "That was inappropriate."

"Sorry. Excuse me, Velvet," the man turned around. He actually meant it. That was touching.

"Ry, please, take me in," I urged him on, cuddling myself onto him.

"She is persistent," said the guy who was sitting next to me. "But you would put her through the test, right?"

"I always do," Ry uttered.

I asked, "What kind of test?"

"Have you ever heard of hazings?" Ry asked me, still caressing my hair. I shook my head. "It is a special ritual, Velvet. If you want to become a part of my crew, Velvet killer, you have to survive our hazing."

"You will not rape me, right?" I asked in panic.

"I do not usually include girls in my crew, but I know that raping is not something we should do for fun," Ry remarked. "I leave that to the guys with money and good reputations. We have money and a bad fucking reputation."

His men were quiet. Nobody raised his voice. Ry continued, "If you survive these next days, I will get you out of the agency. You will be part of this world, Velvet killer. There will be no turning back."