Family Business

Chapter 13

BLOOD!
Everywhere.

Paul was a road construction worker. He and his team worked hard that day since there a lot of pressure to get the job done quickly.

His team had just taken a break on that cold night to have some nice hot tea. Suddenly a car came and stopped at the barrier. Assuming the driver would realise the road was blocked they did not move.

They did not see the man in the car get out and walk towards them. They did not see him holding a tire iron. With a swift motion both Paul's coworkers were knocked out. Paul dropped his cup of tea as the man made his way to Paul who was shaking in fear.

The next thing Paul saw, was a headless body lying next to him. He was in pain. His entire body hurt. He looked down to see his hands covered in blood.
Suddenly screams fill the air. Paul sat up quickly and saw one of his men being tortured by the stranger from the car.

His fingers were being sliced off one at a time. No amount of begging and pleading would stop the man. He never spoke a word. He never said why he was doing this. He never took his eyes off the man he was torturing.

Paul was shaking. It was too late for his friend but he could still try to escape. He got up slowly, keeping his eyes fixed on the killer's back. And slowly backed away after stepping over the headless body. His hands were covered in blood and mud. Apart from the throbbing head he seemed fine.

When he created enough distance from himself and the murder scene, he began to run like he was on fire down the road.

Suddenly he spotted a man on a motorcycle. Waving his hands frantically he tried to get him to stop and help.

"Sir! Sir! I need your help." He cried out when the man in the motorcycle stopped. Paul had no idea what the man looked like because he wore a helmet. But his body language was very suspicious. He dint talk and he just kept rummaging his jacket for something.

Suddenly Paul felt a sharp pain in his leg. Looking down he saw a screwdriver jabbed into his calf. Staggering in pain he managed to turn around and see who attacked him. It was the same man who killed his friends.

Caught between two men, Paul gave up. He let himself get dragged into the car where he was knocked out.

When Paul came around, the first thing he saw was a beautiful women with dark hair. She had blue eyes and smiled at him gently.

Surely she is an angel, he thought. She was brushing his hair back with her fingers. Paul was calm. He tried to talk, ask her where he was and who she was. But he could not talk. His throat was dry.

He had no energy to sit up. He just looked around him trying to make sense of what was happening.
He realized he was in some dungeon. The walls were dark and grey. It was very cold and there was an incinerator close to him. He was not dead.... Yet.

He realized he was on a hard stone slab. The Angel was in fact just a human. Her smile was no longer kind but was completely evil!

Paul was so scared he could not stop shaking. The women was humming. Then came the man who attacked them by the road under construction.

Then there was immense pain. Paul struggled hard to get away but he was strapped down tight. The man stopped hurting Paul.

"It's ok honey." The lady said. At first Paul thought she was comforting him but when he opened his eyes and vision cleared, he realised that she was talking to the man. They looked like a married couple. He even saw a ring on her finger when she passed something to her husband.

It was a knife. She had given her husband a knife.

Wrapping his hands around the hilt. The man plunged the knife into Paul's chest a number of times. The women just stared at them. Finally it stopped.

The last thing Paul remembered was being dragged and tossed into the furnace...he was in so much pain he barely felt the flames lick his body. Everything went dark.

The husband and wife watched it burn as the man who had the motorcycle washed down the stone slab

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John Maxwell was having a bad day

No. It was a horrible day.

A bad day was when his investors have him a hard time, or if his secret business was interrupted.

A horrible day was when his son, his only son, behaved irrationally. He had a daughter too, she was everything he could hope for in a child, but she was adopted. She had a gift to take over his secret business but he wanted it to be passed on to his son who had his blood.

His son was very ordinary with no interest in running the business. When the boy was 13 years old he had shown great potential. That was the day John decided that he would not give up until his son showed the same potential again.

It had been a long night. John had indulged into one of his favourite hobbies to take his mind off the confrontation he had with his son.

It dint go the way he intended but he would not give up. His wife and adopted daughter wanted to help. He also had an assistant who clearly looked up to him as a father figure and was ready to do anything for him.

John hung up his coat and opened the door from behind his bookshelf. He entered his living room. He was very proud of his hiding place. It was there in the main hall of the house where people would visit the most and no one had a clue what happened in the secret basement.

"We need to do something." John told his wife. "He is going down the wrong path!"

"I know, darling. He will come back and realise this is what he wants too." His wife said trying to comfort him.

Just then the bookshelf opened again and the guy who had the motorcycle came out.

"All done. Place is clean." He said. "Hope you feel better."

John did not say anything. Everything they did last night took his mind off the confrontation with his son but now all the feelings were coming back.

His wife seemed to sense his aggression. She put a hand on his arm and said."Darling, we can deal with this. We just need to show him how much he can enjoy by taking over the business."

John took a deep breath and nodded. He had to keep an eye on his boy. Clearly he had no idea what was good for him.

Kissing his wife on he forehead he decided to go to work, he did not see the morning paper report about the bloody attack by the road under construction.
He had no idea he was getting reckless.

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A family that kills together, stays together. With an exception of John's son.

His 'Secret business ' was to kill people... More about that will be explained soon because it is connected to our characters in Lanchester.

But how? Find out soon!!

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