Release

Chapter Nine

JOSE'

I barely escaped and ran to my safe house... I can't stay here too long though, I know they will come after me and they will find me. Sooner or later...

I shuffle around the house trying to find things that I can use to patch this fucking bullet hole, that ass Mark shot me.... I knew i should have killed him long ago. I had to fix myself I had already lost a lot of blood and I could feel it's effect on me. 

I found an old drip bag, I tore it open rapidly drinking the substance inside. The shit taste like poison.. I was without a gun and without options. 

I hurriedly took the bullet out of my leg and wrapped cloth around it, I really didn't have jack shit in this safe house, I scoffed to myself. 

I started to pack a bag when i heard a sound... Fuck Fuck they couldn't have found me already, then reality hit me, only one person knew about this place, of course the others would know. I was a fugitive, an outlaw, anyone would snitch on me in a heartbeat. Just to escape their fate, the fate of dying at the hands of Stephani.

But with the seriousness of the situation, shit I would even snitch on myself. The noise sounded again, yep someone was definitely here and i was without a gun and wounded, i knew i couldn't run and i had no back up with me..... I was alone...

The door opened slowly, but i heard it, I went and found a steady hiding place. This was a new low for me, me hiding in a closet.. the door to the closet burst open. 

"I knew you would be here." the voice spoke mockingly. I jumped when i realised who it was, "How did you find me?" i questioned "Only Alicia knows about this place." I stated

"She might have let it slipped while we were talking." he said with a smirk on his face.

"Why are you here?" I asked walking out the closet.

"To cut all loose ends." the voice said smiling. 

"what do you mean?" i asked confused. 

"Well you see i am the traitor... and i can't have Stephani come in here and torture you for information and risk my secret getting out." I was shocked at what i was hearing. "I am also doing you a favor," he continued.  

"What favor?" i asked 

"I am giving you a fast painless death." He said smiling, I swallowed the lump in my throat "Why me?" i ask "Why frame me"

"You were just an easy target and you were in his circle, knew all his plans and ideas so framing you would be easy, I just didn't count on him finding out so easily." he explained.

"How did you do it?" I asked I just needed to know how he got this whole operation pulled off so easily. 

"I created situations to keep you busy whenever Stephani needed you. The woman that you are seeing is a prostitute who works for me you give her information and she brings it back to me, making it easier to create situations for you." he explained. 

"The night Stephani got shot?" i questioned fearing the answer.

"Yes that was all me, i even sent some men to attack your daughter so you couldn't make it to help him, i didn't count on Alicia being able to get the bullet out and patching him up." he said reminiscing about his plans. "I managed to get your gun off you when I was at the house, you're so stupid you didn't even notice it was gone." 

"You planted the gun at the warehouse." i unintentionally said 

"Yes i even got one of my men to wear a mask with your face on it and cut the lights so it would look like you were there." he said laughing "It was so easy." he said laughing louder. 

"What are you going to do now?" i asked my heart beating fast as i am aware of my fate. The man standing in front of me was clearly a psychopath... I thought of ways i could deter my fate but all of them seemed slim. 

"Now that I have those experimental weapons I have to train my men to use them, i have to defend myself from others trying to steal them... You see Stephani didn't know that mafia cartel knew about those weapons and were planning on taking them. I just got them first.' He said proudly. 

"And now i am going to use them, when my men have learnt how to use them to take him down and take over his cartel." he explained. 

I was thinking of a way to save myself i was thinking of my daughter, i needed to be alive for her, i needed to see her grow up and have a family and see her be happy. I was thinking i'm going to die and i will not get to say goodbye, tell her i love her, hold her or hug her again. 

"Maybe i could come work alongside you." i said.. I could barely believe what i was saying, me, fighting against Stephani, he was my long time friend we grew up together. I was there to help him take over the Cartel after his brother died. 

He was my family but he wasn't blood sometime you have to make harsh decisions for the ones you love, they may not be good ones but they are based on survival and right now, i was thinking about my survival. My survival for my daughter and myself but, mostly for my daughter. what would she be like without a father. 

" No thank you i just needed a scapegoat and now that my little puppet has been cut short i need to remove myself as the puppeteer and dispose of the puppet." he said. Fuck there really was no reasoning with this man. I closed my eyes and said a last prayer in my head asking the Lord to watch over my daughter. 

As i open my eyes i was met face to face with the barrel of a gun.