It had been a month since Talya had been unofficially made the head of the company and she was actually rather enjoying it, however since Alexander left, they needed more man power, so her father, Louie, brought in his brothers, Raphael and Viktor. Raphael or Raph, was the kindest of all three brothers, and his love for Talya was never ending, and although he was strong enough to kill you with his little finger, he was here for his brains rather than his muscle. Viktor on the other hand was what Talya likes to call the family psychopath, not very smart, but blood thirsty, unpredictable and absolutely terrifying. The final person to move into the Martineau household was Raph's daughter Lucile, or Lucy for short, Talya had only known her for a few weeks as she had been living in America with raph, working for the Changretta's. She scared Talya almost as much as Viktor did, almost. She was tough, smart and deadly with knives. Once they became friends Lucy showed her what she called her "battle suit", thick black trousers and a thick black shirt, underneath 19 knives were hidden, and a gun.
She had also told her father to hire a lot more security, and to fire anybody in the house who hadn't been working here for over 10 years, to which he had to comply.
It was Friday, which meant she was going out, another good thing about running the business was that her father had no say in if she went out drinking or not, to which she took full advantage.
She put on her favourite red dress and black boots, then hid a knife in both and put a holster on her thigh, with a gun inside and pulled her frock down again. She then collected Lucy who was already ready and they set off to meet Jenny in a pub they had just recently snatched from the blinders, Talya had felt slightly guilty doing it, but guilt wouldn't stop her, not anymore, now the whole business was on her shoulders, she couldn't fuck it up now.
Jenny, Lucy and Talya sat in a booth, drinking, however, Talya drank a lot less than she used to, she couldn't have everybody thinking that the leader of the Martineau family was a drunk.
"Tal, peaky boys 10 o'clock." Lucy said, slyly reaching up her sleeve for her knife, Talya grabbed hers too and in sync both girls stood up from their booth, threw their knives, both landing in the boys arms. Exactly where they wanted. Both boys fell to the ground writhing around in pain. The girls walked over. Talya placed her hand on one of the knives.
"I distinctly remember telling you boys that this was our territory, did I imagine that Lucile?" She asked, pushing the knife deeper.
"No, no, Talya, I remember that." She replied twisting the knife in the other blinders arm.
"Tell Thomas Shelby if another on of his men steps foot on my territory I'll kill him myself." She shouted, her voice laced with venom. She slapped Lucy's hand away, pulling both knives out, the blinders still lay there, paralysed with fear. "Get the fuck out of my pub. Now." She made her way back to the bar, grabbing a mans tissue out of his suit pocket, she whipped the blood from the knives and threw the bloodied tissue on the floor.
"Another bottle of gin please." She said calmly, like nothing had even happened, then made her way back to her booth.
What would Michael think?
She thought involuntarily, then pushed it aside by downing a drink that was left on the table.
