Bloodline

Chapter 4

Thatcher

     "You've got a really nice place Thatcher." The blonde bimbo who I brought home giggled at me. Ugh, what the fuck am I doing?

     "Oh yeah? You like it?" I flirted back as I pulled her to me and breathed in her watermelon scent. Must be her body wash, and at least she smelled good.

     "Yeah, it's a little dreary though. I think it needs a woman's touch." She said, sliding her hand up my chest. Her comment immediately turning me off.

     "Now why'd you have to go and say something like that?" I pushed her away, while I sat down and lounged on the couch.
  
     "What? It's true and I thought we've been having a good time these last few weeks." She straddled me and started using what I assume she thought was a sexy voice.

     "I'm not someone who wants to be tied down. I made that clear at the very beginning when we first started talking, Linda." I nudged her away from me at least putting some space between us. Commitment doesn't work well for me so I hate it when I make my intentions clear from the start and they get clingy anyway, thinking that they'll be able to change me.

     "My name is Laura! You asshole!" She jumped off me with a look of disgust on her face.

     "I think you just proved my point, Lacey." At that comment she screamed and stormed out of my apartment, grabbing her shoes and purse on the way out.

     "Doesn't look like I'll ever move on, will I? I leaned back on the couch, rubbing my eyes, trying to ease the headache that started coming on when Laura started being clingy. My pocket started buzzing letting me know that my phone was ringing. I lazily looked at the screen seeing the name Max, at least it's not someone I hate.

     "Hey Max, what's up?" I said after answering the phone.

     "Hey dude, I've got a job for you. It's good pay." he replied.

     This is just what I needed, something to distract myself from my life and everything going on.

     "Sweet! What is it?"

     "We're hitting this rich guy's place and we need a tech man to keep us out of trouble. Roxy is heading the operation so you know it's gonna be clean with no backstabbing, or any kind of shit like that."
  
     "Good, she's reliable. Text me the details and when we're meeting up to go over the plan."
  
     "Yeah haha it's tonight by the way. Thanks." Max blurted out before hanging up.

     "You've gotta be fucking kidding me." I groaned. He knows I hate last minute jobs. He's getting his ass beat after tonight. I heard a ding and looked down at my phone wth the details about where we're meeting up.

     We'd just finished going over the plan for tonight. Turns out the previous tech guy got busted with coke or something and was now sitting in county.

     The plan was pretty standard for Roxy. She liked four man teams: Ringleader being Roxy, brute strength being Max, tech man being me, and an inside man to give Roxy the proper intel being a maid named Louisa. Apparently her boss was a little too grabby and she wanted payback before quitting. The man has security but it was mediocre compared to what I'm usually dealing with.

     I set myself up in the van getting everything put together. Say what you will about this dude who got busted, but he had the right tech for any kinda job. Roxy and Max went around through the backside once I was ready, and Louisa let them in. I could track them on the security footage and I watched Louisa lead them through all the hallways, making twists and turns and whenever I noticed they were about to run into trouble I'd let them know, and then Louisa wuold take them through a different route. This was so simple I could do it in my sleep. Speaking of sleep I could really use that right now.