MERCILESS BOOK 2

“HEY, where the hell are you?” Chad said the moment Brylle answers his phone.

“Somewhere you obviously know,” he said before taking a shot of whiskey.

Chad is the techy guy of the group. He’s someone he thinks he can’t keep any secrets from. That’s the reason why he chose him to be his closest friend and get the use of that talent.

“Fine. I know where you are but what the hell are you doing there? I know you just came back and want to have a little fun but you’re supposed to be in the location right now. Saavedra’s planning to escape. I guess he-.”

“What?!” He took one last shot before leaving. “Why you only tell me that now?”

“I’ve been calling you but you’re not answering your phone. I’m going to lose my money because of you. I already have plans for the money I can get in this mission.”

“Hey, are you belittling me?”

“I know you’re a badass assassin but what’s the use of that if your target has already escaped?”

“You know I’ve never missed a target, Bud.”

He was assigned to Manolo Saavedra, a leader of a human trafficking syndicate who was called the Magician. He always finds ways on escaping the prison and goes back to his dirty business. The only way to end his illegal doings was by killing him.

He climbed on his red MV Agusta F4 and starts the engine.

“Hey, slow down! Do you want to get chased by the police?”

“If they can.”

“They’re moving!”

“Coordinates.”

Instead of slowing down, he speeds up. Chad told him where Saavedra’s van is heading, its plate number, and color. It didn’t take long before he found the target, a black escapade. Without farther a do, he drew out his gun and fires at the tires. The van starts to wobble before it hits the tree. He parked his motorbike and fires the van using his bazooka that was personally made and designed by Bullet, Merciless’ gunsmith.

“Did you hear that?” he said to Chad through his earpods after the van exploded. “That easy. Mission accomplished.”

“Whatever. Leave that place now before someone sees you.”

“As if you’d let that happen.”

“I can only delete what the camera sees, you moron.”

He rides on his motorbike and heads back to their headquarters. “By the way, how’s my bouquet? Did you get it?”

“Yup. It’s in your car.”

“Good.”

The moment he arrives at the headquarters, he took the bouquet from the passenger’s seat of his car.

“I was expecting you to take home Saavedra’s head, not a bouquet,” Bullet said seeing the bouquet of red and pink roses he’s carrying. “Why do you always buy that when you don't even have a girlfriend to give it to?”

He looked at Bullet whose comfortably sitting on the sofa. It seems like Bullet just arrived from his mission too. Like him, Bullet is still wearing an all-black combat suit.

“Fuck off. It was my girlfriend who gave this to me.”

Bullet scoffs. “Gave it to you or you bought it from? I even doubt she knows it was you who ordered that bouquet.”

“She will. Soon.”

The first thing he noticed coming into his room is the flowers on the table that already wilted. He took it out from the vase and replaced the water before putting the flowers he brought. He sat on the chair and stairs at the roses.

“How do you guys think she would react when she sees me? Will she be angry? Will she still accept me?” he laughs with his questions. “Why do I seem to be worried? Even if she drives me away, I will still force myself on her.”

“HOW’S your date? How’s Michael?” Julia asks her excitedly the moment she arrives at the flower shop. “He’s generous, isn’t he? Did he take you to an expensive restaurant?”

She rolled her eyes. “He’s more likely an arrogant person than being generous. I don’t like him.”

Just remembering how Michael told her the price of every food he ordered makes her want to puke everything she ate that night. Good thing she only ate a little.

She went inside the office with curious Julia following her.

“Again? He’s already the fifth guy you dated this month, Samantha.”

She rolled her eyes. “What can I do? I can’t force myself to like them just because you introduced them to me. I’m not yet that desperate so please stop introducing me to every guy that you know.”

Between the two of them, her friend, Julia seems to be more desperate for her to have a boyfriend than herself. She always schedules a blind date for her. She doesn’t want Julia to get embarrassed with her acquaintances so even if she’s really not that interested, she still meets them and ends up getting disappointed with their personality, the way they dressed up, with their everything.

“You can be honest with me, Sam. I won’t judge. Are you lesbian?”

She looks at Julia. “Am I? I don’t think so. It’s not like I haven’t been in love before. I don’t remember myself like a woman too. Maybe because my past relationship was too painful for me that I don’t know how to appreciate men anymore.”

“Wait, you mean you had a boyfriend before? How come I don’t know him? I feel betrayed, Sam.”

She once had a boyfriend before who asked her to keep their relationship. Because she likes him and she doesn’t want her parents to know about it too, she agreed. Their relationship started when they were in eighth grade. They were really close even before that that no one suspected they’re together. They have managed to keep their relationship private but fun. Until one day, he suddenly disappeared.

They were planning to go to the same University but during the summer vacation, before that school year started, she lost contact with him. Even their friends don’t know what happened to him. He just disappeared. And because no one knew their relationship, she was so ashamed to talk about it with friends either. She has moved on from that heartbreak without anyone knowing.