1 (Calder)

I live a life of danger and darkness, always staying hidden in the shadows. Only a select few know my true identity and that's the way I have ran things for the last six years.

"Boss we found Sandra Castro" humming a gruff acknowledgment to what I've just been told I pull my hood up and turn around giving Zane my full some what undivided attention.

Four years ago changed my whole outlook on the life I live and the dangers surrounding it, the events that took place haunt my mind at all hours of the day and haunt my dreams at night leaving me restless and unstable.

"Boss did you hear me" it's not like me to get this easily distracted but when it comes to remembering her time comes to a standstill.

"Sorry Zane please continue" I clear my throat and pay closer attention to the information being provided.

"We found Sandra Castro hiding in a small town called Hidden Falls, it's a college town mostly" he places a picture on the desk and slides it over and I see her smiling face staring back at me. She should be dead it should be her and not my beautiful daughter. I should of killed her when I had the chance but I knew at the time that it wasn't what Jazmin would of wanted.

"How did you find her" I ask pushing the picture back over to him.

"She did exactly what we knew she would do. We got the notification that Jazmins card had been used at a bar called Chester's" he hands me a tablet a with the information already pulled up "She used Jazmins school I.d as proof of identity and ran up a hefty bill whining and dining her close friend group for her twenty first birthday"

"Have a small close team ready to leave in an hour" 

"Uh no disrespect boss but are you sure" I respect his concern but this is personal.

"I have to do this myself Zane. I have to look her in her eyes and watch the life disappear from them like she did when she just stood there and did nothing but laugh as her brother and his friends had their sick ways with my daughter." He gives me a light nod knowing I'm right "I want to watch her turn to a crumbling mess of fear before me as I put one single bullet through her skull" 

I was sixteen when I knocked up this girl I was fucking in high school Olivia was not ready to be a mother and truth be told neither was I but my father made me do the right thing and step up to raise my unborn children. Olivia didn't want the baby and wanted to have an abortion but when I told my father what her intention was he made her and her family a offer they couldn't refuse. 

The day Jazmin was born was one of the best fucking days of my life, I was the first to hold her and the last, losing Jazmin brought me back to the cold hearted person I had been before her. The day her detail called me and told me they couldn't find her after class made the lifestyle I lead all the more dangerous, I knew I lived a life with a target on my back and I knew that one day someone would grow a pair and make a move to go after her, but I never expected that person to be her best friend, I never expected that her life would be taken by nothing more then mere high school kids and a sick hazing ritual.

When I made the call to Olivia I thought that maybe after seventeen years she would feel some kind of motherly compassion for our daughters loss but all I was meeting with was the same cold hearted bitch I knew all those years ago.

I along with my sister, father and a few close men raised Jazmin, it was my sister Daniela's idea to let Jazmin go to public school. Dani would drone on and on about how good it would be for Jazmin to be around actual kids her age and be able to actually be a teen, I can't say I knew this would happen, I can't say that I knew she would be taken from me so soon, I can't say that she was safer under my watchful eyes but I can say that I knew it was a mistake to let her be a normal teen.

"Boss we just got words that Miss Castro is in the nearby city with a small group of friends, she used the late Miss Evens card to check into the Flor Hotel on Maine ST and has reserved a private V.I.P room at a night club called Vex" Casey says handing me a clip and a vest.

"Keep eyes on her and keep Jazmins card active, I don't want that bitch to know we've found her"

After an hour in flight the information I had asked for comes through on all of Sandra's friends but one who seems to late to the party.

" Ok let's see who we're dealing with shall we" I link the file to the tv and start to give my men a quick briefing "Gorden Clover age twenty-six has a criminal history of assault currently on probation. Hannah Sandoval age twenty student at Hillside community college studying to be a teacher" I hear a few chuckles and comments about if they had a teacher like her but ignore them and continue "Sarah Hall age twenty-two there is nothing else I b her other then her picture and our last guest seems to be a no show but the name on the V.I.P list gave us her name or nickname because we can't seem to find any information of her" I scroll down some more only to see a few pictures of Sandra and her friends currently out to dinner "The name given to to the bar manager was Lane Xander" 

The rest of the flight goes by in a blur, my mind full of memories of Jazmin and the fear of becoming a father again. The fear of one day falling in love and starting a family a real one. It's time to think about settling down but I've always been to afraid of bringing someone into this life only to lose them like I did Jazmin.

It might seem morally wrong for a man of my age to be holding a grudge against a twenty-one year old young women but if my fourth-five years of living the life of crime has told me anything it's that revenge is always best served face to face.

"Boss we're here"  

"Have Hendricks send me the identity of her guests and get ahold of Devon and let him know we are in his town I don't want any interruptions" I hear a round of yes bosses and we split off into the three cars that are waiting for us and head into the busy city of sin.