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2024-10-29 19:42:56"Go fuck yourself." A broad grin spread across Patrick's face. 'I've been in this business for years. You think you're the first person to try intimidating me?' Patrick had been dealing drugs for more then ten years. People like Collen were a dime a dozen. Whether defending their friends, trying to impress their girlfriends, or trying to keep their addict girlfriends clean. It didn't matter if they were expert fighters or not. Sure Patrick had taken plenty of beatings in his time that's just how things were. But in the end, none of the people had the balls to dirty their hands and kill another man. In his business whether it was competition, customers, or white knights, he had his life threatened again and again, does it look like he's dead? Nope.
"You know... I was kind of hoping that would be your response." Said Collen giving him a nod and a cold smile.
'Alright here comes the beating, time to clench the teeth." But to Patrick's surprise no punch ever came,
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Collen took a step outside breathing deep the fresh air and exhaling all while allowing the gentle breeze to caress his face. He felt as if the wind was carrying away his sins he had commit this night."Collen did you forget about us?" Daphne and Alison called from close by as they too left the building."Sorry, just had a need for some fresh air." Collen said turning while presenting the pair with his warm smile. When Alison was close enough she leaned in gazing into his eyes, as if inspecting him, making sure his soul was still untainted.'Good his eyes are back to normal." She smiled giving Daphne a nod."So we figured since the party got ruined by those jerks, we would allow you to take us out to eat." Daphne said grinning."Well I guess I have no choice but to accept.""I've never heard any man complain about having two beautiful women accompany him to dinner.""Well I won't be the first to do so either." Collen
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Collen stood up untying the girl's hands giving them a reassuring smile. "Remember the most important thing is to always stay calm. Running around screaming doesn't do any situation good." They both gave him a nod "Ok you two stay there for a minute, pretend you're still tied up also close your eyes." 'What kind of idiots leave people in a room completely unguarded?' Collen thought to himself, the men had stuffed them into the room, yes there was no way out apart from the door they came in through, but you don't know what the people are doing on the other side. Even if you're in the middle of a fortress a screw up like that will bare grave consequences. "H-Hey H-Help! She's trying to bite her tongue off so she won't be raped!" Collen cried out as if desperate to get help, even stammering over a few words. "So much for screaming not doing any good." Alison whispered. The door slammed open two men rushing into the room. "What the hel
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"Well I see you still haven't lost your touch." John mumbled after a quick glance around the room seeing Collen's handy work. "Some things you can't forget even if you wish to. Was there much trash up top there?" Collen asked flicking his eyes towards the girls. "Ah there was some but I kicked it to the side." John said grasping what Collen was indicating. They were in fact talking about dead bodies Collen was making sure it was clear for the girls. John had encountered some resistance, but the men were far from professional soldiers, some rent a thugs who were given guns, and a few people that may have had some security credentials. After killing any resistance he encountered, John's men moved to secure the out perimeter while gathering up the bodies and moving them out of sight. "Ok Alison were going upstairs, you can open your eyes now. Keep your eyes on my friends back until we're on the next floor okay? He's the one that's in front of you."
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"Why god Why!?" Collen cried out his face planted into his desk. People all around their office simply ignored the outburst. This was nothing new to them. They were unfortunately quite accustomed to such outbursts coming from Collen's desk. Evelyn seemed to enjoy his torment of enduring paperwork. So she would just pile it on him any time she wished to torture him."Rough day?"Collen lift his head from the desk to find a face peaked around the cubicle. It was quite obvious by the expression the man was trying his best not to laugh. This man was James, Collen's so called desk partner. The only thing that divided them was a small divider splitting their desk down the middle. James was an office clerk, oddly enough despite it being an important job, most people looked down on it, the pair together were considered the undesirables of the office. Although Collen gave it his best effort to get rid of anyone judgmental and overly aggressive, there was no one hundred percent
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"I knew it, I fucking knew it!" Collen cried out running full sprint down the street."How could you have known something like this would happen! Can't you do anything about this!?" Running to his side was the beautiful Sierra, seemingly completely unfazed by the situation they've found themselves in."Because this is my lot in life! I have both the best and worst luck in the world, with how things have been going I figured it's bad lucks turn, and what the hell do you expect me to do!?""I don't know shoot them? Beat them up!? You're the man here, do something!""Shoot them!? Shoot them with what!? Should I run back there and steal that old ladies straw and shoot spit wads at them!?" Collen's voice was dripping with sarcasm. A deaf person would most likely detect the sarcasm just with a two second glance at his face."Oh come on sarcasm now? Aren't you being a little overly dramatic?" Sierra jabbed back exasperated. "It's like dealing with another
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How did it turn out like this?"Is there anything else we can get you sir?""No thank you I'm fine, could you check on my friend though?" Collen said his voice absolutely relaxed. If there truly was such thing as being on cloud nine, this may very well be it. ' Could it be the bad luck has finally run it's course?'"Are you sure Mr. McDermott? Feel free to ask for anything, whatever it's you want I'll make it happen." Said a man laying a couple feet from him. The general atmosphere was definitely relaxing except for the man speaking to Collen, his voice was extremely tense as he addressed Collen."Anything?""Anything at all, you name it sir.""Can I have a go with your wife?""Absolutely, you tell me when and I'll arrange it for you." Collen felt his eye begin to twitch."How about your sister? I hear she's pretty can I have a go with her too?""If you wish for it, you can have them both at the same time." Collen'
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'Once again here I am.' Collen thought to himself allowing a sigh to escape his lips, the frown on his face becoming more apparent. Each passing moment the trials of containing his frustration were becoming more and more difficult. He truly didn't want to take part in this nor cause any trouble. But more so he didn't want his friend to be hurt. Is it wrong that he was willing to hurt someone to protect his friend and himself? Not even Collen could ever fully understand if his decisions were right or wrong. In the end you must face the consequences of your decisions. It's between your conscience and god which choices are correct or wrong. 'I don't doubt for a moment I'm not the best person in the world. I've done many bad things in my life. If every man and woman is god's child I'm neither his best nor his worst. Until it's my turn to be judged I will continue the path I believe to be correct. Heaven? Hell? Damned If I know where I'm heading. So I'll live in the here and now.'&
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Present day."Evelyn!" Tatianna cried out in excitement holding her arms out preparing for a hug. Then there was Aurora. Every time the spotlight managed to find it's way to her, her silhouette managed to shrink. But as soon as the subject changed or Tatianna managed to deflect it away from her, Aurora would begin to recover. But this moment? Her silhouette shrank so much she could barely even be seen as a shadow.'That's Evelyn Constantine! That's Evelyn Constantine!' Aurora was currently in melt down mode. Her face was a bright tomato red. It wouldn't surprise her in the least if steam was visibly bellowing from her ears.'T-Two s-super models... Wait no three! AND I LOOK LIKE THIS!? Dear god Any other day I would pay to be in the presence of these women, but why today of all days do I have to look like a train wreck!?' Aurora clenched her teeth and eyes closed trying her best to prevent tears welling up in her eyes and furthering her disappointing appearance. Her current wardrobe,
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"Huh?" Crutches stood dumbstruck. He had never once so much as uttered a word to Sven let a alone beat him to a pulp and send his car flying into traffic. 'Shit I'm still recovering from having my ass beaten to a pulp, I'm not gonna go out looking for a fight in this condition!' Sven smirked pointing his nose in the air. "As you can see it was a close fight. After kicking his ass I even showed mercy... I was the bigger man, chose to walk away of my own free will.. Then the bastard sucker punched me! And while my head was still spinning he began raining down blow after blow. Absolutely no honor among adversaries. 'No honor among adversaries!? I was never an adversary to begin with! I mean I won't say it's something I wouldn't do, but damn! If I'm going to be accused at least allow me to throw a few punches!' He thought as his mouth hung open bringing a whole to level of dumb to his expression. "Huh?" Tatianna uttered in complete dismay. 'I expected Sven to pull some shady shit in r
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"So who are we looking for anyway?"...!!!'Oh shit! I hadn't even thought of that! What the hell am I going to tell Aurick!? Oh hey by the way that's the person who whooped my ass, sent my car flying into traffic, fingered me to the person who's car it hit, and the police! By the way it's also a girl who maybe weighs one hundred and ten pounds top!' Sven thought to himself, his eyes squeezed shut, clamping his hands to his head shaking it side to side. Sure Aurick was a long time friend, and if there's anyone who would possibly let this go it would be him. That being said some times friends are the ones to give you the most shit above anyone else. The closer you were, chances are the more shit you'll take."ERRr.... About that... " Sven mumbled.'Man I'll just have to bite the bullet and tell him what happened. Obviously neglecting to mention the information about how I've been extorting the boss's clients after their debts were paid.'Sven sighed and began glancing side to side loo
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"This is bullshit I'm telling you it wasn't my fault! RAAAAH!" Sven roared raking his dinner tray back and forth across the jail cell bars he currently found himself comfortably forced into, and when we say comfortably it was probably as comfortable as sitting on an angry porcupine. "As much as I'm enjoying these fine one star accommodations... LET ME THE FUCK OUT!""For the love of Christ all mighty will you shut up already!" An officer sitting at his desk groaned. Unfortunately he was the lowest ranked officer in their precinct therefore got the desk closest to the jail cells housing all of the lovely intoxicated and angry people who would love nothing more than to shove a stun gun up his nostril. "You know why you're in here!""No! No I don't know why I'm in here I'm telling you it's that -""It was your car that rolled onto a main road correct?""Well yes but it was -""There was an awful lot of money in your vehicle for someone who's records show as unemployed.""So what!? That's
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"Ты хочешь снова упомянуть мою семью!? Я засуну свой кулак тебе в задницу и вытащу твою голову оттуда!" (You want to mention my family again!? I'm going shove my fist up your ass and pull your head back out of it! ) Tatianna roared pivoting on the pads of her foot and driving her knee hard into his ribs.CRACK!Though it wasn't super loud, there was certainly the audible sound of something fracturing or breaking."NYAAAAH!" Sven cried out in agony. He was usually the one doling out the beating not receiving them. To pour a little salt on the wound, it happened this was the first time he ever had anything either broken or fractured. Tatianna on the other hand was trying her best to control her laughter at his noises. She may have seen an anime or two in her time and couldn't help but feel his sounds were that of a cat girl doing the pawing motion.'If this is what passes for a gangster these days I don't ever want to meet who they consider the weak.' She shrugged."NYoo BEITCHEEEEEEE
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"It's true! I had absolutely no desire to become a model! I was perfectly content working at McDonalds minding my own business when someone almost forced me to become a model." Tatianna declared with a straight face. ...No one present truly knew Tatianna which was currently their biggest dilemma. Assume she's joking and laugh? You could but what if she was being serious? Wouldn't laughing make them downright insensitive?'Sometimes I can't help myself.' Tatianna smirked watching the group look back and forth squirming under the imaginary pressure. "I'm joking. Well about being forced at the very least. Unable to maintain her straight face Tatianna emit a small chuckle her beautiful smile returning to her face.Everyone had been staring at her slack jawed especially James. He himself had never encountered any career models who hadn't grown up with that burning desire to launch a career, who wasn't willing to fight tooth and nail to follow their heart! 'This woman had no desire but r
