Chapter 2

CHAPTER 2

“You have a new voice mail from now.” His phone assistant read out loud before playing the note that had been recorded.

“Flynn, it’s mum. How are you doing? Heard about the bet you made with your sheriff. Hope you stayed safe out there. Love mum.”

“Hey Flynn, it has been three months, and I haven’t heard from you. You have gone off-grid searching XD, hope you are alive, please come home for Christmas. Love mum.”

“Come home Flynn. Your mother is dead.” The last voice mail read and ended abruptly as that. That was five months ago. Flynn played the last mail over and over again until it registered in his mind, every damn note, every damn tone, every damn intonation. He couldn’t believe he let his own mum die. Angrily he flung the phone out of his motel room before screaming out in pain. He kicked the empty bottle that was lying on the floor beside him as it rolled and hit the remaining empty bottles, depicting a drunkard room. Bottles were strewn all over the place so were cocaine that was on the table, the particles shown that it had been parted and inhaled by an ATM card.

It was quite ironic because Flynn was a police officer….ex…ex police officer and he knew the consequences of finding this on him, but he didn’t care. He had lost too much to bother about that.

He ransacked his dark curly hair with his dirty fingers as he stood up and punched the wall in front of him uncountable times till his knuckles broke.

He glanced at the window seeing thunder rage the sky, his mind was made up. He was going to end his life. There was no more reason for him to keep on living.

He had lost everything, his job, his mum, his happiness, his revenge on the famous yet mysterious XD.

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“XD?” A voice called out subtle to the man who was drinking his cup of whiskey and also had a cigar in his hand. The man obviously in the shadows chuckled and spurn his chair around and looked at the intruder in front of him.

“You got a death wish coming here to meet me in my own territory, you know that right?” XD replied as he puffed out the smoke from his mouth and exhaled watching it disperse in the wind.

“I had no other choice, I had to face you please.” The man said falling on his knees as XD looked unperturbed at what was going on.

“What makes you think I’m interested in what you have to say?” XD stood up as the man crawled forward, held his two hands together and clasped it together in form a prayer and said,

“Please I have a daughter, she is 2, she needs me. I am sorry I betrayed you, I have been on the run for the past six months, I can’t do this anymore, I can’t live this kind of life, please forgive me and give me another chance.” The man said as XD quenched his cigar and swallowed down the last cup of whiskey and said,

“Dave, am I right?” He said twirling his Beretta in his hands as the scared man latched his eyes on his face and said,

“It’s Alex sir.”

“Don’t care, don’t give a damn. How old do you say your child is?” He asked as he tapped the Beretta on his knees, waiting for an answer.

“Two sir.” He replied, getting his hopes up. Maybe his boss would let him off the hook this time around.

“And she has a mum….am I correct?” He added as Alex shook his head and replied,

“Her mum left us when she was a baby. She stays with my grandmother.” Alex replied as XD nodded his head and said,

“In that case, she has someone already to raise her up, she doesn’t need you.” He said as he corked his gun and pointed it at him as Alex flinched back scared.

“XD? Please….have mercy on me?”Alex begged but XD just shook his head and said,

“I am sorry, I don’t give my enemies the second chance to betray me.” Saying this, his office rang with three bullets which pierced the night. There was a thud on the floor as XD blew his gun and corked it in safety before calling out,

“Bullet?

“Yes boss.”

“Find out the background of Alex’s family. Check out who his mum is, make sure he has a daughter that is 2, then transfer the sum of $500,000 every year until she reaches 18.” He said as Bullet quickly nodded his head and said,

“It will be done XD…..what about the body?” He asked looking at the body which seemed to move a bit, making Bullet confuse as he squint his eyes to make sure he is not dreaming.

“Give him 20-30 minutes, I believe he is still in shock, then help him up. I will be leaving.” He said as he walked off leaving Bullet and Alex behind. Turns out that he didn’t kill Alex, just fired some warning shots in the air which had scared Alex because he thought he was dead so he passed out.

“Okay boss.” Bullet said but XD had already left.

Outside the building, the weather looked gloomy and dark as thunderclaps ravaged the skies. XD looked up and exhaled deeply.

“Are you worried about something XD?” His driver and best friend Xander walked up to him as he shook his head and said,

“Nah, I just feel like something is about to happen, like something is about to change….for the better or worse, I do not know yet.”

“Something will happen and that is you getting wet, if you don’t enter the car right now and let me take you home. Its bloody late already.” Xander teased him as XD laughed and grabbed him roughly by his head and said,

“Sometimes I feel like putting a bullet in your head and then I remember you are still worthy, so I tolerate.”

“Right back at ya.” Xander said as they both laughed out loud before getting into the car. Despite the fact they were age mates, they had grown up together, schooled together, trained together and it was not a surprise when XD made Xander his personal driver and bodyguard after all they were best friends.

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