Chapter 12 - Dark Side of Dom
"How dare you?" José shouted.
"We're all out here, putting our lives and families at risk so we could eat and defend our territory"
"Your 'baby' brother sits up there in his air-conditioned office with his perfumed ass, and now you want us to go clean up his shit"
"My brother is one of us..."
"Is he? How?" Hamid challenged him.
"On every operation, I never saw your brother there. When Diego was in the hospital, your brother was not there" he continued, he pointed to another member.
"When Mucho was hospitalized, your brother wasn't there" then he pointed to himself.
"When I was in the hospital, your brother wasn't there. How is he one of us?"
"Because blood stands stronger than water and that is one of the laws" José said.
"The law states, by blood we enter, by blood we depart"
"The law also states, by blood we stand, by blood we fall. My brother is your brother"
"Then I might as well take tu madré as my wife" Hamid said and they got into a fight, the other members of the gang quickly separated them.
"You will watch your tongue you fucker else I put you in your place" José bellowed. Hamid stepped and joined the rest of the gang.
"Anybody else get something else they want to say?" He asked. Nobody said anything,
"Good. That's what I thought"
"We strike the enemy when we know who we fight against. That will be all" They all left the joint and went their separate ways.
José headed back to the hospital to watch over James. Isabelle and Dominic were done with work for the day.
"What will you be doing tonight, Isabelle?" Dominic asked as she was packing to leave.
"Well, I'll be in my room, watching movies with chips and some ice cream"
"Mind if we do it together? My place?"
"Doesn't sound bad. I'd like to revisit the gloomy castle after all"' she said, and they laughed.
"I'll have Jameel come pick you up, how about that?"
"No. I want you to come pick me"
"Your wish is my command ma'am"
"You go ahead, I still have a bit to finish up before I head home " Dominic said when she was done packing.
"Alright, Batman. Don't stay too long" she said and got in the elevator.
Dominic picked up his phone and made a call.
"Jameel"
"Hello boss"
"Once you drop her, I need a change of clothes, and then you come back for me immediately"
"Give me an hour"
"Okay" he said and hung up.
"Hi Jameel" Isabelle said as she got into the car.
"Hi Isabelle" he said and started the car and headed her way.
"See you tomorrow"
"Take care Isabelle" Jameel said and sped off to Dominic's.
He knew what was about to go down, he got clothes for Dominic and hit the road once again.
"Thank you" Dominic said as Jameel handed him the clothes. He quickly changed into it and they both went down the elevator.
Jameel drove to the warehouse where Dominic stored his illegal merchandise as he called it, drugs, all kinds of drugs.
"Okay okay let's get it moving" Jameel shouted as he got out of the car.
The workers didn't have direct access to Dominic and had never seen him, with the exception of the manager.
"You over there, what are you doing? Keep it moving" Jameel shouted at one of the workers. They were unloading the truck and getting the drugs into the warehouse.
A man came out of the warehouse and went to Jameel.
"He's in the car, he's waiting for you"
"Okay" he said and walked to the car and got in.
"Hello Jefe" he said as he closed the door.
"Hello Manito" Dominic said calmly.
"How are you doing today?" He said in his poor English.
"I'm doing very well, Gracias. And you?
"Great as well thank you"
"Good. Now where the fuck is the rest of my money?" Dominic asked, still calm.
"Huh? Jefe, I don't know what you're talking about"
"Oh really. Well let me break this down for you. Products input is way more than Money output"
"See, that's not a bad thing, you know.
The bad thing is the product is finished, but money isn't complete" he continued
"Tsk tsk tsk. Now that is very bad" Dominic said, sounding cold, his countenance getting angry.
"Where the fuck is my money Luiz?" He yelled
"I swear to you Jefe, I did not steal your money" Luiz begged, his life flashing before his eyes.
"Then who did? Hmm? Was it me? Perhaps it was my late Grandma who magically rose from the grave?" Dominic asked, sounding like a psychotic serial killer.
"Jefe por favor" Luiz begged.
"What was that? Did you just say please?" Dominic said and laughed, the Mafia side of him was crazy. He brought out pliers from the side of his car and he grabbed Luiz by the neck, strangling him.
"Keep it moving keep it moving" Jameel shouted, hastening up the process when he heard screams from inside the car.
"Well, what are the fuck are y'all looking at? You wanna be next? Keep it fucking moving" he shouted when he saw the workers pause.
"If you tell me where my money is, or what happened to it, I might forgive you, it depends on what happened to it" Dominic said calmly, he had fun pulling out the two front teeth of Luiz.
"Jefe please" he begged, blood spluttering from his mouth, his clothes soaked with his own blood.
"What was that Manito? Por favor? Again? Okay" Dominic said and was about to pull out the third tooth.
"No wait wait wait please" Luiz begged.
"Okay so where's my money?"
Luiz coughed, causing blood to splash on Dominic's face and Dominic almost slapped another tooth out of him.
"My daughter, my poor baby"
Luiz said as he was crying.
"The fuck are you talking about, huh?"
Luiz reached for his phone and showed Dominic a picture of his five-year-old daughter who was battling cancer, showed him pictures of her undergoing Chemo and the rest of it. Dominic looked at the bald child and felt compassion in his heart, she reminded him of Isabelle's dad, and he knew how she and her siblings suffered financially.
"Give me that phone" Dominic said and dragged the phone from him.
"Which hospital is she in?" Dominic asked.
"'Why do you ask Jefe?" Dominic slapped him again.
"Hassenfeld" he answered.
Dominic screenshotted the picture of the child and airdropped it to his phone.
"Jameel!" He shouted.
"Yes boss" Jameel said as he ran to the car.
"Get me this child" he said and he showed him her picture.
"Nooooo"
Luiz cried in pain.
"Please Jefe" he held Dominic's leg and begged.
Jameel opened the car and dragged him out,
"I'll work harder ten times Jefe.
Anything, anything, but not my baby, please" he begged as he knelt by the door.
"There would be no need for that. Your little baby would pay for that. I hear organs are very expensive and there are kids that need donors from other kids" he said and threw his phone at
him.
"Jefe please, Jefe please" Luiz screamed as he ran after the car.