Don: The Blood Chains-Chapter 41: Smile.

It was more than fear, it was deeper and heavier than fear... it was something that they just couldn’t understand, how this could be happening... that a nobody who was thrown away by his family, somebody who was a broken boy... now literally pressured them with simple words, pressured them with his presence.

Like father, like son... the potential he had deep down had now come out, and now they felt like they were in a pit with a lion.

A young lion... a lion with the potential to become the king of all. A lion whose eyes focused solely on the prey... on them... and nothing else.

This wasn’t arrogance, this was certainty, the kind of certainty born from suffering, despair.

"It started off pretty bad." Trevor spoke. "We aren’t the ones that sent you to prison, we had no hands in it, and this..." He gestured around. "... is like a reunion. We built something you can be a part of."

"I didn’t come to join your little retirement club, and second, don’t lie." He looked straight at Trevor. "When I was questioned, beaten, they brought up every one of y’all’s names, the money, the cards, and where the money went to. But anyway, I came to collect the debt y’all stole from my father."

"We never stole." Ivanka raised her voice once again with her arrogance. "You are—"

"Can you shut up? I can smell the dick coming from your mouth." Joseph said, and again Pablo, now even the guard, laughed up. "You only got in the family because back then you were younger, had a gorgeous body and big ass, a fuckable bitch, that’s what you were and everybody knew it. But then my father realized you were good with numbers, not just with dick, and you at that moment realized how much money he has and you started taking some of it."

It was the truth which just angered her even more... she was a woman that was known for being a side bitch for Joseph’s father and that’s how she got her role in the family.

She literally fucked her way up.

"You were never on your father’s side, nor your brother’s, you were never even showing interest toward the family and now you speak like you are someone who was always there, someone who deserves to get a piece of the wealth." Albert spoke up now. "Joseph, you are a nothing, yeah you changed, the prison fucked you up." He tapped his head. "Like you lost some screw, maybe developed some mental issues, but just look at yourself... you’re acting to be something you hated all your life... it’s just pathetic."

"More than pathetic." Ivanka spoke again. "You ordered your own blood to be killed, your brother’s, your father’s, and your mother’s head were chopped off." She leaned back, smirking. "You abandoned them first. You walked away. And when they returned the favor, suddenly you think you’re entitled to vengeance?" She shook her head slowly. "No... they gave you exactly what you deserved, what anyone else would’ve done in their place... but now this is an opportunity for you, to get back to your roots and let’s build something great together."

"Exactly." Tervor said. "We built up a perfect cover, we have the connection, the supplier, the dealer, warehouse all around the city. We invite you to a billion-dollar empire Joseph."

There was a moment of silence, as Joseph just simply closed his eyes, breathed in and out calmly, not even a single word came from him, while they were just lost that what the fuck is happening... they just gave him a deal that nobody would ever say no to... still he hesitated... or more like he didn’t even give a fuck about it.

"So..." He opened his eyes. "I was in prison for ten straight years..." He looked at Trevor. "While you and the little club escaped prison because of connections and began to build an empire with money y’all stole... and during those ten years not even once it went through y’all mind that maybe use the connection to help me get out?"

"It’s—"

"Not just that." He continued not even letting Tervor say anything. "But when I saw paper with signatures... you." he pointed at Albert, "you," at Ivanka, "and of course you Trevor." They said nothing, they didn’t need to, their expression changed as they now looked confused even more. "You know I would be okay with it, maybe my father pressured all of you into signing or something... but 63 pages with a 5 page handwritten testimony... and you Ivanka." He looked at her, while chuckling and shaking his head. "You went all out... 34 pages, fucking 34 pages written by hand lying and fabricating all kinds of bullshit about me."

"That’s impossible to know..." She muttered as her hands began to shake, avoiding eye contact with Joseph.

"Yeah it would be, but I had one single person from the beginning who helped, one that I could call a friend... my lawyer who dug deep into everything, even files, reports, evidence... sadly he passed away from cancer, may his soul rest in peace."

Yeah the one and only person who fought on Joseph’s side from the very beginning was a lawyer called Simon Bures, a man who was assigned to him... but he did the exact opposite of what everybody thought he would do... he actually did his job and wasn’t just a puppet. He filed many appeals, motions for reduction, he did everything to get Joseph a lighter sentence, he even debunked a lot of false evidence... but still it meant nothing, he fought hard but in the end nothing changed... and his health caught up to him.

"It’s funny, isn’t it? That one person, one person whose heart wasn’t corrupted, the only person who went against the waves and could actually put something on the table, actually won." He said, but they did not understand it.

What does he mean about winning? The lawyer did not win, his sentence didn’t get lighter nor was it ever considered to be reduced even by a second.

"That time I didn’t know, nor did he... I was still just a broken boy... I didn’t realize that the names he showed me, those who fabricated the lies... would be the very ones I’d hunt down."

Laugh... Ivanka started hysterically laughing. "You can’t touch us, we are more powerful and influential than you think."

"That’s the best about it." Joseph said as he slowly pulled up his shirt grabbing the pistol. "The feeling when you go against someone powerful and don’t know what the consequences will be... the feeling of uncertainty.

"Y-You crazy." Albert whispered. ƒгeewёbnovel.com

"Yeah I am." Joseph said with a smile as he pulled out his gun aiming directly at Ivanka. "But I love this feeling, to not give a fuck about it anymore." He said as Ivanka’s eyes just focused on the gun, as her eyes widened as adrenaline rushed in... as Joseph pulled the trigger.

It was a loud and bone chilling click, then another and another one... clicks after clicks.

"Pablo, fuck is this?" He asked as the safety was clearly off

"Uhm... there aren’t bullets in it, you shot all of it at Linda."

"Ohh... that’s true." He said as looked back down at the gun and then a laugh came again from Ivanka.

She laughed again hysterically, even her tears came out. "Y-you dumb f-fuck." She said as she still laughed. "And you think... you are the heir to the Cassian throne?"

"True... how dumb am I?" He looked up at her and it was so surreal that both of them laughed... but there was a difference that Albert and Trevor sensed immediately. While Ivanka’s laugh was from fear, from the adrenaline rushing through her... James, on the other hand, was laughing genuinely... which was just so creepy and terrifying that they just knew something was going to happen... and they were right.

Because as Joseph laughed he turned the gun in his hand and grabbed the barrel, holding it now like a hammer and then he just quickly and with all his power threw it straight at Ivanka’s head as she was laughing.

The gun hit the right side of her head with so much force that she immediately lost consciousness and fell off the chair.

Albert and Trevor said nothing, they just couldn’t even know what to think or what was going to happen... but more importantly, they fully realized that Joseph was truly a crazy motherfucker because as they looked at him, he was doing something with his arm.

"My arm cramped up..." He said calmly like nothing happened as he was stretching out his arm while slowly walking around the table to Ivanka who was still out, some blood gushing out from her eyebrows as it opened up.

And what came next just put this onto a whole other level that was just truly barbarian.

He grabbed the gun from the ground holding it again just like a hammer, while with his other hand, he grabbed her shirt collar and pulled her up a little letting her head limp backwards and just... hit her.

Again and again and again he was hammering her face with the gun and each time he did it blood burst out everywhere, splashing against the walls onto Joseph’s face... but he kept hitting her again and again...

Albert immediately closed his eyes, but it didn’t stop him from hearing the awful and terrifying sounds of bones breaking, and those splashing sounds as the blood hit everything.

Meanwhile, Pablo and the guard just stood there looking straight at it... how Joseph’s face was fully covered with her blood and that face he was making why doing that... he was enjoying it, he did every strike with a smile and excitement.

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