Draven Rocco

Draven Rocco “35 dollars per hour” A man in his mid-forties called out as he smiled at the short man who stood right there in front of him. He was with a whip. “I will pay” The short man smiled as he looked at the woman who sat on the floor weeping as she embraced her two sons tightly. “Father, is this all mother mean to you? She is your wife, why are you doing this to us?” One of the sons, who was about fifteen years old cried out. He was the eldest of the two sons. “Shut up” The man landed a solid slap on his son’s face which sent him to the floor. “She is my wife and I can do whatever I want to her. When you have your wife, you can do whatever you want to her” .He turned to his weeping wife. “Now, woman, if you The chilly wind blew right into the room, shining lightly and brightly on a man who sat by the window, slowly rubbing his head with his palm, thousands of emotions running through his mind. He could not help the thoughts, ones which had left a scar on his heart. There were lots of them but he just could not forget it. “April” He groaned as he tried to hold back the tears that threatened to fall from his face. Of course, he was a man. It’s been twenty one years but the memory still remained ever fresh in his mind and the pain increased each time he remembered it. No, he was not going to cry. Immediately, a knock interrupted his thoughts. “Come in” His coarse intimidating voice rang out. “Rocco….” A young man who seemed to be in his mid-thirties called as he walked into the room. His right arm was designed woth a dragon image tattoo that covered the entire arm. A part of his face had an eagle image tattoo and his ten fingers were covered In cross image tattoos. “New goods are available” The young man added. “Details” Rocco wiped his eyes and turned to the man who had entered. There was no way he could be seen crying. “259 of them. 161 of them are between ages 19 to 25, 12 of them are between ages 16 to 18 and the 81 of them are between ages 26 to 36 and the remaining 5 are between 37 to 40 “ He announced. “Venom” Rocco called angrily, his voice becoming scary. “I have told you multiple times not to accept ladies not up to 19 years of age and women above 35 years of age. Are you out of your mind? Are you going against my orders now?” Rocco stood up, proceeding towards him. “I am sorry, my lord. They pleaded with me to allow them. I had to because I feared they could expose us since they already knew about us” “Expose us?” Rocco raised his brows and laughed as he walked back to the window. “Can they expose us, tell me Venom, can they?” Rocco rubbed the head of his dog who barked in response like he heard what they had said. Immediately, he made a stern face and looked at Sniper. “Draven Rocco is like the wind that can never be caught. I have been in this business since I was twenty one years of age. Now, I am forty. I have released a lot of women who feels they can expose us but what do they do?” He turned to Venom who sat quietly in a part of the room and then turned to Sniper again. “It’s fine though. How about the packages from Don?” “Yes, we would be getting the drugs from him tomorrow. It would be4 shipped to us tomorrow” He explained. “How much worth?” “two hundred million dollars” “And is the mone set?” “Yes boss. As soon as we get the drugs, we would send him the money” “Good” Rocco smiled. “By the way, have you heard from Corey?” He let out a grin. “Not at all” He bowed, raising his brows. “Shall we..” “It is fine. Let him be” Rocco smiled, revealing his almost damaged teeth. “Corey” He grinned. “Hey Corey, get up” Shane called as he hit his friend who laid on the bed, pillow covering his head. “I know you are not sleeping so you better get up!” Shane yelled as he was beginning to loose his cool. “What on earth do you want from me?” Corey turned, yawning lazily. “Don’t you dare pretend! That girl has been out there for hours calling out to you yet you left her hanging. What type of man are you?” Shane registered his displeasure. :What girl?” “Do not feign ignorance, you bastard. You know August is out there, knocking on the door. It is late already. Do you know anything could happen to her? We would be arrested for goodness sake?” “I do not care about her. Let her stay for all I care. I do not love her and I will never love her. Why won’t she leave me the hell alone?” “You don’t love her yet you keep collecting her money? Speaking of money, where is my money? The one you asked me to lend you few days ago?” “Bruv, I have no money” Corey laid back on the bed. “You must be kidding, right? You said you were going to refund the money on Sunday and today is another Wednesday, are you out of your mind?” “Can we talk about it by morning? It is late already” “Okay then but how about the young girl outside?” “Go to bed” Corey held his pillow tighter. Shane shook his head and walked to the door. He could not bear t watch the young woman suffer. The knock was becoming fainter. Of course, the weather was chilly. “Hey August” Shane smiled as he opened the door. “Hi” She answered, looking pale. “I have been knocking for the past two hours, I thought no one was in but I decided to try harder perhaps” She let out a faint smile. “Where is Corey” She asked shyly. “Oh, he is down with fever so he is deeply asleep” He lied. “Come in. What are you doing here at this time of the night. I had gone to Anna’s place but her husband came back home and you are very well aware that her room is too small for two so I had to leave so as not to disturb them. Can I see Corey, has he taken his medicine? Is he better?” She asked with concern. “Uhm, you would see him tomorrow. You can pass the night here. I thought you said you had gathered the money when I asked last week?” “Yes but Corey said he needed the money to get some things so I had to lend him” She smiled shyly. Shane shook his head. She was so beautiful and intelligent but did love make her that foolish? Was she blind to see that Corey was only interested in her pocket only? He did not want her. He was just playing her yet her love for him deepened every day” “Oh” He commented. “Come” He led her to a room where she could pass the night. “Thanks, goodnight” She smiled at him. “Goodnight” He smiled at her and walked away. August exhaled as she covered herself. Her mind wandered far and near. How was she going to pay her debt? What was she going to do? Was Corey really ill or..? No. He could not lie to her. Somehow, she convinced herself he loved her just as much as he loved her but he was not just showing it. Corey had lent the money and had assured her she was going to get it the next day but it had been six days yet he had not said anything. She could not say anything or ask him as she feared he could get angry. He had borrowed money from her severally with the hope of returning the money but he had never returned it. Each time she asked, he always got angry and the last thing she wanted was for Corey to get angry with her. She closed her eyes in surrender to sleep as she waited to behold what the next day had in store for her.