The King of City

35 THE ADRESS

Now Lionel had a real problem, he had already caused a huge explosion where he injured several members of the local gang, he completely ruined the house where they sold the vice and he didn't really know how many of them had died in the explosions and to make matters worse, many of the gang's assassins had escaped unharmed and were only one or two floors below where Lionel was and they knew exactly that something had happened on the third floor and that they would appear would be only a matter of time and Lionel knew that his life would be left. 

Endangered as he would be the only strange person who would be there and he no longer had the wow factor. 

He didn't have enough time, he had to find out which of the two was the real Jaden and he had to do it quickly. Fortunately, Lionel recalled that the gang members of the bar had described a person with gold and silver teeth, so he set out to check the teeth of each of them and found that one of them had two gold teeth, however, the other had all his teeth replaced with gold and silver, so he didn’t hesitate to think that he would be Jaden. 

But now he had to figure out how to get him out of there without them realizing it, then a fantastic idea occurred to him, after the explosion everyone in the place had been completely dusty, which gave them a slight tramp appearance, so Lionel would only have he had to share his clothes with Jaden, so he prepared to take off his jacket, pants, and shoes since someone could recognize the tattoos that Jaden had on his feet, unfortunately for Lionel he had to do something that he had sworn never to do, his underpants were too clean to be a beggar, so he had no choice but to use the underwear that the beggar had "given" to him, Lionel cursed all the time, almost vomited when he put them on, they felt wet and They smelled of sewage, Lionel could tell he hadn't washed them since he had bought them, but he had to do it and keeping only his hat, stockings, T-shirt and those underpants, he left the door with Jaden in tow.

As he wanted to go unnoticed, he made the other people see him and Jaden as a couple of drunks and drug addicts who had already practically lost consciousness, so they passed through the front door without being recognized, while the gang members went up to In a hurry to look for Jaden, he had already gone out with Lionel a while ago and they hadn’t noticed, not even the dealer who, hearing the first explosion, left the drug addicts' house at full speed to safeguard his life and when Lionel and Jaden were at the front entrance, he didn't determine them, in part because he was distracted on the cell phone. Separating a few blocks from the place, Lionel took Jaden and mounted him in his truck so as not to give Jaden's friends the opportunity to chase them, then he drove a few kilometers to the bar, which had a rear entrance to the kitchen and that entering by there they would go completely unnoticed, once inside, Lionel changed his clothes, which he was extremely grateful for, and got some ropes to tie Jaden tightly so that he could not be released once he woke up. Lionel also had to think about where to hide him, so that none of the bar workers saw him, so he took him directly to the wine depository, which was in the back of the kitchen, which only Lionel had access to, since it was his personal reservation and no one except him had access, so he thought they would be safe there.

"What the hell?". Jaden said, to whom Lionel had thrown a bucket full of water, so that he woke up immediately, of course he did, but he was very disoriented because everything around him was strange. "Where the hell am I?". He completed almost ignoring the fact that he was tied hand and foot.

"That doesn't matter, I didn't come to take you for a walk". Lionel replied that he didn’t want to give Jaden any information whatsoever. "I hope you're comfortable, Jaden. I tightened the knots myself".

"How do you know my name?". He asked surprised.

"I really wasn't sure it was you, however, you just reaffirmed it to me". Lionel smirked and continued. "And a couple of slags like you told me about your name".

"What do you want of me?". Jaden said defiantly.

"I just want you to give me an address, specifically your boss's, we have an appointment pending".

"Go to hell!". And saying this, he spat in Lionel's face.

"I see, I must persuade you". Lionel said wiping his face. He pulled out a corkscrew, too sophisticated, and began to look at it in admiration.

"What is that?". He looked in panic at the artifact Lionel had retrieved.

"This?". Lionel asked raising the corkscrew and admiring it a little more. "It’s  a corkscrew."

"And what exactly do you want it for?". He asked hesitantly with fear.

"The corks of the wines are pressurized in an industrial way, they are very difficult to put on, so to avoid wearing out the client trying to remove it, they make tools like this". And looking at Jaden gloomily he said. "Imagine I could do this with your nails". Without another word, Lionel grasped his right hand tightly and with the corkscrew in his possession, he began to turn Jaden's hand over his index finger, he was already starting to tear off the nail when Jaden broke.

"Okay, I'll tell you, but stop now, please". He said crying from the terror Lionel caused him.

Lionel didn’t like to carry out this type of interrogation techniques, but knowing people like Jaden, he didn’t want to risk. Then Jaden described in great detail where his boss was. It was too large an extension of land, surrounded by mountains and its own river, it was extremely difficult to get there, since the only way to cross the rocky roads was with mountain bikes, in addition, there were several control points that were spaced every two kilometers around, so going through the roads would be almost impossible. Upon arrival at the property, there would be around fifty armed guards, fifteen escorts and five of them would be part of his personal security. In addition to several assault dogs scattered all over the place and worst of all, even though he had Jaden's description, he didn't know if he was telling the truth about his appearance or if he was telling him lies and he just hoped Lionel went to the scene to be killed, however, he had the coordinates and couldn’t look back, he only had that option.

"And now, are you going to release me?". Jaden asked disappointed and assuming the answer.

"I’ll release you when I bring your boss's head". Lionel answered gathering his things and heading to his exit.

"Then we’re both dead." Jaden said with complete certainty and sadness in his voice, which reached Lionel's bones and then closed the door of the warehouse behind him.