THE WHITE POISON

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JACK’S POINT OF VIEW

SIX MONTH LATER

It has been six month I left my father and migrated to New York , under a new identity as Charles Drool and I kept a low profile , I work in a factory that produces wood and I even have a roommate , I wanted to live a normal life that my father deprived me off, and so far it has been amazing , my roommate’s name is Sam , we work together at the same factory company , we met the every first day I started working and hit it off . I was looking for an apartment then , so he asked me to come live with him since he lives alone , a d that was how we started living together .

it has also been six month I lost Dovina , I would never forgive my dad for her death , I have never forgotten about her for a day , every night I sleep I always dreamed about her , I miss her so much and it pains me I will never see her again , I would give everything in this life including my father to just be with her again .

I was still deep in thought when Sam came out of the bedroom , I was lying on the living room on the couch , it is a very spacious apartment so I sleep in the living room while Sam sleeps on the bedroom , he looked at me and shakes his head and said “day dreaming again , you have to let go man , she is in a better place now” I told Sam about Dovina but I didn’t tell him about the circumstances of her death , just that I loved her so much and she died .

he continues “you can not continue leaving your life like this , you have to let go , wherever she is do you think she will happy seeing you like this ?”

within me I thought “after what I did to her family I bet she will be happy I’m this miserable”

Sam went in and prepared for work then came out and told me “you know what when I get back from work we’re going to go out , have a few shots and f****d some bi***es , that would take your mind off things , then he leaves to work .

it’s my week off work , every six month we get a one week leave , so I’m just sitting at home grieving for Dovina .

I guessed I must have slept on the couch cause when i woke up Sam was back from work he stood looking at me as if I was some kind of psycho “man what’s wrong with you , don’t tell me you’ve been sleeping for the past five hours I been to work” .

without answering him I stood up and went to the bathroom , Sam nags a lot , he never gets tired of talking , sometime i forget he’s a man , fifteen minutes later, I came out of the bathroom feeling refreshed after shaving and having a cool nice shower then I wore some comfortable clothes . after coming out from the bedroom I perceived a smell of freshly baked bread from the oven and I knew Sam was cooking , that was one of the things I liked about him , he can cook , when I entered the kitchen , I sat at the stool near the island and he offered me some fresh bread , bacon and orange juice , I thanked him and digged in .

After eating we sat at the living room and he told me about his day activities and later we watched some movies .

around seven we were already prepared to go to the club , he was really serious about going to the club , we used his old jaguar , I hate that car because it looks old and it moves very slow , and is very noisy ,we drove to the club and when we arrived he immediately went to dance with a girl that was hardly dressed , the club was filled with men and women dancing and grinding themselves , they were strippers at another section of the club with loud music all over , and of course the vip lounge where some men were receiving special treatment from the strippers , none of this interests me as I sat down in one of the stool opposite the bartender and took some shots, that was the main reason I was here , to get knocked out .

About three hours later I was already drunk but I could still control myself , Sam brought a girl to me and he started touching me all over and Sam left with a girl and I knew what’s going to go down between them .

“My name is Gina , and I going to make you feel good tonight” the girl Sam brought to me said while she was rubbing my chest .

I looked at her , she is hardly dressed like the same girl Same left with , she is beautiful but I don’t like her , I don’t like any other girl , she kept touching me and it irritates me .

“Come closer I told her” she seductively came close to me and I said drunkenly in her ears “if you don’t gets the hell out of my side right now , I will separate your bones from your flesh” . he got the message cause immediately I said that , she quickly run away from me.

After drinking at the club for about two hours more I went home , I staggered into the apartment and noticed that Sam was not at home to I guess he’s still with the babe , I managed to remove my cloth ,lie on the couch and I slept .

I woke up the next morning with a strong headache , that was when Sam came in hurrying to go to work , he quickly entered the bathroom and ten minutes later he came out and said “please jack I must have forgotten to tell you , but please can you help me pick up my brother from the airport by two , he is coming from Italy , and he is staying for three day”

“Sure I will” I replied to him

He thanked me and he quickly left to work .i couldn’t sleep because the headache became severe , I stood up took some drugs and order for food , I can’t cook , before the food was delivered , I took my bath and change into a new pair of clothes , that was when the food I ordered was delivered .

After eating there was nothing I could do and since the headache has subsided , so I decided to watch some movies , this was the third day of my leave so I had about three more days more, few minutes to two , my phone rang and I picked “man have you gone to pick my brother ?” Sam asked

Jeez I forgot“I’m on my way now , I’m supposed to be at the airport now , but the traffic is mad” I lied

“Yeah traffic is bad these days” he agrees. I ended the call and quickly entered his old jaguar and went to pick his brother from the airport .

After picking him we rode back to the apartment , while in the car me and Sam’s brother had a little chit chat , he introduced himself as Ace and we hit it up nicely , he confided in me that he works with the Italian mafia and he is a gun man , he does the dirty work and he is paid handsomely , and even urge me to join him , I thought for a while but I couldn’t cause I don’t want to get my hands dirty again . After we got home , I ordered for more food since I could not cook and Sam is not yet back from work .

After the food arrived and we ate and thereafter we sat down and discussed about things , Ace is a older version off Sam , not that old but the difference are there , “so do your brother knows of your involvement with the Italian mafia?” , I asked

He answered “no he doesn’t , after the death of our parents , there was no money to take care of the both of us and I had to take care of him , so I stoped school and joined the mafia , and I don’t regret it , cause the new lady that rules is extra nice to us and pays well , she is damn beautiful and very sexy” .

A lady , I never thought a lady rules a mafia ,I thought to myself and I decided to ask , “a lady rules the Italian mafia?”

“Yes , you surprised ? , she is very smart and she can take down a horse with her bare hands , very strong , we’ll love and cherish her” he answered . he brought out his phone and show me a picture of a very familiar person , I could not believe what I saw , it could not be , I saw Dovina sitting on the mafia head throne , looking arrogant and sexy at the same time , I was dumbfounded , it was as if time stopped , I could not control my emotions , after all these month I taught she was dead , but I was wrong , I could not wait to hold her in my arm and hold her .

And in that moment Sam came back from work , him and his brother hugged and they started talking about random things , I was not paying attention to what they were saying , cause I was lost in my own world , in that moment I decided I was going to meet Dovina I don’t care if she kills me after everything I did to her but all I knew was that , I would give everything to be with her one last time .

The two days Ace stayed in New York was the best days for me since I started living with Sam , for the first time I enjoyed myself and was not afraid to try new things , Ace could make a lame man walk again , he is very active and influential , we would wait till Sam goes to work , he doesn’t want his kid brother to be like him , if only he knows what Sam does , then we would go on a boat cruise , wild tour , vip shows then at night we would go to a high end night club and strippers would flock around us , I don’t really like doing this but he would force me and later on I just had to relax a bit and enjoy everything .

Ace has money , he spends it as if he picks the money from the ground , each time I think he wants to relax he would bring out a bunch of hundred dollar note and the party would start all over again , I didn’t tell Ace that I knew Dovina , and I don’t plan on telling him , so when we came back from the night club around two in the morning , we were slightly drunk so immediately we came back from the club , we pounce on the couch , cause Sam will be sleeping and he doesn’t wants to disturb him .

it was the last night for him so I told him “Ace I want to go to Italy with you , hope you don’t mind”

He was shocked then he smiled “I knew you would change your mind , to tell you the truth , immediately I saw you , I knew you would fit in the mafia , you have the look , body and you are smart , I have been watching you , and I know you have a dark past and something you running from , and the mafia would protect you , but the stupid wood factory you and my brother works for would not” he said .

I could not talk much since I was drunk , I slept immediately , and this night I dreamed of Dovina and this time she was happy and for the first time in a while I slept happily and could not wait to meet her .

the next morning was Saturday and Sam was not going to work so we’ll hanged out together at home and since the flight is scheduled by two in the afternoon we decided to chill before then , so we went to a restaurant where we had Chinese food and I thought that was the best time to tell Sam I was leaving with Ace .

“Sam I’m leaving with your brother to Italy , and I don’t know if I will be coming back soon , and I want to thank you for everything , for having my back and being there for me” I said

He only looked at me with pity in his eyes and said “Charles , I’m happy you have decided to move on and I know you will be happy in Italy”.

that was the first time he called my name , I’m using a fake identity so I will not be caught by my father . Ace just looked at us and we’ll laughed and Sam said “man , I have never seen you laugh”

I replied “there is a first time time for everything you know” . Thereafter we went home and started parking our clothes and by one thirty pm , Sam drove us to the airport in his newly bought Mercedes Benz , Ace bought the car for him , he said he hated the jaguar I thought I was the only one that could not stand the monstrosity of a car .

After Sam dropped us at the airport , we hugged individually and went inside the plane , few minutes later the plane ascended to the sky .

Nine hours later we go to Italy and we were picked by a man in an expensive Lamborghini , he was smartly dressed in an expensive black attire , from his suit to his trouser was luxury , he even wore an expensive Rolex watch and an ear pod was In his ear , this people has money , that was not why I’m here , I just pray I will be able to see my angel . after driving for about thirty minutes , we drove inside an estate and stopped in a story building , then we came down , Ace thanked the man and he drove off , then we entered the building , this was Ace personal apartment , he told me anybody that works for the mafia get an apartment inside the estate .

when we entered the apartment , I was wowed , the house is well richly decorated and was very luxurious , then Ace said “welcome to my home”

Immediately I asked “so how can I find the leader” ,

Sucre said “you can’t , no one can’t , we’ll speak to her second in command Sucre and she only appears whenever something very important wants to happen or when someone has offended her” , then he looked at me and asked

“Why do you want to find her ?”

I answered “nothing just wants to meet her”. “Forget it Charles you can’t , no one can even meet her for random issues , she has about eight big macho men guarding her and protects her with their life” Ace told me .

I nodded and he showed me to my room and told me where we are going to be starting work tomorrow and I will be trained before I could start working for the mafia .

It was a long flight to immediately my head got to the soft pillows I slept off .

The next morning I woke up early and took a cold shower , wore a fitted jean and a shirt , I came out from my room and went to the living room , I found Ace cooking something in the kitchen .

when he saw me he said “I don’t usually cook in the morning since I get food at work , but we didn’t eat last night , and you re going to be training heavily” If only he knows I been to harder trainings .

“Good morning to you too” I responded

He smiled and said “sorry for my manners , I’m beginning to sound like my brother right” ,

“Yeah but it’s okay , I understand you and thanks man” I said

He paused for a minute and said “now you’re beginning to sound like my brother”

We laughed and after he cooking we ate and left to work .

as he said I was taken to the training department where about twelve other guys where training , some were young and some were very matured but according to Ace you must be at the age of twenty five to join the mafia , I was thirty three years old so I’m good to go . Ace introduced me to a man and told me he was my training instructor and he left to do his own business .

The man introduced me to the other guys and we started training .

It has was as if I was unaffected by all the hard training given to us , I was told to start with a bunch of punching bags , since I just started and when they saw I was good at it , I was asked to fight with different men , , surprised the training instructor saw I fought all the other guys without even battling an eye , they were all shocked and later I was given gun to train with , I fired all the shot correctly and later I was given a sniper , I killed about 5 birds with just two bullet when I was done , some men were already gathered watching me .

when a particular man walked in and asked “what the hell is going on here , are you supposed to be training or looking at irrelevant things” , they all bowed their heads as a sign of respect and apology , I assumed this must be Sucre the second in command , he is quite young and very familiar but I can’t place where I knew him from .

the he said directly to me“who’re you ? And who taught you how to fight like that ?”

We must have seen me from the cameras in the room then I looked at him and said “my name is Charles and I worked in the military before resigning , so I would be able to take care of my aged mother” I lied

He looked at me if he didn’t buy the story , I intentionally told him that particular story cause I knew he might tell Dovina and it might ring a bell . he asked “who brought you here?”

“Ace brought me here” I said bluntly.

He walked out immediately I guess to ask Ace some question about me .

Later in the day , Ace came and picked me from where I’ve been training and took me home in his Mercedes Benz ,

When we got home , he asked “why didn’t you tell me , you worked in the military man , everyone is talking about you right now Charles , you are good , I didn’t know you could fight like that , I was watching you from the cctv man , I’m very sure with a skill like yours you could start operations very soon that where the real money is Charles , we talked for a while before we made some food , ate and retired for the day .

It was about two week I came to the Italians and I’ve been given a job at the training center to train other trainees since I’m very good at combat , between those two weeks I have never seen Dovina , but I know sooner or later I will see her meanwhile I’m quite popular now , every one want to talk and hang out with me , even the ladies could not give me breathing space .

then one day something happened , someone stole a van full of d**gs belonging to the mafia and it cost billions of dollars . everyone was upright and was doing what they were asked to do according , because any little mistake could get you killed .

I was busy training the other men when Sucre came in and asked everybody to leave before he said “there is a job for you , you must have heard that someone stole our van full of supplies so we need a new man they will not be able to recognize to go and get the supplies ASAP”

“Okay I will , so when I’m I leaving?”I asked he answered “now , but come with me let me give you the details of the mission”

I followed him and for the first time I entered the main mansion Dovina lived , he mansion was well decorated with expensive artifacts and artwork , as we walked through the passage I saw other luxuries until we stopped outside of a door and I saw about eight bodyguards and they searched me throughly before they allowed me access inside the room .

Immediately me and Sucre entered the room I saw Dovina her back was facing us , it seems she was training cause that particular room looks like a training room and she was punching a big bag and it seem she was angry concerning the stolen supplies , she wore a very short pant and a crop top that was already soaked with her sweat , she looked very sexy as always ,

Sucre said “calm down D , we’re going to get it back”

She didn’t response she kept punching until Sucre said “Charles is here , we need to fill him with details of the mission so he can carry out the operation”

She turned and collected a towel to clean her body before she looked up and immediately our eyes locked together , then she said

“JACK”