Chapter 2

“What is it?” Veronica asks in a sleep filled worried tone as she sits straight up in bed.

“We have them.”

“Take them to the chambers. I’ll be right there.” She demands as she jumps from bed. She throws her phone on the bed as she gets into the shower.

“Yes Donna.”

Veronica hurries and gets dressed in black slacks and a black button-down sleeveless blouse. She puts on her black six-inch stilettos and grabs her phone. Her driver meets her at the front door. He bows his head in greeting but neither of them speaks.

It takes just 10 minutes of driving to reach the torture chambers. She is greeted by more of her solders as she enters the underground bunker. They all bow their heads in greeting. The bunker is a solid concrete building with several rooms for holding prisoners and a couple of meeting rooms. There is a large room with couches, a TV, and a fridge on the one end for the guards to use to rest and relax if they need to.

Two of her mafia bosses, Peter and Antonio, are outside the chamber doors. Peter is in his 50s with pale skin and black hair. He has dark brown eyes as well. Antonio is in his 50s as well with olive colored skin and dark brown hair with brown eyes. Both men are lean but not muscular. Veronica knows they are getting to where they want to retire but out of respect for her father they have stuck around.

“Evening Donna. I apologize for the late hour.” Peter says.

“It’s fine. What do we have?”

“They are from a Mexican drug cartel called the Molina cartel. They say they thought your parents were part of a rival cartel.” Antonio adds with a chuckle.

“Where did they get their info from?”

“We are not sure Donna. We think we might have someone doing fraudulent independent business on our behalf or they were just given incorrect info.” Peter says.

“Well let’s find out which it is.” Veronica says with a smirk as she heads into the room.

Veronica enters the room with a deep scowl on her face.

The full concrete surrounded room has bright fluorescent lights with no windows. There are three men chained to chairs in a row down the middle of the room. They are all facing towards Veronica. She recognizes the man who shot her mother instantly as the man in the middle.

All three men appear to be in their 40s with dark olive skin and short black hair that looks like it was once slicked back. They are all wearing black jeans, shirts, and shoes.

Veronica doesn’t say anything right away. She walks up to each man and looks them in the eye. They all have mouth gags in so they cannot speak which she is thankful for at the moment.

She nods her head and three soldiers remove the gags as she steps back to the front of the room.

“Now tell me. What made you think it would be a good idea to kill my parents?”

“I don’t know what you are talking about little girl.” The man in the middle says with a smile on his face.

Veronica smirks and says “Little girl huh? Do you have any idea who you killed? Do you have any idea what I am about to do to you?”

“Doesn’t matter since they’re dead anyway now.” The man on the right says and lets out a chuckle. All three of the men chuckle but do not look at her.

Veronica still doesn’t move or show any emotion. “I can tell that you all are working for someone. None of you are bosses so tell me, who sent you and for what purpose?” She asks as she crosses her arms across her chest.

“We don’t have to tell you shit.” The man in the middle spits at her.

Veronica nods her head which gives her guards permission to have the chairs the men are sitting in pulled out from under them causing them to fall on the floor. They are then chained to the ceiling so now they are hanging by chains from their wrists with their feet still chained together.

“Let’s try this again before I have some fun shall we? Who sent you and for what reason?” She asks in a slow yet demanding tone.

None of them say anything and just stare at Veronica.

“Do you at least know who it is that you killed or who I am?”

They still don’t speak and Veronica just shrugs her shoulders and turns around to the table with her tools behind her.

“Let’s get this started then. Make sure you scream out when you have had enough.” She says as she shrugs her shoulders in a bored tone.

The men hanging all laugh at her action mistaking her shrug for giving up but they do not speak.

She picks up a spiked whip and all three men’s eyes grow wide. She whips the man in the middle first and then the one on the right followed by the one of the left. She can tell from the whipping that the one on the left will break easier so she focuses on him.

“Strip him.” She says while pointing to the one on the left as she coils up the whip and lays it back on the table.

“Yes Donna.” Gavin says before moving forward to follow her command.

Once he is stripped she grabs a knife and approaches the man. “Now let’s see. Are you going to tell me what I need to know yet?” The man doesn’t look at her and continues looking forward. “Okay, just remember you are asking for this.”

She pulls her hand back and plunges the knife into the side of the man’s thigh. The man screams as his leg is stabbed and blood runs down his leg.

“Now I’ll ask you again, who sent you and what for?” The man just keeps screaming. “I’d say you have about 20 minutes before you bleed out so you might want to start talking so we can get you some help.”

The man looks to his left to the other man and closes his eyes as the other two men are screaming “NO” at him. “We are from the Molina Cartel which you already know. We took a contract but we were not given any names just pictures and a location. We were not given any details as to why.”

“Gavin.”

“Yes, Donna.”

“When it comes to kill contracts, do you give or take them without having all the details like the who, what, when, why, and how?”

“Never Donna.”

“See that’s what I thought. So, either your boss is really stupid or you are really stupid. Which is it?” The man does not respond as he is shaking in fear with tears running down his cheeks. “Ahh maybe it’s that your boss wants you three out of the way. Maybe you all are a liability for him. You know what. Peter?”

“Yes Donna.” Peter says as he comes scurrying into the room.

“Let’s meet with their boss, shall we? Have Antonio reach out to Mr. Molina.” All three men go pale and their eyes go wide in surprise.

“Right away Donna.” Peters says as he leaves the room again.

She nods to him as he leaves the room. “Have you all figured out yet who you killed?”

All three of the men share a glance and then shake their heads.

“You killed the deadliest mafia Don in history and his wife. Which leaves me, their daughter. Now I wonder if I picked up anything from my father? Should we find out?” She asks with excitement in her voice as she grins widely at them.

All of the men’s eyes bulge out as they take in what she said. They all shake their heads violently from side to side.

“Ugh fine we’ll wait until your boss gets here. It would be nice to have an audience anyway.”

“Donna, their boss will be here in two hours. He has asked that we not inflict any torture until they arrive.” Peter says as he walks back into the room.

“I cannot promise that.”

“That has already been relayed to him Donna.” Peter says with a smirk.

She nods and sits in the chair at the front of the room. “Peter, how many soldiers do we have here? And do we know where he will be coming from?”

“Yes, Donna he will be coming from the helipad and we have a sufficient number of soldiers stationed around the compound.”

“Add ten more and send trackers to follow him.”

“Yes, Donna.”

“So now while we wait, let’s have some fun shall we?” Veronica gets back up and walks to the man in the middle. She runs her hand across his cheek. “You are the one aren’t you? Did you just kill my mother or did you kill my father as well?”

The man didn’t say anything. He just looked in her eyes with a cold, hard look on his face.

She picked up an ice pick and slams it into the side of the man’s stomach. “Now tell me. Why? Is it just because you had a contract?”

The man doesn’t make any noise.

“Ahh the strong silent type. This will be fun.” She looks at Gavin who smiles at her. “Let’s make this an electric night.” She says as she throws her head back to laugh loud.

Gavin laughs and he pulls two other guards out to grab the supplies. They come back with three car batteries and battery cables.

“We are going to play one of my favorite games. You tell me the truth or you will be shocked with the results. Any questions? Okay good.” Veronica smiles wide not waiting for a response.

The soldiers hook up all three men with battery cables connecting one to a nipple and the other to one of their balls. Then they are all connected to the batteries. Gavin gives Veronica the remote. It is a small black remote with three buttons on it down the middle.

“Now first question. Did you know who you were coming to kill?”

The man on the left speaks first and says “No we did not know. We wouldn’t have been that stupid.”

“Yet here we are.” Veronica says in a sarcastic tone as she pushes all three buttons for about 5 seconds. All three men were screaming followed by her allowing them 10 seconds to catch their breath before the next question.

“I want a name of who sent you the contract.”

The man on the right says “Antonio is our contact’s name.”

“Last name?”

The man in the middle shakes his head and no one speaks so she presses the buttons again for 10 seconds this time and allows them another 10 seconds to catch their breath.

“Sanchez. Sanchez.” The one on the left yells out.

“Have you ever met this person or just have a name?”

“Only Julius has met him.”

“And which one of you is Julius?”

The two on the outside look to the man in the middle who is staring at Veronica. “Ah Julius. And tell me Julius, describe him?”

Veronica nods to Gavin who leaves the room to go get the mafia boss Antonio to see if it is him. The man continues to silently stare forward.

She shifts over to watch his face as Gavin comes in with Antonio. Both men’s eyes go wide before they go back to not showing any recognition. If Veronica hadn’t been watching, she would have missed it. Antonio turns around to try to leave but is stopped by Gavin and another guard.

“Antonio, it’s so nice of you to join us. Have a seat and enjoy the show.”

“No Donna I am okay. I will wait outside until El Jefe gets here.”

“That was not a request. It was a statement.” Veronica says in a commanding tone.

“Yes Donna.” Antonio says in a shaky voice. Gavin holds his shoulder and forces him to sit in the chair Veronica had been sitting in.

“Take his phone and find out who he has coming here.”

“Yes Donna.” Gavin says.

He takes Antonio’s phone and finds another phone in his coat pocket. He uses Antonio’s thumb to open both phones and hands them to Cody to go through the phones.

Cody connects the phones to his computers and it pulls up all the info. “Donna he did contact a cartel boss but not Mr. Molina. There must be a middle man he is trying to get to come here.”

“Find out who.”

“Yes Donna.” Cody says as he sets to work tracking all the numbers on both phones. “Donna, this is the second in command to Mr. Molina that is coming here based on his official phone but on the hidden one he has an unknown contact he sent a text to that says ‘They’re caught but job is done’.”

“Find out who the unknown contact is.”

“Yes, Donna.”

Just then Antonio’s official phone receives a text from Mr. Molina’s contact. Cody says, “Donna, Mr. Molina’s second in command is almost here.”

“How far out?”

“10 minutes. Trackers are following so everything is accurate just not the person it should be.”

“Fine. Now string this fucker up too.”

“Yes Donna.” Gavin says as he grabs Antonio, punches him, and chains him up from the ceiling as well.

“You can’t do this to me Veronica.”

Veronica smirks and walks to Antonio. She looks at him in the eyes before saying, “I can do whatever the fuck I want to Antonio. I am disgusted that you are such a disgraceful piece of shit. You ordered a hit on your beloved Don and his wife. They gave you everything.”

Antonio looks down at the ground.

“Tell me why Antonio.”

“You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.”

“Try me.”