CAPÍTULO 05 - CARTER

Carter

I wake up with a tremendous headache, yesterday after I arrived, I destroyed my entire room. I cannot and will not let my past come back. That miserable life has to stay where it is. If Victor thinks I'm afraid of him, he's sorely mistaken. He seems to have forgotten who I was in that hell and what I went through to get where I am.

I get up to go take my shower, as soon as I put my foot out of bed, I look where I am, I don't remember ending up in the guest room, apparently I've had too much to drink.

As soon as I leave the room, I go to mine, when I open the door, I see that everything is tidy, Jessica certainly did it, I go to the bathroom, I let the cold water bathe my body, but, my head throbs, when I turn off the shower, wrap myself in a towel and get out, just as I walk into the closet, I hear the door open.

- Sir!

"What does Jessica want?"

— I brought your coffee and some medicine, I know you must have a headache, after almost drinking two bottles of Whiskey yesterday.

"Who took me to the guest room?"

“I, sir, couldn't leave you here with everything broken.

"Leave my coffee and go."

"Don't you want to tell me why you arrived like that yesterday?" We were all worried when it started to break everything.

"As far as I know, you're paid to work, not question my life."

— I just want to help, sir, I was worried about the state I saw him in, he was talking about things, he was very upset.

“Jessica! It's not because we fuck from time to time that I have a duty to tell you about what's going on in my life, I already told you that and if you want to continue working for me, put yourself in his shoes.

'Excuse me, sir.

"Get out and go do your job."

That bitch thinks she has some right, just because she spreads her legs for me, damn the time I let her stay here after Isabella died, I should have sent her away the same day.

After getting ready, I go to the table and take my medicine right away, then my coffee, I grab my things and go to the office and it doesn't take long, a terrified Hernandes enters the room.

- Sir...

- What's it?

— The company Dell Grafic is on fire, they just called me, it seems that the fire started on the light board in the parking lot when the security guards were changing.

“What the fuck! And where were the other security guards, who didn't put out the fire right away, let's go there now.

— I don't know, sir, the car is already waiting.

We left and went straight to see the size of the damage, this company was acquired less than a year ago, I was preparing everything to sell it, the buyer had already paid half the amount, the rest, I would only receive when I delivered it.

As soon as I get out of the car, I realize that there was nothing else to be done, the firefighters run from one side to the other with a hose, throwing water on the flames, but I can see that it is completely destroyed, one of them comes to me.

- Good Morning! He extends his hand in greeting. — Are you the owner of the company?

“Yes,” I reply, squeezing his hand.

— I'm sorry, we came as soon as they called, we did everything that could be done, but when we got here, the flames were very high, and, I couldn't send my men into a place like that, we tried to extinguish it by pouring water outside. , but as the fire was very intense, this was not much help and the fire spread - we looked at the men running, still trying to contain the flames. “Forensics will arrive shortly, they'll do an assessment, but from what one of your security guards said, the fire started in the parking lot, which is very strange, even more so given the proportion it took, given where it all happened.

"What do you mean by that?" - I question.

— I could be wrong, but, from my experience, for a fire of that size, it wasn't just a short circuit that caused this, there's something else, which only after the experts' evaluation, is that we'll know if it was really in the parking lot that it started.

“Thanks for your help,” I say, rubbing the back of my neck.

'You're welcome, sir.

“Hernandes, I want to talk to security.

"They're all on the other side, sir."

“Let's go to them.

I turn to cross the street, but suddenly, someone in the crowd catches my attention. It was one of Victor's men, he tried to hide, but, it was too late, I had seen him. Something told me that this fire had to do with him, but I had no proof. Not yet.

I went to where the security guards were, they got very nervous as soon as I got close to them, something told me that one of them had participated in this, but who?

"Can you tell me what really happened?"

— It was the shift change, when I heard several cracks, I went to look, but I thought it was nothing and suddenly the box exploded, I tried to get closer, that's when the other explosion happened, it seemed that it had come from the second floor , because soon smoke appeared at the window, so I decided to call the fire department and soon everything was on fire.

— If I find out that any of you had a hand in this, I swear you will beg for the jail, before I even get my hands on you, now get out of my sight, until I find out what really happened here, none of you will receive their payments, and I sincerely hope they all stay in town, because if they don't, I'll be happy to hunt them down and I'll be up to no good, that's for sure.

— It wasn't our fault, sir, but don't worry, we'll all stay here.

“I really hope not.

Vitor

I was sitting down, trying to figure out how I was going to get the fucking money we owe, when I was called by Estevão.

— Vitor, the job was done, the company soon caught fire completely, when the firefighters arrived, they couldn't recover anything.

"Did Carter show up?"

"Yes, along with your footman."

— Hernandes was always for him, it was no wonder that as soon as Carter left, he was too, my revenge is just beginning, I will destroy everything he built.

"But I thought the plan was to take your money."

— I'm going to destroy him, that worm slammed the phone in my face and didn't want to help us, now he's going to know who I really am. These years have taught me much more than they have taught him, who is playing at being rich and forgetting where he came from, if it weren't for Gonçalo, he would certainly have died on the street.

"Why this hatred for him now after all this time?" You already knew he wasn't going to help and you still ran after him.

"Look at the whore he left defending him."

“I'm not defending anyone, he said he didn't want to know any of us anymore when he walked through that door and then you run out to ask for his help, and when you don't get it, you start some stupid revenge?

— Look here, you miserable whore, he has an obligation to help us, we've been with his family for a long time, if it weren't for us, he might not have survived on the streets.

— As far as I remember, it was Goncalo who got him off the streets and not you, since we were kids, or did you forget about that? And what will the real boss think when he finds out what he's planning?

“That old bastard is almost on his last legs, if he doesn't die of the disease, I'll kill him myself.

— He's letting madness take over you for good and that, many of the community are loyal to him, even though he's in the state he's in, his word is command.

— Yeah, but know that soon, everyone will only listen to me.

"I really want to see this."

— I think you still have hope that Carter will come back for you, don't you, just the way it is, not even I would eat it, whore who passes in anyone's hand, have you seen the pictures of him with the women of your quite? Do you really think he would waste his time with you?

“He loved me.

— Loved it so much he came to get his friend and dumped you here, get out, you're a deluded whore, thinking some man would take you for more than one night, it's taking too long to get real, forget about Carter, he never it will be yours.

"Victor, he will destroy you."

“If I don't destroy you first, remember I already started, now get out, ridiculous bitch.

— What will we do now, Victor? Stephen asks.

— Let's take a break and then attack again, I want to know everything about him, all his properties, I'm going to end each one of them and thus make him go back to being who he was before, a nobody.

"Wouldn't it be better if you went to talk to him in person?" And explain that we're broke, that the police seized two of our shipments and that's why you're asking for help?

— Stephen, I called, and what I got, a no, so now it's my way.

"You're the one who knows, I just don't think this will end well?"

"For him, you mean, right?"

— For both sides, since he didn't get the money to pay for the goods and that we're going to have to return or we're going to be destroyed.

"I'll figure it out, we're not giving shit back."

"And how will you do that?"

— It's none of your business, I already said I'll find a fucking way and I will.

I know that many of my enemies have money, so I'm going to do what I love, I'm going to hand over a lot of them and once they're arrested, I'm going to take over their territory and with it, all the money I can find. I will be able to pay what I owe and my goods will not be returned.

Two days later, many were arrested, I knew how they work and it was not at all difficult to make a simple call to a friend of the police, who was dying for a promotion and these arrests would help him and me, as I predicted, I managed to fix everything the money I needed and even got new territories.