chapter 9

Felix

I walk through the forest to clear my head. It’s been a busy and tiring night.

When I became Don, I had promised one thing - change.

We would be doing things around here differently, and when I heard through the grapevine that my men picked up a small laundromat owner for not paying back the ten grand he borrowed from us and planned on takinghim to our spot in the forest for some ‘sprucing up’ which is our code word for beat the living crap out of him, I lost it.

I got in my car and circumvented their violent plans

I found them, and before I could think twice, I broke through the bushes and stormed into the clearing

“What is going on here?” I shouted in a rage. “What do you people think you’re doing?”..

The poor man’s face had contorted with surprise when he saw me, and he couldn’t have been more grateful to have found an escape.

To prove how serious I was about change, I gave the man a year to repay the loan and shorted the interest rate to 9% - a rarity in our world.

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