This being part 4 of 4 for context I might strongly recommend reading the previous Three Volumes hosted by Literotica for context and to avoid spoilers.
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Chapter Fourteen - Necessary Means
Marco Mancini sat back in the black leather swivel chair of his wife's desk within the office that sat hidden away from everyone else but select staff in the mezzanine level of the Dark Star.
He was here for two purposes tonight, the first business the second purely an indulgence in a spot of what he hoped promised to be very illicit pleasure.
"It's him for sure," Marco picked up the photo that had been slid across the desk of the two individuals sat at in what appeared to be a harbour side eatery. His arm around her, she was heavily tattooed he noticed, she smiled broadly while looking doe eyed up at him, the male in the photograph. The male's expression was hard to gage behind sunglasses but just by the way she looked up at him, under the security of his arm around her shoulder Marco could recognise the look of unbridled love.
"I know where they live... obviously I know where they work... Their little bar is a busy little place frequented by locals and tourists alike. They've a routine the same thing almost day by day ...week by week... didn't even sound like the man you originally described to me... they are the perfect little couple to all intents..." Juan Vasquez fixed Marco with a cold menacing smile.
Marco considered the man opposite of him; he didn't trust him but that came with the territory of a self-proclaimed bounty hunter. Juan Vasquez operated within the shadows, literally it appeared by his all-black attire, his slicked back black hair, dark Mediterranean skin, and heavy thick black stubble. He looked almost pantomime cliche as if he should be chewing on a toothpick to complete his cliched look. Vasquez came highly recommended and at a considerable associated price, Marco trusted the word of the man who'd put him in touch with Vasquez. Salazar Hernandez had not once let down the Mancini family in all the years their paths had crossed, such loyalty was hard to come by.
"So, Marco?" Vasquez sat a little forward from his own seat. "Having found your love birds ...am I to put them in a cage?"
"A cage would be too good for them," Marco set down the photo. "I want them to suffer ...I want him to suffer ... make him watch while you slowly painfully end her life before him. Then...we'll then just dispose of his corpse and let him rot."
"Cold," Juan Vasquez commented nodding his head as he contemplated Marco.
"He made my sister vanish off the face of the earth ... you're good Vasquez you eventually found him... but you weren't able to find her we're you ...not even a hint of a clue as to what he did with her."
Vasquez sneered a little, he didn't like to be challenged he didn't like to be admonished Marco could see that, he didn't care if he offended him. He'd paid him well enough for Vasquez services to date. Marco was sure he was tough enough to handle a little gentle criticism.
"So, I snuff the candles with immediate effect?"
"Snuff the candles with immediate effect," Marco spoke Vasquez words back to him just as frostily. "Make him suffer by making her suffer."
"Understood ...I'll break her before his very eyes."
"I won't ask how," Marco offered genuinely not caring for such detail. Even with the hit to take place on foreign soil the less he knew the better.
"It would turn your stomach just thinking of it," Vasquez offered slightly arrogantly but menacingly, "50 grand each."
"Understood."
Marco was a driven businessman at heart, usually not one to settle for the first price offered. He knew Vasquez would be worth every penny and he sensed there was no room for negotiation on the matter. That to Vasquez each life represented the same value spoke volumes as to how transactional he viewed the process to be followed.
There was a gentle wrap of knuckles at the door to the office. Causing both Marco and Vasquez to look immediately to the closed door, the Spaniard Marco noted was immediately alert.
"It's open," Marco stated calmly.
The door swung gently open. Stepping into the room was a tall slender blonde in a short black dress over, black tights and knee length black boots.
"Yes Sasha," Marco offered meeting the blue eyes of the Clubs duty manager, blue eyes framed by slightly heavy make-up.
"Your guest has arrived Mr Mancini ...she's at the bar."
Silently Vasquez gave Marco an almost knowing nod. Marco offered a lopsided grin back to him. "Business concluded ... now for a little pleasure?"
"Absolutely" Vasquez offered back to him his eyes casting over Sasha, "We all must indulge every once in a while."
Marco watched Vasquez as his gaze fell over Sasha's toned physique, a physique Marco had explored himself in much closer detail on more than one occasion. She was an eager, energetic girl, her work ethic on a professional level could not be doubted either. The Club was quiet Tonight, the Club could manage without her for a little while.
"Sasha, will you take care of Mr Vasquez for me please ... see to it that his needs are met."
He didn't need to say anything further by what he implied. She looked to the dark dressed olive-skinned man she'd never met before. "Absolutely Mr Mancini" was her unwavering immediate response.
"That's if you care to Indulge..." Marco grinned sweeping his hand from Vasquez to the blonde "... for your pleasure."
Without another word Marco rose from behind the desk and walked past Vasquez whose attention seemed only on the tall slender blonde girl of Romanian heritage. Marco didn't look back leaving the two of them in his office as he headed for his own pre-arranged rendezvous.
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Flick Bowerman swiftly knocked back her second double scotch as she stood at the bar, willing her courage and her conviction not to fail her now, Dutch courage may not serve her well, but she needed the warmth that the liquor provided.
She shuffled nervously, taking deep breaths as she steadied her nerves and tried desperately to calm herself, barely believing what she was doing here herself. What she had agreed to, what she had become.
Running her hands over her pleated leather effect short black skirt she looked down her black clad legs to her little ankle boots.
She was as intrigued as she was nervous, no idea what the night truly held in store for her.
Looking across the bar she caught sight of herself in her reflection opposite of her, her true reflection somewhat distorted by the mosaic of mirrored tiles behind the bar, but she'd barely recognise herself in the most crystal clear of mirrors. Not least by virtue of her heavily made-up face, deep dark eyeshadow and eyeliner and her contoured cheeks. Her glasses left behind at home in favour of contact lenses. Her red hair scraped back harshly and intricately platted running vertically down the back of her slender neck.
She took another swig from the harsh undiluted whisky, the warmth of it spread through her body but did little to ease her excruciating nervousness.
For weeks she'd been luring him in from the 'Dark Desires' website. Her profile and brief innocuous and deliberately misleading profile photos had been enough to hook him initially. As part of her subterfuge Flick had even gone so far to create two male profiles from which she'd complexly falsified feedback interactions that alongside of her verified status made her out to be a new but active member of the site. Everything was a lie as she literally stood in the bear pit of debauchery, she knew the Dark Star to be. She'd known for some years; she wasn't as naive as everyone made her out to be. She'd near scoffed when Will had suggested coming to the venue as part of their recent staff night out. Will had been naive to the seedier darker side of the venue's reputation. People either seemed to know of the place or had no idea about the place. It was either that or they feigned such ignorance. Gary Wilson hadn't stopped going on about what he'd heard went on behind the scenes at the Dark Star when they been sat recently up in the private booths that now sat away to her left.
Flick had no experience; she wasn't naive to what went on here behind closed doors, but she'd never partaken in anything like this. She was nervous, she was anxious, she knew what she had to do. Her stomach clenching her palms sweaty. It wasn't too late to turn in her heels to walk away.