Twenty-five.

Book:Dark Knight Published:2024-9-6

Nikolai POV.
After spending a month searching for the pure bloods, no one knew who they were, I had my mans on the street, I had them everywhere, listening, paying, and even threatening to know who those pure bloods are. They are a myth, that’s what I got so far, no one knows anything about them, but unless he was lying to her, he’s working for someone else, but things aren’t that simple.
Devil isn’t someone to be lied to, she’s the best at her job, she knows how to get people to talk, if she says the answer is “Pure bloods” then she means it, then it’s real but how to get those, how to find them is the real challenge. After Marco couldn’t find a trace of them, I decided to hire some professional, a professional with a beautiful body, a killer smile, and is a pure psycho.
“I’m hiring a professional” I inform my first man, Marco, he just nods yes to me before starting to suggest various names of private investigators.
“No, if we can’t find them, neither would they” I answer him, we are the best at our job, if we can’t find it, neither could they.
“Who do you have in mind?” he asks, I just smile, and that’s all it took for Marco to understand what I’m about to say, just a smile, my evil smile, even my pants got tighter thinking about her and her craziness.
“No, you can’t be serious Nikolai, she’s a psycho” he says shaking his head at me, he always wanted me to end up with a sweet nice girl, flower would be perfect for what Marco imagined, but sadly not everything we want in life we could get.
“A good one, she’s the one who gave me this intel to begin with” I say, his eyes going even darker now.
“What if she lied to you?” Marco challenges me, he doesn’t trust her, he doesn’t trust her reputation, she’s a psycho, she’s crazy, she’s also young, too young to be in this line, to be this good at her job.
“She didn’t, I believe her” I say.
“Nikolai are you thinking with your head or your heart?” he asked me, it was a question that shocked me, I don’t love her, I might be interested in her, and she might have matched me back in bed, but I had no idea if I loved her for whom she is, I don’t even know her real name, I can’t fall in love with someone I call Devil.
“Don’t start that Marco, you know this isn’t the case” I reply in an ice cold voice, he can’t just go like that with me, he can’t throw the heart cart every time I do something he doesn’t approve.
“Nikolai…I…” he tries to say but I stop him right away, making it clear I don’t want to talk about this.
“I’m the boss here, Marco, what I say goes” I say ending the conversation, I’m calling Devil, she’s the one who could name the new power gamer, now it’s time to find exactly who that is.
“Okay, Nikolai” Marco says finally leaving my office, he’s mad at me, or maybe he’s just mad at himself, he couldn’t find anything about them, and now I have to call Devil in, his worst nightmare as it seems to be.
I got my phone, we all use secure numbers, our numbers change from time to time, but for now I have the same one. I called Devil’s number, she’s open about her phone number, she have it published online for god’s sake, we all know that the police take her for phone and games, not believing how real her work is, how much money she makes up from her assignments.
“Devil’s phone” a calm voice says, it wasn’t Devil’s voice, this was someone else, maybe she work with her, or maybe for her, but it could also be her submissive.
“Can I speak to Devil…. please” I add in the end.
“Uhh…she’s…” the voice was cut off by someone else taking the phone followed by some low voice yelling, she was scolding the person who answered the phone.
“Yes?” she says to the phone, her voice going back to the cold voice, her work voice.
“I have a job for you” I say professionally, even if we enjoyed one night together, that doesn’t mean we are now on the friendly basis, Marco is wrong, we aren’t anything but work associates.
“Hold” she says, I heard shuffling, she was moving out of the room she’s in, the door closed behind her, before her voice came back again, still as cold and focused as before.
“Shoot” she says, now she’s ready to hear my mission.
“I need you to find something for me” I say.
“More moles?” she asks with a hint of a smile, she loves her job way too much.
“No I want you to find me the purebloods” I explain to her.
“Find them? Isn’t that your job?” she asks confused.
“It’s a job Devil, same payment as last time, I want to have information on the purebloods, find me the name of their leader” I explain to her, if she says no, it would be near impossible to find them.
“Half my payment now, the next half when I find you the name” she informs me, still professional.
“That could be arranged” I answer her, before she ends the call, this is a simple business, there’s nothing else between me and her, it shouldn’t be anything else, I should get over it, I’m not a love sucked puppy.
I get back to my work, tonight I had a meeting with some of my associates in my own club, it’s the best meeting place, they are just here for a drink while me the boss, I’m having a walk around the club, we ended up sitting together.
I stayed inside my office until late at night when Marco knocked on my door telling me they are here, it’s time for job, I nodded and walked outside, and I saw them sitting eyes caught up with my girls. Perfect distraction stuck some boobs in some men’s faces and they’ll tell you all about their life, their work, and they’ll even tell you sign any kind of work you.
“Nikolai” Jason says shaking hands with me, I smile and sit with him, we have some work together, it’s all business but having the pure blood messing with my work, stealing from my home, it’s not good. They’ll ruin all kinds of trust between us, and trust between us is almost everything.
“It’s packed as always around here” Jason says his eyes focused on the dancers, told you, it’s a guaranteed plan.
“Jason, we should talk about work,” I say trying to get him to focus on the job for now, we are having a big shipment of drugs moved, it’s a ton of money on the streets.
“Yeah, yeah…Nikolai, anything you say happens” he says, that’s the thing with Jason, he’ll do anything I say as long as he gets to look at the dancing girls.
“We’ll have no problems coming up with an agreement then,” I say raising my glass to his, this is going to be one long night.