ENTANGLED STRINGS OF PAST

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

"You are too looking stunning!" I said genuinely.

"Shall we go now?" I asked. "Yes! Yes!" she said "Oh wait! Here, have these" She handed me a phone and a pair of air pods. "Aiden sent this. His phone number is already saved in with mine and Terry's also" she added.

"Yes! Yes!" I screamed internally. I needed this now.

"Now let's go," she said.

"By the way, do you know how to drive?" she asked. "Yes," I answered. "Can you please drive tonight? "Yeah of course," I said. She handed me the keys to her Ferrari Roma and I revived the engine. She guided me in that direction and we reached Aiden's secret club, 'Eclipse Nightclub'.

"It's secret because no one knows it is run by Aiden, so many drug deals are done here by other mafia members," Mary told me while I was driving. We both exited the car, "Connect the air pods to the phone and call Aiden". I did as she said, handed her one earpiece and one I put in my ear.

"Hello," I said on the phone.

"Hello is my voice clear Hazel?" he asked from the other end.

"Yes," Mary and I confirmed.

"Okay! The deal is going to take place on the second floor, there are four men. Two are from Dmitry's gang while the other is from an unknown. You just have to extract the information, you know what to do Mary" he said. "Yes!" she exclaimed. "We'll watch you both from cameras. Backup will be ready, so don't worry" he assured us. "Now go. Be careful" he said.

"All the very best! Slay it girls" Terry shouted from behind before I ended the call. I put the phone in my back pocket and followed Mary into the club.

The wave of blasting music and the smell of alcohol hit me as soon as I stepped the first step into the club. People were dancing wildly on the floor. It was 11 in the night yet the crowd was in full spirit. People were bar-drinking to forget their problems, practically drowning in alcohol.

Mary and I walked to the second floor, it was comparatively less crowded because it was for VIPs and the voice of the music was also low. As we walked further, we spotted the two Russian men drinking at the bar waiting for the other gang members.

"Let's split up" I offered, I didn't want to face any Russian until I was sure they didn't know me.

"Okay. I'll go to them and you keep an eye and wait for the other two men" she said. She walked towards the seat next to them while I took a seat away from them but close enough to see them clearly while hiding from them. Mary was seducing them to extract information.

"Will you have something ma'am?" the bartender asked me.

"I'll have a cosmopolitan..." "Her drink's on me," someone said from behind before I completed it. "Hey beautiful!" a man in his thirties tried to talk to me. "Are you alone tonight?" He asked. "Nope, I am with me," I said to ignore him. He laughed. "So you are alone. Don't you want to have some fun tonight" he tried to snake his hands around my waist. I held the front of his coat, smiled, and said, "If you don't take your hands off me in the next two seconds you won't have hands" while glaring into his eyes. He took a few steps back in fear, made an excuse, and ran away.

As I was seeing that man running away I noticed one of the Russians walking out while talking on the phone, I grabbed my drink and followed him.

"Where are you? You can't come?" he shouted on the phone. "You know how important the deal is!" he sounded frustrated, I heard his whole conversation. As was walking back to the other man and Mary, I walked into his way and spilled the drink on him, "sorry" I said without facing him and walked away from him, I heard him mumble some curse words but he walked off.

I saw him going to the washroom from my peripheral, as expected. I went to the bar, "can I have whiskey" I asked the bartender, "a full bottle " I adde. I can see he was surprised but handed me the glass bottle.

I went straight into the men's washroom without thinking twice. Fortunately, he was alone.

"Hey what are you doing here?" he sounded shocked, "this is for men" he added.

"Oh sorry, I think I am drunk" I lied holding the bottle in the air. I walked up to him and kicked him hard on his leg; he fell on the floor and cried in pain. I grabbed his hair and forced his eyes into mine, "do you know me?" I asked.

"No! No! Please leave me" he pleaded, I thanked god internally. If he had known me I would have to kill him. "With whom you were talking on the phone?" I asked.

"The one we were going to have a deal with" he sobbed.

"Do you know Ezar?" I asked him about my old friend. He nodded. "Do you have his number?" he nodded again. I searched his phone for the number and copied it on mine.

"What were you talking about the deal in L.A.?" I asked him but I heard someone's footsteps so without waiting for his answer I hit the glass bottle on his head to make him unconscious, not too hard to break the bottle.

The other Russian entered the washroom to search for his friend but when he saw him lying on the floor he asked, "Who are you? What did you do to him?" angrily.

I pulled my blades out of my ankle, ready to attack but before I could do something Aiden came from behind and knocked him unconscious.

"What did you do? We only wanted the information about the deal!" he shouted.

"The deal was never going to happen!" I countered. "I heard him talking to someone on the phone," I said calmly this time. "Dmitry is planning something big in L. A" I said.

He studied me for a few minutes and suddenly asked,

"What are you doing with his phone?"

Oh shit! I forgot to remove Ezar's number from the screen.