Chapter 1
Ever since I was a small child, my father always hammered it into my head that I was to become the Pakhan of the Voronin crime family once he died. My father was a cruel bastard who ruled his criminal empire with an iron fist and if he saw anyone get at least one step out of line, he would kill them on the spot as he feared that they would become a threat to the empire that he built.
As a child, my father never showed me any form of love or compassion. Instead, what I got on a normal basis was having to listen to him criticize me for how ugly I looked to him. And every time I turned around he was always telling me that I would never be able to find a woman that would love me because of how disgusting my facial deformity looked. And every night, he would constantly call me hideous or a monster. I also seem to remember the word ‘freak’ was his favorite to call me sometimes.
However, I couldn’t control what I looked like considering as my facial deformity was caused by a fire that happened when I was a baby, which tragically took my mother’s life when she tried to save me. But, thankfully. My luck changed when my father was killed in a fight for a portion of land in Miami that belonged to the Marino crime family.
When he was killed, the event itself didn’t bring a tear to my eyes and I didn’t mourn his death one bit. When he died in the streets that night like a dog, a smile spread across my face that couldn’t be wiped off for days.
I practically jumped for joy, which would have been scary as shit seeing a six foot six inch, 250 pound, beefy man jumping out of pure happiness in the middle of a badly lit street, after watching his father finally be taken out.
But, he was finally out of my life and was no longer the verbally abusive bastard that he once was in my life. Three days after his death and funeral, I was given my father’s role as the Pakhan for our family.
Ever since then, I have been doing my best to keep all the men that work for me under control. I even had a new strip club built on the south side of Miami named, The Dirty Minix. Which is where I am at right now, trying not to catch something from one of these strippers.
As I sat back in the VIP section, downing straight vodka from my glass. I heard one of my father’s old associates mumble something underneath his breath. I slammed my glass down on the darkened oak table and gave the old man a snarling look before asking him. “What the fuck did you just mumble?!”
I watched as Peter jumped in his seat and his whole body shook from fright. I watched as he grabbed a white napkin from the table and wiped his mouth with it before I heard him nervously reply to me. “It was nothing. Don’t worry about it. It was just an old man being angry at himself.” He replied as he moved his empty glass towards the hostess that was waiting to refill his drink.
Once his drink had been refilled, he took his full glass and raised it to his lips and nervously drank about half of it and then sat his glass down onto the table and then looked back up at me and said. “Pakhan. Are you sure that you want to buy the Sunset Hotel? I mean it’s a beautiful historic hotel. However, the place is not too far from the Miami police department. It would mean pure suicide if you do something like that. Are you sure that you’re not crazy?”
I chuckled and then replied. “What do you think.”
Peter shook his head a bit knowing that I was crazy enough to try anything at least once. I watched as he crossed his arms across his suit-clad chest and said. “If you’re positive that this is what you want to do then you have my complete agreement in helping you with this. But. You better watch your back. You know just as good and well as I do that Vincenzo Marino would be more than happy to finally put a bullet in your head.”
“Eh. That dumb fuck again. He never knew when to give up. Every time I turn around I find that one of his cronies has snuck their way into my ranks, trying to find out any information that they can about the inner workings of this family. But don’t worry old man. Every time I find one I make sure that they get sent back in pieces to Vincenzo’s doorstep.”
Peter smirked at that comment and then said. “Good. Good. It’s nice to see that stupid fuck finally shown who ran this city. Now, if only we could make him disappear for good. Then we will finally be much better off.”
“I know. But we never seem to have that kind of luck. Now, do we? But whatever, I have some paperwork that I need to sign for purchasing the hotel before it’s finalized in the morning.” I said as I stood from my seat and told my right-hand man, Aleksei who was guarding the doorway to see Peter out.
Once Peter had got into his black BMW and drove off into the night. I was thankful that he was finally gone. I mean I liked the man and he was an okay person and all. But, damn. Could he drive one insane with all his constant worrying. I shook my head in annoyance and walked over to the elevator and punched the up button and got inside with Aleksei once the elevator had arrived.
I had this strip club built to unique standards. The third floor of this place contained my office and the auction area where women and men alike who were down on their luck sold themselves for whatever money that they could get. But, the thing was that once they sold themselves to someone from our kink auctions, they stayed with that person for good. There was no such thing as buyer’s remorse.
The second floor was where men could come inside and pay for expensive drinks and watch young women in skimpy outfits, shake their asses and slide up and down greased poles. The women that we hired were mostly women who owed debts to us that they couldn’t pay, whether it was a drug debt or just money loans. The money that they made while they worked for us went directly to pay off their debts.
And finally, the bottom floor of this place was used as a whore house, where the customers that came here could take a stripper of their choosing to one of the rooms for a good fuck, and get everything that these young women had from HIV to Hepatitis A through C. Basically if one of the customers chose to fuck one of the girls that worked here it was their decision on whether they were protected or not.
As the elevator came to a stop at my office floor and opened. I quickly walked out with Aleksei close behind me. I removed my keys from my pants pocket and quickly opened the door and went inside and flipped on the light and then sat down at my desk.
I dreaded having to sign these damn papers because I knew that this was going to be an all-night thing. But, I was well prepared as I had a full bottle of my favorite vodka and a kitchen that stayed open all night.
While I sat there and waited on Aleksei to bring me the paperwork to sign, I pulled my phone out of my suit pocket and saw that I had three missed text messages from Natasha, my childhood friend. Quickly, I unlocked the phone and brought up her messages to see what she wanted.
“Hey, Big boy! Why don’t you come out and hang out with me tonight? I promise that it will be fun!”
I sighed in annoyance when I read her message. I didn’t really feel like hanging out with Natasha and her friends. I mean they all seemed to have this bad habit of making passes at every girl that walked past them. If it had two legs and a huge set of tits, then they flirted with them. I mean I liked flirting with busty young women but even I had my limits.
So, I replied to her with a simple, ‘no.’
Of course, though, Natasha could never take a simple no for an answer and quickly texted me back.
“Look, big guy. You really need to get out more and stop staying cooped up all the time in that damn strip club of yours. I’ll be there at twelve to pick you up, we are going to the Gay Dolphin. And you better be ready when I get there too.”
As soon as I read her reply, I let out a small growl from my throat and threw my phone onto my desk and then leaned back in my chair and rubbed my hands down my face before yelling out. “DAMNIT TO HELL!”
I knew that there was no way in hell that I could ever talk Natasha out of going. I knew that once she had she had it in her mind and liked the idea then there was no way you were ever going to get out of it. I hoped and prayed that Natasha’s girlfriend, Lana was going to be going with us because I knew that she was with us then Natasha would leave me alone for the rest of the night.
I picked up my phone again from my desk and checked the time and saw that it was 11:45. And I knew that Natasha would be here at exactly twelve am. So, I quickly called for Aleksei, who was still in the mailroom gathering the paperwork that I needed for purchasing the hotel.
When he didn’t respond, I got up from my desk chair and walked to the doorway and yelled at him. “Hey, Aleksei. You can stop searching for those damn papers. I’m going out.”
I watched as Aleksei’s brown head popped into view and heard him say, “What do you mean that you’re going out? What about all this damn paperwork that I just spent the last damn twenty minutes searching for?”
“Just put it on my desk and I’ll sign it in the morning,” I replied as I walked back into my office and grabbed my coat from the wooden coat rack that was in my office and put it on.
As I went to grab my keys, I heard Aleksei ask. “Where are you going?”
“I have to go with Natasha and her friends to the Gay Dolphin. If I don’t go then I’ll never hear the end of it. I have to go, I’ll see you in the morning.” I said as I gave him a small wave and walked out of my office and went the hallway to the suite that I had been living out of for the past couple of days.
Quickly, I unlocked the door and went inside and showered, and changed. However, as soon as I sat down on my bed to put on my shoes, I heard a knock at my door, so I got up and peeped out the small peephole on my door and saw Natasha and Lana standing there hand in hand and waiting for me to open the door for them. Quickly, I opened it and let them inside and they sat down in a chair and waited on me to get finished.
Once finished, I grabbed my coat and we all left for the hellhole known as the Gay Dolphin