Free BlueK Dynasty: The 1st Seven Days by m.o mcleod Page B

  
    Leon didn’t feel hungry.
He felt confused and lost. The last thing he remembered was making
out with Mona, the lead clerk at Goodwill. Mona, busty Mona with
her sweet smile. Leon couldn’t say where she was right now. He
could only hope she had left before these thugs showed
up.   
    “ Who are
you guys?” he asked.   
    “ I think
it’s time to go,” VIN said as if he hadn’t heard
Leon.   
    “ Yeah,
I’m gonna go downstairs and clean up,” said
Kosner.   
    “ So you
all are just gonna leave me with the new guy like that?” Santino
couldn’t believe it. Kosner and VIN left the room looking like a
crime scene, and closed the door behind them. Santino knew Leon
would ask a million and one questions about how and why and what
was going on. He had some answers, but not all. He turned around
and saw Leon staring at him, patiently waiting for an explanation.
At least he wasn’t freaking out like Kosner
had.   
    “ Look,”
Santino started, “I know you have a lot of questions for
me.”   
    “ Not
just you, for all of you. Like how did you get in here? Where is
Mona?” Leon took in the room again, and all he saw was red…red
blood, liquid and bright, in puddles with chunks of bones and meat.
His eyes widened in horror.   
    Santino couldn’t handle
this. If only they hadn’t eaten this guy’s girlfriend, he might
have been able to explain things better.   
    “ Is that
Mona?” Leon uttered. Then he began to scream. “You killed her!
Mona!” He dropped to his knees and crawled toward the puddle of
blood.   
    Santino had had enough. First he had
an adrenaline junkie, then a scary cat, now a crybaby. What was in
this stuff that had all these grown men becoming so extreme in the
beginning stages? Santino bet Leon didn’t even like Mona that much,
that she was just a work fling. Yet here he was going on and crying
like he’d lost his first love. You don’t sneak your first love into
your office after hours.
    Santino bent down and
dragged Leon away from the gory mess. He pulled Leon onto his feet
and tried to direct him toward the door. He had to clean up, and if
Leon wasn’t going to eat anything, then staying in the room with
human remains would just upset him even more.   
    “ Let’s
go, buddy,” Santino said.   
    Leon sniffled and let
Santino push him from the room. “What happened?”   
    “ Just
take a walk, and I’ll tell you whatever you need to hear. Watch the
steps.” Santino directed Leon down the stairs to join the rest of
the guys. He saw Kosner had picked out a new outfit, all black and
trendy with a huge scarf that covered half his face and leather
combat boots. VIN had chosen a dark black and blue ensemble. He had
on an oversized trench coat with a cardigan underneath, and a black
fitted cap on his head.   
    “ Look at
you two. What are you guys now, fashion models?” asked Santino.
“Why didn’t you find anything for the new
guy?”   
    “ I did.
Nothing too fancy, though.” Kosner tossed clothes at Leon’s
feet.   
    Leon stood there with a
blank expression on his face. Santino was still holding on to him.
He felt light, like he could fly away at any given time. Santino
didn’t know if he was in shock or just very
nonchalant.   
    Leon bent to pick up the
clothes. He peered at them and said, “I don’t look good in
camouflage.”   
    VIN burst out in laughter.
“We have a fruitcake onboard, boys!”   
    “ Enough,” said Santino. “Put those on. We’re taking a walk,”
he told Leon as he went to find himself some clothes. His were
covered in dirt and blood, and were ripping at the seams. He picked
out a leather jacket and a black hoodie. He looked at the glasses
display case and found some black
aviators.   
    “ Just
leave everything as it is,” he said. “We’re going out the
back.”   
    Leon asked, “Where are we
going?”   
    “ Someplace where we won’t be bothered,” Santino
responded.   
    “ Can’t
we just