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He shrugged. “I’ll button up the jacket.”
I gestured toward the three young men writhing on the ground before us. “Give us your clothes.”
Denver glanced between his injured friends and immediately started taking off his clothes. He seemed to have forgotten all his threats in the face of three unrepentant killers staring down at him.
“Give it to them,” Denver pleaded, forcing his friends to part with their clothes as well.
Soon, Trevor, Cooper, and Denver were stripped down to their boxers.
“Thanks,” said Leon with a bright grin as he hauled their expensive tuxedos and trousers in his arms.
“Can we go now?” Denver asked in a pathetically small voice.
“Nope,” I said. “We don’t want anyone ruining Lucia’s evening.”
“Are you going to kill us?” Cooper asked, gingerly wrapping an arm over the slashes across his chest.
“Yakim said he wouldn’t,” Mikhail huffed. “Ithink it’s better to make them quiet forever. What if they give us trouble later?”
I looked Cooper in the eye and watched him flinch away. “Will you give us any trouble?” I asked in a slow, clear voice. Leaning closer, I whispered, “Will you tell anyone about us?”
The three boys shook their heads furtively.
“Good,” I said, feeling satisfied. “Bind them up and leave them behind those dumpsters.”
A cacophony of desperate pleadings rang out in the night as my brothers wrapped plastic ties around their wrists and tightened them until their circulation was almost blocked off.
Kneeling before the cowering young men, I added, “You never saw us.”
They nodded emphatically.
“It’s better to lose a memory than your entire head, right?”
More nods.
“Good.”
Just as their expressions were about to relax, I added, “You’ll never go near Lucia again.”
“I’ll never even look at her!” Trevor whimpered. “Happy?”
“Very.” Flashing a quick grin, I got to my feet and gestured toward my brothers to follow me.
We walked back into the shadows, content to be away from prying eyes.
“Can you believe our luck?” said Mikhail as he dug his elbow into Leon’s side. “We’re going to prom with Lucia!”
“I know! I feel like fucking Cinderella right now.”
An amused grin came over me. My brothers and I never attended a regular school. The fact that we were assassins was bored into us since the moment we were born. We were taught Math and Grammar alongside using a knife to gut a man.
We weren’t immune to love and loyalty despite the blood coating our young hands. There was an unshakable bond between us brothers. We just never expected to have the same connection with someone else after we were tossed out into the cold, dark streets of Ashville.
Lucia Baldwin truly appeared like an angel, promising us a safe and warm home. She forced her father to give us jobs as kitchen helpers and became the sweetest friend to us three brothers.
She shared whatever she baked. Books were her best friends and she always sought us out to read out her favorite passages from them.
It was impossible not to fall in love with the beautiful girl whose smile healed all our wounds. My brothers and I were killers but our hearts beat for her now.
