Chapter 4 The haunting nightmare

At Vans County

(Rodriquez territory)

We were all at the big center sitting room in the castle popping champagne and everyone filling their glass cups with wine to it brim. Everyone shouted and made a toast in my father's name RAPHEAL.

The celebration was still going on, I followed my dad to the graveside a few meters away from the castle. This grave belongs to my mum, he had told me. She died while giving birth to me, so I never had the opportunity to see her face. My dad would always come here to make a toast and share a bottle of wine anytime he had a victory. The victory we were celebrating was a fight that broke out between him and other small mafia groups because of a container containing gold. The gold was ours, but the other groups had laid an ambush at the port so they could steal the gold from my dad's men but they didn't expect an attack from behind. We won against them and safely brought the golds home.

After spending almost an hour at the graveside, we headed back home to the villa where we live but on our way to the villa, a horse suddenly ran out in front of our car, which made us stop abruptly. The horse stopped stood in front of our and wouldn't move away, one of Dad's men got down to move the horse off the road but he couldn't as the horse got angrier and wanted to stomp on him, this may get off the car, he successfully got the horse off the road but as he was about coming back to the car, a bullet out of nowhere pierced his am, before everyone could react, another bullet was shot at his chest and straight right to the floor.

Two of my dad's men ran in the direction the bullet had come from while the remaining one stayed behind to protect my dad and me. I saw my dad slump to the floor in my presence and I screamed NO

I was just twelve years old but had enough knowledge about how things or work are done. I knew one of the other mafia groups, which was an enemy, had retaliated and ambushed us, but how did they know where we were? This part of the territory is the most unvisited place, even my dad comes here occasionally, anyone who had come here to attack us knew we were going to be unarmed and not on guard, and it is something only fewer people living in the castle knew which includes fisher, his bodyguard, his trust right-hand man and two other men, which we all here except one of the two other men Rosco. He had to take leave the week before for a burial.

I was covered in sweat and my heart was beating fast as I watched my father take his last breath while covered in his blood. I fell on my knees crying and held onto my dad's body while I screamed my lungs out. I felt sad for losing both parents before I was old enough to care for myself. I looked into the eyes and all the men present and swore for revenge in my heart.

I woke up on the bed covered in sweat, that sad occurrence had turned into an awful nightmare that had always haunted me in my sleep over the last 15 years. I had taken over the territory ever since my father died, I felt powerful and fearless that no one dared defy my order but I am still not yet at peace. I hadn't been able to find out those that betrayed my father and got him killed, so every night I would wake up because of this nightmare about how my father was killed right before me. The remaining hours of each night are spent drinking liquor till the day break when I would carry on with the schedule for the day.

I stood up from the bed and walked to the window side, it was still very late at night around 2 am, I went to my locker and took out a document containing lands I wants to turn into a storage site, the ones I built recently had just caught fire strangely so I needed a new place, but this time, I would be using a different structure to avoid the same thing happening again. How the storage houses got burnt is not what I was ready to look into because I have a lot on my mind recently so I just kept it at the back of my mind alongside other things I wasn't ready to dig into.

At daybreak, I called my most trusted man, who is also my guard, to go check out the places in the document. I handed the document to him and he left. Although Sam is a good fellow and I knew he was still the most trusted out of all my men, I still don't trust him with all my heart. After all, one of my father's trusted groups of men killed him.

I took a cup of coffee prepared by Bella who had been like a mother to me since I was a child. She was employed as a nanny to take care of me immediately after my mother died during childbirth, she was also my wet nurse. Now she is the chief maid and the only one who prepares my meal. I do not trust her much but I do respect her. I finished the coffee, placed the cup down, and left the house to hunt my prey, Lucas, one of my enemies who has always wanted me dead at all costs. He is a very old man but still very cruel despite being close to his grave he would still not give up his position for his son because he is not as brutal as he wants him to be, his son was just too soft-hearted.

I got out of the house, took my car, and headed to a drainage located at the end of one of the small towns a bit far away from my territory but closer to Lucas's. I got down from my car, went closer to the drainage, and opened the valve at the edge of the drainage so the waste would flow out. Opening the drainage would cost Lucas a lot, it would affect all his livestock, I also plan to open the artificial dam that is also not too far from here, which would destroy his farmlands,

and would be a great loss to him. I felt satisfied with what I had done, went back to my car, and drove out of the place.

On my way, I remembered the dam that would get contaminated is the only dam that supplies water to all those living in the town named Vietnam and its surroundings but I cared less, I wasn't going to undo what I had done, never. That is me. I don't go back on my words or actions.