Loyalty Test

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Eric has always been someone that loves putting himself in trouble, right from when he was a little boy, he had always loved chaos. It was as if the twenty five year old man fed on it. So when Hector, a well known arms dealer reached out to Eric for a job, Eric had accepted it knowing fully well who he would be working against.

About three months, somewhere in Chinatown, Eric had helped one of Gus son escape from Hector’s men. Hector and Gus, two illegal gun dealers were known enemies who everyday were looking for new ways to kill each other. When Hector found out it had been Eric who had done the extraction, he had captured the man and had beaten him mercilessly. The only reason while Hector had not killed him was because of a day like this, the day where Eric would help him finish Gus ones and for all.

Gus had kept close contact with Eric, he was grateful to the man who helped rescue his son. He even considered hiring Eric to work full time for him, but first he needed Eric to do one more thing for him. Gus had heard that one of his men was going to betray him to Hector and he needed Eric to find out who.

When Gus told Eric about it, the man had been a little bit surprised as to how Gus got the intel because he knew no one was there when Hector gave him the mission. But Eric was a professional, he knew how to hide things well and he had hidden his surprise. Eric had no intentions in being anyone’s lap dog, all he cared about was the highest bidder and in this case, Hector was offering to pay more for Gus head than Gus was willing to pay for whoever it was that wanted to betray him.

So Eric made up his mind. He waited for about an hour before he called Gus and told him he now had the man who wanted to betray him locked up in an abandoned apartment. Eric had also called one of Hector’s men, the same man Hector had connected him through and gave him the Gus contract, Eric had told him that he would be meeting Gus in an empty warehouse in fifteen minutes and that Hector should be ready to have Gus to himself. The man had thanked him and told him he would be relaying his message to Hector immediately.

But Eric was surprised when twenty minutes later, he saw Gus step out of his car accompanied by the same man he had just called to inform Hector about their planned ambush.

“I had big plans for you.” Gus said the moment he got close to Eric. “But I guess I was wrong to assume you could be loyal to me.” Gus said as he slowly placed a silencer on his gun.

“You? Hector didn’t call, it..it was you?” Eric asked surprised.

“Yes it was me.” Gus replied before emptying the twelve round mag on Eric.

“Take care of the body.” Gus said to the man standing right next to him before getting into his car. He had set a test to know if Eric was going to betray him. When Gus told one of his men to impersonate Hector and give Eric a job to kill him, Gus had been so sure Eric would turn it down or at least tell him about it, he had thought wrong.

“Get me out of here.” Gus said to his driver as he watched the man outside slowly drag Eric’s body into the shadows.


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Hello @prayzz,
We appreciate that you post stories in the Ink Well community. However, we have a policy about violence. In this case, you have described a circumstance where everyone is violent and someone is killed brutally, and then the body is dragged away. This a little over the line for the Ink Well. Sometimes it's a judgement call about whether or not a story is too violent. There are few bold lines, especially if the violence is not graphic. But, one of the factors that does influence our decision is cold-blooded murder. We don't really welcome stories that feature cold-blooded murder. There are communities on Hive where this sort of story is welcome.

We invite you to write more stories for us, but please keep in mind the Ink Well culture.

Thank you!

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My bad, sorry about that.

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It was nice and I loved how Eric was being surprised. But yeah, inkwell has the rules about writing stories. Anyway, I could tell you have playful thoughts in writing.

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These mafia stories always end badly, there is no loyalty or respect among them and those who work there know that at any moment they will be victims of their own colleagues.

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