Don: The Blood Chains-Chapter 38: Bunny.

For a good minute nothing happened, she just stood there in silence but eventually she lowered the gun, not because she wanted to, but because she had to. In that moment she questioned her whole being, questioned herself and why in God’s earth she decided to actually do it. Was it justice? Was it greed? Why the fuck did she decide to actually point the gun at a known fucking serial killer psychopath who people call Don?

The people around him who didn’t even look like they were pressed by the gun, like they didn’t even care about it... like they already knew that she was no threat.

’Live today, question yourself tomorrow.’ that thought went through her mind even though it was the complete opposite of what his father taught her: ’Justice can never be overpowered.’

"Y-You won’t come after me?" She asked, her voice now even lower, more hesitant.

"I don’t chase people who walk away, and I promise you, the Cassian promise is something unbreakable." Joseph said and his voice was firm, telling her that he was telling the truth, like reassuring her...

So she did it... she put back her gun in the holster, and reached out for the gold bar in Joseph’s hands and just like that... the deal was made. She took it and slowly started backing up, keeping an eye on that manic smile on Joseph’s face, that smile was just horrifying to look at and then just turned, started to run as fast as she could with the gold bar in her hand.

She wasn’t even 20 meters away.

"So safety off..." Joseph switched off the safety as he pulled out his gun. "... aim." He whispered as he positioned himself like those competitive shooters do, one hand out, his body turned to the side."...and pull the trigger..."

The shot echoed through the entire forest as the gun nearly slipped from his hand as the recoil was far stronger than he had expected it to be, but he quickly recovered, aimed again, and pulled the trigger... once, twice... he emptied the entire magazine at her.

Everything around her was being shattered, splinters from the trees tore into her body, some of the bullets went straight past her head, but she held onto the gold like it was her lifeline, running... and not a single bullet hit her...

"Ahh fuck..." Joseph whispered as he lowered the gun, seeing her still up and running. "... I would be a horrendous hunter, huh?"

"Should I, sir?" One of the men asked as he stepped next to him, pulling out the submachine gun from his jacket, aiming at Linda who was still fairly close to them.

"No... this bunny already ran away, but it doesn’t mean she escaped its fate." He said as he was just looking as she disappeared into the dense forest without a single scratch on her... as he ran away with a gold bar in her hand... and the fact that he missed all of the shots.

On his side, Pablo himself too was surprised that not a single shot reached her, not even one struck her back or anything on her body even though she was running slow, with 12.5 in her hand..."It was surreal..." He whispered as he thought about it more... how disrespectful was it.

She wasn’t even a real officer but a park ranger whose job is to protect the forest... and she tried to press them, tried to control them.

"Yeah, a 24 year old woman..." Joseph spoke as he was looking down at his gun. "...with a park ranger job... how cool is that, huh? Just walking around the forest in nature, with the birds, the smell... poor soul."

"She fucked up her life that for sure... we just let her go? Pablo asked as Joseph was more bothered with the gun as he tired to put back the slide then Linda escaping

"Do you know what the Cassian promise is?" Joseph asked as he finally put back the slide and holstered back the gun. "My father said that we don’t make promises only toward those we want to kill, which means if a Cassian promises something that will mean you will die the worst way possible. Scoping out eyes with spoons, drilling into the arm, knees, elbows, head, or skinning alive while being kept up by drugs."

Pablo didn’t say anything, well, he knew about this thing as he was digging around in the history of the family and well... he also did some atrocities in his time in the DAG.

"But I’m not psychopath, so just let her enjoy the money, let her enjoy the wealth for months, let’s see what she does, what she buys, and then find her and kill her in that moment when she thinks she gets away with it. Let her little happiness disappear in an instant, okay Pablo?" He looked at him and it was exactly what Pablo was waiting for.

It was Cassian. It was what he waited for, or moreover what he knew was going to happen. It wasn’t just the look about him, it wasn’t just the name, the legacy wasn’t that he was radiating the danger... but now he showed that he truly is the blood of the Cassians and thought that in 10 years something truly changed in him... he became like his father or worse... calling her a ’bunny’ while she is running for her life.

"I will." He said to him with a faint smirk on his face as he couldn’t hide the excitement that if that is what happened to someone who stole from him, what would happen for someone who did something way bigger.

It was just the beginning... and Joseph had already revealed a glimpse of who he truly was and what he was capable of doing without morality or remorse.

A new era was truly upon them... and the key player of it was none other than Joseph and Cassian family... even the thought about it caused goosebumps all over Pablo, but moreover that it was truly happening.

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