Cut Backs

The accountant was a short man with a balding head and a a bushy mustache. He arrived in a suit worth more than he earned in theory in a year and was quiet. Which made sense, I had two of the bigger guys collect him in the middle of the night and deliver him to me sitting behind a desk, I'd be quiet too if I knew I was about to get executed. He'd been skimming blatantly his entire time he'd been working for the Pavarossis it made me wonder if he was actually working for another family, hence why I drug him in instead of just killing him (it was weird how easily I took to being a crime boss, I swear I'm a good person... ok neutral person, but like good neutral...).

"Reggie do you know why I called you here?" Leland had basically conceded his whole organization to me, it was funny how quick he was to turn it all over, I don't think he was cut out to be in charge of anything, another example of how bad the family was run.

"I knew you'd want to eventually, you need me to show you how the books are run." I laughed, the two large men with me laughed, Reggie did not laugh.

"No Reggie I wanted to know who you are working with?

"Who I'm working with?"

"Yes Reggie, you've been taking money from this family, and I want to know if it was to line your own pockets or someone elses, don't bother denying it I know how to balance the books unlike you." He started to sweat, I could sense the fear from him, and he had good reason to be afraid, I'd already had two other failing family members killed earlier. What can I say I took to crime way way too easily.

"I ain't working for no one." He was defiant in the face of his own doom I appreciated that having been on his side of the desk one too many times myself.

"Sure Reggie sure, and I'm sure you figured out how to scam all on your own, but the part that's confusing me is who and why someone wanted Corine dead, you're too dumb to do it on your own, but someone on the inside here needed to help and you were the most likely candidate based on being stupid enough to get involved."

"You can beat me, I won't talk."

"I appreciate your loyalty to your true employer, boys leave the room please." The men left and I got up from my desk and made my way over to Reggie. "The problem you and he are going to run into Reggie, is that I'm not Leland, and I also have ways of getting information from you that don't involve you talking." He was about to say something in return when I laid a hand on his jaw and sucked the life right out of him. His memories were scattershot and boring for the most part, Reggie had lead a life of average loserdom, screwing ugly prostitutes and find himself a pawn to more powerful men. He at least knew the person behind Corine's murder so that was useful.I clapped and the boys came back in.

"Tell it to me straight you're like a vampire right?" One of the boys whose name was Lyle had seen me kill an earlier man similar to Reggie.

"Lyle play it straight and you'll never have to know, now destroy the body we got work to do." The boys removed Reggie's corpse and I sat back behind the desk moderately sad. Over the years I'd lost my humanity in a variety of ways, but this mob stuff was taking it from me in the worst one, having fun at being bad. Ok I wasn't really sad then I was actually happy I was in charge and doing the killing, but still looking back... Nah it was way too fun being a bad guy. Sadly all things like that come to an end, and this one did too. Eventually, there was still a lot of bloodshed along the way, read on!