Wrath

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Chapter 3: Choices



Brian made his way to his car. While walking he called Morgan to tell her what happened. When she picked up her soft voice was calming to his nerves. He proceeded to tell her everything that happened and what would happen if he didn\'t do as Shannon "asked."



"Thats terrible! But I guess you have no choice." Morgan exclaimed. "What are we going to do? We cant go on like this forever."



"I have no idea but we have to remain calm and play along as much as possible. Eventually something will come up and we will have our chance. It has to. We were meant to be together."



"Oh Brian! I love you so much."



"I love you too and I promise when Im done with this \'errand\' I will take you out. Some place nice. Prehaps a quiet night on the lake."



"I would like that. And Brian...take care of yourself."



"I will. I love you. Goodbye"



Brian hung up the phone knowing what he had to do. He drove to the bank and pulled into a parking space. He went up to a large man in apparently his mid 30\'s behind a desk sitting in the front of the lobby who was typing on a keyboard.



"I would like to see the manager please." Brian said with a shaky voice



"Who may I tell him wants to see him" The man said in a deep tone.



"A girl....Shannon...told me I need to talk to him."



"Shan...yes right away I will get him. You may have a seat if you want."



The man opened the door to a long hall and the door closed behind him. After 2 minutes both a desk man and another medium build older man with a beard emerged.



"My secretary told me that you had business with me." The older man said.



Brian reached in his pocket and pulled out one of the cards and handed it to the older man. The gentleman looked at it raised one eyebrow and whispered something to the man now indentified as his secretary and then said "Alright I see. Follow me while my secretary unlocks the vault door."



The secretary, the manager and Brian went down the same highway the manager had emerged from earlier. They continued down the hall until the reached the end and a metal door. The secretary pulled out a key ring and unlocked the door. When the door opened they reached a blue room with a door to an office on the left and the apparent vault door in front of them. The secretary inserted a key card into a reader to the right of the door. That caused two keypads to be revealed in the wall one to the left and one to the right of the vault. The secretary went to one and the manager went to the other one.



"1...2...3...now" The manager said. Both men entered in four digit codes. The vault door proceeded to open. Slowly. Revealed inside was not large amounts of money or bars or precious metal but computers. A massive hub of computers in the middle of the room and monitors lining the walls with keyboards sitting on a ledge beneath them.



Brian wanted to ask a question so badly but he remembered what Shannon had told him. The manager walked into the vault and retrieved two silver briefcases from behind the tower of computers and handed them to Brian.



"Here you go. Now let yourself out the way you came. Pronto."



Brian walked quickly out the doors of the hallway and the bank and straight to his car. He got in and put the briefcases on the passenger seat and observed them. For their size they were quite light. They appeared to be locked with a padlock in the middle. He shook them. Nothing rattled inside. Brian thoughts were racing. What was all that? How far does this whole thing go? Why would they house computers in a vault? What is in these cases? Money? No too light. Why a bank?



Brian drove out of the parking lot wondering exactly what he had just picked up and what he was carrying? Was it legal? What if he was pulled over? How would he explain it?



He arrived at the specified apartment and found the complex with he apartment 15B. He went up slid the card under the door, knocked and then placed the briefcases on the ground. Brian could hear people on the other side having a discussion. The door cracked open. Then it opened all the way and a young man appearing to be in about his mid twenties and very muscle bound with an undershirt and black shorts on. The man said "You...your arent the normal man...who sent you?"



"Shannon did" Brian replied. "Here is what she told me to give you I got it from...."



"I know where the fuck you got it from!" The guy yelled emphaticaly. "All I dont know is who the fuck are you." All of the sudden the guy grabbed Brian by the throat and dragged him inside and threw him to the ground so hard that Brian couldnt see straight. Brian grabbed his head and yelled out in pain. "Mark tie him up till I can call Shannon and straighten this out. Make sure he doesnt try anything stupid"



A larger guy emerged from a room and dug his knee into Brians neck. Brian couldnt see what he looked like other than his stature he was still so dazed. This guy pulled Brian\'s hands behind his back and taped them up with duct tape and then taped over Brians mouth. Brian heard a cell phone being dialed but was still too woozy to see where it was coming from or who was doing it. Then Brian saw barrel of a gun in his face and another voice saying "You move you die" Brian tried to stay as still has possible...or as much as someone could who had just suffered might have suffered a concussion



"Hello?" It was the voice of the man who answered the door. "Yeah hey girl listen some asshole just showed up here with the shipment and its not Kyle....What....Okay....so this guys cool? Alright. Just making sure. Yeah...yeah I roughed him up pretty good. Yeah...okay...I will. Bye. Hey Mark cut this guy loose. Hes alright. Shannon forgot to call us."



Brian felt a knife along his hands and then the tape being cut off. Then the guy who is now known as Mark pulled Brian\'s head up by his hair and ripped the tape off his mouth.



"Ah....crap" Brian yelled.



"Sorry about that called it safety precautions." The guy who opened the door said. "Name\'s James by the way"



"Whatever your name is I just wanna get out of here" Brian exclaimed rising to his feet.



"And you will. Your fine. You didnt hit the ground hard enough to do any real damage. We didnt want you to be damaged in case we had to ransom you back to where ever you came from We have rivals you know"



"Whatever can I leave now?" Brian said. His vision was returning. He could finally see the guy called Mark. He was taller than brian by a foot at least and looked like he could take on 6 men and it still wouldnt be a fair fight for the six men. He had light mustache and blond hair.



"Not before you recieve your tip" James rached in his pocket and pulled out a wad of bills. "A little bit extra is in there for your troubles" James stuck in in Brian\'s pants pocket. "Now get out of here. Im sure you need rest"



Brian exited with the apartment wondering what the hell just happened. He hopped in his car and called up Morgan. "Well it didnt go as planned but Im done and I have our first lead." Morgan asked about what happened and Brian told her everything from the bank to the apartment and the beating.



"Oh my god baby are you okay?"



"Yeah. But now I know whoever Shannon is a part of has enemies, rivals, so they have to be cautious. I think that might be our way to get back at them"



"Its not much."



"Its not much but its more than we had. Now how about that date?"