Pucking the Captain
Cold, thick zip-ties bit brutally into my wrists as they wrenched my arms behind my back, the pressure sending blinding spikes of pain shooting up my bad arm.
"You made a mess, David," a new voice echoed through the yard. It was smooth, heavily accented, and carried a quiet, terrifying authority that made the hairs on my arms stand straight up.
The crowd of armed men parted, and a man in a tailored, charcoal-gray overcoat stepped into the halogen light.
He was in his late fifties, with silver hair slicked back perfectly and cold, dead, pale blue eyes that looked like chips of glacial ice.
He didn't look like a thug; he looked like a billionaire CEO, but the sheer, suffocating aura of violenc