Adelina

Chapter 15

"Maybe we have to dispose of a dead body. Or even better kill a person like an assassin." Natalie thought of ideas. It was a Saturday morning, we were at Mia's house.

I was sitting on a stool sipping my coffee. Natalie was thinking of the "jobs" we will be doing for Alessandro. Mia was mentally freaking out. The doorbell brought us out of our own little world. Mia jumped up and started pacing. Natalie rolled her eyes at her and I was unphased sipping my coffee.

"Are you going to look at who is at the door?" I asked. She stopped and nodded her head. She slowly walked up to the door. She was about to open the door but swiftly turned around to us.

"Can one of you do it?" She asked nervously. I sighed getting off my seat with the coffee in one hand. I opened the door. Nobody was out there. I stepped out looking around.

I saw the mailman walking to the other houses. I bent down taking up the letters and turned back walking into the house using my foot to close the door.

"It was just the mailman," I said as I gave her the letters and walked back to my seat.

"Oh, okay, good." She let out a breath of relief. She walked over to the table and started going through the letters. She stopped taking one out of the pile.

"This one is for you." She slid it over to me.

"What is my letter doing here," I asked her. She shrugged. I placed my coffee on the table and opened it. I unfolded the paper and raised an eyebrow.

"What's wrong?" Natalie asked as she walked over to me.

"It's an address," I said.

"An address for what?" Mia asked.

"I don't know." I gave it to Mia and took up the envelope. It had no writing on it.

"Hey what's this?" Natalie took the envelope from my hand, turned it around and there was small handwriting on the bottom right corner.

"To my princess." I read it out. Natalie sighed.

"He calls you princess. This address is probably our job." Natalie said to me. My phone rang. I took it out of my pocket and looked at the screen a text message came in. Get to work princess.

I showed the message to Mia and Natalie. Mia looked back at the paper taking out her phone. She started typing away.

"Uhh, guys this address is by docks." She showed us her phone.

"What are we doing there?" I asked.

"We're probably dumping a body in the ocean." Natalie walked off grabbing Mia's car keys. We watched as she went through the door, and it closed behind her. Mia and I shared a look. It suddenly opened back again.

"Are you guys coming or what?" I looked back at Mia again. Getting off my seat I walked over to Natalie turning back at Mia who hadn't moved.

"Come on Mia it's either this or"

"I know or get killed." She grabbed her bag and walked out of the house. I walked over to the car and got into the back seat.

"I thought you told him that we weren't going to do anything illegal," Mia said as she started the engine.

"Well, we don't know exactly if we're going to be dumping a body," I said, trying to make her feel better. She sighed and kept her eyes on the road.

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We drove into a parking lot near the ocean. As I stepped out of the car I looked around. There was a shop in front of us.

"Do you think we have to go in?" Mia asked. I turned to her and shrugged when I turned back around Natalie was already on her way inside.

"This woman will have us all killed," I said as I quickly ran up to Mia right behind. We walked into the shop. I looked around the place and smelled like fish. I scrunched up my nose. Natalie walked up to the counter and rang a bell. A man came from the back in a bloody apron.

"What can I do for you, pretty ladies?" He asked us.

"What exactly is this place?" Mia decided to ask. The man looked over at her.

"Well, this is the knackers." He said calmly. Mia and Natalie looked at me and then at each other.

"We were sent here for something, maybe a package," Natalie said to him.

"We don't do packaging here." He said annoyingly.

"I know but maybe you sent something for us?" She asked. He sighed.

"What's your name?" He folded his arms across his chest.

"Natalie." She smiled. He shook his head.

"Doesn't ring a bell." He said to her, She looked over at me.

"How about Adelina?" She asked again. He shook his head.

"I'm sorry but you got to the wrong place." He quickly said as he picked up a bucket and started walking away.

"Do you have a package sent for a princess?" I asked. He stopped and turned to me.

"Come around the back." He said before walking off.

"Does he know that your birth name is Adelina and not the stupid pet name that he made up for you?" She rolled her eyes and walked out of the shop. I laughed at her expression and walked off with Mia. We walked around the back. The man came out with a garbage bag.

"Boss wants to talk with you." He said to me, handing the phone over. I took it from him and placed it against my ears.

"Hello princess." I melted when I heard his deep voice through the phone.

"We told you that we didn't want to do anything illegal," I said as I knew exactly what was in the garbage bag.

"And I said I could promise no such thing." He said.

"There's a boat behind you." I turned around and there was a boat behind us.

"I want you to take the garbage bag, get onto the boat, go as far as possible from shore and dump it. Don't open the bag, it's a simple job."

"If it was a simple job then why didn't you let your men do it."

"I could have done that but that would mean I would have to kill you because you're doing this to pay for the money you stole from me. If you don't do this then I kill you. I do think that is much simpler. Don't you think? I could actually have you killed right now by the press of a few buttons or a phone call." I went silent. He chuckled.

"I have the upper hand darling, don't mess with me." He said before hanging up. I gave the phone to the guy and he walked away.
I looked over at Mia and Natalie.

"Well?" Mia asked.

"Does anyone know how to drive a boat?"