At the company,they told some workers to go home including Kim. Miles was send an address of where he had to go. It was an open area belonging to the company. Miles went but reached there late. All the company's workers were there, standing on horizontal lines. In front of them were people tied on chairs.
_They playing movie now? Miles wondered. But obviously there were no cameramen.
Harvey, Ross, Zay, Dale, Jason , Jake and other few people were on the first line. He then saw Luna on the last line. He was just standing aside not on the line. No one told him to go on the line, they didn't even look at him . Miles thought it was because they simply didn't care. And then Miles heard Philip's voice. He was standing in front of them giving some kind of speech. The only thing Miles heard was his name being called.He didn't answer and was unwilling to move to Philip's side until two men came and forcefully carried him there.
" Have you heard anything I said?" Philip asked and Miles just shook his head.
" This dumb son of mine." Philip said calmly and Miles looked at him in disgust.
" These men in front of you, " Philip said referring to the tied men. They were five. He continued,
"Are murders, drug dealers,and human traffickers?"
_And what exactly is that helping me here? Miles thought. He was starting to get nervous.
Philip then handed him a gun. Miles looked at it shocked with many thoughts in his head. He knew how to use a gun as Georgia had taught it to him. She was a cop and quiet crazy. There was no way she wouldn't have taught Miles.
Miles didn't take the gun. Philip then gave it to Harvey who took it calmly and shot the first man dead in the head. Except for Luna who fell down after the gunshot and Miles who seemed too shocked that he was thinking straight, others remained expressionless. Miles looked at the man who was shot and then at the man who shot him Harvey and swallowed. The tied men seemed to have accepted their fate already. No one was begging for his life. Harvey gave the gun back to Philip and Philip gave it to Miles. Miles looked at the gun and immediately run to the exit but they caught him and brought him back. He then sat down hopelessly. He had fought with many people, broke many people's legs and arms but really never took anyone's life. And now here he was...
" Can I just go back? I promise I won't snitch." He asked hopelessly and then at the moment Luna was dragged out of the line and they brought her in front holding a gun at her temple. She seemed nervous but decided not to waste her energy causing a fuss.
" Either, you kill a criminal or, an innocent girl, Dies. " Philip said calmly. All the workers looked at him in disapproval but said nothing.
Miles then stood up and took athe gun, pointed at the man and took a death breath before shooting the man.
" Bravo!" Philip said cheerfully clapping while the gun excaped Miles hand falling down as Miles was looking at the guy he just shot.
" This is my son." Philip said cheerfully putting his arm around Miles shoulder .
" I wish I never knew you." Miles said weakly . After a while Philip simply killed others himself not wanting to waste his time. Plus he enjoyed taking people's lives.
Miles went to sit on a bench that was there while others formed groups chatting. Luna came and stood in front of him.
" Thanks." She said calmly. " And I ... I'm really sorry." She added. She looked like she
was about to cry . Miles looked at her calmly.
He wanted to say,
_ Apologizing really means nothing and if you could please be helpful, you could just shut up and leave me alone for a while.
But he said,
" It's okay. Calm down." He told her smiling slightly.
Harvey then came
" Got a day off tomorrow." Harvey told him calmly.
"You really are thoughtful." Miles said with a smile. Harvey looked at him frowning. The first day he killed a person, he was eighteen. He locked himself in his room for days. He dreamt about it for days. Smiling became quite hard for him. But the jerk in front of him was smiling. Harvey then turned to leave.
" Can you please explain this to me in details?"
" I'll"
Harvey then went away. Luna also was called by a young girl at her age . Kate was her name. She was beautiful with a beautiful smile, green beautiful eyes,...
" She is an underage. " Ross told Miles sitting next to him.. He just shrugged .
" How does it feel to kill your first person?" Ross asked and Miles looked at him confused. What kind of crazy question is that? Seeing that Miles was not going to answer she started saying how she herself felt.
" Well, for me, I hated myself ; started wishing I never existed or that it was just a dream but of course it wasn't. " Ross said this looking in front of them while Miles listened attentively. Ross then turned to look at Miles.
"I just accepted the fate. "
" I'm not sure I know the number of people I have killed." Ross said looking at her hands.
" Aren't they all criminals?" Miles asked
" I'm starting to doubt that."
" That's bad "
"Very bad." Ross said with a smile , stood up and left.
Miles was currently wishing, Philip hadn't knew he got a son. He then felt bad for Harvey. If Harvey had been living with Philip the psycho path all his child hood, then his life must have been hard. He then wondered if Ana knew about this . Ana knew nothing.
When he reached home he quickly went to bed. Antonia was confused. It was too rare to see Miles too calm. Even though he smiled to her , she saw that he wasn't okay. He decided not to bother him asking him many questions. As Miles closed his eyes trying to sleep, the face of a man he had shot appeared in his mind.
" Damn it!"
He then received a message from Ross.
_- If we confess our sins, he is faithful band just forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all sins.1 John1:8-9_-
Miles read it and sighed.It seemed that he would be taking many people's lives in the future, so asking for forgiveness and sin again and again...
He really didn't like this style. He texted back._-Thx._-
Antonia then knocked on the door. Normally,she could have just barged in as it was her style but seeing Miles mood she chose not to.
" Dinner is ready." She said. Miles sighed and got out of the room. He didn't want to eat but he didn't want to be impolite.
" What is wrong with you?"
" I'm just tired."
" Tired?! Is this the first time you got tired?!"
"No. Why?"
" Look at your face."
" I have no mirror."
" You look like some one that have been dumped."
" I wish I was."
" I guess you're depressed about being single. Find a girlfriend. I don't want to die before I see you girlfriend. Kim is the perfect candidate."
Hearing Kim's name reminded him of Luna.
***
Harvey stood in front of Philip in his study room. The old man was busy in some papers while Harvey was secretly frowning at him. Wasn't Philip seeing that it was late and he had to rest? Philip then handed him some papers.
" Those are the records of people who have to go back to the soil." Philip said and Harvey took the papers.
Before Harvey could go away, he said.
" About Richard Collins, Rayman Nicholson,... They were clean. Why did they have to die?"
" Because they had to." Philip answered calmly. Harvey frowned at the answer but decided not to ask any further and turned to leave.
" Good night."
Philip told him calmly.
_ I might get nightmares because you said that.
"Good night."
****
In the morning Christa as usual went to the restaurant where she worked at. It was still early. She made sure everything was organized.
And then the green Bar gang came. The restaurant started to serve at seven and they were still at six.
The guys chose to wait patiently. After being served, They asked to take a picture with Christa who first rejected but as they insisted, she decided to take it anyway. It was just a simple picture anyways.
And then the guys went out satisfied. Pat there leader looked at the picture and smiled. He then showed it to others.
" Kim must be adopted." One guy said. It was because Kim's mother was incredibly stunning totally different from Kim.