Chapter 7. Empty Threats

On their way to meet Maxwell, Alex’s phone rang. He looked at the caller ID, did not pick and turned away. It rang again.

“Why are you not taking your calls?” Dave looked at him but he did not reply. When it rang again he heaved a sigh and picked.

“What do you want?” he blurted but rather softly.

“Are you kidding me right now?” Bob’s voice rang out of the phone. “Alex I have been calling your phone. You keep ignoring my calls and when you finally picked you are making me look like one of your desperate ex tryna get back with you?”

Dave laughed at Bob’s serious frustration but Alex still maintained a straight face.

“Get straight to it, will you?” Alex said, resting back on the car seat. He did not want to pick his call because he knew Bob must have arranged for something he wouldn’t approve of.

“So I sent ahead of you some of our men. They are already at the building as we speak, if anything should go wrong in there, they would march in,” Bob told