The next day, I did not have to search far for the operative. It was in my log books. His name was Patrick Tito. He was of mixed descent. I waited until he was outside on the pool deck before sniping him from the top floor. That was that. I got an angry call from Acario the next day. "Boy, why did you do that?" "If you are talking about the late Mr. Tito, he was a suspect in my attempted murder. Was he the wrong guy after all?" I asked him. "You don't know who you just killed, do you?" I sucked my teeth. It sounded like I tripped some event. "Some higher up's bastard son?" I guessed. "Yeah. That was one of our really good young assassins. He trained a lot of our guys. A lot of his protégée are going to be gunning for you now. I will be praying for you." That did not sound good. "I'm going to be hunting all of your assassins then." I said to fake my confidence. "You can certainly try, boy. The thing about assassins is that they don't like to be seen." he responded before hanging up the phone. True. I had a lot on my plate now. Daphne called me later that day. She wanted to go out on a date that noon.
I was fine with that. We really hadn't been on a date in a very long time. Looking over my shoulder, I told Romeo to bring Bianca. It could be a double date. He liked the sound of that. So did Bianca. I put in a reservation for 4 at a fancy restaurant. We made our way there. From there, we waited for our wives to arrive. Bianca was the first to get there. Daphne came soon after her. It was a nice meal. I got to listen to Daphne and her concerns. Bianca and Romeo seemed to take her side. I was a bit distant to her now that we were married. I was not really fucking her, so she felt less sexy. I just did not want another kid at the moment. I had 4. Not that she knew that. It was halfway through the meal that someone walked towards our table. He had a gun. I got up and drew my own gun on him. "Get the fuck away from us. Now!" I shouted. He just smirked and said "Good eye. Pat sends his regards from beyond the grave." 3 other people in the restaurant stood up. Combat started. I shot the guy in front of me. I had the deck stacked against me. Daphne screamed and crouched down in terror. It was bad.
We had to fight our way out of the restaurant. Before we got in the cars, I told Romeo to check them. Bianca's had the brakes cut. Mine had the same problem. Daphne's had a bomb under it. We were going to need to make it to the headquarters on foot. We were going to need more muscle. I called up my goon squad. They arrived and we made the walk together. They had been on so many jobs for me at this point, they were more associates than thugs. Once we all got to the headquarters, we were safe. It was annoying that it had come to this. Daphne was really shaken up about it. I passed the med kit around and brought everyone to full health. I had taken out 4 assassins on that day. I was going to do so much more. I had an exploit that NPCs did not have access to. That was the game menu. I could tell the general area where characters were through the Blue Codex. Because I had sniped Patrick, 10 assassins immediately joined the Brown Owls to use their war as an excuse to get revenge on me. That meant there were 6 left to go. I took a look, and 4 had still not arrived in town yet.
