THE DARE | BWWM 18+ (editing)

ix - heart or mind?

X A V I E R

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~A few hours earlier~

I'm gay.

I've known it for a while now and I've been wanting to tell my best friend Leonardo but I don't know how he's going to react. We kill people for a living so we're supposed to be scary, but I just want to love someone.

I didn't want to tell him because I know he's dealing with a lot of shit. His grandparents being dead, our dads being locked up, this rival gang, and now Iris. I don't wanna add more to his plate.

Right now, I'm chasing down a lead because I have people on the lookout for men with devil horn tattoos. I need to know where they come from, I need to know everything about them. After one of them pulled that Hannah Baker suicide Kamikaze shit, I know that they're more dangerous than they let on, and I can't risk our organization being unprepared in case they attack.

I brought my gun and my knife along with me in case I needed to defend myself, and I know that Leonardo would scold me for being here alone, but I'm just chasing a lead. I'm not preparing to go to war or anything. Nothing bad is going to happen.

I get in my car and start driving to the location Dante gave me. He isn't officially part of the Sorelli Mafia yet, but if this lead pays out, then he'll definitely be initiated. I come to a red light when out of the corner of my eye, I spot that sneaky little bitch, Maria. Leonardo's ex.

After she got pregnant the second time, she supposedly got an abortion and left Leonardo a couple of weeks later without any explanation. What the fuck is she doing back in town? We haven't heard from her in four or five years. I definitely have to tell Leonardo about this shit later.

I continue to make my way to the location when the GPS told me to pull up into a dark alley. Michael Myers better not come out of there. I park my car and start to walk into the alleyway. There is nothing there except for a dumpster and some raccoons. Ew, I hate furry things that crawl.

I keep walking down the alley when I see a rusty door at the end. I pull out my gun and make my way to the door. There isn't a door handle on it, so I push the door. Nothing. That's weird.

I put on my black leather gloves and pull the door open through the hole where the handle is supposed to be. It flies open at ease. A rusty door like that should've been stuck. That was too easy. I look down at the spot where I was holding the door and I notice fingerprints. Yeah, someone was definitely here.

I turn the safety of my gun on and make my way inside the dark building. This isn't scary at all, I think to myself. Pitch silence. I pull out my phone and turn the flashlight on to help me get a better look. There isn't much in sight, so I keep walking down the hallway of the building. "It's too dangerous X. Wait and call for backup." I can hear L's voice warning me. I shut it out and keep walking. There is a rancid smell all of the sudden and I point my flashlight in the direction of it.

Oh fuck no!

I look down and spot three dismembered bodies. Their limbs are cut off, their eyes are gouged out and their tongues are ripped out of their mouths. I recognize a tattoo on one of the hands. Fidarsi è bene non fidarsi è meglio. That's Dante's tattoo. He's the one that texted me this address. But by the looks of it, he's been dead for a while so who sent me that text?  (Translation: To trust is good, not to trust is better)

I use the flashlight to look around the place and notice something in the wall above the body parts. Huge devil horns spray painted with one word written underneath.