The Airegin Mafias – Chapter 2 part 2

Don Pedro and Lord Frederick kept on walking round a place that looks like a plantation, a very big piece of land but had no building or anything on it. Just an empty piece of land, occasionally Frederick and Pedro will squat to pick up soil samples from different parts of the land. Ajeet and Akhil followed them but kept a reasonable distance as they all navigated round the piece of land, Ajeet and Akhil’s bodyguards were fixated all around while General and Eric stood at what looked like the gate of the large piece of unused land. Pedro walked slowly due to lots of various activities he had the previous night at the hotel, varying from having lots of drinks, dancing with the asian hookers that were organised for them and to top it all, having sex with three of the girls while Frederick on the other hand just had one which explains Don Pedro’s fatigue. General and Eric also had some girls to themselves too but theirs was more like having sex and standing guard at the same time.

General and Eric are not actually best of friends as their philosophies to like is quite different but they just had to work together anytime they are on a trip like this, Eric is a very bossy guy who sometimes forget that General is also a head guard to Lord Frederick as he is to Don Pedro. Sometimes he’d send him on annoying errands which General always objected bluntly and with a stern warning too. Couple of times they have been engaged in fights but always held each other back at the fear of their bosses. Eric is also a macho man and is almost as tall as General but broader in chest than him.

Their highest form of quarrel happened few months ago during one of Don Pedro and Lord Frederick numerous meeting at their hideout in Airegin, One of Lord Frederick’s men had left the gate opened and just at that moment a police van passed by blowing sirens, it was a miracle that the opened gate was not noticed by the police. Immediately the police van was out of sight, Eric demanded to know who left the gate opened and when he got to know it was one of Lord’ Frederick boy, he pounced on him but just in time as he was about to hit the boy, General held back his hand. Out of anger he flipped a blow at General but General quickly saw the unexpected blow and weaved but before he could gain back his balance, Eric used his hand General was holding to shove him away which made General stagger backwards. General was about to launch an attack but was held back by Lord Frederick’s voice that day. Ever since then they have always avoided invading each other’s space, sometimes they chat themselves when they are the only ones alone but deep down, they still had unfinished business with each other.

“That will be all” Lord Frederick Announced to Ajeet and Akhil as they walked closer to them.

“How long will it take to test the soil samples and get a result now?” Ajeet asked

“Before sunset tomorrow or maybe the day after tomorrow, it all depends on the equipments in the laboratory and their efficiency” Don Pedro replied.

“Alright then, let’s get you to the lab immediately then” Akhil.

General and Eric rushed towards Pedro  and Frederick to grab the soil samples in their hands. Some of Akhil’s guards quickly brought water for Don Pedro and Lord Frederick to use in Washing the dirts of their hands. They both took out the hand gloves simultaneously, washed their hands and entered into one of the cars together while General and Eric entered into the car behind.

“So what do you think” Pedro broke the silence as he asked Frederick who was busy with something on his Tablet, Frederick raised his gaze and quickly returned it back on the Tablet, he punched some words into the NotePad and passed the Tablet to Pedro who reluctantly took it from him wondering why Frederick was acting strange.

“We can’t talk till we are out of the car, we don’t know if the car is bugged” Pedro read slowly and barely audibly what Frederick wrote in the notepad, he nodded his head at Frederick who in turn nodded back. Pedro cleared what he wrote and punched his own too into the notepad and passed it back to Frederick.

“Even the Lab we are going to and the hotel room might be bugged too” Frederick also read slowly and barely audibly too what Pedro wrote in the pad.

“What do we do then?” Frederick typed again

“Let’s stop by at any restaurant around, I am famished” Pedro replied on the pad as he picked up his phone and dialled Ajeet’s number.

“Hello Don Pedro” Ajeet spoke as he picked up the call on the other end of the line.

“Sorry to bother you but we are actually very hungry now, we need to stop by at the next restaurant” Said Pedro into the phone.

“But we have made arrangements for your next meal already” Ajeet tried to argue.

“Please let’s just stop over at the next restaurant, we are too famished to wait on any meal that has been arranged for” Pedro argued back.

“Okay then no problem, we will stop at the next restaurant” Ajeet replied.

“Thank you” Pedro replied and hung up.

Pedro was beginning to feel uneasy about the trip and all but he tried to keep his thoughts to himself so as not to cause panic for his friend Frederick. They drove for few more minutes before Ajeet and Akhil’s car that were in front branched into an open building, the chauffeur driving them also branched into the same building and parked beside Ajeet and Akhil’s car. Don Pedro and Lord Frederick dropped from the car and walked to where Ajeey and Akhil were closely followed by General and Eric.

“What kind of food will you prefer to have because this is like a building that serves as a global restaurants, we have restaurants all over the world here” Akhil said with pipe in his mouth.

“Really? You mean they’d have Airegin restaurant here where they sell Airegin foods?” Frederick asked excitedly

“Hell yeah, as a matter of fact they have more than one Airegin restaurant here from what I have heard” Ajeet replied

“That will be exciting,  please lead us there” Pedro said as they followed Ajeet and Akhil’s lead. In a short moment they were in the restaurant already, they ordered for Airegin’s local meal while Ajeet and Akhil excused themselves to go find something to eat in another restaurant in the same building. Don Pedro and Lord Frederick sat on the same table while General and Eric sat beside them as they made their own orders too. The restaurant made them feel like they were home away from home, it’s setting, the workers, everything about the restaurant reminded them of Airegin, in a short moment their orders were brought by a very beautiful lady. As she she served the orders, Don Pedro couldn’t take his eyes off her for a moment.

“Are you from Airegin” He asked an obvious question as he had already heard her speak their local dialect with her co-worker that passed her their orders.

“Yes sir” She replied with a sheepish smile, served the order and left the table.

“We are alone at last” Frederick said as he uncovered his food “So what do you think”

“I don’t think we need to test that soil sample before we know that the soil is good for the seeds” Pedro replied as he took a spoon filled with food.

“I know right, but how do we throw them off without an argument” Frederick asked again.

“We will do whatever we need to do my friend” Pedro replied.