"She loves me, Not you!" snapped the timid boy with glasses whom David called the Nerd.

"Have you seen yourself in the mirror? Even a pig wouldn't love you; she loves me!" shouted back the muscular, handsome young man David called the Gymboy.

"Of course, she loved me; I wrote all her assignments!"

"So what?!! She sucked my cock!"

"You liar! Untie me, and I will beat the living daylights out of you".

"You can certainly try! I will shove your glasses up your ass because clearly, you can't see how strong I am."

The Nerd and Gymboy would have gone on like this until David's ear would start bleeding, so he took out his gun and pulled the trigger in the air.

That got their attention, and both went silent.

"May I have your kind attention, you little pieces of shits?" asked David calmly in his usual commanding baritone voice.

David was a fifty-year-old man and a seasoned killer. He was tall and muscular, with a well-defined jawline and a thick, snowy mustache. His battle-hard face commanded respect and fear. His widow's crown and slick white hair gave his persona some gravitas. He wore his usual blue-torn jeans and a dark leather coat under a gray round neck.

I have to get this done quickly, I can't have my love waiting for long…

He aimed his dark and smooth revolver at the two idiots before him; both of them were kneeling with nothing on them except underwear. Their hands and legs were tied behind their back to prevent them from running. He could see that Nerd was shaking a bit. The Gymboy's eyes showed fear, but he still had a stubborn expression.

It was early morning, and the sun had barely risen in the east. The three of them were in a graveyard with a thick banyan tree next to them. Most of the graveyard was still dark, and there was a creepy feeling that dark things were staring at them. David had dug a hole big enough to put down two people and had the two boys kneeling right beside that hole. He had kidnapped them out of their beds early in the morning as it was better to finish the nasty work in the darkness.

"Listen, as I will only say this once, the girl is no longer your lover. She is going to marry someone else very soon. Her father would appreciate it if you two boys stopped all contact with her. I suggest you do that if you don't want this hole to be your new home."

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David could see that the Nerd was properly shaken, and it wouldn't take further persuasion. The Nerd was short and thin. He seemed to be one of those African boys seen in humanitarian magazines. He wore round glasses and had dark, curly hair. Every bone in his body was visible. He was so thin that he looked like a skeleton that didn't yet know it was dead. David found it surprising that the politician's daughter had him as one of her boyfriends.

"Fuck you, and fuck her father! I am not going to let her marry someone else. I will leak the intimate photos I have of her and stop this marriage at any cost," replied the Gymboy, who still seemed to not have understood the reality.

Gymboy looked like one of those muscular guys from the movies who would fuck a mafia don's wife and get killed for it. He was a handsome man with a clean shave, a perfect jawline, and smooth, long hair cascading down his shoulders.

Ah, intimate photos…

David never understood why women agreed to have their intimate photos taken because it always led to that getting leaked when the relationship turned sour.

"You don't have any of her photos to leak!" shouted the Nerd with a nervous shake in his voice.

"I do! What can you leak? Her assignments?" snapped back Gymboy.

David couldn't bear another round of their petty argument. His orders from the politician were clear: delete the photos and bury the idiots. There was also a special occasion that day for which David had been waiting for a while. He had to travel to his lover's mansion for that. So he ended this very quickly, placed two fingers in his mouth, and whistled twice.

He could hear the paws rushing toward him, making minor thuds on the ground. The Nerd and Gymboy stopped bickering when they heard the first barking sound from the hound. The hound stopped before David and caught the peanuts he threw in the air. The Nerd and Gymboy both began to shake nervously at the sight of the hound.

It was a black hound with no fur and was almost as big as a black panther. Its golden pupils shone in the darkness, and something about that glow sent a chill down their spines. The hound bared its teeth to reveal its sharp vampire-like teeth to the two boys. As if that wasn't scary, it also had protruding bones out of its arms and back that made it look like a creature from hell.

"Boys, now that I have your attention, meet Goliath," said David, pointing to the hound.

"He will rip you both into pieces if I let him. He loves biryani as dinner; I didn't feed him last night, so…" David let his sentence hang in the air.

"You have two options, delete all those intimate photos of the girl, forget her, and never contact her again, or you can become Goliath's breakfast, and your bones will be buried."

"I will delete those photos and never contact her again," shrieked the Nerd like a little girl.

David was again surprised to learn what people do for free assignments. He smiled. He knew the Nerd was the easiest one to crack. Now, if Gymboy agreed to do it, he could get on his way to his lover. It was getting late already.

David looked at Gymboy, expecting an answer; Gymboy was still processing what he needed to say. Goliath had clearly rattled his cage, but he was not scared enough to let go of the girl. David was getting impatient as the graveyard got silent; not even the wind blowing off the leaves made any sound. Before David could repeat the two choices to Gymboy, this time with gritted teeth, his phone rang, breaking the silence.

David took his phone out and saw the call was from his lover's mansion. He took the call to inform him that he was going to be a bit late because this work was taking longer than he anticipated. He heard someone sniffling cries on the other end, and he got concerned.

"What happened?"

"Sir, it's best you come here as soon as possible."

"Tell me what happened?" asked David with concern.

"Sir, madam Sophia… madam has been killed. Please come fast."

David was shaken to his core; he couldn't believe what he heard. He cut the call and stared into the darkness of the graveyard, not knowing how to react. He returned to his senses in a minute and looked down at the two boys kneeling before him. He couldn't kill them before getting to know where the photos were.

"Okay, we will have to continue our conversation later. Right now, I have to go somewhere, and you both will promptly follow me. If you try to escape, Goliath will kill you."

And so David carried the two boys one by one into the back of his car. He sat in the driver's seat as Goliath sat in the front passenger seat, and they began their journey to Sophia's mansion, where a Painful business lay before them.