CHAPTER 25: THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON MARCUS PART 2

Gina POV

“Captain can I speak to you for a moment?” I ask him. Marcus gets pulled aside by one of the cops so that he can reset the ankle bracelet. “Yeah.” Captain Baldwin replies and we walk a further away from everyone. “I think we need to have Marcus moved to another location. I think that whoever is trying to have him killed isn’t going to stop.” I say. “I agree. I can put a request in tomorrow for a transfer. I’ll let you know.” Captain Baldwin says. I look around to make sure that we’re alone but nobody is within earshot from us.

“If it’s possible can we please transfer him to one of my safe houses outside of L.A? He’ll be better protected over there as I’ll have security all around.” I replied. “I’m not sure if that’s possible. We usually have a list of our own locations for people under house arrest.” Captain Baldwin replied. “With all due respect Captain but based on what I heard earlier, it seems that your precinct has some corrupt cops. I can’t let what happened here tonight, happen again.” I say as I see Marcus walking towards us. Captain Baldwin is quiet for a second before he responds. “Good point. I’ll see what I can do.” He replied.
“Hey mind telling me what you two were talking about?” Marcus asks me as he wraps his arms around my shoulders. “I was just asking Captain Baldwin here if we might be able to transfer you to another location for the time being.” I replied. “Whoever arranged this little assassination is probably also the one responsible for the shooting at the hotel earlier today.” Captain Baldwin says. “Nah. It’s not. That was just my friend, Tatiana’s, soon to be ex-husband, Toby’s doing. He was pissed that Dax and I took her away from him so he tried to kidnap her and kill us.” I replied. “Yeah we have him in custody as well as several of the other men except for Carlos Santoro. We’re still looking for him.” Captain Baldwin replies.
One of the cops walk towards us. “Captain Baldwin the suspect is awake.” He says. “Let’s go find out what his case is.” Captain Baldwin says as we walk over to the police van. Luke and Garrett are standing outside of the police van along with the ghost kid from earlier.
“You. Tell us what’s your real name?” Luke says as he looks at the man. “My is Janos Burkawits.” The man replies in his heavy German accent. “He’s lying. His real name is Gunther Furkins. He’s wanted for murder in several countries like Spain, Brazil, France and Germany for murder.” The ghost kid replied. Now I know where I know this kid from. He’s the president of Germany’s son who was killed 3 years ago when an assassination attempt was made on his father but he jumped in front of the bullet instead.
“Your real name is Gunther Furkins.” I say to the man. Garrett starts smiling while looking at Gunther. “What? Really? That’s the guy who tried to kill the president of Germany but killed…” “killed his son instead? Yeah that’s him.” I replied. “How the hell did you know that you little bitch?” Gunther says as he gets up and charges towards me even with his hands cuffed behind his back but Marcus punches him in the face. He falls face first onto the ground.
“Don’t you speak to her like that. You know I ought to beat the shit out of you after you just tried to kill me asshole.” Marcus says as he kicks Gunther in his ribs. “I thought you were my friend.” Marcus yells at him. “Friends? I can never be friends with a guy that killed his own father.” Gunther replied as he smiles up at Marcus. This enrages Marcus even more because he punches him a few more times before letting him go. “I would have succeeded if it weren’t for my gun that malfunctioned.” Gunther says. “Gun malfunctioning? Laugh my ass off.” Ghost kid says laughing.
Marcus wants to attack him again but I stop him. Luke and Garrett pick Gunther up from the ground. “Now I’m going to ask this one more time. Who sent you?” I asked him again. “I don’t know his name. All I know is that he would’ve have paid me a shit ton of money to deliver his dead body.” Gunther says as he points at Marcus with his head. Marcus punches him again in the face. “Alright that’s enough. Throw his ass back in the van.” Captain Baldwin says as he gets off the phone. “I just talked to the German embassy. You’re being deported back to your home country.” Captain Baldwin says as he looks at Gunther. “You can’t do that!” Gunther yells at him. “Oh yes we can.” Captain Baldwin replied.

The ghost kid pulls me aside. “You know he was telling the truth. He met with some guy wearing a red mask and weird tattoo on his shoulder this afternoon. He’s the one who hired him. He didn’t say what his name is though.” The kid tells me. Marcus comes and stands next to me. “Red mask huh? Thanks for telling me kid.” I replied to the kid. “Who are you talking to?” Marcus asks me. “Oh just the president of Germany’s kid. You should thank him. He helped save you earlier.” I whisper to Marcus. “Oh the so-called gun malfunctioning story. Thanks for that kid.” Marcus whispers when the van’s door gets slammed shut.

Marcus and I turn around to see Garrett staring at us while Luke locks the van. “I’m not even going to ask about what I just witnessed here.” Garrett says as he starts walking backwards while waving his finger between Marcus, the ghost kid and myself. He probably just thinks that Marcus and I are crazy because he saw us talking to thin air. Gunther is sitting at the back of the van staring at us through the small window. The ghost kid is also in there with him and he has a mischievous grin on his face. The kid waves his finger in a circle making Gunther slam his face his face against the window. He screams as he holds his bloody nose. “Now I know why his face was all busted up sometimes.” Marcus whispers in my ears.
Garrett saw the whole ordeal and it looks like he’s freaking out a bit. Seeing someone’s head get slammed against a window will do something to you.

“What the… Oh this is just getting to weird for me.” Garrett says as he looks at Sanchez getting into his car. “I’m going to follow while you hack his bank accounts with her help.” Garrett says to Luke as he starts walking away. “You can’t, you don’t have your car remember? You came here with me. I’ll follow him and you stay here.” Luke says as he takes out the keys to his Jeep. Garrett quickly walks back and grabs the keys out of Luke’s hand. “Hey.” Luke said. “It better not have a scratch on it!” Luke yells back at him. “I’ll bring it back I swear.” Garrett says while running towards Luke’s Jeep. He jumps in and then drives off after Sanchez.
Marcus, Luke and I start walking back to his house. The neighbors as well as the news vans are still outside his house. Captain Baldwin is talking to the reporters, basically telling them all to fuck off as they have nothing to see here. They start packing up as they see they won’t be getting anything out of Captain Baldwin. He can be pretty mean when he wants to be.

Marcus and I walk into his dining room where the cops are just finishing up. “Well so much for dinner.” Marcus says as he looks at the ribs that are full of dust and bullet holes. “Oh I’m sure we can whip something up in the kitchen.” I replied. “I’m going to go see what I have for us.” Marcus said. He kissed my forehead and left for the kitchen with Luke right behind him. “Hey you got any beer?” I hear Luke ask him as they enter the kitchen.

I take my phone out of my pocket to check my messages. “Shit.” I say as I look at all of my missed calls and messages and Glenda. Some of the messages are about the trip to Paris for their fashion week and the others are about what she just saw on the news.

I haven’t talked to her for 2 days now. She’s going to be pissed at me that’s for sure.