by Leo Eskandari » Mon Aug 17, 2020 12:38 am
"Hey there Jimmy," Leo said as he barged through the doorway, pushing his uncle back with his mere presence.
Uncle James sputtered in fear, anger, and disgust, "G-get out! Now! Or I'll-"
"Call the cops? No you won't," Leo said, poking the man, "Because you're a coward, and now I'm much bigger than you. That's not a threat, just a fact."
"Fine," James seethed, "What do you want? Money?"
Leo laughed, "You could say that. Because you owe me you fuckin' thief."
"Thief?! Have you lost your mind?"
"You. A thief. You kept my inheritance from me and sold it to a god-damned pawn shop," Leo said, eyes boring into his uncle.
A red-headed woman who had aged far better than James, came into the room just in time to hear the accusation. "Tell me you didn't James," she said with a steel that froze her husband.
James whipped around to face his wife, suddenly more worried about her than the seven foot chimera in the room. "Fiona! Don't believe him, he's ly-"
"James Thomas Blackburn, did you or did you not sell what my sister entrusted us with?" she demanded.
"Do you have any idea how much taking care of that ingrateful little shit was costing me?!" he exploded, trying to intimidateher into dropping the issue, "Not enough for that junk to cover, I can tell you that much!"
Much to the surprise of both James and Leo, she didn't flinch. In fact, her cold fury only grew. "Several things are going to happen. One, you are going to apologize. Two; you are going to get your receipt or ticket or whatever. Three; you are going to take him to the pawn shop and buy him anything he wants from that list. Four; you are going to pay him back for everything else. And five; you are going to pray I don't take half of everything you own in the divorce. And if you fail any of these things, I know more than enough about your greedy little pig heart to interest the authorities."
As his aunt read his uncle the riot act, Leo beamed at the richly deserved fallout he had unleashed.