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The Hitman

The killer sat in the driver seat of his dark blue Ford Taurus, his eyes glued to Eleanor and her lover as they made out in the lover's BMW. The black-on-black BMW coupe was parked in the driveway of one of Eleanor's wealthy lover's houses in an upscale Queens neighborhood. 

Angry, the killer contemplated finishing the assignment right then as he fingered the small detonating device wedged between his legs, but he dismissed the thought. Having been on this particular assignment for nearly four months, he was having fun, watching Eleanor sneak around. 

Making the killer's assignment easier was the fact that Eleanor and her lover had done very little to hide their affair, thereby threatening Mayor Miller's political career. 

From Eleanor driving from the Mayor's house to a parking garage in the city, where a car service would transport her to the Plaza Hotel to meet her lover boy, it was more like a rehearsed routine. 

Knowing he holds Eleanor's fate in his hands and that her days on this earth were numbered made doing the assignment so much more exciting for the killer. 

He watched on as the two exited the BMW and walked hand in hand to the front of the lover's house, oblivious to the C-4 he had perfectly attached to the BMW's undercarriage. 

Like some teenage lovebirds they stopped at the door to make out some more, making the killer's stomach turn. 

Eleanor Miller, Mayor George Miller's whore of a wife was indeed one cold bitch! And she was going to pay for it in due time. 

After watching the two enter the lover's house, the killer looked at his wrist watch and jotted down some notes in his pocket notebook. His notes were more like codes, something that will appear irrelevant to an average individual. He understood the importance of covering one's tracks in his line of work. 

The hurtful evidence the killer had gathered for the mayor three months ago when he took on the assignment had turned what started as a simple eye job into a real assignment, and he couldn't wait to see the conniving bitch die. He had contemplated not taking the assignment at first but the fact that he felt deeply for the mayor had compelled him to. 

To the killer, it's one thing for a wife to divorce her husband and take half of his net worth but it's a completely different ballgame if she decides to stick around and humiliate him. 

See, before taking up this line of work, the killer was your average nine-to-fiver, earning a living as a construction worker. This was until he discovered that his lovely Gigi was nowhere near as innocent as she looked on the outside. 

After returning home from work earlier than expected one day, he found Gigi, the love of his life in bed with another man. 

What had hurt him the most was that his cheating and manipulative wife was screwing another man in his bed, under his roof while he worked to pay the bills. 

For Gigi's disloyalty and infidelity, the killer had gone to great lengths to cause her and her lover severe physical pain. Talk about extreme torture! 

After tying the two to separate chairs and gagging them to suppress their cries, not only did he practice his slicing and dicing skills on their naked bodies but he'd also given the two a jalapeņo bath.

Then there was the shocking episode with the car battery charger. The killer wanted, no he needed answers and he knew that attaching the connectors of a car battery charger to one's testicles or nipples would make them talk.

In the end, they found the poor guy's body with his severed penis in his mouth. As for Gigi, let's just say it wasn't pretty.

Following this incident, the killer had quit his construction job, sold his house and everything he owned, and had moved to a new area to start afresh. With a new car, a new one bedroom apartment and a new occupation--murder for hire--the killer began his new life.

Watching Eleanor cause the Mayor so much emotional pain disgusted the killer to his core. The reason he had decided to employ this particular form of killing.

By the time I get done, the medical examiner's office will be identifying Eleanor and this blond-haired prick by what's left of their teeth. The killer swore to himself as he used the Taurus' car lighter to light himself a cigarette.

Moments later, a glance at his watch told the killer it'd been longer than an hour, and Eleanor and her lover would be coming out any minute.

Flicking the cigarette ashes out of the car window, the killer continued to smoke inside the darkness of his car, keeping a constant eye on the front door of the house. The killer finished his cigarette and extinguished the butt in the car's ashtray.

Twenty minutes later, the front door to the house opened and Eleanor and her lover stepped out onto the front porch. They hugged and fondled each other like they knew it'd be their last time.

The killer watched on with evil eyes as the inseparable couple strolled to the lover's BMW. She does have some sexy legs, oh and those melons. Too bad she's going to die. He thought to himself.

When Eleanor's lover opened the passenger door for her, the killer nearly lost it, but he knew he had to wait for his golden moment.

Shutting the passenger side door, Eleanor's lover walked to the driver side and took a seat behind the wheel. He reached for and kissed Eleanor passionately, and that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

The killer had seen enough. As soon as the BMW's engine came to life, boom! The vibration from the powerful explosion reverberated through the killer's body inside the Taurus, as he observed a huge fireball where the BMW had once been.

As he drove away from his handiwork, knowing he'd left no survivors, the killer gave himself a pat on the back for another assignment well done. There was no need in reporting this to the mayor, for he was definitely going to see it on the news..
 

 

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