The Midnight Heir

GAM

After Anthony's call ended, it took exactly thirty minutes for two black vans to drive into Neon Grove, each packed to the limit with people all dressed in black hoodies, black baseball hats, black nose masks, black denim pants but surprisingly pure white canvas shoes. They were in uniform.

These two vans drove fast and carelessly, almost hitting people but thankfully they didn't.

"Where in the world are they going like that?" People asked themselves, only for the vans to take a right turn, and parking in front of the Untitled Hotel moments later.

All the people inside the vans came out and the person who had been in the passenger seat of the first van lead the charge while the rest gathered at one spot.

He had an access card in one hand and in the other hand was a sealed brown paper bag. They were in a hurry so he unlocked the hotel.

"Alright people, you know what to do!" He signaled to everyone and in a rush, they all went into the Untitled Hotel.

They split up at the elevator with the leader carrying the paper back into the elevator and the others went into the broom closet where they grabbed cleaning supplies, organized themselves, and started to clean everything.

Everything was happening so fast that it was very obvious that these people weren't new to this job and when the leader finally entered the elevator, he gave his final instruction before ascending.

"Once you're done here, head to the top floor where the guest is and be sharp with it!" he said and up he went.

Anthony had used that thirty minutes to get clean up, even going as far as shaving his beard off.

He was sitting on the bed with his hair still dripping wet, a towel around his neck while he counted the money from the envelopes

For the Casino, he had used five thousand dollars from the money he got for selling his motorcycle to buy gaming chips and now he only had thirty thousand dollars stacked on one side.

On another side was what was left from the five thousand dollars he got from the bank after taking out the amount for transporting himself everywhere today, what he ate at the Grand Blue Restaurant, as well as what he spent in a cinema.

*KNOCK* *KNOCK*

The minute he finished counting he heard three consecutive knocks on the door with the following phrase "Special deliver"

He knew what that meant so he opened the drawer and gently placed the smaller stack of cash in it but as for the bigger stack, he put it back into the envelope and then went to open the door with it.

"Here's what you ordered, Sir" the man in black said once Anthony opened the door

"You're the guy I talked to on the phone aren't you?" Anthony smiled 

"Yes," he pushed the bag to Anthony who took it "That will be the usual amount, Sir," he said and Anthony push to him the envelope.

"Thank you, sir" The man in black said then opened the top of the envelope.

He flipped through the entire stack of cash, looking like he was able to count it precisely even though he was flipping it at an incredible speed "It's complete!"

"Of course" Anthony grinned "And will that be all?" he asked looking genuinely curious.

"Yes, I have a message for you from THE OVERSEER!"

Once Anthony heard this he chuckled in satisfaction.

This is what he truly wanted more than the contents of the paper bag. The reason why he went to all those expensive places in the first place was to catch the Overseer's attention.

"So what's the message Gam left for me? Lemme hear it!" Anthony asked with scrunched eyebrows, thinking it would be a prerecorded message but turns out that it isn't.

"The message is "I got your message—"" the man in black was just about to finish when all of a sudden his phone started to ring, interrupting him.

"Excuse me" he apologized then went on to fish his phone out. 

The both of them looked curious as to who could be calling at this time because the phone the man in black had on him wasn't a phone meant for social calls.

This was the phone he uses for these type of business, with only a select people having this number to call so once it rang, he knew that it had to be an important call.

The man in black first looked at the small screen of his flip phone to see who the caller was and once he knew he turned it over to Anthony where he saw the name [THE OVERSEER] right in the middle.

He answered the call, nodded his head in response to whatever was said to him by the Overseer, then he pushed the phone to Anthony, saying "It's for you!"

Anthony took the phone, wondering why The Overseer wanted to speak with him all of a sudden. It was very odd.

The phone number was the same as what he remembered Gam the Overseer had during his time in the Mob so he thought that he might just be overthinking things.

"Didn't think I would be hearing from you this soon, Gam" Anthony smiled and then the person on the other line replied.

First, they breathed into the mouthpiece before speaking three seconds later ["I finally get to hear your voice again, Anthony"] they said.

Instantly, Anthony became shocked and then he frowned seriously.

"Who the hell is this?! This isn't Gam's voice! Who are you?!" Anthony replied