Chapter 27: Lambs.
Time flew by, and he didn’t even notice. Of course not, because all the jungle noise, the warm water, and the bubbles truly relaxed him... and he fell asleep in the bathtub but woke up just in time as his head slowly slid down into the water... it would have been the worst way to die.
Even imagining it was like a bad joke. Allegedly the most dangerous and feared gangster gets out of prison, gets beaten, kidnapped, kills one of the key players of the modern underworld, and then dies in a bathtub because he fell asleep... what an ending it would have been... especially in that water.
He was in there for an hour and the water was just straight up disgusting. It became blood red and full with the dirt and who knows what... without him even using any shampoo or soap. He just put his ass in the water and let it soak in it. So he reached out for a soap or whatever was on the side and washed himself off, and it just became more disgusting, the water literally turned to black.
When he was finally done and stepped out of the bathtub turning off the jungle experience he stared into the mirror and that was when he truly understood why nobody looked at him.
The unkempt beard, eyebrows, hairs, and his nose that was everything but not straight... of course everyone was avoiding the eye content, not even talking about the amount of blood that came off of him. He was looking like a straight-up barbarian.
So he did what he thought was best and started opening every drawer until he found scissors and some razors and straight up started shaving himself off.
It was kinda symbolic, shaving off all of the ten years off his face and becoming a new man... a whole lot of new man, because he suddenly looked proper to his age.
"Sir... Joseph, I brought underwear and clothes. Can I come in?" A voice came, and it was a woman, which meant one of the maids... but this time, he had nothing dirty in his mind and grabbed the towel.
"Come in." He said, and the door opened, and the same woman stepped in that was praying before eating... but there she wasn’t in the maid’s clothes, but in proper housekeeper attire.