Chapter 37: Reality.
It was a tense moment. Her hand started shaking as she was gripping the gun so firmly, aiming still at Joseph... but the thing was, it wasn’t really playing out how she wanted it to... because she was the only one who was tense... and no one else.
Joseph was staring at her unbothered, not even a single sign that he was worried about anything or scared, while Pablo was still holding the gold bar like a baby in his hands, as well the other two just... didn’t react at all.
And well, of course not because this whole situation was like a hallucination or something, because in front of their eyes was a park ranger... with a gun aiming at them, her hand shaking, and looking way too fragile to have any kind of authority over them... but she tried.
"I said put your hands up!" She shouted again, her voice still fragile, she sounded like she wasn’t even sure of herself. "Up now or I’ll shoot!"
"Up, guys."Joseph said calmly as he lifted up his hand, dropping the money on the ground as well as the others lifted their hands too, and it just became a more surreal situation.
Like a park fucking ranger was... ordering them around... ordering the Cassian family, Joseph the Don... it was just pure disrespect, though Joseph seemed to enjoy it.
"Why would you shoot?" Joseph said as he put a smile on his face. "We didn’t do anything wrong."
"You are destroying a protected forest and you are Joseph Cassian!"
And she knows... fuck, I knew someone was following us... He thought, because at the waterfall, when he splashed himself for a brief moment he saw her, kinda hiding and looking suspicious, and now she was in front of him aiming a gun at his head like she was a hitman.