Writing Prompt
Craft a new piece using this sentence as your opening line: "I never used to be this violent."
I never used to be this violent. I used to be an accountant for some shit eating mobster. My only client. I was a pencil pusher; timid and weak. I was from a mafia family too. Important enough to marry get a mafia wife not important enough to get the protection the family granted the favorites. From nine to five each day, I managed millions of dollars for this jerk off. Faithfully I might add. Not one cent went missing under my watch. Jerk off never once gave me a raise or a bonus. But I pushed on. Then I find out that this jerk off is banging my wife. While she is a hateful bitch and I was glad of being rid of her. She felt it was necessarily to publicly humiliate me. In one day, my reputation, my pride and my life went up in flames. My own family disowned me and I was a target.
I never used to be this violent until I was cornered by my ex-wife's brothers. It hurt at first. But once I let go it felt really good. I never knew that inside me was a monster. It just needed the right catalyst to come to the surface. Her brothers was strong. Bodybuilders who like their sister sponged off of someone else's hard work and tears. But once I embraced this monster I was stronger than the lot of them.
They had intent to ruff me up. Baseball bats and brass knuckles type of ruffing up. But when the tables turned, I was sitting in a warehouse covered in blood. The only thing that was remotely human looking other myself was the forearm of the clutching the door of the SUV one of them tried to flee in. I was happy. Happiest I been in a long time.
I figured I good pay my ex and my former employer a visit. I wade through the obligatory cannon fodder goons. The ones that leeched onto a boss hoping to one day move up in the world. Twenty with various calibers of guns.
I found the boss and my ex in a compromising position in their bedroom. I walked in slowly.
I never used to be this violent....but I sure as hell can get used to it.
