His phone buzzed and he received another message reading: we will be there, cash would be nice, will take a look at your problems and discuss things thanks Liam,
Tom was deep in thought about what to do and he got excited about it, he went to bed.
Tom’s alarm went off, it was six o clock in the morning, the birds were singing outside, he felt good and a bit excited, he got up and had a shower, he had some breakfast and got dressed,
Tom went down to the main reception and checked on James, there was no sign of him, he looked about and went into the bar lounge,
He found James fast asleep on the setee snoring away, there was a few beer bottles next to him on the table and the big TV was on showing an adult channel.
Tom sat at the bar thinking what to do,
He sat next to James, “waky waky sleep head” Tom called and shook James,
James woke looking shocked, he looked at Tom and got up, “sorry boss I was feeling a bit tired sir” James exclaimed,
“I can see that and I see you help yourself to my beer too, what do I do with you James” Tom announced!
“Sir I am sorry give me another chance a favour please won’t happen again I promise” James asked?
“Ok you owe me and I think I know how you can repay me later, will let you know” Tom told him, “go home and sleep mate, see you later on” Tom told him, James thanked Tom and left,
Tom was thinking ahead and was planning things for later on when the builders arrived, he wanted rid of them and their hold on him.
Tom went on his morning rounds as the his first staff came in, the chef and the day receptionist,
Toni and Tina came through and so did Jack, Candi and jo appeared and joked about last night, Manuel went off to his kitchen to get the breakfast started, it was just after six in the morning, breakfast for the guests was served at seven, Toni and Tina sorted out the bar and the lounge area of the bar where breakfast was served,
Jack went off on his rounds with Greg and Tommie stayed in the reception with Suzi,
Manuel called Tom on the radio and asked if he had seen Lexi this morning, Tom told him that the last time he had seen her was last night and she went back to her place and Tom went to his, a good hour passed and Manuel was really concerned, Toni and Tina helped him out with the breakfasts, Jack went to look for her and the other staff looked around as well, there was no sign of her, her bed hadn’t been slept in, Jack told Tom, Tom told Jack that she was drunk when she left to go back to her place, “ill check the basement in case” Tom announced and off he went,
Jack stared at him and went into the bar to talk to the girls, no one had seen Lexi after they had left the bar last night, she stayed on with Tom smoking, that was all they knew,
Half the day was gone, the hotel ticked over, all the guest were happy Tom’s place was full now, the receptionist had to turn away people wanting to stay at the hotel, Tom told her to tell them if they picked a later date they would get a discount, it worked, the hotel was fully booked for the next few months,
The day was coming to an end and the atmosphere was not too good as Lexi was not found and her bed wasn’t slept in and all her personal stuff was in place, Jack wanted to call the police.
Through the day most of them called Lexi’s mobile with no answer, her mobile was in Toms place,
James came in for his night shift and Suzi told him about Lexi and he was a bit shocked, he said he had heard Tom and her laughing in the bar and then as far as he knew they both went to their places, Jack asked him if he saw them both go to their places, James said no as he was doing his first round of the hotel,
Jack got James to show the footage on the CCTV of the bar area and the reception area and all other areas, there was one out the back where all the staff stayed, for some reason there was no footage, James tried everything as he was good with computers and CCTV stuff, “so weird, the whole nights camera footage has been erased and I don’t know how” James told Jack, Jack called Tom on the radio to come to reception,
“What’s up” Tom asked as he arrived,
Jack told him about the missing nights camera footage and was getting annoyed, “something not too right here mate, too many things don’t fit together, I think we should call the police” Jack announced,
“let’s wait till tomorrow, you have to give 48 hours for potentially missing persons before you repot them missing, let’s see what happens in the morning, I know everyone is upset, I am sure there is some daft explanation and Lexi will turn up don’t you worry” Tom put in, “I will call the CCTV engineer who installed the system in the morning and look into this problem, that’s one thing we must have for insurance reasons” Tom added and walked away, he went into the bar and asked for a strong vodka, Toni served him and didn’t say anything to him, “ok, ok I get the message, you think Lexi missing is something to do with me, please give me a break,
She is a grown up and I am sure there is a perfect reason for her disappearing like this, it will be sorted I promise” Tom said and finished his drink, his mobile buzzed with a text message form the Irish builder, he was on his way,
Tom went outside for a smoke and Jack joined him,
“so strange Lexi just disappearing like that, doesn’t answer her mobile, no night footage on the CCTV cameras, I thinks we have a gremlin in the pipes I do and I will dig him out, oh yes I will” Jack announced and flicked his half smoked cigarette away, he went back inside muttering to himself,
Tom watched him walk away, “careful old man, don’t upset me too much” he whispered to himself and carried on smoking his cigarette.
All the hotel staff went to their quarters and James was sat at his reception still trying to find out what happened to the missing nights CCTV footage,
Tom was in the bar on his own, the girls didn’t fancy staying on for a drink, and left him there as there was no guests tonight drinking, he went into reception to see James,
“ok James I have an engineer coming in soon to look at the system, he said it would take a few hours probably so I am giving you the night off, how does that sound Tom told him,
“Ok sounds good to me boss, you sure” James asked?
“No probs, it’s my hotel and I want to get to the bottom of this matter, I will do the night shift and get to the bottom of this” Tom added,
James left and went to his room.
Tom received another text from the builders they were running late and would be there in half hour ish,
Tom went down to the basement with two big butchers knives he took from the kitchen and a foam fire extinguisher, he had a plan,
He took the cover off the well and went back upstairs,
Tom went into his office to his safe, he took out a large amount of cash to give to the builders,
He waited in the bar and had a stiff drink.
There was a knock at the front door, and Tom had a text message: we were here mate the text read, Tom went and opened the front door, “lads come in and have a drink with me before we talk money and some more business” Tom said and showed them in, Tom shut the front door and led them to the bar, there was three of them,
The other lads that did the work were foreign labourers and had been deported back to their own country for working here illegally,
The three men who Tom invited into his hotel were the guys who ran the business, all brothers that Jack had recommended, they were Irish,
“What you want then” Tom asked?
“Pint of Guinness mate one of the men announced, “bells Whisky and my brother too thanks” the other brother put in,
Tom went behind the bar and made the drinks and passed them to the brothers, he made a strong vodka for himself, Tom took out a few wads of cash from next to the till, “I think this will keep things sweet, I just want to run the hotel and move on, need you guys to check the basement out for me”,
“There’s a problem down there” Tom exclaimed, the older brother picked up one of the wads of cash, “how much” he as
ked?
“Thirty grand and another five if you can sort the basement out for me” Tom added,
The two younger brothers laughed, Thailand here we come again mate” one of them announced!
“Nice on Tom, just one thing I want to know, why the secrecy of the roof penthouse, come on you can tell, my lips are sealed” he said,
“Ok, the penthouse is only for rent to certain guests who want privacy and some extras, people who want to stay in London who don’t want other people to know this, I run a certain discreet service to certain hush clients” Tom exclaimed,
“You’re a bad boy Tom, ok let’s have another drink and check out your basement then” the older brother announced!
The younger brothers were joking with each other and enjoyed the other drink,
Tom kept things sweet and joked with them, the atmosphere was good, they had another drink and the older brother asked Tom if they could stay the night and get started in the morning, Tom agreed, “hey do you do room massage in here and extras” one of the younger brothers asked and laughed,
“Easy tiger, just the security guard on through the night or I could get you a hooker or do you myself” Tom joked,
The younger brother looked hard at Tom, “and I’m sure you would too” he replied and the brothers laughed,
“so we going to have a look at the basement and then come back here and get some food in if you want and talk what need to be done” Tom exclaimed,
“Sure boss, lead the way” the older brother put in and smiled and slapped his hands.
Tom grabbed a bottle of bells whiskey and gave it to one of the younger brothers, he took it off Tom and they followed him through reception to where the steps down to the basement was, “careful lads, the steps are a bit steep down here” Tom announced,
“So why didn’t you let me sort this place out when we did the re-furb here then” the older brother asked?
“well to tell you the truth I wanted to keep this area in its old authentic way and try and do something with it myself at a later date, it’s got the old brick work and shows the old London down here, maybe turn it into a place of interest for tourists or something” Tom replied, “dream on there boy” The older brother put on,
They followed Tom down the steps and got to the basement, the older brother took a big swig from the whisky bottle, “grand stuff that young Tom so it is” he slurred, and passed the bottle back to his brother,
“Funny smell down here, something died here” one of the brothers announced,
“That’s the problem I want sorted out” Tom put in,
“Something died down there or what” one of the younger brothers exclaimed!
“So what exactly do you want me to do with your smelly basement then” The older brother asked?
Tom started talking about his plans for the basement and walked around putting on his effeminate nature and talk,
“check out Nancy boy dad” one of the younger brothers put in, “shut in boy, we’ve got our money to keep quiet about things, another job and more cash will sort us out for a good while” the dad replied,
“oooh” both brothers said and laughed,
“I don’t quite like your tone and please don’t take the piss out of me, I had a bad past, I was bullied too much at school” said Tom.
“Let’s just get out of here dad and let gay boy here get some other suckers do his work for him, when were done we can always screw him again” one of the brothers exclaimed,
All three of them laughed at Tom,
Tom stared at the three of them, “you think this is just a game don’t you, come here take more money of me and no dought will come back for more, well I don’t think so paddy” Tom exclaimed,
“Less of the paddy, before I give you a spanking your mummy didn’t give you” the dad announced!
Tom laughed out loud!
The lights went out,
“What the fuck is going on” one of the younger brothers called out,
The basement was in complete darkness,
“Stupid gay didn’t pay his electric bill”
Tom had his night vision glasses on and saw the three of them in green light,
“What you playing at boy” the older brother shouted out!
“Never piss Tom off” came the answer!
Tom pushed one of the boys over the edge of the well and he screamed as he fell in,
“Boys do something” the older one announced!
Tom pulled out the butchers knives and scraped them across the wall,
The other younger brother fell over and the bottle he was carrying smashed,
Tom laughed and watched them both stumble around,
“Bloody fool, you’ll pay for this you freak” the older brother shouted!
He stumbled around and fell over, he screamed as he put his hands on the broken glass on the floor, Tom watched and laughed,
“Ok mate, game over, not funny, let’s have some light were hurt here” the older brother shouted and called for his brothers only one of them answered back, “Billy where are you’s” he shouted!
Billy moved forward and slashed out with the knives with precision, he caught the older brother across the his neck and blood went everywhere,
The other brother felt his brother on the floor and screamed out, Tom was on him and waked him across the side of the head with the side of the knife, he fell to the floor moaning,
Tom picked him up and bent him over the edge of the well, he pulled his trousers and pants down,
“Screw me yes, I think not, now I screw you” Tom growled,
Tom entered the younger brother from the rear hard, the young guy cried out, Tom slashed his shoulder with the butchers knife and felt the blood run everywhere,
The young guy was crying as Tom did his thing and finished inside of him, Tom got off the young lad and stepped back and watched him, “please stop this” the young lad called out, Tom slashed down with the knife hard and his head came off falling into the well, Tom pulled the rest of the body over the side, he put on the lights and looked around,
The older brother was on the floor holding his chest,
“What the fuck have you done boy” he slurred?
“Never ever bully Tom me old china, you bloody Irish coming here and abuse my trust, game over for you my friend” Tom announced,
The older coughed up a load of blood, “please enough now” he moaned,
Tom swung the knife and hit his target, the top half of the man’s head came off showing what was left of his brain, and Tom knelt down next to him and pulled the rest of his brain out with his hands and squashed it around in his hands and smiled to himself.
Tom sat there covered in blood, he lit a cigarette and just sat there in silence.
He got up and picked up the older brother who was heavy, he took out the cash from his pocket “you fat twat” Tom growled and pushed him into the well too,
Tom spent a good two hours cleaning up, he scrubbed the floor and walls with disinfectant and bleach, then went back up.
Tom went to the bar and made a strong drink, all he had on was his underpants, he threw the rest of his clothes down the well and ceiled it again,
He went to the CCTV station at reception and deleted all footage of the builders coming into the hotel and turned off the record button for the night,
Tom sat on the settee and watched the gay channel for a while with a big smile on his face.
He made a sandwich in the kitchen and had some more to drink, he planned to buy some special equipment tomorrow and go down the well and investigate down there, he knew there was running water but he wanted to know where it was coming from and where it was going to, he would investigate the old plans of the building which he had in his place and see what was what, Tom fell asleep on the settee.
CHAPTER 7:
WARNING CCTV IN OPERATION:
Tom woke, he could hear noises in the reception area, he looked at his watch and got up quickly, the TV was still on and
he turned it off, he realised he was in his underpants, he grabbed the beer bottles and turned the lights off, he went into the kitchen and waited, he could hear Manuel whistling about and he came through to the bar area, “oh I see, no one cleaned up again, leave it to the girls” Manuel moaned,
Tom walked through with a sandwich in his hand, “Manuel, right on time, good man, before you say a word, I woke up staving and had no food in the fridge, sorry I had to raid yours” Tom said, Manuel looked shocked, “no worries boss, help yourself” he replied, Tom walked past him and went up to his place, he saw Manuel’s eyes and noted it.
Tom stayed in his place for quite a while, his mobile kept ringing, he answered it in the end, and it was Jack,
“Tom you ok, we got a few problems that need your attention” jack announced, “Jack your my hotel manager, if there’s a problem then I am sure you can fix it, whatever you do I will be fine with it, I have a bad stomach, see you later” Tom told him, “oh Tom did you see the builders, they told me they were coming in to see you for some more work or something, their van is down the road and has a parking ticket on it” Jack asked, “I know nothing about them mate, see you in a bit” Tom put in and hung up,
He sat in his kitchen smoking and thinking, he went out onto his balcony thinking of what to do next in the basement, there was now quite a few bodies gone down the well, and there was a distinctive smell down there, Tom kept pouring bleach down the well and other cleaning stuff.
Tom cleaned himself up and went down to the reception, he greeted the guests coming down for breakfast, Jack came over, “now then I think it’s time to call the local police about Lexi don’t you think” Jack said , “of course, ill sort it out, Tom replied, “oh Tom have you seen the builders, the Irish lads I hired for the hotel, their vans outside and has a ticket, they sent me a text asking if I fancied going for a drink last night, my phone was dead, they said you had some more work for them, talk to me then boy” Jack announced,
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