“Mr. Boulstridge,” He nodded pleased to be on the comfortable ground of how business should be carried out, after all he had assumed this man was the daytime manager but generally business owners introduce themselves. Given the situation it was only a sign that the owner was stressed but given the string of poor conduct choices and unprofessionalism and Gabe’s own current irritation it was simply a sign that this place was in over its head and couldn’t deliver on it’s promises.
Instead of being relieved that Ricky remained well Gabe just felt ill that he had allowed himself to get mixed up in a place like this. He should have known better than to trust his sister’s judgement and the feeling did not let up as the owner barreled on with his extortion. Well, he was irritated and certainly wasn’t going to be cowed. “I certainly don’t think I am your only high profile client. However there are a few things I know with a good bit of certainty. You will not be able to cobble together any sort of business treating any high profile client in this fashion Mr. Boulstridge. I certainly don’t intend to spend my money in a place that decides to try out blackmail when they can’t clean up one of their messes. Instead of pestering your high profile clients who were no where near your establishment and very unlikely to be involved in something such as this, perhaps you should try to keep it quiet and start looking into people who are actually capable of this sort of brutality?”
Let them try to blackmail him, the one time he had came he had actually been in the building he had gone out to a party afterwards in Los Angeles. There was very little they could prove and considering they had a mutilated body that they obviously were not handing over to the authorities he could probably get himself a private investigator to counter move them very easily, especially considering how well they were handling the situation. “Now I’ve been may places since I left my room here, but I will be happy to obtain my itinerary from my assistant to set your mind at ease. If you can give me the times relative to your crime I might even have pictures to verify an alibi for you. I certainly know I have not been in this state since I left. Now, I’m a very busy man with obligations very far from this state on a very regular basis. I have no intention of postponing any of my obligations when it’s clearly impossible that I was involved in this situation. So I suggest you finish up your questions.”
He took a step closer, no longer worried that calmness would wear off on him given the tactics the man had resorted to, “However I might remind you when a person like you is dealing with creatures such as myself, if you want things to remain calm you should probably keep them calm instead of resorting to threats. Threats beget threats for people such as myself.”