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Chapter 46<br />
LIFE AND DEATH ON THE ROAD<br />
Green is dead and disposed of,” Nob wrote. “I will get you a picture for proof of death.”<br />
“Ok, thank you,” the Dread Pirate Roberts replied. “I guess they were unable to get him<br />
to send the coins he stole.”<br />
“They had to do CPR on him one time, actually the trick to torture sometimes is keeping the guy<br />
alive,” Nob wrote back, explaining that Curtis Green, the thief who stole the Dread Pirate Roberts’s<br />
$350,000 in Bitcoins, had been tortured and drowned before he ultimately succumbed to a heart<br />
attack. “Died of asphyxiation / heart rupture.”<br />
When Dread didn’t respond to the macabre description of the murder, Nob asked, “You ok?”<br />
“A little disturbed,” DPR said. “But I’m ok.” And then he admitted to Nob, “I’m new to this kind<br />
of thing is all.”<br />
Variety Jones had reassured Dread that what they had done wasn’t simply the right decision but<br />
the only one. “We’re playing for keeps,” VJ wrote. “I’m perfectly comfortable with the decision, and<br />
I’ll sleep like a lamb tonight, and every night hereafter.”<br />
“Well put,” DPR wrote back. “Enjoy the rest of your evening mate.”<br />
“I will, you too,” VJ replied. “Sweet dreams.”<br />
When Ross opened his next e-mail from Nob, he was greeted by an image of a lifeless Curtis<br />
Green peering back at him. Green’s thick jowl hung off to the side, and a pool of vomit had erupted<br />
from the dead man’s mouth. From the picture it appeared that Curtis’s T-shirt was drenched, likely<br />
from the waterboarding Nob’s thugs had administered before the thieving Green had taken his last<br />
breath.<br />
Ross then saved the picture to an encrypted folder on his computer and messaged Nob again,<br />
asking where he wanted the final $40,000 to be sent for the hit. “Send to the same account?”<br />
“Yes.”<br />
Ross was obviously torn up by what he had done. Killing someone wasn’t an easy decision, but<br />
he also knew that this was something he might have to do again in order to inoculate his empire<br />
against people who threatened it. There was no fate worse to him than losing control of what he had<br />
built.
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