Chapter Twelve
Parked inside the Pine Hills mall parking lot, positioned in the opening where they could easily be seen at from the front entrance of the mall entrance, Dante first saw the Escalade, and then another Escalade pulling inside the mall parking lot, until finally seeing the Benz truck as it pulled inside the parking lot behind the two Escalades.
Looking down at his Mickey Mouse watch and seeing Big Daddy was three minutes late, Dante looked back up in time to see all three SUV’s pulling up in front of the rental, keeping a few feet back from them.
“Come on,” Dante told Dre, climbing out of the rental, and walking around the front end of the rental. Dante positioned himself up against the front end of the truck, watching as Big Daddy exited the Benz truck and walked through the crowd of twelve bodyguards who were all gripping burners in their hands.
“Where the fuck is my sister?” Big Daddy asked, as he started stared at both men he had ever seen before.
Ignoring Big Daddy’s question, Dante calmly asked, “Where’s the stuff I said I wanted?”
“Where the fuck is my sister you bitch ass motherfucker?” Big Daddy said repeating himself.
“I’m starting to get upset,” Dante said, still leaning against the front of the rental truck. “Last time asking and then you won’t have to worry about where your sister’s at. She’ll be with wherever it is a bitch goes after I put a bullet in their head. Where’s my money and heroin, fat boy?”
Starting at the motherfucker who spoke to him, promising himself that he would kill the motherfucker before him or the big motherfucker he was with left the parking lot, Big Daddy called out to somebody named Cole. He watched one of the bodyguards that Big Daddy called out, walk off from the group, stop over next to one of the Escalades opening the back door, and pulled out two black briefcases. Dante shifted his eyes back to Big Daddy finding the fat bastard staring straight at him. “Everything better be there.”
“Everything’s there,” Big Daddy replied, motioning for Cole to take the briefcase to the guys.
Watching as the bodyguards stepped forward, Dante tapped the front end of the rental truck, and Dante stepped forward to meet the guy.
Once Dre had both briefcases and was back beside Dante, he laid both briefcases on top of the truck’s hood opening them both.
Looking over to his left seeing the briefcase filled with money while the other had two bricks of heroin inside, Dante saw Dre check under a few of the stacks of bills just as Big Daddy called out again, asking where his sister was.
Slowly smiling as Dre closed the briefcase, Dante looked back to Big Daddy saying, “Your sister is close by, but answer one question before I tell you exactly where’s she’s at.”
“What the fuck now?” Big Daddy asked loudly.
“You know someone named Tony T who used to fuck with your sister, Rachel?” Dante asked, still smiling a small smirk.
“Who the fuck you talking about? Who the fuck is Tony T?” Big Daddy yelled starting to lose his patience.
Shaking his head Dante laughed as he looked to his left saying. “Hey yo, Tony T. He don’t even remember you braw, crazy shit.”
“This is fucked up,” Tony T said as he stepped into view after watching from the dark shadows at the side of the corner of the mall’s front entrance front doors.
Hearing another voice, he turned his attention to his right just as his men’s yelled in warning. Big Daddy had enough time to see the dark brown-skinned guy with the AR-15 gripped in both hands right before the poorly lit parking lot lit up with the AR-15 he was holding.
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After dropping Vanessa off at home feeling unwell, but feeling better than she did the previous night, Alinna told her girl to call her later as she walked up to the front door to her town house.
Hearing her cell phone ring as she pulled her keys from her purse, Alinna unlocked her front door, turned back to wave at Vanessa, and then pulled her cell phone from her left side pocket.
Breaking out in a huge smile at seeing Dante calling, Alinna answered as she stepped inside the house. “Hey baby, where are you? You still in Alabama? How long you planning on being there? When are you coming home? I miss you.”
“Damn shorty, you plan on breathing?” Dante asked laughing.
Smiling at his response, but smiling harder Alinna asked again, “When are you getting home?”
“We should be in Miami by morning sometime around 3:00.”
“So everything went okay there in Alabama?”
“Everything went good, shorty?
Smiling harder, Alinna said, “Well, I’ve gotta talk to you when you get home. It’s important.”
“Talk.”
“Not over the…”
“You said it was important, shorty. Talk”
“Dante it can wait until you get home. We’re okay and it’s all okay, alright?”
“We’ll be there in a few hours.”
Hearing the anger in his voice recognizing Dante was upset, she simply couldn’t tell him what she had to tell him. Alinna also noticed he didn’t catch her little clue that she gave him with the whole, “We’re okay,” thing she said. “I love you Dante.”
“Yeah, love you too, Alinna,” Dante told her, but hung up the phone right afterwards.
Shaking her head smiling again after Dante hung up the phone Alinna headed up to her bedroom to shower and change into something to where to bed.
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Not sure how long she was asleep or when she fell asleep, Alinna opened her eyes, feeling someone brushing the side of her face gently with his hands, slowly smiling once she realized she was seeing Dante seated beside her on the bed. “Hey baby, you just got here?”
“Yeah,” Dante answered, brushing back her hair from her face.
“How you feeling?”
“I’m good, I just miss you?” Alinna told him, sitting up and hugging Dante around the neck.
“How’s the baby?” Dante asked, speaking into Alinna’s ear.
Pulling back and looking at Dante in complete surprise, Alinna stared into Dante’s eyes for a moment. “Who told you?”
“You did,” Dante answered, and then said, “I caught on to what you said after we hung up the phone. The whole we’re okay and it’s okay comment.”
“I was wondering if you would catch that.”
“I try not to miss too much.”
“Are you mad or happy?”
“Why would I be mad?” Dante asked, staring at Alinna with questioning eyes.
“I just thought that with what we’ve been doing that you wouldn’t be ready for us to have a baby yet,” Alinna explained to him.
“Shorty listen,” Dante started, kicking off his shoes, and then pulling out both .40’s, laying one of the bedside table, and then sliding the other under his pillow only to feel another burner. He pulled it out only to see Alinna’s .380.
“You weren’t home,” Alinna told him, taking her gun, and sticking it under her own pillow as she moved over to her side of the bed.
Laying down beside Alinna as she laid her head on his chest, Dante admitted what he was saying. “I don’t worry about you handling business and what not, but I’ve thought about that too and I’m changing up things a little bit. You can continue doing your thing with Vanessa, Harmony, and Amber, but I’m gonna deal with the problems my way without you. I want you to focus on stacking this case and getting us rich, you good with that?”
“I don’t know if I have a choice,” Alinna answered rubbing her hand under his shirt, rubbing his stomach feeling his six pack and hard muscles.
“One more thing,” Dante told her, causing Alinna to raise her head to meet his eyes. “You got something you wanna tell me?”
“Like what?” Alinna asked with a confused look on her face.
“Miguel?” Dante asked, smirking at Alinna.
Slowly smiling, Alinna laid her head back down onto her man’s chest and went into explaining about Miguel finding out about the Geovani hit
and then explaining about Miguel’s threats to turn them in if she wouldn’t sleep with him, which was how she set up the hit at the hotel where both Amber and Harmony killed Miguel.
“Where was Vanessa while you, Amber, and Harmony were handling ole boy.
“You heard about the white girl named Amber who’s being called Miguel’s mistress?” Alinna asked, looking back up at Dante.
“Yeah, who’s she?” Dante asked holding Alinna eyes.
“She wasn’t nobody really, just a hotel clerk,” Alinna answered. “But she’s the reason Vanessa wasn’t in the room with us.”
“So Vanessa was putting shorty to sleep while y’all deaded that clown, Miguel?” Dante asked, smiling as he shook his head. “You women are really something else.”
“We learned from the best,” Alinna told Dante, smiling at him. “What you get from the hit in Alabama?”
“It’s in the closet,” Dante told her, watching as Alinna climbed out of bed and walked over to the closet pulling out the two briefcase and walking back over to the bed.
Laying both briefcases on top of the bed, Alinna opened one and saw the heroin. Dante announce that one briefcase was filled with two bricks of heroin that she broke into while the other was packed with $250,000.
Looking over to Dante in shock and surprise, Alinna opened the other briefcase and saw that it was in fact filled with money. She looked back to Dante asking him, “What happened to Big Daddy and Rachel after you, Dre, and Tony T got the money and drugs?
“You already know what happened with Big Daddy’s fat ass, but Rachel never made it out of Miami,” Dante told her, winking his eye.
Shaking her head smiling, Alinna said, “I want you to chill for a while.”
“Chill? For what?” Dante asked, staring at Alinna with a questionable stare.
“Baby, we have enough work to last us at least until after the baby is born. I’m already one month into this pregnancy and I want us to move in together,” Alinna told him, and then added, “I want us all to move in together.”
“All of us, as in me, you, the girls and Dre?”
“Tony T also, since he’s messing with Harmony.”
Quiet for a moment while thinking, Dante finally said, “Alright, I’m with the whole living together idea, but I’m not with the whole laying back doing nothing idea.”
Sighing, Alinna smiled and said, “Alright, you Dre, Tony T, can do a few small jobs outside of Florida, but nothing major until after the baby is born, Dante.”
Smiling, Dante said, “Now that’s an idea I’m with shorty.”
“I bet you are,” Alinna replied, smiling as she closed both brief cases, winking at Dante.