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  “Si Papi, yes.” His grip tightened and Sonja felt as if she couldn’t breathe and then realized she couldn’t. “Ri..Ric…Ricardo, I…I can’t,” the words wouldn’t escape her mouth. She bucked her body to try to throw him off, but he was too heavy. She began to scratch his hands and his face, but her fight went in vain and everything went black. She stopped breathing and Ricardo kept pounding and humping away at her dead body. His last thoughts while he was coming inside her, ‘I’m going to have to dump this bitch in the river when I’m done!’

  The Calm before the Storm

  Chapter 15

  Three months had passed and everything was going as planned for Bless and Tess. They already made eight hundred thousand dollars in drug money and that was after paying all the workers. Omar and Ebony had the Brooklyn spots on lock and Vanessa and Iris were running the Philly spots. Each spot was pulling way over one hundred forty thousand dollars per week easy. Business was good.

  Even though business was good, Bless’s heart wasn’t into it anymore. He was all about his real estate company. He had just bought a new building in Harlem with some of the money Tess had saved for him. Tess was at the real estate company in Hillside, Queens running the day to day business. Bless was sitting on the couch in their Long Beach home looking at a list of buildings for sale. He planned on going to the addresses and look at them personally and choose a couple to buy and rent them out. He thought to himself, ‘Soon this will all be over. I’ll be all the way out the game and I could start a family.’

  His cell phone rang bringing him out his thoughts. He picked it up. “Hi, you have a collect call from a man named G. Press 5 if you want to receive this call, press 0 if you want to disconnect.” Bless pressed 5. “G what’s up buddy, you chilled.” Bless said.

  “Yeah youngster, you know the same old shit just a different day,” G replied.

  “Yo, you got that package I sent you,” Bless asked.

  “Yeah I got it and those butt magazines you ordered for me too.” They both laughed. Ever since Bless got out of jail, he’d been holding down G and Burt, his two old heads and he held down Gunner for taking the rap for that body. He sent him money and packages. He even sent his family money making sure they were always straight. Bless made sure all three men would never want again. In his eyes and heart real niggas do real things. “Yo G, what’s going on?” Bless asked.

  “I got some news for you youngster and you not going to like all of what I got to say,” G replied.

  “Yeah G so speak.”

  “Yo, that fool June was killed. Someone got him in the shower slipping.” G said.

  “Well I don’t know why you think I’d get upset over that,” Bless stated.

  “I’m not done youngster. The person that killed him died too,” G said with a pain in his voice.

  “Word. Who was that?”

  G paused for a minute and then said, “It was Burt.”

  “What the fuck you mean it was Burt? What you trying to say G,” Bless yelled. Bless knew what G had said, but he didn’t want to believe what he was hearing. G was the wild type, not Burt. “Yo G, Burt don’t get down like that,” Bless stated.

  “Well he did,” G said, “From what I heard, he overheard June talking about snitching on what happened in the yard that day to get you locked back up. So Burt got him while in the shower. He stabbed June four times, but never seen the razor before it was too late. June cut his neck and he bled to death. I was in the yard working out at the time. I didn’t find out what happened until they had the jail on lockdown and correctional officers found Burt and June dead in the showers.”

  “When did this happen?” Bless asked.

  “Yesterday youngster, the jail was on lock so I couldn’t call you.”

  “Shit G, this shit is fucking with my head.”

  “I know me too,” G replied. “Yo, I got to go. I’ll holla at you later. One youngster.”

  “One G,” Bless said as he hung up the phone. “Shit, how could Burt be dead and he did it for me,” Bless said to no one but himself. Bless was devastated. Burt helped him get through his bid with words of wisdom and knowledge that would always stick with him, ‘Go straight youngster. Life is too short,’ Burt would always tell him. “Shit!” Bless yelled.

  Bless pulled out a Dutch and some haze weed and rolled it up, sparked it, and smoked for a while hoping the weed would clear his head. When it didn’t work and just left him high, he thought, ‘shit I need to go for a drive to clear my mind.’ Bless went outside and got in to the Burgundy Bentley GT coupe Tess had got him. It was his favorite car because it was a gift from Tess plus the doors that come up in the air.

  Bless sat in his car and noticed that the car doors were unlocked. His mind was all over the place. Maybe he’d forgotten to lock the car last night. He pressed the start button and the car came to life. Then he realized he forgot his gun. He went nowhere without it just as he was about to step out of the car. He noticed something in the back seat. It was a black box. The box had numbers counting down from three. “Oh shit!” Bless said and jumped out of the car trying to run as far as he could away from it, but it was a little too late. BOOM! The car blew up and was on fire. Bless was knocked out from the blast. His world was now dark.

  Things Aren’t as Sweet as You Want Them

  Chapter 16

  Tess was working hard on getting her real estate agents to sell as many houses as they could. Her favorite agent was Claudia. She always found a way to get the job done and Tess loved that. Business was better for her and the real estate company. She was proud of herself for running it so well and knew Bless was too. Sometimes it amazed her how she could go from being a killer in the streets to a business woman in a three- piece suit.

  “Claudia, did you put those two Queens houses up for sale yet?” Tess asked.

  “Yes and Ms. Adams’ house too,” Claudia stated.

  “I always could count on you,” Tess said.

  “Oh yeah, I picked up the rent money for the two Brooklyn buildings and the one in Queens. The money is in the company account and I have a buyer for Mr. Thomas’ house on Rockaway Boulevard. I have one of the agents working on it as we speak.”

  “That’s great Claudia. In an hour or so you and I will take our lunch break.”

  “Alright,” Claudia replied. “How are the other agents working out?” Tess asked.

  Tess had also given Claudia a management spot in the company so she watched the other agents and sold the houses as well. It gave Tess time to take care of her business on the street without worrying about her real estate company. She knew it was in good hands with Claudia.

  “Things couldn’t be any better,” Claudia responded.

  Tess’ cell phone began to ring. She knew it could only be her girls or Bless because they were the only ones with the number. “Hold on Claudia, I’ll talk to you later I have to take this call.” She answered her phone.

  “Hey girl,” the voice on the other line said.

  “What’s good?” Tess asked.

  “Just chilling you know,” the voice replied. It was Vanessa calling from Philly.

  “Shit, I’m just trying to do this company thing,” Tess said.

  “Girl, I know you been busy because we haven’t hung out in a while,” Vanessa said. “I guess Bless got that pussy on lockdown,” Vanessa stated.

  “Girl, please! It’s the other way around. I got that dick on lock.” They both busted out laughing.

  “I guess you and Ebony are the same because I can’t get her away from that man to spend time with me either,” Vanessa said.

  “Yo, so what’s good? Are you almost done?” Tess was talking about the twelve kilos of cocaine that Vanessa and Iris were selling in Philly.

  “Half of the work was on the block with the workers out there, almost done. But yo, this bitch Iris just got up and left me out here.”

  “What you mean she left you,” Tess said.

  “Yo, she’s been gone for two days now, not counti
ng today and she called me talking about she’s taking care of business. Shit, what that bitch think I’m doing out here,” Vanessa said.

  “Yo, why didn’t you call me sooner and tell me this?”

  “Girl, I didn’t want you to worry about that shit. I handled it and thought she would be back sooner than tonight, plus that bitch hasn’t been right. She been acting all funny and shit because you stopped giving her some pussy, HA HA HA HA!” They both laughed.

  “Girl, you’re not right,” Tess said. Then Tess heard a beep on her phone letting her know she had someone else on the line waiting. “Yo, Vanessa someone is calling me. I’ll call you back later.”

  “Girl, you know damn well it’s Bless wanting some of that pussy.”

  “HA HA HA HA, bye girl!”

  Tess clicked over and a woman’s voice came on, “Hello may I speak to Ms. Cage?”

  “Speaking,” Tess said wondering how she got this number.

  “Ms. Cage, I’m calling you on behalf of Sean Web. He is at Jamaica Queens’ Hospital. He has been in a car accident, but he’s okay.”

  “What do you mean he’s been in a car accident?”

  “I can’t tell you any more details over the phone.”

  “Shit, I’m on my way.” Tess jumped in her BMW and rushed to the hospital. She parked her car in the parking lot and ran up to the emergency room’s entrance. Tess saw a nurse at the desk. “I’m looking for my husband, Sean Web,” she said out of breath.

  The nurse looked up his room and made Tess sign in. “He’s in room 210.”

  Tess ran until she found the room with tears flowing down her face and saying a silent prayer. She had already lost him to jail for a while and she went crazy with that thought. She didn’t know what she would do if something happened to him. As she reached the room, a doctor came out. Tess grabbed the doctor by the arm. “I’m here for Sean Web, is he okay? I’m his wife.”

  “He’s fine, miss, just a few burns on the head.” The doctor replied.

  “May I see him?”

  “Yes, go right in dear.”

  Tess entered the room to find Bless getting dressed with his back turned to her. She looked at all the muscles in his back and arms and his chocolate skin and got all wet and thought, ‘Damn how I love this man.’ “Hey daddy,” her voice made Bless turn around with a smile on his face. Tess ran to him and kissed him while tears ran down her face and onto their lips. Bless pulled back and wiped her eyes. “You had me worried,” she said. “I love you.”

  “I love you too, baby,” Bless replied.

  “What happened? On the phone the nurse said you were in a car accident?”

  “Accident my ass Tess someone put a bomb in my car and they didn’t have enough time to hide it right because I saw it just in time. I jumped the fuck out of the car, but not soon enough, the fucking blast knocked my ass out. The cops said it was C-4 in the car and were asking all kinds of questions like who wanted to kill me. Shit, if I knew that, the motherfucker would be dead,” Bless stated. He got angry just thinking about it. “Yo, let’s get out of here before those cops come back asking more questions. We don’t need 5.0 all in our business when we’re so close to our goal.”

  “Baby, did the doctor say it was okay for you to leave,” Tess asked.

  “He said I’m okay, but he wants me to stay the night. I’m not with that. So, we’re out,” Bless said.

  “Okay Baby,” Tess replied. On the drive home, Bless was in deep thought. ‘Who would try to kill him? He had no beef with anyone, if he did, he and Tess would have handled it by now.’ Tess was thinking the same thing and hoped it wasn’t her past coming back to bite her in the ass, but she knew she’d been careful with all of her hits and no one knew she was behind them.

  Slowing Shit Down

  Chapter 17

  Back in the Bronx, Jose was paying anyone who had information about his brother’s murder. He was on the phone all hours of the day and even put the word on the street that he’d pay three million dollars for information and more if someone brought the killer to him. This worried Ricardo. He knew if his brother kept digging he would soon find the information he wanted. The streets were always watching and listening and someone would find out. Ricardo couldn’t let that happen because it would lead back to him. There was only one thing to do. Ricardo went into the back bedroom leaving Jose on the phone in the living room.

  In the bedroom, Ricardo pulled out his cell phone and called Danilo. “Yo,” Danilo answered already knowing who it was from the caller ID seen on his cell phone.

  “Danilo I need you to handle something for me in Brooklyn.” Ricardo said.

  “Say no more,” Danilo said already knowing what Ricardo wanted to be handled in Brooklyn. Danilo had been waiting for this call for a while. Ricardo had told him months ago what he wanted him to do, but told him to wait for his call.

  “You know what to do,” Ricardo said.

  “Yeah Ricardo, just drop that off at the same spot as always.” Danilo was talking about the money and with that said Ricardo hung up.

  The Canarsie Mayhem

  Chapter 18

  “Damn that was good boo,” Omar said to Ebony. “You know I needed that,” Omar stated.

  “Yeah, but nigga you said it would be a quickie,” Ebony said with a smile. “Shit that lasted for two hours. You fucked the shit out of me.”

  “Yeah, yeah, I love you too,” Omar said. “But on the real I have to get ready to drop off this money at the stash house,” he said while pulling up his jeans.

  Bless and Tess had stash houses just for money and drugs all over the city. Ebony watched his body as he got dressed. Omar was skinny, but cut up. He was brown skin with long dreads that came down his back. Ebony had been running the Brooklyn spot by herself until Bless put Omar on. Together, Omar and Ebony ran Brownsville, Crown Heights, Flatbush, South Ozone, and Queens for Tess and Bless for years. They had soldiers that held the block down and Ebony and Omar just picked up money or handled problems when someone tried to take one of their spots or sell on their blocks. They gave the soldiers orders and did hits with them. Each spot had their own lieutenant and any problem got handled through the lieutenant then through them if the lieutenant couldn't handle it. Omar and Ebony was always together which also led into a deep relationship between them. They bought a two-story house in Canarsie together that Tess' real estate company helped them to find.

  Ebony was on the bed counting the rest of the money to put in the bag that Omar was taking to the stash house. She had a long t-shirt on that came down to her waist and a pair of booty short panties on. Ebony's phone rang. She picked up her house phone. "Yo baby sis," Vanessa said, even though they were the same age, but had different mothers. Vanessa was only older by three months. "How are you doing?" Vanessa asked.

  "I'm chilling, but I miss you. How are things in Philly?" Ebony asked.

  "Shits running smooth. I miss you too girl and what's good with your blocks," Vanessa asked.

  "Shit, we're pretty much done out here. The last of the work is on the block," Ebony replied.

  "Yo, did you feed Crew Crew?" Vanessa asked. Crew Crew was Vanessa's dog.

  "Yeah, I went by your house today and let him out in the back yard and fed him," Ebony stated.

  "Thank you. So sis, how are you and your boo, Omar doing?" Vanessa asked.

  "You know he treats me good."

  "He better if he knows what's good for him," Vanessa said. "I'll put a bullet in his ass."

  Omar looked at Ebony smile, "Yo, who are you talking too?" he asked.

  "My sister said hi," she lied not wanting him to know what Vanessa had really said. "Yo, Vanessa I got to go and take care of some business." Ebony said.

  "Okay," Vanessa said.

  "I love you," Ebony responded.

  "I love you too," Vanessa said back and hung up the phone.

  "Yo Ebony, you done counting the rest of that money?" Omar asked.

  "Yeah," She gave him the rest of the mo
ney and he put it in the bag.

  Two black cars pulled up to Avenues L and M in Canarsie in front of a house. In each car, were five men dressed in black. Danilo knew where to find his first target because he was from Flatbush, Brooklyn and it was easy to find them. Everybody knew who they were and no one in their right mind would dare fuck with them or their team. But Danilo was far from being in his right state of mind and he loved his work. It paid well. Five gunmen surrounded the back of the house and the next five took the front.

  Omar grabbed the bag full of money and headed for the door. "Yo boo, I'll be right back," Omar said.

  "Hold up nigga, ain't you forgetting something," Ebony said.

  "Oh yeah," he kissed Ebony on the lips, put his tongue in her mouth, and savored her taste. Then pulled away and looked her in the eyes. "How can I forget that," he replied.

  "Mmm," Ebony moaned. "That was good, but I wasn't talking about that and with that she ran upstairs to their bedroom. Omar looked at her pretty dark skin complexioned ass in her booty short panties jiggling as she went up the stairs. Ebony returned with her hands behind her back, “I was talking about this.” She handed him twin forty caliber handguns.

  "Okay yeah," Omar said while putting them on his waist. He hugged Ebony and grabbed her fat ass in appreciation.

  Omar opened the front door to leave as a man dressed in all black was standing there with a gun in his hand. Four more men were coming up behind him. Omar's first instinct told him this was a robbery. He dropped the bag and pulled out his twin forty caliber handguns, but not before the man at the door raised his gun to Omar's head. Omar knew he was too slow and too late and then a shot rang off. He thought he was dead until he saw the man at the door drop to the floor. He turned to find Ebony holding a Glock 19 pointed right at the front door.

  Omar stopped out of shock and started blasting at the four coming gunmen. Boom, boom, boom! One shot hit one of the gunmen in the head, but the rest were still coming. Omar ran deeper into the house for cover. Omar took a quick look for Ebony, but couldn't see her.