“Hell naw. Y’all want me to be a fucking snitch?”
“People are dying on the streets, Mister Henderson. We need to know who’s pushing this shit. It’s not what they’re used to, so it’s taking them out left and right. We have a few guys we’re watching, but we need someone like you to truly infiltrate. You are a familiar face, and they already know you don’t take no shit. Judging by our presence today, we can tell your dad has that same reputation.”
“You fucking right about that shit,” my dad said.
They chuckled. “Mister Henderson, this job will pay you twenty grand a month.”
“In order to use me in that capacity, y’all gon’ have to dig deep in them pockets. I can’t leave my fucking house for that.”
He smirked. “We are authorized to offer up to fifty grand a month.”
My eyebrows lifted. “Why the fuck y’all try to lowball me then? You should’ve led with that shit. What all would I have to do?”
My mama stood and walked away with tears in her eyes. I supposed she didn’t want me to sign with them. Fifty grand a month was a lot of fucking money. I couldn’t just walk away from that offer without knowing more details. My dad and I sat on the couch, and they sat across from us in the two accent chairs.
“Well, our main target is the supplier. You would be able to get to him through Adrian. He’ll be able to lead us to the head of their organization. Now, Jake and Courtney were told to rob you. They thought you would be an easy target.”
I frowned and sat up on the couch. “Who the fuck targeted me?”
“Mythic Semien.”
My eyebrows lifted.Why the fuck would he target me?Our families were friends.
“Legend Semien’s son?” my dad asked.
“That’s the one. You can start with him and work your way through the organization. The first thing we will need you to do is ‘snitch’” he said, holding up air quotes. “There are some dirty cops in Liberty, and we need to weed them out. Most likely, they will let Mythic walk, but it will cast a light on them.
I slid my hand down my face, trying to calm down my anger.
“Let us see it, Mister Henderson. We want to be sure?—”
“What the fuck y’all wanna see?” I said as I stood from the couch. “I can’t believe that muthafucka would do some shit like that. I thought we were cool, but all that shit out the fucking window now. He got the right fucking one. I ain’t scared of his ass.”
I swung my arm, like he was standing in front of me. I wanted to go find his ass. Turning back to them, I said, “I’m in.”
CHAPTER ONE
SEVEN
TWO AND A HALF YEARS LATER . . .
“Man, you have to calm yo’ ass down. Iesha don’t want to be bothered with you. If she did, she would be here.”
I glanced at Royal, then shot him the finger. “She mine, and she know that shit. I can’t believe she brought another nigga here. What the fuck wrong with her?”
“She didn’t bring him inside. She left him outside. Why were you out there?”
“Nigga, I went out the back door to smoke. I walked around to the front, and there he was. I told that nigga he was wasting his fucking time.”
Royal’s eyebrows lifted. I didn’t give a fuck about that nigga she had with her. She had better hope I didn’t find out where the fuck he worked. I’d show up to that nigga’s job and get his ass fired. She didn’t want to be with me? Her ass wouldn’t be with nobody. I didn’t know who the fuck she took me for, but I wasn’t a weak ass nigga and refused to be one.
Royal slowly shook his head and walked away. He needed to be worried about why Aaliyah’s ass was pregnant, and his ho assdidn’t know about it.Fucking freaks.I had never seen a nigga love sex as much as Royal did. Apparently, he must’ve been on a fucking binge session when he fucked up with Aaliyah.
“You can’t just be somewhere and not make shit about you, huh?”
I frowned and looked up to see Bali standing over me. She got the finger too. They could all go to hell. Iesha wasn’t finna roll through here and disrespect me without knowing I wasn’t gon’ stand for that shit. She already knew what it was between us. It wasn’t like we’d just met. I’d been knowing her ass for almost two years.
While we didn’t start off as a couple, we talked and hung out quite a bit. She knew a lot about me. She knew I could be a loose cannon at times. She knew I could become unhinged at times. My personality wasn’t some kind of mystery to her ass. Then after my personality unleashed on her brother, she wanted to act surprised.
