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“Step up on Charlie’s back, you mean,” I said, pulled my gun and shot Lamar in the head. Then I turned and put two in Marlo’s chest.
“How’d I know you were gonna do that?” Bobby asked as I put the keys back in the bag.
“You didn’t just meet me.”
“So I guess you wanna go by Cielo’s?” Bobby asked as I followed him out of the apartment. “See if Charlie Rock wanna buy some keys cheap?” Bobby laughed.
I laughed with him. “Yeah, how you know?”
“I didn’t just meet you.”
Chapter Eight
When me and Bobby fell up in Cielo’s, the room got quiet. The buzz was suddenly gone and other than the music playing, there was silence. We knew just about everybody in there and everybody in there knew us. They also knew that nine times out of ten, if we were there, we had come to deliver pain.
It was then that I saw Charlie Rock, but his back was to us, and we started walking towards him. Mellow tapped him on the shoulder and he turned around. He smiled and put his hands in the air.
I took my hands out of my pockets and opened my coat as I continued walking. I put my hands up and smiled. We stepped to each other and we hugged one another. Me and Charlie were cool; we went back years. Me, him and Leon were altar boys together, if you can believe that.
“Charlie, what’s up?”
“What’s up, Mike?”
“Let me holla at you for a minute.”
He looked at Bobby. “What’s up?” he asked.
“I got something you might be interested in.” I looked at Bobby and he tapped the bag. “Someplace we can talk?”
“Come on,” he said and headed for the door. Two of his boys fell in behind us. Once we were outside, I told him what I had for him and what it would cost him.
“You interested?”
“I am. I just don’t have that kind of paper right now.”
“What you got?”
“I can have thirty down here in fifteen minutes,” Charlie said.
“Let’s do this. And you remember that you owe me one.”
Once we had completed our deal with Charlie, me and Bobby headed for Ricky’s after-hours spot to see Andre. He was in his office with his two coke-hoes, Joya and Lucinda, when we got there. While Joya blew Bobby, I stood in front of his desk and counted the money out in front of him.
“Thirty grand with points,” I said and stepped back.
Andre didn’t say anything for a minute. He just looked at me for a while and then he turned to Lucinda and nodded. She quickly gathered up the money into one neat pile in front of Andre. He waved his hand and she picked up the money and then walked over to the wall safe. Lucinda opened it and put the money in while Andre continued
to stare at me and I wondered why his coke-hoe had the combination to his safe.
“Thank you, Mike.”
“Anything else you need me to do?”
“No.”
When I turned to leave, Bobby tapped Joya on the head and she stopped.
“Mike,” Andre said before I got to the door.
