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“So,” Wanda said as soon as we left. “Why do you think he did that?”
“I don’t know, Wanda. Maybe it’s just like Angee said it is. Just Uncle Tony being Uncle Tony.”
“Yeah, I heard, but what does that mean?” she asked as we got in her car.
I shrugged my shoulders. “Uncle Tony likes me,” I said and wondered if that would change if he knew that I was fucking Mirella and had fucked her in just about every room in his house.
“Likes you enough to intervene on your behalf.” She paused. “What does that even mean?”
“All good questions, and I wish I had an answer, but you were standing right there next to me, so you know as much as I do.”
Wanda looked at me for a while, probably thinking of another way to ask the same question neither of us could answer. “I don’t get it.” She started the car and drove off.
“I don’t either, but we’re gonna accept this gift horse and I’m gonna thank Uncle Tony when I see him and then we’ll find out what it means. In the meantime, we got other things we need to deal with.”
“You find out who had Whitey killed?”
“Not yet.”
“So, Lisa Benson had nothing to do with it?”
“No.” I paused. “And before you ask, it’s a long story.”
“I have time,” Wanda said and after I got her to tell me how she heard about it, I told her the story. “Dumbass.”
“That’s what Bobby said.”
“So, now that you and Bobby are done playing around with old girlfriends, what now?”
“Right now, I’m gonna get Bobby and we’re gonna ride out to Long Island to see that guy Whitey was in business with that I asked you to check out,” I said, and Wanda told me what little she’d found out about Kasim.
“That’s not much more than King told me.”
“That’s all I could find.”
“Anything else?”
“I talked to Nick at The Late Night,” Wanda began. “He said that him and Freeze haven’t gotten anywhere trying to find out who hired Vance.”
“What about Whitey and Vance? Was there anything going on between them?”
“Nick doesn’t think so, and neither does King. Vance killing Whitey was business to him.”
Wanda glanced at me and saw that I was smiling. “What?”
“Nothing. What did you tell him?”
“I thought maybe it was personal for one of the other two shooters, so I told him to check them out. And I told Freeze to stay on finding out who hired them and make sure that everybody is on top of this.”
“Okay.”
“So, what were you smiling about?”
“I don’t need to tell anybody anything. Everybody knows that you carry power,” I said, and she smiled.
“You want me to take you back to the hotel?”
“Not yet. Ride by the Real Estate office first.”
