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Law chuckled and pulled a blunt from his pocket, handing it to me. After getting downstairs, Vegas shook his head. “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
“Fuck yo’ ass too, Vegas,” Fawn said and flopped on the couch.
“We going outside, Fawn.”
She stood and walked out to the patio with an attitude and flopped on the couch out there. I sparked up and waited for Vegas to tell me what he’d found out. Fawn impatiently crossed her legs and rolled her eyes. “Dead that shit, Elaine.”
“So, Darlena is Slice’s sister. Kennedy didn’t lie about that. She did lie about who started the shit. Kennedy and Slice were first cousins, not her and Darlena. Darlena and Slice have the same dad, but not the same mama. Kennedy is kin to Slice on his mother’s side. Turns out, there was a huge policy on Slice that his mama got. When his mama died six months ago, that money went to Darlena. Kennedy wanted a piece of that shit, so she convinced Darlena to be cool with going after you for your money.”
“How the fuck you know that?” I asked Vegas.
“Don’t worry about all that. I have my ways. Kennedy is the fucking master mind though. Her plan was to tell you it was Darlena, so you could go after her and kill her. Then all that money would go to her.”
“Ain’t that some shit. How you know, for real though?”
“Bitch at AT&T I used to hit. She gave me everything I needed for one of the guys to tap that shit. We recovered text messages, and she provided phone calls. Darlena ain’t running from us. She just went on vacation.”
“Fuck! What about Van?”
“That nigga. So him and Darlena been fucking. He’s been knowing her for a while because of the connection between Roulette and Slice. She told him the plans Kennedy had. That’s why they were talking about it that day. That was what gave him the bright idea to go after you and Fawn. He knows Fawn killed Roulette, because he also knows you were locked up. That was what their last conversation was about. She don’t even need to be out here right now.”
I turned to Fawn and said, “You hear that shit, queen pin? You need to fly yo’ ass back to Atlanta.”
“I agree, lil baby doe.”
I rolled my eyes when he said that shit. She pouted and folded her arms. Law stood from his seat and pulled her from hers then led her back inside the house. “They finna fuck for real this time,” Vegas said.
“Shut the fuck up, nigga. Anything indicating that Chelsea is in danger?”
“Not right now. You may want her to quit that job, though, before there is.”
“Yeah. I’ma holla at her tonight. Van ain’t no hood nigga. If he got the police involved, he can’t be trying anything, but you never know.”
“Right. Getting the police involved could just be a smoke screen. Something to make us let our guard down for other bullshit.”
“You right. Get Dom to help you watch that nigga. Again, we can’t move on what we know. In the meantime, I need to holla at Rondo again. I’m gon’ call Ali too, to update him on what’s going on. I’ll get him to research Van, Darlena, and Kennedy’s ass too, to make sure we ain’t missing nothing.”
“Hey, y’all! Where my girl?”
I turned to see Amiko and Smoke walking through the gate. I stood from my seat and slapped Smoke’s hand. “She’s in the house,” I said, leaving out the possibility of what she would be walking in on.
When Amiko took off for the house, I smiled. “You wrong for that shit,” Vegas said.
Smoke looked confused, so I said, “Fawn and Lark went inside because lil baby doe was in her feelings and pouting.”
He rolled his eyes and chuckled as Amiko came back outside with a frown on her face. “I ought to throw lotion at your crusty ass!”
I laughed so loud and hard I damn near got choked. I swore her and Fawn never let a nigga live down shit. The two of them being here kept things a little lighter though. I was happy about that. That way I wouldn’t be too far gone when it was time to see my baby again. Amiko slapped my arm. “That shit ain’t funny! You know Fawn’s ass is loud as hell and just says whatever. I got an entire ear full about how Law’s dick was a fucking magic stick.”
I scrunched my face up, and when I glanced around, I noticed Vegas and Smoke had done the same thing. “Now y’all see how I felt. Jackasses.”
We sat back down to fill Smoke in on what was going on until Law came out, then I called Ali and updated him on what was going on. He suggested that I waited to talk to Rondo. He was still emotional and trying to get custody of his daughter. Even with everything he knew, Kennedy was trying to give him a hard time getting his daughter.
After that call, I finished smoking my blunt while Amiko and Smoke shared one. Fawn finally carried her ass outside in a different outfit and Amiko rolled her eyes. Law came out right behind her and all of us turned our heads. “Fucking haters. Amiko, Jungle said we can’t go nowhere, so the surprise dinner party is a no-go. They got heat a-fucking-gain.”
“So I heard. Let’s go see what’s in Jungle’s fridge.”
“I can tell you. Shit. That’s what’s in there. Vegas will go get something to eat for everybody, and I’ll go get Chelsea.”
