Out of Control

Rain followed Black and Bobby to the rental car. “Mind if I make a suggestion?” she said.

“Go ahead,” Black said.

“If we goin’ huntin’, I suggest we take the Suburban.”

“Why?” Bobby asked.

“When this began, Nick had Chance trick it out with reinforced steel and bulletproof windows. It’s a fuckin’ tank.”

“Okay we’ll take yours,” Black said and followed Rain to the Suburban.

“Who is Chance?” Bobby asked.

“He took over Clay’s Garage after y’all killed Bo and Hank,” Rain said and got in.

“You been gone a long time, Bobby,” Black said.

“Yeah, but I’m back now.”

CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN

The suspense was killing him. It had been more than an hour since Black called Jackie in the office. Nick got tired of sitting there waiting for Rain to come out. He got up and knocked on the door to Jackie’s office.

“Come,” Jackie yelled.

Nick opened the door and was surprised to find that Jackie was alone. “Where is everybody?”

Jackie looked up. “They left an hour ago,” she said and went back to what she was doing.

Nick left the office thinking that they are going to kill Rain. He rushed out of the house, followed by Rain’s men. “What’s wrong, Nick?” Memphis asked.

“Rain is gone,” Nick said.

“And so is our ride,” Chris Toney said when he noticed that the Suburban was no longer parked where they left it. Nick ran back inside and found Monika.

“I need you to take me somewhere,” Nick said.

Without asking where or why, Monika got up and led Nick to her car. “What’s goin’ on?” Monika asked once they were in the car.

“Black and Bobby are gone and they took Rain with them,” Nick said.

“Damn,” Monika said. “They are gonna kill her.”

“Take me to the parlor,” Nick said and Monika headed there. When they got there, nobody was there and the crematorium was cold. Nick took out his cell phone and called Rain’s cell.

Rain looked at the display on her phone. “It’s Nick.”

“Answer that Bobby,” Black said and Rain handed her phone to Bobby.”

“Hello,” Bobby said.

“Bobby?” Nick said tentatively.

“What’s up, Nick? What you want?”

“I wanted to talk to Rain.”

“She can’t come to the phone right now,” Bobby said laughing.