“See that you do,” Milton said and closed the door behind them.
After Bonner left the office, it wasn’t long before DP came in and went to fix himself a drink. He had passed Bonner in the hallway and he didn’t look happy.
“What he want?” DP asked, knowing something had transpired between Bonner and his father.
“To tell me that he hadn’t done what I asked,” Milton said and told DP where they are with the situation and Carmen.
“Do you think she knows anything?”
“Do you really want to run that risk?”
“No. Especially not when we got a shipment going overseas next week. We’ve got guarantee delivery dates we have to keep.”
“Don’t you think I fuckin’ know that?” an annoyed Milton asked his son.
“Sorry, Pop, didn’t mean any disrespect.”
“I know that you didn’t. Bonner will get this handled.”
“Even if he kills her, there’s no telling what Simpson told her and whether she told anyone else.”
“Has anybody heard from Morris yet?” Milton asked.
“Not since he left Enzo’s with that guy,” DP replied.
“Keep looking for him.”
“I will, but my point is, he followed Carmen Taylor to Enzo’s, that means she’s close. Too close to that entire operation.”
“Get to your point.”
“If she even mentioned that she was there to anyone, once she’s dead and the cops start asking questions about what she was working on and retrace her steps; see where I’m going with this?”
“Maybe we should think about shutting that operation down and moving it.” Milton shook his head. “Fuck!”
“What?”
“I was thinking about how much money we stand to lose if we had to take that option.”
“Exactly my point. We’d have to find a place, get it built and set up and then hope that we don’t lose our clientele, not to mention the women.”
“I get it, David.”
“I know that you do. I just want to know what you want me to do about it?” DP asked, already knowing what he was going to do.
“Start looking for a spot and get it up and running. Even if it turns out to be nothing, next time we might not be so lucky. And check with our police contacts and see if they heard anything.”
Which was exactly what DP had in mind. In anticipation of his father’s order, he had already found a new spot and had a crew building it out as they spoke.
“I’ll take care of it,” he said and got up to leave.
“One more thing. If this does go sideways on us, torch Enzo’s. There can’t be any trace of what’s going on there.”
“You’re right. I didn’t think of that,” he said, even though he did.
DP respected his father and didn’t mind taking a backseat to him. DP knew that more needed to be done than just killing Carmen Taylor. Everyone that she came in contact with since she met with Simpson may need to be eliminated in order to protect his investment.
There was a knock at the door and DP got up to answer it. Kwame Coleman came into the office; he and Milton came up from Mississippi together. He had always been the one that Milton turned to anytime there was dirty work to be done. Kwame was there to update father and son on the hits on J.R.’s and Conversations.