“I could call her on the walkie,” Yarissa said in an attempt to keep him there longer.
“Naw, Rose already did, and she didn’t answer,” Carter said and turned to leave as Rain’s office door opened.
“You looking for me?” Rain asked.
“No, I was looking for Mileena.” Carter laughed. “I know she’s here, but I keep missing her.”
“Well I was just coming to look for you,” Rain said.
“What’s up?”
“I need you to ride with me. Don’t worry, we won’t be gone long,” Rain said and started walking. “Unless you wanna follow up on whatever Carla gave you.”
“You know I do,” Carter said and followed Rain into the club. They pushed their way through the crowd toward the front door, and all the while, Carter was looking around for Mileena, but still not seeing her anywhere. He did see Fantasy; she waved and blew him a kiss as he passed.
The reason that Carter couldn’t find Mileena was because she was going back and forth between the kitchen, the liquor room and the beer cooler trying to track down a shortage that Danielle, the food and beverage manager, believed was a result of theft, and Mileena was determined to get to the bottom of it. And she did. Mileena had just finished firing the employees in question and had come out of the office in time to see Carter forcing his way through the crowd behind Rain.
“No, no. This is not happening. Not again.”
Chapter Sixteen
Rain and Carter left J.R.’s and headed for Conversations to make another attempt to talk to Jackie, who still hadn’t gotten back to her. As for Jackie, she and Travis were still at The Plaza with Fiona. They had entered into negotiations with Simone, because they had no intention of letting Fiona go anywhere except home with them. Since Jackie still wasn’t there, Baby Chris stayed loyal to his captain and lied to the boss of The Family again. A position that he hated to be in.
“Because lying to Rain may get a nigga killed.”
After they got finished at Conversations, they drove back to J.R.’s. Rain was starting to worry about Jackie because up until now, Jackie had been a rock that could always be depended on and now she was missing in action and had been for days. Carter agreed because he could tell that Baby Chris was lying to protect his captain, but from what? That was the question. They decided to give it another day and then they would have to take steps.
“So, what you get from Carla?” Rain asked.
“She told me about a warehouse that El Decreto de Guerra owns through a bunch of shell companies.”
“She think you might find your boy there?”
“No guarantees, just that they own the place,” Carter said.
“You wanna check it out?”
“You know I do,” Carter said. “But we gotta go back to J.R.’s first.”
“Mileena?”
Carter nodded his head. “Yeah.”
“What’s up with that?” Rain asked.
“Nothing. I just need to talk to her,” Carter said and thought about his situation as he saw it.
But since they hadn’t talked about it, he was clueless about where Mileena’s head was, so he was totally oblivious to how unhappy she was, and Carter was absolutely unaware that Mileena was jealous of the women he came in contact with, particularly Fantasy and Rain. Therefore, Carter Garrison was completely ignorant about how close she was to leaving him.
As for Rain, and despite what Yarrisa thought, she wasn’t all that interested in fucking Carter. She just liked having a road dog she could count on when the shooting started again. Of course, she thought he was fine, but that was as far as it went. Rain knew that he was involved with Mileena, and her reputation as a sexual predator notwithstanding, she respected that.
While they were together, Nick had cheated on Rain relentlessly, and it wasn’t like he did it behind her back. Like Carter, Nick was a high-profile member of The Family and people talk, so she knew exactly who he was fucking. Rain had to laugh because two of the women that Nick was fucking still worked for her.
It’s a wonder that I didn’t kill them too, Rain thought.
The main reason that she didn’t was because both of them, especially Mercedes, made money for The Family, and even though she wasn’t in the money-making side of the business, Danielle saved her money by being a hawk when it came to theft at J.R.’s. Rain thought about Tasheka and how that night could have ended another way.
When they got back to J.R.’s, Carter set out once again in search of Mileena, but Demi quickly told him that Mileena had asked her to run the club and went home with a headache.