When Calvert took a step closer, Rain kicked him in the face. He grabbed his face in disbelief and then he rushed at her. Rain stepped aside quickly and kicked Calvert in the ass as he passed. She laughed.
“That the best you can do, bitch?” Rain said and resumed her stance.
“You fuckin’ bitch; I’m gonna kill you!”
“No, you won’t.” She waved him on again. “But you can try,” Rain said and laughed a little.
Calvert rushed at her again and Rain hit him with a series of rapid lefts and rights to the face and then quickly stepped back. Once he recovered from the shock of it, Calvert rushed at her in anger and grabbed her. He pinned her against the wall, and he hit her in the head. But when he reached back to hit her again, Rain moved, and he punched the wall.
“Ouch, shit!” he said and grabbed his hand. “You fuckin’ bitch!”
“You said that.”
Calvert rushed at Rain again and took her to the floor. The two wrestled around and then Calvert got on top and began hitting Rain and she did her best to protect herself from the blows. That was when she saw her gun on the floor.
Rain began ramming her elbow into Calvert’s face until he rolled off her and then she made a grab for the gun and she shot him.
From DP’s office, Sean was watching the battle on the monitors and decided that leaving made more sense than shooting it out with them. So, he started to make his way slowly out of the warehouse, thinking that if he could make it to his car, he’d get ghost until this shit got settled. Then he would rebuild DP’s organization. “Without DP’s dumbass.”
Carter approached the staircase and saw Sean coming down. He fired at Sean, who ran back up the stairs. He stopped at the top of the stairs and fired back. Carter took cover and fired back at Sean and hit him with three shots and he came tumbling down the stairs.
With the warehouse taken, Ryder called Chee-Chee and told her to get some people over there. “Now,” Ryder said and ended the call, and then she called Edwina to take care of the bodies.
“Come on,” Rain said to Carter. “There’s something that we need to find,” she said and walked away.
“What you think they looking for?” Hassan asked.
“Why don’t you ask them?” Ryder said, and Hassan just looked at her for a second or two.
“You could be a little nicer sometimes, you know,” Hassan said, and Ryder rolled her eyes.
“I could,” she said, and she walked away.
Milton had told Rain that DP kept the women that he planned to sell to his overseas clientele somewhere in the warehouse. He just wasn’t sure exactly where. It didn’t take long before they came upon a locked door that led to a hallway that had three doors on either side of the hall. Rain blew the lock off and she and Carter went in.
“They’re here,” Carter said as he looked in one of the rooms. Once they got the doors opened, they found that there were five women that were heavily sedated. They were taken from the warehouse to receive the care they needed.
When they got back to J.R.’s late that evening, Kirk and Dawkins were there. Rain had a tip that she had gotten from one of her snitches. When the detectives left, Rain wanted to hear Ryder’s plan for taking DP’s legitimate businesses.
Chapter Twenty-four
Kirk and Dawkins drove to the address that they had gotten from Rain, they just didn’t appreciate the way that they got the tip. They had just gotten back to the precinct and were headed to their desks to do paperwork from a case they caught earlier that morning.
“Kirk, Dawkins; Sanchez needs to see you!” Lieutenant McGraw came to the door and shouted.
When they got to their old unit, Bautista was there with her new partner, Detective Greg Dickerson. She sat at her desk staring them down when she saw them come in, until Dawkins stopped and waved to her. Bautista rolled her eyes and started talking to Dickerson. Since she wanted to see him, Bautista showed up at his apartment at two in the morning, and she was drunk.
That night, Bautista had been out drinking with a few other cops, and that gin was talking to her and it was telling her that she needed Kirk inside her now. When she left the bar, she called him a couple of times on her way over there, but he didn’t answer.
“Fuck it,” she said and went anyway.
When she got there, Bautista assumed that if he didn’t answer his phone, he wouldn’t open the door. “And that’s ’cause he’s fucking that bitch of a ho,” she sa
id quietly and took out the key that she had made for herself. She let herself in thinking that if Dawkins were there, she would kill them both and cover up the crime, and if she wasn’t there, Bautista planned to quietly get naked, slip in bed with him and put an end to whatever was going on between them. But when she quietly closed the door, Kirk put a gun to her head.
“You make a move and I’ll blow your fuckin’ head off.”
“Don’t shoot, it’s me!” Bautista shouted quickly.