“This ain’t over mutha fucka!” Barnes shouted.
Chapter Twenty-nine
Rona King sat in the back of her limousine with white calla lilies on her lap as they passed through the gates of Woodlawn Cemetery. She was there to lay the flowers at the graves of her father and twin brother. When the driver brought the vehicle to a stop, he got out and opened the door for her.
“Thank you, Garon.”
“Do you want me to come with you?”
“No, Garon, I won’t be long today,” she said and started walking through the grass. There were days when she would bring along a blanket or a chair and talk to them, but not today. Today she had things to do and plans to set in motion.
Rona stood in front of the headstones that she had bought for them and then she laid flowers on each. She was away at college completing her last semester in the Berkeley MBA Program when she got the call that her father, Robert King had been arrested for conspiracy to commit murder, and her brother, Ronnie was murdered.
When Rona returned home to bury her brother and get a lawyer for Robert, she wanted to know what they were involved in that one was arrested, and the other was murdered on the same day.
“Your daddy was making a push to take over the entire drug market,” AD began. His name was Andrew Davion, and he had worked with Robert for years. “And somehow, Ronnie got hooked up with Rain Robinson.”
“Rain Robinson?”
Rona had known Rain for a long time. She, Rain and Analicia Chaves used to hang out at the clubs together. They were friends until Rain got involved with Ronnie, and that ended their friendship.
“I know you’re not trying to tell me that crazy bitch killed my brother.”
“She ain’t the same Rain Robinson you remember.” AD paused. “She’s down with Mike Black and them now.”
That gave Rona pause, and she sat back. “Black got something to do with this?”
AD nodded his head. “I don’t know any of the details; your daddy and Ronnie kept that to themselves, but they hired some nigga out of Cleveland, and he fucked around and killed Black’s baby mama. Next day, they arrested your father and Ronnie rolled up dead.”
And then, shortly after she buried her brother, Rona received the news about her father.
“I’m sorry to inform you that your father was murdered by another inmate,” Detective Kirkland told her, and she knew without question that it was on Mike Black’s order.
Once she buried her father alongside her brother, Rona spent the years since rebuilding her father’s legitimate businesses. His illegitimate businesses, those were another matter. On the order of Wanda Moore and under Rain Robinson’s supervision, they had taken over everything Robert had built. Rona opened new spots and began rebuilding from the ground up.
Quietly.
And Rona watched from a distance what was going on with the people responsible for the murder of her father and brother, Mike Black and Rain Robinson, and she waited.
Waited until she had her money right, she was strong enough and had a plan that didn’t involve her people getting in shoot-outs every other day.
“That day is here.”
And then she turned around and walked slowly back to her limousine. Garon saw her coming and had the door open for her. Once she was settled and they drove off, Rona made a promise to herself.
“I will have my revenge.”
The Reign of Rain Robinson continues in:
DEEP IN IT
One more thing you need to know …
Michelle and Easy sat on the couch next to their father, waiting patiently for Shy to come downstairs so they could leave for dinner. A little over an hour ago, she was running behind them, trying to get them ready.
“Mike Black, Junior, you need to stop playing around in that water and get out of there, so you can get dressed,” Shy yelled as she passed the bathroom and heard the water slashing. “Don’t make me come in there.”
Then she stopped in front of Michelle’s door. “And what do you think you’re doing?” Shy asked when she saw that Michelle was lying across her bed still wearing the jeans and Black Panther hoodie she’d had on all day.