“Can I get you anything, Mr. Black?”
“You can get Jackie for me.”
“Jackie and Travis will be with you in a moment, Mr. Black. Would you like to have a seat?” Fiona asked as Jackie came charging down the stairs with Travis right behind her.
“Hey, Black,” an out of breath Jackie said when she came into the room.
“Walk with me,” Black said and turned toward the door. Both Jackie and Travis fell in behind him. Black stopped. “Not you, Travis. Just Jackie,” he said and opened the door. Jackie glanced at Travis and Fiona and then she followed Black out.
They walked down the street in silence for a while before Black spoke to her. “So that’s Fiona.”
“That’s her.”
Black nodded. “I see what you like,” he said, and Jackie said nothing.
“Look, I know, better than most, who you are and what your passions are, and you know that I don’t have a problem with it but disappearing on Rain for days at a time can’t happen again. Understand?”
“Even though that’s exactly what we used to do?” Jackie asked, reminding Black of all the times that they picked a woman and disappeared for days at a time with her.
Black glanced at Jackie as they walked. “Yes. But those were different times.”
“I know. We weren’t fighting a war then.”
“I know you know all this.”
“I do. I just got caught up. It won’t happen again; you have my word.”
“Your word is all I can ask for,” Black said.
“She reminds me of us,” Jackie said. “I know how your taste runs and Fiona is exactly who we would have chosen for us.”
“That’s because we have the same taste in women.”
Jackie looked up at her former lover and thought about whether she wanted to say what was on her mind.
“I have a dirty little confession to make,” she said.
“What’s that?”
“After your wife came back from the dead, I used to fantasize about … you know … the three of us getting together and doing what we used to do,” Jackie said shyly.
Black laughed a little. “I have a dirty little confession to make too.”
“What’s that?”
“I used to have the same fantasy. Only it was with us and Jada West.” Because the idea of sharing Cassandra with anybody never crossed his mind. Setting out Jada, that was something else entirely. “But that was years ago.”
“Uhm,” Jackie said and ran her tongue over her lips. “That would have been good too,” Jackie said.
Black fist bumped her. “I know.”
Chapter Thirteen
“Damn,” RJ said as they watched the Escalade drive away. “What do we do now?”
“You heard what the man said. We find these niggas and kill them.” He took out his phone and dialed a number. “I’ll call Zaketa and get her to come get us.” Once she said that she was on her way, Marvin ended the call and he and RJ waited.
“That went better than I thought it would,” Marvin said and put his phone back in his pocket.