“Definitely had to be a woman,” Wanda said, and they shared a little laugh.
One that’s smarter than you, Wanda thought.
Her personal feelings, which were based on their relationship with Nick aside, Wanda had always questioned the poor judgment that Rain showed at times. She thought Rain could be irresponsible at times and it impaired her ability to make appropriate decisions. Everybody knew that Rain could be rash and needlessly cruel at times. She could be wild, thoughtless, and her temper caused her to make hasty and careless decisions that could potentially fuck up The Family’s near to long term plans.
Rain Robinson is out of control, and that was why Wanda put her personal feelings aside and kept Rain close when she was the boss of The Family and was now as one of her consiglieres. But more importantly, Rain was family, her family, so Wanda would do whatever she had to do to protect her.
Even if it’s from herself.
“All three of them niggas is too stupid to pull this off,” Rain and Wanda laughed as Black and Bobby looked at each other.
“How well do you know her?” Wanda asked.
“Me, her and Analisa Chavis used to hangout until she introduced me to her brother,” Rain laughed. “Then she started hating me.”
“And then you killed him, and I ordered his father’s termination,” Wanda said. “That gives her more than enough motive,” Wanda paused. “But, is she capable of this or is somebody else in it with her?”
“Oh, yeah, Rona King’s a sneaky manipulative, stab you in the back kinda bitch.” Rain pointed and nodded her head. “This her shit.”
“But can she afford it?” Wanda asked. “Like I’ve been saying, it takes a lot of money to fight a war on this level.”
“That’s the one piece I’m not sure of. I’ve got Carla digging into her to see if she got the kind of paper it took to come at us like this.”
“Until then, I think we need to develop a plan to take her apart,” Wanda said, and Rain nodded in enthusiastic agreement.
“You know what, Mike?” Bobby leaned close to Black and asked.
“What’s that?”
“We might have just as well stayed in the car.”
“Not necessarily, Bob. If we stayed in the car, Wanda would just have to explain all this again.”
“Slowly … so our dumb asses could understand it,” Bobby said, motioning with his hands. “The level of sophistication might be too much for me.”
Wanda shook her head. “Men.”
“Yeah, men,” Black said. “Can’t live with us.”
Bobby laughed. “Can’t kill us.”
Black smiled. “Now that we’ve all had a good laugh, you wanna tell me what’s going on with Hawkins?”
“We haven’t found him yet; we spent the day shutting down his people. We’ll be back on it tomorrow,” Rain promised.
“What about Mobley?” Bobby asked.
“We’re hitting his old crew too. By the time I’m done, there won’t be anything for anybody to rebuild.”
“And maybe that was the problem,” Black said.
“What do you mean, Mike?” Wanda asked.
“If this is Rona King, and this is her revenge for us killing her father and brother, it’s because we left her something to rebuild.” Before Rain could say anything, Black held up his hand. “What we did was cherry-picked what we wanted and burned the rest.”
“I believe that’s you’re thing,” Bobby said to Rain.
“But we left their legitimate businesses alone and that gave her the money she needed to rebuild,” Black said. “I know Rona too. And if she is anything like her father and her brother—”