“But they don’t do any business outta there, drugs I mean. The place is strictly legit.”
“And that’s where we’re going?” Rain stood up. “Come on.”
Carter stood up. “What are we going there for?”
“To have some drinks, eat some ribs, have some fun, and make our presence felt.”
Jackie smiled. “I like that.”
She agreed with Rain, I think Rain is right, we need to obliterate the bitch and take everything she owns, and she told Carter as much.
Carter knew that she was always ripe for a fight, but that was Jackie and that was just who she was.
“He said be patient, Jackie and that is exactly what we’re gonna do. That means we observe; see how they operate.” Rain thought for a second or two. “Which is exactly what he wants me to do,” she said, knowing Black’s penchant for tests.
“Huh?” Jackie asked in confusion.
“Mike Black didn’t just meet me. He knew that I was ready to jump in the ride, kill that bitch and wipe her whole program off the face of the earth.”
“That was my plan too,” Jackie said.
“I’m surprised that we’re just sittin here talkin’ about it like it ain’t no big deal,” Baby Chris paused. “It ain’t usually how we do things,” he said, and Carter said nothing.
“But he told me to be patient. Me? Patient?” Rain smiled, and everybody laughed a nervous laugh because they didn’t know where she was going. “In times like this, when I’m not sure of what to do, I always ask myself,” she raised one finger. “What would Mike Black do?”
Rain looked around the room.
“What would that nigga do?” Rain asked and looked around the room. “Anybody?” she asked and then answered her somewhat rhetorical question. “He would spend that time finding out everything that he could about them so when the time came to wipe her whole program off the face of the earth, he’d know where to hit them, when to hit them and how to hit them to cause the most damage. And that’s exactly what we’re gonna do,” Rain said knowing, without question, that she still had so much more to learn from the real Boss of The Family that it wasn’t even funny.
Chapter Sixteen
Do what I know is the right thing to do and be a good girl and behave myself.
Rain looked at Carter. She knew when he stood up and asked, what are we going there for, that he planned to oppose her if she went against Black’s wishes. She expected no less from him.
Baby Chris had shown that he was completely loyal to Rain when he went to jail for her. And Jackie’s loyalty had never been in question, and add to that, her desire to avenge the people she had lost, so they would follow Rain to the ends of the earth.
But not Carter.
Rain never told him or anybody else for that matter, but she remembered him from when he used to gamble at her father’s old spot. Carter Garrison had been a loyal member of this family since she was a little girl. He had done time for Black and that’s where his loyalties lay. Rain was good with that because that’s where her loyalties lay as well.
“Anybody got any objections?” Rain asked, still looking at Carter.
“I’m good with that,” Carter said, Jackie and Baby Chris nodded their heads in agreement.
“Then what y’all still sitting down for?” Rain barked, and Jackie and Baby Chris bounced to their feet. “Let’s go.”
On the way to Bones, a place that she hadn’t been in years, Rain was lost in her memories of the days when she was in love with Ronnie, or at least she thought she was. He was twenty-five, she was nineteen and Rain was wide open for him. Once he found out that Rain was dealing in defiance of her father’s wishes, she became his ride or die chick, which was the best and worst thing that could have happened to her.
“One thing I’ll say for him,” Black told her when they first started working together. “He turned you into a soldier. Too fuckin’ bad that every fuckin’ thing he taught you was wrong. He wanted a soldier with no honor at all and loyalty only to him.” Black laughed. “That’s why he went to jail and you’re with me.”
It always made her think of who she was when her father first introduced her to Nick. Those days, Rain was into everything and it was all bad. She was wild and had no discipline, she was a lying, cheating, backstabber that nobody trusted. She used Nick to settle her personal scores the first day they met. She had come a long way from there, but she knew that she still had a lot to learn.
She had learned a lot over the years. The time that Rain spent with Nick, the time Rain spent in love with Nick was the best and worst time of her life. Nick being who he was and Rain being stupid in love was hard for her to deal with. There were many times that she wanted to kill Wanda. She did end up killing Tasheka, but only when
she was ordered. Mercedes liked to fuck with her about her relationship with Nick, so Rain definitely wanted to put a bullet in her brain.
But one of the most important things that Rain learned from Nick was discipline, and with that newfound discipline came reason.