However, as Rain explained to Black and Bobby, to that point, instead of disarray, what they found at the spots that they’d been to was that despite the change in the leadership, there was no change in the way things operated and that was all Rain needed.
That night, she sent them to The Booming System, the place where AD was killed to begin drawing Rona out. Therefore, in spite of Rona’s order not to confront them, the tension at The System exploded the second that Carter, Jackie and Baby Chris came in the place and arrogantly walked to the bar.
“Hennessy straight, all around!” Carter shouted at the bartender. “Whatever your top shelf is.”
The bartender just looked at him for a minute,
“What? You don’t carry Henny, then make it Remy Martin,” Carter said, and the bartender went off to make the drinks.
“Hey, sexy. You fine as hell,” A man at the bar next to Jackie said. She looked at him, rolled her eyes and looked away. He grabbed her arm. “I’m talkin’ to you,” he said, and Jackie jerked her arm back.
“Keep your hands off me,” she said and slapped the fuck out of him. Embarrassed, he was about to swing on Jackie, but Carter grabbed his hand and punched him in the face.
Guns were pulled and they were immediately fired on. Jackie hit the floor and fired at the men. As the civilians headed for the exits, Carter and Baby Chris pulled their weapons and fired as they ran for better cover. When the man Jackie slapped tried to run away firing, she shot him in the back. Carter rose up from his cover position behind a table and fired. He hit the one man with two shots to the chest.
While Baby Chris fired, Jackie got up and made it to cover with Carter. Another man came out of an office and began firing. Carter grabbed Jackie and pulled her to the floor. Jackie came back up firing and hit him with two in the chest as he came toward her position.
While Carter covered, Baby Chris reloaded his weapon and shot a man. But he didn’t see that another man had come out of the office and was preparing to fire.
“On your nine, Chris!” Carter yelled and took out the shooter with a shot to the head.
Once everybody was dead and they were getting ready to leave, Baby Chris made an observation.
“Wait a second,” Baby Chris said.
“What?” Carter asked.
“We can’t go yet.”
“Why not?” Jackie asked.
“Because we’re not done.” He paused. “What would Rain do if she were here?”
Both Carter and Jackie laughed. “She’d burn the bitch to the ground,” Carter said.
“We already killed everybody,” Jackie said still laughing. “But I don’t have any C-4.”
“Then we do it the old fashion way,” Carter said and started toward the bar. He grabbed a bottle and tossed it to Baby Chris. “Alcohol burns.”
After slamming bottles around the spot, Carter doused a table with alcohol and set it on fire. The three stayed long enough to make sure that it was going to burn to the ground before they left.
Chapter Twenty-five
Two men got up, raised and pointed their weapons and opened fire. Carter fired several shots in the direction of the men, and they fired back. As the crowd scattered, they took cover behind some tables and continued firing. Jackie took out her nine and began firing at the men. She shot one as she moved for cover.
While the other man continued firing, Carter hit the floor and crawled to where Jackie had taken cover. The two men blanketed the room with a barrage of bullets.
“We gotta get outta here!” Carter shouted.
“No shit!” Jackie shouted back as she opened fire until she had emptied her clip.
“Cover me,” Carter said as Jackie reloaded.
As Jackie fired away, Carter stayed on the ground and positioned himself near the door. He got to one knee, fired and hit one with three shots before moving to better cover. When another man turned to fire at Carter, Jackie killed him. Right then, both Jackie and Carter came out of cover and made a run for the exit as the shooting continued.
“Come on, their getting away!” Jackie heard one yell as she fol
lowed Carter out the door firing.