“Bullshit. There were more than two thousand people at my daddy’s funeral. I’m pretty sure somebody that worked for your father knew.”
Ronnie looked at Rain for a while without speaking. Rain was about to walk off when he finally said. “So when can we get together?”
Rain laughed. “I told you, I got a man. We run this place.”
“So you got a man. What that mean to me?”
“It means something to me,” Rain said.
“So where is this man of yours?” Ronnie asked. “What’s his name?”
“His name is Nick Simmons and he’s in the office.”
“Nick Simmons, used to run with Mike Black, Nick Simmons?”
“Nick Simmons, that still run with Mike Black, Nick Simmons,” Rain said proudly.
“So you with them now?”
Rain took a deep breath; she wasn’t in the mood for this. “Look Ronnie, it was good seeing you. It really was. But right now, I got a lot goin’ on and I don’t really have time to stand here and get reacquainted. Now that you out, I’m sure I’ll see you around,” Rain said and walked off leaving Ronnie standing by himself.
“You’ll see me again,” Ronnie said and watched Rain and Chris Toney go in the back of the club. “Next time you see me, I’ll be back on top.”
Rain sat in what was once her brother Miles’ office at JR’s. When Nick began operating from there, Rain gave him the bigger office because he was her king. She thought about Ronnie King and the way she just treated him. Jay Easy crossed her mind. You disrespected him and he started robbin’ your ass and tried to have you killed, Rain thought and hoped she hadn’t made the same mistake with Ronnie; at least he seemed to take it a little better. But she couldn’t worry about that now. Right now, that bitch Wanda was on her mind. “I want you to do something for me,” she said to Chris Toney.
“Whatever you need is done. You know that.”
“You still messin’ with that little trick a Grant’s?”
“Sometimes. Why?”
“I want you to go see her.” Rain took a stack of bills out of the drawer, counted some off and handed them to Chris Toney. “Drop some money on her, see what she talkin’ ’bout.”
Chris Toney nodded is head and put away the money. “What you want me to ask her?”
“I don’t want you to ask her shit. I want to know what’s goin’ on over there. If something’s goin’ on, she’ll tell it.”
“You want me to take the crew with me?”
“No. You go by yourself,” Rain said and got up. She walked with Chris as he left to carry out her orders. “Call me when you’re done,” she said as she got to Nick’s office.
“You got it,” Chris Toney said and left Rain standing at the door. When she heard the buzzer, Rain opened the door and went in.
“I ain’t feelin’ good,” she said. “I’ma catch a cab and go home.”
Nick got up. “That’s all right. I’ll drive you.”
“You don’t have to do that, I’ll be all right.”
“No. I brought you here, I’ll take you home,” Nick said and armed himself.
“Now you know, if you take me home I’ma want some of that dick.”
“Thought you wasn’t feelin’ good?”
“I ain’t ever that sick that I don’t want some of that dick,” Rain said and followed her king out of the office. When they got
to Rain’s apartment, neither said a word. They went straight in her bedroom and got undressed.