“Wanda?”
“Wanda,” Nick s
aid.
“Yeah, Wanda. I go over there and an hour later she sent men to kill him,” Rain said and sat down next to Nick. She took his hand in hers and squeezed it.
“I still don’t believe it,” Perry said.
“Why don’t you ask her yourself,” Nick challenged.
“I will,” Perry said and walked out of the room with Glenda close behind him.
Perry walked quickly to his office. “I can’t believe that Wanda would try to have Nick killed. I know she’s mad, but this is getting ridiculous,” Glenda said as they walked.
“I’m gonna get to the bottom of this,” Perry said and picked up the phone. It was early in the morning, but he didn’t care.
“Hello,” Wanda answered on the forth ring.
“It’s Perry. Did you send men to kill Nick?”
“Is he dead?”
“No.”
Wanda paused. “Look Perry, I’m not gonna discuss this over the phone and you know better then to ask me,” she said and hung up, leaving Perry holding the phone in his hand and a confused look on his face.
When he finally returned the phone to its cradle he looked at Glenda. “What did she say?” she asked.
“She didn’t deny it.”
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Minutes seemed to pass like hours as Rain sat in the room with Nick. By this time, her men had joined her. Chris Toney stood by the window and looked out; Memphis was positioned in the hallway outside the door, while Donavan and Brandon were outside walking around the office. There were several times while she sat there that Rain felt like crying, but each time she fought the urge. Instead, she tried to focus her mind on what she was going to do next. She tried to anticipate what Nick would want her to do. Surely he wouldn’t want to wait anymore now that Wanda had made her move, but she didn’t know. What if his personal feelings for Wanda clouded his judgement?
Even though she was sure it was over between them, Rain knew that he still loved Wanda. But her trying to have him killed should change that shit, Rain thought and thought about how extreme it was to try and kill Nick over her. But shit, Jay Easy tried to have me killed when I started fuckin’ Nick. She looked at Nick and smiled. Her first thought was that she should drive to Wanda’s house, drag her out in the street and put two in her head, but she could hear Nick’s voice. That’s not what I wanted! No, Nick would want her to investigate before she retaliated. He would want her to be sure that the people she killed were the people responsible.
Just then Memphis stuck his head in the door. “Rain.”
Rain looked up slowly. “Yeah.”
“Donavan says that Jap is outside.”
“Let him come.”
“Right,” Memphis said.
“Suppose Wanda sent him to finish the job?” Chris Toney asked.
“I don’t think so. Nick trusts Jap. Them niggas got history.” Rain paused. “But you be ready to kill him anyway.”
Chris Toney went and stood by the door and waited for Jap to come in. After a while, the door opened and Jap walked in. Rain was standing in front of the bed with her gun behind her back.
“How’s Nick?” Jap asked.
“He’ll be all right, but I need to know right here, right now, where your heart is?”
“You don’t have to worry. I’m not here to finish a coward’s work. If I was, I wouldn’t have come alone and unarmed,” Jap said and opened his coat. “And I’m not saying that just because Chris Toney got a gun to my head.”