Chapter 28
Carlos
“Yo, she trying to fuck you, Troop.” I nodded at the realtor showing him the property he was trying to buy.
Trooper laughed. “There you go. No, she’s not. She just wants the sale.”
“Nah, she wants more than a sale, bruh. Every time she looks at you, she looks down at your dick at some point. Trust me, I see it ’cause I’m checking her out, and every time I do and follow her eyes, they on your shit. Why the fuck you think I’m over here? I’m not trying to be part of that.”
“The fuck, Los? You just don’t care what you say.” Trooper balled his face and looked at me like I was crazy, but it was true. Ol’ girl was trying to get at him. Not only was she eye fucking the hell outta him, she kept putting her damn hands on him for no reason.
“Damn, Sophie got you like that? You can’t even recognize game anymore?” I smirked at him and he laughed.
“Hell no. I’m perfectly capable. I’m just not paying her ass no attention, so I don’t know what the fuck she thinking.”
“Well, you better start ’cause she trying to get at your ass.”
I looked up just in time for her to switch her fine ass over to us. Sure enough, she walked right up and put her hand on Trooper’s chest. I chuckled and walked off, but not before Trooper shot me a nasty glance.
I leaned against the wall and checked a few messages while Trooper tried his best to create distance between him and ol’ girl.
Trooper had a slick ass mouth, so I was waiting for him to blow up on her cute ass for being all in his personal space. He didn’t play about shit like that.
My ringing phone took my attention from them and I smiled when I noticed Maddie’s name flash across it. She was quickly moving up to the top of my priority list.
“What’s up, sexy?” I answered with a smug grin.
“Oh, so I’m sexy? This morning you told me I needed to eat more because I was too skinny,” she said in a way that exposed the smile on her face.
“I didn’t say shit about you not needing to eat. I meant that, shorty, but you still sexy though.”
“Thank you… I guess.” She laughed and it sounded sexy as hell.
“So, what’s up? You miss me or something?”
“Do you miss me?”
“Hell yeah, I do. I’m bricked up right now just from the sound of your voice.”
“Carlos!”
“What? I’m just being honest. You don’t want me to be honest with you?”
“Yes, I do, but I also don’t want us to be just sex,” she said, almost pouting. It was cute though.
“We’re more than just sex, Madeline. If you don’t know that, that’s on you, shorty.”
“I know, or at least I think I do.”
“Nah, none of that. If you rolling with me, I need you to be confident about how you feel. Especially when it comes to me.”
“Boy, please. I can be confident about what I want, but I can’t be confident about what I’m not sure I have.”
“Boy? Did I feel like a boy when I was digging in them guts, Madeline?”
“I’m not about to go there with you.”
“Yeah, that’s what I thought,” I said firmly.
“Am I going to see you tonight?”
“I can make that happen. I have a few things to handle, so it might be late, but I can swing through there.”
“If you’re busy it’s fine. We can just see each other tomorrow.”
I rubbed my chin and smiled. “I will be busy. But it’s just business. When I’m done, I’ll come check you out.”
“Okay, Carlos, but don’t bring no secondhand bitches to me,” Maddie said, making me frown.
“Yo, what the fuck that mean?”
“Just like secondhand smoke, I don’t want secondhand bitches. That means don’t be coming around with traces of other women on you.”
I chuckled and felt a smile creep onto my face. “Yo, you wild as fuck, but I like that. Nah, you good. I wouldn’t disrespect you like that.”
“Good, then I’ll see you tonight,” she said and hung up on me.
Maddie had a little wild streak in her and I needed to tame that, but I was up for the challenge.
“You trying to sell me this property or offer me pussy? There’s only one I’m interested in, shorty. I don’t mean to take it there, but you don’t seem to understand I’m here for one reason and one reason only.”
And there it goes. I shook my head when I heard Trooper flip on ol’ girl.
I knew it was coming if she kept trying him.
It really didn’t even have shit to do with Sophie, but Trooper was about his business.
If she was trying to push pussy instead of the property, he was annoyed and ready to let her ass have it.
“I most definitely am not offering you sex, Mr. Carter.” She fumbled over her words, embarrassed as hell.
I saw it all over her face when she glanced at me. She wasn’t embarrassed because he’d called her on that shit but because he turned her down and I heard it.
“Look, how about this? Send me the numbers and I’ll get back to you.
But before you call, make sure you understand you’re not part of this deal.
” Trooper was annoyed as hell, which was funny as shit to me.
He didn’t give two fucks about her feelings.
If it wasn’t helping him make money, her feelings weren’t relevant.
“Mr. Carter...” She called his name and stood there looking dumb, but he ignored her and turned to me.
“Yo, I’m out. Let’s roll, Los.”
“Troop, you’re dumb as hell, bruh,” I said, laughing to myself.
“Nah, she dumb for that shit. How you trying to make a business deal with your legs open?” Trooper cut his eyes at me before pulling the door open to his Range.
After we were both in, I lit up the blunt I had been dying to burn from the second we started that bullshit tour.
“Bruh, the fuck you mean? What the hell you think strip clubs are for? Business deals with legs open.”
Trooper busted out laughing before he pulled off.
“You know what the fuck I mean. We ain’t at a gotdamn strip club.
We were walking through a property she wants me to pay three point eight million dollars to purchase and she’s throwing pussy at me like there was a gotdamn pole in that muthafucker.
You know I don’t play about my fucking money, Los. ”
Trying to respond through the smoke , I almost choked because I was already laughing before I started talking.
“Shit, I know, but you ain’t have to embarrass her ass like that. You wild for that.”
“She knew who I was before she tried me. That’s on her,” Trooper shot back.
I chuckled. “So you really gonna do it?”
“I’m thinking about it. Rental property is the way to go.
Easy money and low maintenance. That area is nice as fuck, so I don’t have to worry about no bullshit being up in here.
Six to eight grand a month, depending on the unit.
That ain’t shit for us, but that’s a lot for most. So if they ain’t established, they ain’t coming out here trying to rent shit.
That means I don’t have to worry about them fucking up my shit or not paying. ”
Nodding as I inhaled, I agreed. It made sense. Trooper was good with business and had me thinking about getting into something like that. He was always about his business, which started in the streets and was now legal.
My life was still centered in the streets, for now anyway. I would get out when the time was right. The time just wasn’t right for me yet.
“Yo, so I need you to make a run with me real quick,” I said, passing my blunt to Trooper.
He inhaled and nodded after he released a cloud of smoke. “Where we going?”
I smirked at him not even questioning me. That was how we did shit. If I needed him to roll, he was down and vice versa. We were on some real shit. Down, with no questions asked.
“I need to pay someone a visit,” I said, pulling my phone out.
Once I found the address, I leaned forward and keyed it into his GPS. He passed the blunt back and we relaxed for the hour-long drive.
“I need my burner?” Trooper asked after we pulled into the neighborhood.
“Shouldn’t, but take it just in case.”
Trooper reached for the glove compartment and grabbed his heat while I got out. I already had mine on my body, so I was straight. We made our way to the front door and I pulled my piece and shot the lock before letting myself in.
“Yo, who the fuck lives here? You shooting locks,” Trooper asked, looking around.
It was quiet as fuck in this neighborhood, about an acre between each of these million plus dollar homes, so I wasn’t concerned.
“Who the hell are you?” a pretty ass, slim blonde woman yelled, covering her naked body with a short silk robe. Even tied, it barely hid her big ass breasts that had clearly been purchased. I would still bury my face in them shits though because they were nice.
“Ay, get Richard for me, beautiful. Tell him he has a visitor.” I winked at her then made myself comfortable behind her bar. I poured a glass of her expensive ass Cognac and held it up, offering it to Trooper.
“And why would I do that? You need to get out of my house before I call the cops.”
“Call them, sweetheart. I don’t give a fuck about that, but trust me. You’ll be dead and your body will be cleaned up and missing before they get here.”
I held my gun in the air, but didn’t even aim it at her. Her eyes grew wide as fuck.
Trooper looked at me and shook his head, wearing a smirk. “Ay, go get that muthafucker. He dead ass serious, shorty.”
She turned on her heels and left the room. “Yo, what if she really calls the cops? I’m not in the mood to drop bodies today, Los. Damn.”
“She won’t. That’s Conrad Harvey’s wife and she fucking Richard.
She ain’t about to miss money like that by letting her husband find out she’s cheating.
Richard’s pussy ass bank account can’t fuck with the type of bread Conrad has, but he ain’t fucking her right, so she getting dicked down by Richard. ”
“How the fuck you know all this?”
“You know how I do. I know people.” I smirked at Trooper.
“What the fuck are you doing here?” Richard yelled when he entered the room.
“Damn, that’s how you greet guests?” Trooper said, scowling at him.
“You’re not my guest. How did you even know I was here?”
“I ain’t who you need to worry about. You need to worry about if Conrad finds out you’re here. He ain’t gonna like that you’re sleeping with his woman.”
Match, set, point! He was fuming and wanted to kill my ass, but knew better.
“What do you want?” he said calmly, massaging his temple.
“You’re going to divorce Maddie and give her whatever she asks for. Not because she needs it either. I have way more than your ass can even imagine, so she’s straight, but because she deserves it for putting up with your punk ass for three years.”
“You can’t—”
“Yes, the fuck I can, and if you don’t think so, try me, muthafucker.
If you don’t make things right, I will first embarrass your ass by making sure Conrad knows you’re sucking the breasts he paid for.
After your punk ass is publicly shamed, I’ll make you disappear permanently.
Trust me, I don’t fucking play. Now you have one week to make things happen.
So after you finish fucking with Jessica Rabbit in there, get on the line with your fancy ass lawyer and make sure you handle that. One week, Richard.”
I finished my drink then walked around the bar. Trooper and I started toward the door, but his dumb ass stopped in front of Richard and adjusted the collar on his shirt before he smirked at him and walked off.
After we made it to his truck, I looked at Trooper and we both burst out laughing. “Yo, did you really just do that?”
“Hell yeah, and he better do what the fuck I asked,” I said in all seriousness.
“I’m not fucking with your dumb ass, Los. You ’bout to get my Black ass locked up on some dumb shit,” Trooper said and shook his head as we made our way out of the driveway.
“I know you’re not talking. I learned from you,” I said and fired up another fat one.
Trooper nodded to agree. Hell, he’d taught me.
Find out who they were and hit ’em where it hurt.
I was the type who just usually liked to kill muthafuckers.
Trooper liked to make ’em suffer financially, especially now since he was out the game.
I needed to tone my shit down too. So instead of just killing his ass, I handled it this way. That way Maddie got what she deserved.