DIVA: FEMALE HUSTLER

chapter 23

A loud click sound is heard in the car. I sit on the seat as my whole arm throbs. f**k, I look at my blood soaked dress shirt. The driver gets back in the car," we need to go back and grab her."

" Nah, we got who we need."

" Don't say anything if she's able to ID us," the car starts up.

" It doesn't matter. We can find out where she stays." I lean back in the seat, closing my eyes.

" Don't be passing out. Wrap her shoulder up with something before she bleeds out." I take deep breaths in and out as I lean back into the seat.

" s**t, she better not die. Rizzo is gonna kill us all." I felt my arm move and something wrap tight around it.

" He's going to kill just for taking her." I grit my teeth from the right wrap," that should hold her until we get there."

The car goes silent, I need to open my eyes. I willed myself to open my eyes. For the next hour we drive north from the funeral home farther into Jersey. These fools, the car slows down to a single home far away from others. Grass from miles away separates the homes. The car stops and they get out," grab her," the one in the passenger seat says. The door opens and the other one grabs my arm pulling me out of the car. I snatchs out of his hold," you don't need to be ruff." I walk up the steps onto the house. A few men stand around holding guns. The driver pushes me farther into the house to the end of the hallway. He opens the door then I slowly walk down the stairs.

Kyrie's little sister in the middle of the room tied to a chair. The floor is concrete with no windows and a back room where the men stand smoking," get a chair and rope." They scatter getting a chair, placing it behind me. The driver pushes me down in the chair while the others tie me to the chair. I look over at Kyrie's little sister, her eyes are red and tears stain her cheeks. What did they do to her, her clothes are dirty and a funky stench comes off of her. The steps creak as two pairs of footsteps descend. The man that was sitting in the passenger seat walks down first then Akeem.

" Dominique," he stands in front of me in a black hoodie and jeans. His braad hangs to his chest and light brown skin is clear from blemishes.

" What's this about Akeem?"

" Nothing much. I just need your family to start supplying me like yall doing for Monique."

" What are we getting from that?"

"Money, what else?" I chuckle," we just didn't get money from the Hernandez family, they did a little extra to receive the product they got."

" We'll see if giving you back in one piece will be a little extra," he crouched down.

" We'll see," I smirk. He gets up," keep your hands off this one," he points to me then walks up the stairs. I watch the men laugh then throw their blunt on the floor. They step over to her," what the f**k do you think your doing?"

" Shut up, we're just having fun."

" You f*****g touch her and I'll rip your ball off."

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

I sit in the car across the street from Akeem's family house. His men stand outside," what are we doing out here?" Travis looks out the window," that nigga been ghost all week. I need to see if he's here."

" If he is just the two of us ain't going to get to him." I take a deep breath before he starts the car then pulls off heading to ma's house.

" What happened with you and Dominique?"

" Nothing, been trying to get Diamond back." The car gets silent as he pulls into the driveway. We get out going through the front door. Ma and Kam sitting in the living room with the seven o'clock news on. Breaking New, Risso's Funeral Home parking lot had a dead body in the parking lot.

Surrounding businesses and homeowners said they heard a few gunshots and saw two women taken out of the Funeral home into a black SUV.

" f**k ma call Risso." She snatches her phone off the table dialing the number.

" Mr. Rossi, I just heard. Was Dominique found?" I move closer to her," it has to be Akeem. He ran in my s**t then took my daughter hostage. We haven't been able to find him in New York. I'm thinking he's on your side." She paused for a second," I'll meet you in an hour." She hangs up then gets up," get in the car." Ma slides her shoes on and jacket. We all leave the living room and get in the SUV.

I get in the passenger seat while Travis and Kam get in the back seat.

." Where are we going?

" " They own a fish market on the docks," Ma starts the car and pulls out the driveway. This nigga is taking s**t too far. My little sister and niece Dominique. He knows this is going to be a bloodbath. I lean back in the seat looking out the window the whole ride. After an hour, we pull into the parking lot. We get out following ma down the docks.

"This s**t is creep," Kam looks around at the fishing boats.

" You sure about this? They can just kill us then throw us in the water," Travis says.

" We have a common interest right now. I don't think they want us dead yet."

Two Italian men stand around smoking. We walk up to them," Hernandez," the short one asks.

" Yes," ma say. He throws his cigarette down," follow me." We follow him down the docks with the other man behind us. I look over at ma, she holds a stone face. Let's hope this ain't about to jump off. After a couple minutes we stop in front of the fish market. The guard opens the door letting us walk through first. A couple more Italians are standing around with their guns showing. I lick my lips looking at the other men. We go past the glass display to the back. A foul stench hit my nose before the doors could open.

" Whats the f**k is that smell," Travis covers his noise. The guard push the door open and we walk through.

Some old music plays while Rizzo stands over a table cutting the head of a fish. He wears a black plastic apron with long black gloves and a huge butcher knife in his hands. His right hand man leans against the wall smoking a cigar.

" Mrs. Hernandez, thank you for coming at such short notice," Rizzo push the fish head off the table into a bucket under the table.

" It's okay Mr. Rizzo. What is it you want to talk about?" He slices the belly of the fish and Travis starts to make a sound. I look at him and he steps back.

" I want to make a proposition with you and your son."

" What would that be?" Rizzo put the knife down then turns to ma," I want you to kill Akheem and make his crew understand who not to mess with."

" What are we getting for this?"

" I'll give you 500,000 and a corner in one of my territories." He must want this bad to give us a spot in his territory.

" We'll take it. Do you know where Akeen is?" Rizzo takes his gloves and apron off putting them on the table.

" Akheem has contacted me to meet him at this abandoned house tomorrow night." Rizzo goes across the room and washes his hands.

" I was sending Marco's boys and a couple of my men." Ma nods," Kyrie and one of my men will go in and the rest will be waiting nearby."

" Excellent, I'll call when everything is together for the meet up." Rizzo turns around drying his hands.

" Yes Mr. Rizzo, we'll see you tomorrow," ma turns and leaves.

" Night," Rizzo says.