wide awake now, and the situation was back fresh on his mental. The time on the digital alarm clock displayed a little after seven as the time. Mike B exited his bedroom. Moments later, he was opening the front door of his east end home to find, the Courier News newspaper at his feet. He pulled the plastic off the newspaper as he made his way to his vehicle. There was no doubt in his mind that whatever happened last night would be in todayâs paper. When he slipped it off of it and opened it up, the front page and headlines caused a sharp pain to jolt through it. The words S HOOTING A T P LAINFIELD D INER L EAVES O NE D EAD illuminated off the page. Mike B scanned the article.
Union County
A local Plainfield resident was reportedly shot and killed at Kennedy Fried Chicken Diner on Park Avenue. The victim has been identified as 25-year-old Antwan Roberts. Our sources say that police found Robertâs body riddled with bullets. No weapon was recovered and police are ruling Robertâs death as a homicide.
No one has been arrested or charged on the matter, but sources also tell us that Roberts, who went by the street monniker âTwanâ had an extensive criminal record, and although it has not been confirmed, police believe that this may be a drug-related incident. If you have any information concerning the death of Antwan Roberts, please contact the Plainfield Police Department or 1-800-CrimeStoppers.
Fighting back tears, Mike B flung the newspaper off to the right of him. All types of thoughts flowed through his mind. Despite the fact that someone close to him in blood and on his team was murdered, Mike B still had to keep a level head if he wanted to get to the bottom of things. He was already weighing up potential and possible explanations and scenarios as to how his little cousin had been killed and by who. But first, he needed to talk to Jeff to see what he knew. With that in mind, Mike B whipped his SUV from alongside of the curb headed to what he and Jeff called their Think Tank.
Chapter Two
âHello?â an out of breath Lenore answered the phone just in time.
âDamn, what were you were doing? Playing with yourself?â Denise chuckled.
âNo bitch.â Lenore spat. âI was in the shower,â she retorted as she unraveled the towel wrapped around her body and began to dry off.
âWhatever,â Denise dismissed her response. âAnyway, how did Mike B take it?â she asked instead.
Lenore sighed. âI told you, for as long as Iâve been dealing with him, heâs been hard to read. We didnât talk when I got in.â
âOh, well Jeff left up out of here early to meet up with him.â
âI know. M left early too. When I woke up around eight, he was already gone.â Lenore offered.
âJeff said heâs positive Mike B is going to wig the fuck out and go ham though,â Denise rebutted. âI think so too. He loved that nigga Twan like a brother.â
Lenore grimaced as she continued drying off. She knew how Mike B felt about his younger deceased cousin. Although they did a lot together and he did a lot for her, at times, she felt he had showed his cousin more love and attention than he did her. She knew up-close and personal they were. Still, he was not a man that wore his emotions on his sleeve.
They had been together for two years, after Jeff and Denise introduced the two. They had hit it off the first day they had met. Lenore was fresh out of the hood of Englewood, California but looked and carried herself like she belonged in Hollywood. Her tall modelâs frame and shea butter complexion was right up Mike Bâs alley, which is why he wasted no time locking her down. It was then she got to know the man that everybody looked at as âthe manâ in the small East Coast city. The first year the two had been together, she learned that he was not only a private person, but very secretive and more of a homebody. He
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