part. Redman’s phone then rang a couple of seconds later. After he answered it, he began to yell.
“What the fuck? Fatima, Fatima!”
I hopped into the backseat and stared at his phone. My mouth dropped open as I watched helplessly as Snowman stood over Fatima with his bandaged stomach, and kicked her savagely in her head and body. After a few seconds of stomping her, he stopped and looked into the camera.
“ We done snatched six hundred thousand out of this stash. Where the fuck is the rest of our money? When you get it, bring it to the A, , if you want your friend back.”
“Redman smiled sinisterly as he locked eyes with Snowman.”
“Man, you have no idea who you are now beefing with. Let me tell you what’s going to happen. I’m going to get a list of all of your family members, and I’m going to kill all of them until I get to you. Then I’m going to kill you, too. I don’t know if you going to kill my girl or not, and I hope you don’t. But you are not holding me hostage on some hope. I’m going to murder you and whoever with you and anybody that even likes you. You want us in the A? Here we come.”
He hung up and immediately dialed another number.
“Crunchy, dead the shop and get your team together. We have to go introduce the A to how we put the murder game down."
Crunchy was quiet for a few seconds.
“It’ll be seven of us. We not packing anything but guns. Everything else we’ll get on the road. What’s up though? I know you don’t think we just going to go into something blind. We respect you, not fear you, so, what up?”
“Dudes from the A came down trying to extort Samantha. Her and my brother didn’t go for that and one of theirs got killed. They done kidnapped Fatima and showed me on the phone her getting stomped out. They told us to come to the A to get her back, and that’s where me and my brother going. Y’all coming or not?”
“Say no more. They want us in the A, we there. See you when you get here.”
He immediately dialed another number. I heard my aunt pick up on the second ring.
“Aunt Terry, pack up all the money and the bricks right now. We’ll be back in a few to pick everything up.”
He closed his eyes as our Aunt was saying something to him.
“Nah, everything is not alright. My girl was kidnapped and taken to Atlanta. We going to get her back, dead or alive, and teach them boys a lesson. Are you coming?”
He closed his eyes, and I could tell he was hoping that she would come with us. She had stepped up for him when our parents died and they became skin tight. The smile that suddenly stretched across his face made me smile.
“Good, auntie. I’m going to need you. See you soon. Don’t pack anything. We’ll go shopping when we get down there.”
I looked at Samantha.
“Are you coming to Atlanta ?”
She smiled, and then smacked the hell out of me. Redman laughed as he jumped out of the car!
“I guess she answered your question. Go get the Benz and grab some cash. See you in a few.”
Chapter 21
[BANKHEAD, ATLANTA]
Redman made us drive through Bankhead strictly because he’s a huge T.I. fan. I never thought I would see a city that was grimier than B-More, but Bankhead made me realize poverty resides everywhere. It looked more poor to me because it wasn’t blocks of row houses as I was used to. It was blocks of abandoned houses that were all fucked up and that one wouldn’t see in B-More. The streets that had nice size individual houses were in good shape. The thinking was that once one make the jump to a house, then it was time to take care of your shit.
We got five rooms at the Hampton Inn in Buckhead. We also got a room at The Ellis Hotel for Aunt Terri. That was where we intended to keep all of the money and
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