Chapter 1
“ONE, TWO, THREE!! ITS OVER AND THE WINNER AND STILL UNDEFEATED CHAMPION NENEEE THE GLADIATOR!!!”
“YES!” I jumped and did a happy dance as I closed my car door. I had the fight on my phone because I couldn’t be there, I had to say hi to a CEO that has been kidnapping little girls in our territory and trafficing them. There are few things my family does not tolerate and thats one of them. *ding* I looked back at my phone and seen that 300,000$ had been added to my account. What? So I bet on my cousin? So what! If there is a chance to make some extra money and its easy why not? Lol I need to get out of my head lol. I laughed to myself and continued to walk into the building where I was to meet my target. He wasn’t expecting me and I did love a great first impression. Approaching the door I took off my gloves and placed my thumb on the scanner, getting all green I walked into the lobby and paused. Really? My mom wasn’t kidding when she told me short men have short man syndrom. This place screamed ‘look at me I have the best and biggest of everything’. In the lobby was lined with imported marbel, giant half nude scultpures of naked people, and every other thing lined in gold. Heck even the front desk lady looks like she just got out the body shop. Standing infront of her I waited until she acknowledged me and smiled.
“Hi, I’m here to see Mr. Roman.” I said
“Do you have an appointment?” She clicked away at her keys and waited for me to continue.
“No, he wasn’t expecting me. Tell his secretary. ‘Robin’ is here to speak to him please?” She sighed and leaned her hands on her hips, rolling her eyes and fixed me with a tight smile. I blinked and kept my hands to my sides,
“No appoinment, no entry, have a nice day” and she went back to her phone. I laughed. Truely laughed. She had no idea. I wasn’t trying to make a seen buttt. I reached over, grabbed her phone and smashed it to pieces. Ms. Fake looked like she was gonna pass out from how red her face is, I bet I could crack an egg on her forehead.
“What the hell?!” She screamed. I leaned back over the desk and grabbed her shirt.
“Now that I have your full attention, CALL. YOUR. BOSS.” She nodded, and grabbed the phone. I watched her and smiled when I knew he picked up because the second she mentioned my name he was barking orders at her to bring me up immediately.
“Yes sir. I-i’m sorry sir i didnt know you were expecting her, she didn’t have -“ she took the phone away from her ear as he shouted for her to shut up and don’t say anything. She hung up and rushed around the desk to me.,
“Right this way Ms. Robin. Im sorry with how i acted i-“.
“Save it, lets go, im on a tight schedule.” She nodded and lead us to an exclusive elevator and pressed the button. Walking in, she scanned her key card and typed in a code to take us to the top floor. I kept a meger distance from her and she understood. She chose the far other side of this little box and simply looked at her feet. Im normally not this mean but she started it. *ding* She nearly tripped on her own feet trying to get out, I laughed under my breath and followed her out into the hall. We made a left and I was handed off to Barbie, sorry, Bethany, damn…or was it becky? Ugh who cares, she is the slimeballs’ new flavor of the month. She took one look at me and froze. Which told me some new information. She knows something she shouldn’t. I smiled and walked ahead of her, not waiting for her to regain her nerve. When I heard her heels clicking behind me I had already made it to the mans door. I walked in and smiled.
“Roman! Its nice to see you again! How are you? Its been a minute!” He walked from behind his desk immediately and all but ran to shake my hand. He nervously took it and gave it a weak shake and released my hand before he went and sent a glare to Barbie. She shrunk back and looked at the ground. He then looked back to me and smiled.
“Robin! Its has been a while, had I of known you were stopping by I’d of been better prepared! Come! Sit! What can I do for you? Bethany bring us a drink cart!” He barked. She couldn’t leave fast enough. He pulled out a chair for me and I gotta give him some credit, this chair was so comfy I might buy one. Focus Corrina! He sat sat down opposite me and waited for me to speak. He tried to look confident but his sweat glads are clearly showing me different.
“Lets get those drinks first Roman, your gonna need it.” I said. Speaking of, Bethany appeared out of thin air with a cart full of drinks. She grabbed two glasses and pours us both two fingers of vodka. I leaned foward and clinked my glass with his and he took his shot. I took mines and placing the shot glass down I pulled out my precious kuni knife my uncle gave me. This mf better be greatful because I hate when this knife gets dirty. I twirled it between my fingers and looked at him lazily. He flinched as my voice turned child-like, with a bright smile i sealed his fate.
“So, pick up any crazy hobbies lately Roman?” I watched as he turned pale and swallowed. Stuttering, he cleared his throat.
“N-not that I know of, I’ve been working out more maybe but nothing really new.” He looked down and rung his hands together. I signed and leaned over the table.
“Thats weird, yesterday you see, I stopped at my favorite bar downtown and heard something interesting. Wanna know what I heard?”
“Whatever you heard must be false! I have no hobbies! “ He spat. Slamming his fist on the table. Bad move. I lifted my knife and pinned his wrist to the table. His scream was caught in his throat as I grabbed his head and slammed it onto the marble table. Blood gushed from his broken nose and I grabbed a tissue and threw it in his lap.
“Really? No, lets say, kidnapping little girls? Nothing like that?” I said as I picked at my nails. He went pale and started babbling.
“Iiii-i’m sorr-“ apology dead on his lips, he looked to the glock pointed at him in silence.
“Did you forget our family doesn’t tolerate that?” My voice changed from high to low instantly. I got up and walked behind his desk and opened his computer; password locked. I looked to my victim and smirked.
“Password?” I said. He turned to look at me and I gotta give the dude credit, he has balls. He glared at me and spit out blood at my feet. Eww. Bet.
“I’m not tellin you shit bitch!” He spat. Eyes wild like the animal he is. I hate lil boys like this. I rolled my eyes and took out my phone, hitting his face, I waited he picked up.
“Yea?” His husky voice rasped through the phone and I smile.
“Hi Xavier, can u unlock this computer for me please? U have my location.” And I sat back and waited, hearing my little brother’s fingers fly across his key board keys. I looked up to pervert jack ass’s computer and see it unlocked and all his hidden data broght up on the screen.
“Is that all?” He grumbled, he must have just woken up. I look up at pervert and seen he turned pale again. I laughed. How many colors can I get from this man?
“Yep, thank youuu” I sang, and hung up the phone. I took out a flash drive and downloaded all his data. Once finished i stood up and walked over to the table he was pinned to.
“So what?! They were random kids no one will miss them!!! Your family makes it so hard to buy in this city!!! I couldn’t even keep the girl! It was 7,000$ for a day with her and then they collect her and thats it! I’m just a costumer!!! I swear! I’lll stop! I swear!” I froze. Thats not the info I have. I was told he was picking the girls up and selling them specifically. I stood straighter and leered down at him.
“Anything else? No other hobbies?” He looked at me with hope and immediately nodded, relaxing slightly. I nodded as well, lifted my gun and shot him twice in the dick. He rolled over screaming and I pistol whipped him, knocking him out. I sent off a few texts to some people and within minutes my best friends show up with their cleaning crew.
“Whats up bitch?” I said to Angel.
“Nothing much bitch, I see you have a mess? You good?”, she said.
Angel walked through the doors like she owned the place per usual. She is 5ft5 inches of badass. She owns beauty supply chains all over the county and is a mother of 3 daughters, black girl magic is real when it comes to her and if its about her daughters, well, lets just say he knife collection is bigger than mines. And that speaks volumes. George, jimmy newtron, as I like to call him isn’t too far behind her. 5’7 and as tough as a teddy bear is my other bestfriend. In true fashion this man is wearing a crisp hot pink suit and hot pink Stacey Addams with a rolex. Yea ladies, he has a different style he wears bright colors in contrast to his mood lol.
“You just love making messes hoe.” Was the first thing out of his mouth. Dont they just love me?! I walked up to them and grabbed both their hands and lead them to perverts computer. I sat down in his chair and they grabbed some chairs from around the room to sit. I just sat and thought for two seconds. Cause now we have a bigger problem. Someone else is trying to go behind us to still deal in the trafficting business. We shut that down as soon as we moved here. I need to call xavier and some other friends. A smile pulled at my lips as I thought of some ideas.
“Stop. You scare me when u smile like that!” Angel said. Pippy laughed and took out one of his knives swirling it, he grinned and nodded.
“So what are we getting into?” He said. He leaned back and looked to Angel and I. Me and Angel looked at each other and laughed. Yea we are crazy you’ll have to excuse us. There is a dying pervert a few feet away and we are laughing like we are in a bar. Angel stops laughing and grabbed her phone out of her purse.
“Hey Jax? Yea, Corrina wants a full hunt. Yea, i know, its been a minute…yea be thorough and the second you find a minor lead, even a typo anywhere I wanna know about it. Ok, yep, adios love.” She hung up the phone and turned to me and cocked an eyebrow.
“So what about the half dead nigga on the floor?” She asked. We all turned to see he was barely breathing. I leaned over to whisper is Angel’s ear.
“He spent 7,000, to be with a 7 year old for one night.” I spat, my voice getting dark and softer with the last word. Angel stiffened and closed her eyes. If you blinked you would have missed it. Angel got up and stood over him. Ohhh mommy mode activated.
“WAKE YOUR ASS UP!!!” She barked. Roman groaned, weakly holding his dead manhood. He weakly spat blood out and it landed on her high heels.
“Heads up psycho!” Pippy said. Angel turned around and caught the knife he had thrown. Looking down at it she smiled. I laughed. I know what she was thinking.
“ Snooze ya lose Pippy, this knife is mine now! Look at this sexy thing! I don’t have this one! Definitely not using it on this low life” She exclaimed, tucking the knife in her back pocket. She turned her ankle around slightly and pressed her thumb on the side of her heel. Lifting her leg high she slammed her heel threw his hand still holding his bloody member. His screams could make you go deaf. She repeated the action until he laid lifeles, his groin destroyed along with his hands. Bending down Angel turned her ankle again and we saw a glint from her heel. Reaching into her purse she pulled out a napkin and wiped her heel show off the extra hidden 6 inch blade underneath.
“WHAT?! When did you get those?!? Me and mom want one in every color!!!” I jumped up and went to inspect her heel. Indeed, it was well concealed. She demonstated how it worked.
“Your flash drive is ready.” Pippy said. We all went back to the desk and I retrieved my flash drive and we all got up to leave the cleaning crew to take care of everything. I feel like I’m forgetting something until I see little miss barbie try to slowly leave. I looked to Angle and Pippy and signaled to them to stop her. Pippy walked up behind her slowly and Angel walked passed her threw the back door that leads to the stairwell where she was heading.
“I’m sorry love, can I speak to you for a second?” He asked. She froze and turned and that was her mistake. He pushed her, knocking her off balance and straight threw the door where Angel was waiting with open arms. Moving quickly we all rushed into the stairwell. Angel had Barbie silenced with aknife to her throat.
“So Barbie, something tells me your not just a pretty face. So instead of making this hard like your former employer, I just need a few questions asked. Can you do that for me?” I asked. She didn’t respond at first. So I gave her incentive. Pippy and I drew our guns and pointed them a her head.
“That moment of silence cost you, now your next words better be good enough to stop these bullets. Start talking.” Pippy explained. Knowing this women probably has ties to child trafficing has Pippy forgoing being a gentleman.
Shaking violently and stuttering she finally spoke.
“Hhheee paid me to do it I’m just the middle man.” BANG, He shot her in the thigh while Angel muffled her screams.
“Weak answer, we’ll beed something stronger than that.” He growled. Hebis losing his patience and so am I. We need to getbto the bottom of this rabbit hole. Who has the balls to come on our turf? We made it clear that trafficking was not acceptable, we’ve turned in, caught, and killed many traffickers and housed and helped heal the victims. It took us years to do it but we did. Pedifiles, rapists, etc… we cleaned house and made some enemies and friends with the police and the neighborhood. And we work to keep it that way. Getting out of my head I decided to make it easy for her.
“Where did he get the girl from, where did they meet, and what’s the name of the account that he sent the money?” I asked. She took a deep breathe and told me everything.
“A few weeks ago an email c-came threw for Mr. Roman, it was a bill from MOSS LLC. 7,000$ for purchase of home equipment. I sent it to him and immediately he paid and once i sent the payment threw they sent another email with a location and a start and end time.” She rushed out and took another few breaths before continuing.
“ Once we arrived it was a 5 star hotel and we went to the presidential suite, there we met a man, I don’t remember his name, but he had laid out ground rules and then smiled and I was instructed to go to the next room afterwords with him, there we-“ she stopped and had the nerve to blush. Angel lifted her foot and pressed the button to her heel-knife and stabbed her in the back of her knee, the tip piercing threw her knee cap. Angel still kept her muffled while she cried. Angel tapped her cheek with the blade in her hand and told her to continue. Hiccuping, she explained that after 3 hours the man got up and left to pick up the girl and leave. And that was it. I walk up to her and signaled Angel to move.
“What’s the name of the hotel?” I demanded.
“BL-Blossom Royal” she stammered. I grabbed the back of her head and smiled at her.
“So you knowingly let your predator boss prey on a child while u got your rocks off? Thank you for that info.” And i slammed my knee into her nose breaking it and pistol whipped her in the temple and she was out like a light. Angel was already texting the clean up crew to move to the stairs and clean up. We walked the rest of the way down stairs to the parking garage.
“Text me hoe, im picking up your goddaughters from daycare lemmie know what’s up!” Angel called as she went inside her car and took off. Pippy walked passed his car and walked straight to mines and snatched my keys.
“After dealing with pervert i need food and so do you, we picking mom up something and xavier?” I laughed and linked arms with him.
“I like the way you think my good sir” he laughed and we got in the car. Starting the car, I slowly pulled out. *Bzzz bzzz* ugh. I reached into my pocked and fished my phone out, its like everyone knowsbim driving and wants to call, whhyyy. Before I could even say hello the voice screamed into the phone,” GET OVER HERE NOW YOUR GODDAUGHTER IS MISSING!!!”
“WHAT?!” I screamed. How? When? What? My head went into over drive until it clicked. What if all this is connected? Hmm too early to tell. I turned to Pippy and he waved his phone around showing me he already bought us the tickets to mexico. It seems people want to mess around and find out.
“CORRINA!” Whoops went into my head again.
“Our flight leaves when we pull up Mercy im on my way!” I hung up and floored it to our private jet location, one of many. Pippy just texted everyone except my mom to meet there. I sat there hoping Xavier is fast and has already hacked onto mercy’s home carmeras. I’ve already blown 2 lights and we’ll make it there in 5 minutes. My phone rings and its my mother’s face popping up.
“Mom-“ i began but she cut me off.
“I took a different jet i was already at the airport saying bye to Danielle when i got Nene’s call im already on the plane ill see you there, love u babe.” She hung up and me and pippy start laughing.
“Poor Mexico, they dont know who is on the way first.” I chuckled, yep, its never good knews when a queen leaves her castle on business.
