thinking I was stupid.
“It’s all the same, Tommy’s my guy you deal with him you’re dealing with me. So what happened the smoke just wasn’t selling? I thought for sure there was a market now that the government had eased up on the shit.”
“That’s just it brother, their let’s all join hands and have a hippie party kinda killed the biz. Now everything is structured, conglomerated. Weed is no longer a street drug no matter how good it is. They’ve forced us out.”
“I see.” I looked behind me without giving away that that’s what I was doing and shifted my body a little. This little powwow wasn’t gonna last too long and something was gonna have to jump off to bring it to a head.
I was about to make my move when I caught movement out the side of my eye. I took the blow standing and not even by a twitch of an eyelash did I let on that I’d been affected.
I looked dead at her and she didn’t even recognize me, why should she? She’d only seen me once and that was over fifteen years ago. We were both too young to remember, at least she was, but I never forgot.
She had the same head of shiny blonde curls as she did back them, and those eyes, the blue of the Caribbean Sea. I wasn’t sure I could pinpoint any one emotion out of the many that coursed through me, and won’t even try.
“What are you doing out here chica?” Fuck me tell me she isn’t with him. I felt my body seize with a rage that far outweighed the situation. Before she walked into the room he was just a nuisance that I needed to get rid of, but now. If he’d had her as it appeared he had, they were both fucked.
“I needed a smoke do you mind?” She didn’t look like a junkie but her words were off a little as she moved towards Juanita.
It was obvious that there was no love lost between the two women if the look that passed between the two of them was anything to go by. “Puta.” Alright I guess I called that one.
Juanita glared at the much prettier girl as she gathered the shit for a smoke. At least she wasn’t doing lines and she didn’t look like she was worn the fuck out.
Finding her here had changed shit up a bit though, now I had to change my play. “You mind if I use your rest room, it was a long flight and uh, Juanita here didn’t exactly give me time if you know what I mean?” He seemed suspicious for all of ten seconds before the presence of his men restored his confidence.
I was pretty sure that the bathroom was closer to the back of the house, and I was also betting that this genius hadn’t thought to put men around back.
No, he would most likely think that I was an easy mark seeing as how I’d come all this way on my own. Oh, well, at least the fool will get to live a few more hours.
In the bathroom I made quick work of the window. The place was one story so all that was needed was the lifting of the window and shimmying out. I had to time shit accordingly, so I flushed the toilet with my foot to cover any sound the window might make, while turning on the tap full blast.
I was up and through the window in less than two minutes. Just as I thought there was no one back there. It was an easy thing to scale the wall of the house next door. I don’t think the hot little number sunbathing next to her pool was expecting company, but the finger to my lips and the gun the idiots next door hadn’t found next to my balls kept her mouth shut.
Always bank on tough guys not going anywhere near your nuts, they don’t wanna come off as queer. Fuck that, I’d strip search my own mother if it came to that.
I didn’t stay around long enough to hear the alarm sound or the outcry when they realized I was gone. Now I had to deal with two things, one, he knew I wasn’t a complete ass, and two, he was going to be on the lookout. Whatever, I was on a plane outta here tomorrow evening and she was coming with me. Speaking of which I’d better take care of that.
I pulled my phone and called the airline. “I need a
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