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“I think we should call Judah and Pills and get some more guns down here before we go around that corner,” RJ said when two men rounded the corner and began running toward Marvin and RJ shooting wildly.
“Get down!” RJ yelled.
They hit the ground as both men fired at them. RJ and Marvin crawled behind a car and returned fire. Marvin hit one man in the shoulder, but he didn’t go down and kept firing. RJ stood up and hit him in the arm and he dropped his gun. When he did, Marvin shot and killed him and then they both turned their attention to the remaining shooter.
“Cover me,” Marvin said, and RJ kept firing.
He stayed low and worked his way around the cars and was able to get behind him, put the gun to the back of his head and fired.
RJ stood up but had to duck down behind the car as two more men using semi-automatic weapons began firing at them. They were separated from one another and they were both pinned down.
Marvin took a deep breath, tightened the grip on his weapon, rose up, took aim, fired, and dropped one of the shooters. He quickly dropped back to cover as the other man began shooting at him. With his attention now focused on Marvin, RJ came up blasting and hit the other man. He went down hard.
Marvin opened his trunk. “Who you think you are; Rain Robinson?” RJ asked when he looked in Marvin’s trunk. It wasn’t loaded like Rain’s, but there was enough fire power in that trunk that they could hold out for a while in a firefight.
“Who you think I got the idea from,” Marvin said, and he handed RJ an AR15 and some extra clips. Once they reloaded their handguns, RJ and Marvin went back around the corner to the house that Carmelita said they could find Psych, all of the cars that were parked out front were gone, and the house was in darkness.
“He’s gone,” RJ said but they searched the house for him anyway. “We’ll get his ass, Money.”
Chapter Fourteen
“Now I know why they call you Magic. Got my clit throbbing like this.”
Rain laid in bed next to Gavin and her entire body was feeling fabulous. With the exception of Nick, Gavin was the best lover she’d had. And in addition to their great sex life, Rain and Gavin were good together … when they could find the time to be together, which wasn’t very often. Both of them were powerful people with organizations to manage and that left them with little free time to spend together. And on top of that, he was married, which wasn’t good for Rain because she thought that she was falling in love with him.
What? You don’t think I have feelings too?
At first, she tried to play it off to the effects of amazing multiple orgasms; that Gavin Caldwell was no more than good dick that always came whenever she’d call and always made her cum, more than once before he left. But, she knew what she was starting to feel because she’d felt it before, and Rain had promised herself that she would never allow herself to feel that way again.
That meant avoiding moments like the one they were both enjoying. Both basking in the afterglow of intensely amazing sex. Gavin had his arm around her, and Rain’s head was resting against his chest. When she started thinking about asking him to escort her to Nick’s wedding, Rain knew it was time to go.
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??I gotta go,” Rain said and sat up.
“You always do,” Gavin said and watched Rain go in the bathroom. He gave some thought to going in there with her, but it was getting late and there were things to do that he didn’t want to do, but he knew that he had to do. If he followed her into the shower, all that would do was kick off round three.
He had gone to see his brother, Butch in jail earlier that day and he had a request. It was starting to become a regular thing and each time; it drew Gavin closer to that side of their business and that was not where he wanted to be.
“Mutha fuckas is turning on me left and right!”
“I hear you, Butch.”
“I know this ain’t what you come here to hear, Babyboy, but with shit going the way it’s going and Pop being sick and shit, you’re the only one I can trust to get this done,” Butch said and looked at his younger brother. “I know you don’t wanna do it. I remember Pop saying to me all the time that you were gonna be the one to make sure our children and our children’s children don’t have to hustle like this.”
“That’s what I’m trying to do,” Gavin said. “Me and London are building that business.”
“I know. But this our business too. It’s this business that makes that business do what it do. I need you to step up, Babyboy and run this.”
Gavin looked at his brother. “What you need me to do, Butch?”
“That’s my nigga.” Butch leaned forward. “I need you to grab Clip and Twan and here’s what I need you to do,” Butch said and went on to explain what he needed done and how he needed it done. “And it’s gotta be tonight, understand?”
“I understand.” Gavin sat back. “If I do this, you understand where it’s gonna leave me.”
“You the only one I can trust with this.” Butch laughed. “You the only one you can trust with this.”
“I got you,” Gavin said and now it was time to put Butch’s plan in motion. But that was when his phone rang. He looked at the display and saw that it was Twan’s wife, Takesha.