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“Nine, maybe ten years,” Rain said.
“That is far too long, Lorraine. Even though you and Ronald couldn’t make it work, that didn’t mean you had to stop coming here to see me.”
“You’re absolutely right. I’m sorry,” Rain said and smiled. “In fact, I think we’re gonna start coming here to eat a lot more often. Baby Chris here was just telling us that the meat still falls off the bone on them ribs.”
“Paula,” Miss Betty said,
“Yes, ma’am.”
“Take up these menus and tell Kevin that I said to make four loaded sampler platters.” She paused. “And I do mean loaded. We have two big strong handsome men here and they look like they can put away some food.”
“Yes, ma’am,” Carter and Baby Chris both said almost in unison.
“I know you can.” She turned and looked at Jackie. “I don’t know about you, young lady, but I know Lorraine had quite the appetite.”
“She still does. And I’m dying to try those ribs I’ve been hearing so much about.”
Miss Betty hugged Rain again. “It so good to see you.”
“It’s good to see you too, Miss Betty.”
“Now you sit down and enjoy your friends while I go see that Kevin does right. He gets a little stingy with the food sometimes.”
“I’d appreciate it if you watched over our food personally. You know how I like my bones,” Rain said and sat down knowing that Miss Betty understood what she really meant.
“Almost burnt and dripping with sauce,” she said as she left the table and headed toward the kitchen knowing that she knew without saying that she needed to watch over anything they were going to serve Rain Robinson.
Everybody in the world knows that she had something to do with what happened to Robert and Ronald and she has the nerve to show up here.
“That’s right. Make sure they don’t poison our food, Miss Betty,” Rain said and everybody at the table laughed as she went in the kitchen.
It was just about that time that AD finally got the call that he had been waiting for with instructions from Rona. He first had to call Erica at the King Family restaurant and get her to call Rona. Once she relayed the message and got instructions, Erica called him back.
“Do nothing. She isn’t there to start anything,” Erica told AD.
“She said to do nothing?” He questioned, thinking that this was the time to get a team down there and end this war. The fact that Rain was there meant that things were about to take a turn and it would be for the worst.
“Rain Robinson came there to make a point, not start shit,” Erica said, recalling the conversation that she just had with Rona.
I had actually expected her to come there to you at the restaurant, Erica but this makes more sense. I should have anticipated her going to Bones. That’s where her and Ronnie used to go.
“So, what does she want me to tell Dennis?”
“She said do nothing. And that means that you tell him to do nothing,” Erica said and ended the call.
Chapter Seventeen
AD sat there for a while after Erica hung up on him before he called Dennis back. He had a decision to make. Do nothing, or defy Rona and get a team down there, end this war and apologize to her while he was standing over the dead bodies of Rain Robinson, Carter Garrison, Jackie Washington and Baby Chris. He knew in his heart that was the right thing to do.
It’s what Robert would have done. Fuck all these mind games that Rona wants to play.
If it were up to him, AD would have Dennis discreetly start getting civilians out while moving his team of shooters in. Once the restaurant was flipped from civilians to shooters, they would open fire and kill them all. But it wasn’t up to him.
“Fuck it,” AD said and picked up his cell to call Dennis. If Rain’s there, she knows it’s Rona that was backing them fools. He laughed as the phone rang. Rain’s gonna kill her.
“Thank you for calling Bones, this is Dennis. How may I help you?”
“Do nothing.”