Dutch by Teri Woods

Author:Teri Woods [Woods, Teri]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Urban, Fiction, FIC048000
ISBN: 9780446558457
Google: aaLGFIBXNX8C
Amazon: B0043GXXSI
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2009-09-23T00:00:00+00:00

Craze thought back to that night when the streets became theirs. They had done the impossible and come out on top. From that day on, they reigned untouchable…

But look at us now. Zoom’s dead, Roc and Angel are in prison, and Qwan was on the stand, turning state. He shook his head in disbelief.

“Times done really changed,” he said to himself and got back into his Porsche.

CHAPTER NINE

ANGEL’S SONG

Finished with her day’s work in the prison kitchen, Angel walked to her cell and sat down on her bunk. She kicked off her boots and reached for the pack of Newports on her little desk. She put one in her mouth and struck a match just as her cellmate came running into the cell with a copy of the Daily News.

“You seen this?” her celly asked and handed her the paper.

Angel hadn’t seen the Daily News in a few months. Danbury, Connecticut, was a long way from Newark, New Jersey. However, several inmates, her roommate included, had subscriptions to hometown newspapers to keep up with their temple of familiarities while they did time. Angel had no temple to contemplate, so the Daily News was the furthest thing from her mind. But seeing Dutch on the cover walking out of the courtroom piqued her interest.

The headline read: “Gangster Chronicles Continue.” She gazed at Dutch’s black-and-white photo, the drabness of the colorless flick taking nothing away from the smile he wore. Confident… arrogant… Dutch.

Her celly stood in the doorway waiting for Angel to hand her back the paper, but when she saw how she was just staring at the picture, she merely sighed.

“Just give it back when you’re through,” said the girl, then she walked out.

Angel hadn’t heard a word she said. She was too preoccupied with the newspaper, looking at Dutch from every angle, even looking at all the people around him. She memorized the photo, then laid the paper aside, got up, and looked out her small cell window.

The rain fell in torrents, making everything outside a gray blur. She sat back on the bed and lit another match. After she lit her cigarette, she lay back on her bunk and placed a hand behind her head. In the distance, thunder boomed as she stared at the cold white of the cell’s ceiling. Life in prison, how I’m suppose to do life? she thought to herself, then took a long drag on the cigarette. She hadn’t been down a year and couldn’t fathom the rest of her life and what the years behind bars would bring.

She had one of the best criminal lawyers filing her appeal, but it would be a long, hard fight. She thought back to the interrogation tactics they used on her.

“You know you’re going to jail?”

“Prison.”

“A pretty girl like you, mmm, damn shame, too.”

“So, tell us what we want to know.”

It took some time before they realized that she wasn’t a weak link, but the actual cement to Dutch’s solid brick structure. When the sweet, caring approach didn’t work they began to figure out that Angel was only her name and not her nature.

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