Street Pharm by van Diepen Allison

Author:van Diepen, Allison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 2013-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

DISHONOR AMONG THIEVES

Jones and Menendez showed up at eight. Sonny let them in.

“We heard you fellas got picked up last night.” Jones’s jacket hung open, his muscles tight under his wife-beater. “Rumor has it K-Ron fingered you as his connection. We want to know if that’s true.”

Sonny said, “Sorry, man, but we don’t name our customers.”

I shot Sonny a look, letting him know I’d handle this. He wasn’t sensing them like I was. “Yeah, we got picked up last night because K-Ron said we were his dealers. We supplied him in the past, but the stuff he was caught with wasn’t from us.”

“Then why’d he say so?” Menendez asked.

“Darkman must’ve been the one who supplied him,” I said. “He’s gotta be holding something big over K-Ron’s head to get him to rat us out.”

A vein popped out in Jones’s neck. “What the cops got on you?”

“Jack shit,” I said. “We’d still be locked up if they had anything on us. They won’t be pressing charges, and we won’t be needing no lawyer.”

“So you saying Kevin King is behind this?” Menendez stared at us. “Why haven’t you dusted him yet?”

I cleared my throat. “I’m taking care of it. You got nothing to worry about.”

Jones scoffed. “We been worried ever since this guy reared his ugly-ass head. You got a game plan in case you get charged?”

“Hearsay ain’t enough to charge us,” I said. “But even if it happened, you wouldn’t get sucked in. You know that, right?” I looked from one to the other.

They didn’t say nothing, but Menendez took a brown envelope from his briefcase. “We brought this just to make sure.”

I reached out to take the envelope, but he dropped it on the dresser instead. “No hurry. Have a look at it when we leave. And don’t take it the wrong way, man. It’s just—”

“Insurance,” Jones finished for him.

My hands curled into fists. I wasn’t gonna like what was in that envelope. “So, is this all you wanted to talk about?”

Menendez said, “Yeah. That’s all. We gotta go. We still got business tonight.”

They left fast. Sonny got to the envelope before I did. He tore it open. The first page was a picture of a girl getting into her car. The next was a closer picture of her. She didn’t seem to know the camera was there.

“What the fuck?” Sonny roared.

“Who’s the girl?” She looked kind of familiar.

“My sister.”

The next picture was of my mom behind the cash register at her job. She smiled for the camera, probably thinking the person taking the picture was a tourist.

She didn’t know the picture would be used to threaten her life.

Sonny smashed his hand on the table. “I’m’a snuff those motherfuckers for this!”

“We ain’t gonna touch them, and they ain’t gonna touch our families. They just warning us not to sell ’em out.”

“After all these years, they don’t trust us? And they pull this shit!”

“They bluffing. They know that if they touch our families Orlando will take ’em down. These pictures are telling us they in control.

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