It's Like Candy by Erick S. Gray

Author:Erick S. Gray
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780312349974
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

19

The burgundy Escalade pulled up to the parked four-door sedan at a pier in Far Rockaway. It was three in the morning, and quiet. Yung Slim sat in the passenger seat while Critter was driving. Yung Slim lit a cigarette and sat in the truck for a while, peering out at the beach.

“Why you deal wit’ these muthafuckas, Yung Slim?” Critter asked, glaring at the sedan.

“Cuz, I rather side with them than be against them. Everybody comes in useful, remember that, Critter. Besides, I need some information from our friend,” Yung Slim said, then stepped out of the truck.

Detective Monroe stepped out of his car and Yung Slim followed him toward the boardwalk. Critter sat back and watched his boy disappear onto the dark boardwalk with a cop he didn’t like or trust.

“I can’t believe they let your monkey ass out in seven,” Detective Monroe said. “Whose dick did you have to suck to get paroled?”

“Fuck you, too!” Yung Slim chided. “I can’t believe your crooked ass is still a cop. I thought the DA had a case against you.”

“I’ve been a cop for too many years to let some snitch rat muthafucka get the drop on me,” Monroe said. He pulled out a cigarette. “You got alight?”

Yung Slim passed him his lighter and the two continued to walk down the boardwalk. Monroe took a long drag from his cancer stick and exhaled, peering up at the stars.

“What you need from me?” Monroe asked.

“Some information.”

“So I take it that a nine-to-five for you is out of the question? You ain’t even out one week yet.”

“There’s five grand for you.”

“Five grand for what kind of info?” Monroe asked, taking another drag from his cancer stick.

“I need an address or location of a certain individual,” Yung Slim said.

“I need a name first.”

“His name is Rahmel, but he goes by Rah,” Yung Slim said.

“Rahmel. Ain’t that your cousin’s homeboy? What you want wit’ him?”

“I just need to talk. I heard he got married some time ago, but he never came back to the States. I know he’s running,” Yung Slim informed him.

“I see what I can do. But I want half up front.”

Before Monroe could say anything else, Yung Slim pulled out a knot of hundreds and passed it to Monroe. “You ain’t changed a bit. There’s twenty-five hundred in that knot. Get it done.”

Monroe gave Yung Slim an unsmiling stare. “So we’re back in business?”

“It never ended,” Yung Slim said.

“So no hard feelings?” Monroe asked, remembering what went down seven years ago.

“Even though your bitch ass hanged me out to dry for that murder beef, nah, there ain’t no hard feelings. It’s always business, right?”

“Yung Slim, you have to understand, shit was hot back then. You were on the rise too fast and making a name for yourself. You made enemies everywhere, even in my precinct. A lot of men wanted to see you dead, so be happy you got jailed for those seven years and get to see the streets today. I did you a favor, you remember that.

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