Total pages in book: 141
Estimated words: 143382 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 717(@200wpm)___ 574(@250wpm)___ 478(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 143382 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 717(@200wpm)___ 574(@250wpm)___ 478(@300wpm)
“We don’t have a lot of time, and we don’t have a lot of resources,” Raye declared. “So anything you got that we can go on would be appreciated.”
It hit me then that Jinx and her chicks had somehow been fully briefed somewhere along the way. That meant one of my chicks briefed them.
God, totally worth a repeat at this point. I loved my girls.
“We know that, that’s why we’re goin’ with you,” Jinx stated.
Yeah, they’d been briefed.
“I don’t—” Raye started.
“Listen, no denyin’ you bitches get the job done,” Jinx declared. “But you don’t just roll up on these kinds of guys. You hear me? They see a familiar face, they won’t blow it off. The other way around?” She shrugged.
This was good advice. I was freaked for Homer, but I didn’t want my face blown off in the hunt for him, or any of my chicks’ faces for that matter.
Jinx motioned to Bambi. “When she was in the game, Bambi here was dealers’ choice.”
That explained why Bambi was there.
And that really sucked for Bambi, and as much as I wanted all the help I could get, I wasn’t sure about her state of mind wading back into this world.
“I knew Clown. I don’t know who Clown is working for now,” Bambi said. “But I know his old crew and where to find them.”
Luna had the same thoughts as I did. “Are you sure you’re up for this?”
Bambi lifted a shoulder but said, “I’m sure you and the girls had other things to do that didn’t include finding me and the others and getting us out of that nightmare.”
“What comes around goes around,” Betsy piped in to sum things up.
Jinx got impatient.
“We’re gonna roll out…together,” she stated. “When we get somewhere, we’ll tell you if you can get out of the car or not. No questions asked, you bitches do as I say. Entendido?”
She was kind of scary when she got bossy.
Though, that wasn’t the only reason we all nodded.
“Bambi, you’re in their ride,” Jinx kept bossing. “We’ll all follow.” She turned to Betsy. “You go home.”
“They helped my girl and me, I want to help them,” Betsy said.
“This is time we don’t have, mama,” Jinx told her.
Betsy looked like she was going to be stubborn.
I fought screaming in impatience.
Betsy backed down. “Okay. You girls be super careful out there, okay?” Betsy asked.
We all nodded again.
Bambi hugged Betsy and we all went to our cars.
“Where they hang, if they still hang there, isn’t far from here,” Bambi told us, then gave Luna, who was driving, directions as we headed out of the diner’s parking lot.
She was in the front with Luna, which meant Raye, Harlow and I were wedged in the back.
“What?” Harlow asked me.
I was a little freaked at how well she knew me.
“Nothing,” I lied.
Bambi gave Luna more directions.
I looked behind us and saw Jinx behind the wheel of an older model Audi with some of the girls seated in her car, another car following them with the rest of the crew.
“What?” Raye asked, now watching me closely.
I faced forward, stretched my neck side to side and reminded them, “I know who knows where these operations are, which means they probably know where Homer is.”
“Your brother,” Harlow whispered.
“Jeff,” I confirmed.
“And you’re not calling him because?” Raye prompted carefully.
I looked to her. “I’m not calling him because, if he and Javi knew we were after these guys, they’d be down from the mountains in a shot. They also wouldn’t tell me where these guys are. But they sure would drag their asses down here and intervene.”
And by “intervene,” I meant possibly get dead like Joaquim and Jamal did.
“Maybe they can work with the men,” Harlow suggested.
“And maybe I don’t want my brother in that line of fire. I don’t want Javi in it either. Hell, I know how much experience the Hottie Squad has, and I’m in active denial that they’re involved in this mess.”
“I am too,” Raye mumbled.
I jerked a thumb at her and asked Harlow, “See? And Raye’s seen them in action.”
“Let’s just stay on target,” Luna said from the front. “If we come up with nothing, we’ll reconsider.”
I pulled out my phone and texted Eric, Anything?
“Park here,” Bambi said.
Luna swung into a spot on a street somewhere deep on the southside of the city when my phone vibrated.
Working on it. Stay cool. We’ll find him.
I took in another deep breath.
“Wait here,” Bambi said, then she popped out of the car.
Jinx and Persia met her on the sidewalk before they walked up to the house.
They went in.
We waited.
Nothing.
“This is torture. They’ve been in there ten minutes,” I griped.
“They’ve been in there two minutes,” Raye said quietly. “Chill, babe.”
Ugh.
Twenty minutes later (or maybe it was four), they came out and Bambi took off toward the two cars behind us. Jinx came to the Sportage and got in the passenger seat.