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Cuisine, the supper club he opened years ago, and he’s running things from there. He had been staying out in Rockland County with Bobby. He moved out there after his wife, Pam, had a nervous breakdown. Now he was back running Impressions, the dance club that I had been running. That left me with nothing to do.
    Black told me that I could do anything I wanted to in either side of the business. Naturally Wanda, who didn’t like me working at the club, wanted me to think about doing something on the legit side of the house, but I ain’t really feeling any of that shit. She’s been talking up me taking over the finance company. All of it seemed like major boring shit.
    “Have you given any more thought to what you might want to do?”
    “ I been thinkin’ about some things?”
    “Like what?”
    “Well,” I replied and paused. “ I been thinkin’ seriously about talkin’ to Black about me taking over the game.”
    “The game?”
    “Yeah, the game,” I said and walked out of the bathroom, ’cause I knew what was coming next, and I really wasn’t in the mood to hear it.
    The game I was referring to was a high stakes poker game that Black and Bobby used to run back in the day. After Black got married and moved to the islands with Shy, a few people ran it until Freeze put Mylo in charge of it. Since I killed Mylo, the game was now being run by Jackie Washington, but she’s in over her head.
    As expected, Wanda turned off the water and came out after me. Like I said, Wanda wants me to do something on the legit side. She had a real problem with me running the club. Two problems actually. One was it kept me out all night and with her working during the day we didn’t see much of each other. Her solution to that was to hangout at the club all night with me, which brings me to the other reason. Wanda was extremely jealous, very possessive, and just a bit insecure. Me taking over the game would just mean more of the same for her.
    “Why?” Wanda asked. “Why the game?”
    “That game is important to Black, and you and I both know that Jackie can’t handle it.”
    Knowing I was right about Jackie, Wanda sucked her teeth and sat down next to me on the bed. “I don’t know what he was thinking when he put her in charge of that game. Too much money passes through that game for her to be there and can’t handle it.”
    “That’s why I think it would be a good spot for me.”
    “Yeah, I know. And you’re right. But we talked about this, Nick, and I thought we decided that you were going to look at doing something on the legitimate side of the house? I was under the impression that you were leaning toward taking over the finance company or running the real estate office.”
    “I know we talked about it, but I know how I am and I would be bored to death doing a desk job.”
    “I would make all that better for you as soon as you got home from work.”
    I put my arm around her and kissed her on the cheek. “I know you would, but I gotta do what’s right for me.”
    “What about us?”
    I wanted to say something like what about us?
    “What about doing what’s right for us, Nick?”
    “You’re right, Wanda, but I gotta be right with myself or there is no us.” I guess that wasn’t the right answer ’cause Wanda got up and hit the shower.
    Oh, well.
    It is what it is.
     
    Chapter 5
     
    Nick and Wanda arrived at Crave on 42 nd , a restaurant located, as the name suggests, on 42 nd Street, between 11 th and 12 th Avenue, waiting for Black and Bobby to arrive. While they waited, the pair munched on Prince Edward mussels in white wine and garlic sauce, and tried not to talk about the two things that Nick didn’t want to talk about: The death of Freeze and what he was going to do now.
    That’s what Wanda wanted to talk about. But their meeting with Black and Bobby was about what to do now that Freeze was dead, and she was sure that the discussion would inevitably lead to a discussion about Nick’s future, so