for real. He climbed out of the car slowly and kept his eyes on her. The tone lightened when she looked him up and down; he had to smile a little.
“Damn, you’re finer than I thought you would be,” she said, meeting her eyes with his. “Do you want to know who I am?” she asked.
“That would be nice.”
“I am the one person who is going to keep you from seeing the inside of a jail cell or any other lockup again, but there is something you have to give me in return for helping you. You would be free to keep robbing others as you and your friend Andre did two nights ago; when you both kicked in the front door of Steve Washington.”
“Steve who?” Dante questioned hearing every word she was saying.
“I am sorry you may have known him by Prince, am I right?” the sergeant asked while taking a step forward, staring into his eyes still, and reaching between his legs to grip his package nice and tight.
“I count on you, whenever I want it, every time I want it. That’s in exchange for me making sure you are clear to run the streets with a pass to do whatever you want. Exactly as you did two nights ago, do we have a deal?”
Chapter 3
Making it out to Club Empire just before midnight, Amber and Harmony followed behind Vanessa in her Lexus as they pulled inside the parking lot. Alinna expected the club to be packed, but was stunned at how many people were actually there. She saw that the waiting line was nearly stretched around the side of the club building. Once Vanessa parked the truck, Alinna climbed out of the Lexus onto her Gucci stiletto heels that went well with her skin-tight Gucci jeans and top. Walking around to the back end of the truck just as both Amber and Harmony came walking up from out of the Dodge Magnum, Alinna looked over to her left and saw a group of three guys walking past and staring in their direction. “I know damn well we are not about to be waiting out in this big ass crowd to get into no club,” Vanessa said with her face balled up.
Alinna smiled as she bumped into her girl playfully and said, “Vanessa, just lighten up a little tonight, okay? We are here to relax and chill out.”
“Whatever Alinna,” she replied knowing that she always carried that attitude.
“Look at this bullshit!” Vanessa said to herself, looking around at all the people.
Alinna heard her but ignored the comment. She was trying to think while looking at the herd of people in line when she heard someone call her name. “Alinna!” was heard over the crowd of random chatter. She looked to her right just as Amber got her attention, “Hey, the doorman. He’s yelling for you.” Seeing the doorman waving toward the front of the crowd motioning for them to come forward to the front of the line, Alinna motioned for the girls to come on, holding onto one another as they moved through the crowd toward the front.
Noticing the light brown-skinned guy in the black metallic jeans, with a brown and cream shirt, underneath a polo sweater, Alinna caught the whole exchange in words and the head nods between the guy and the doorman just as she and her girls walked up. “You good shorty. Y’all can go ahead and go in,” Alinna heard the doorman yell to them over the club music blaring from inside. She was listening to the doorman but looking at the nicely dress light skin guy, he looked back at her and gave her a wink then entered into the club.
“Alinna, who you know over here? How did you do that?” Amber asked as they walked in the doors.
“I didn’t,” answered Alinna. “I think we have a friend.”
“A what?” questioned Vanessa, yelling over the music. Waiving off Vanessa’s question already knowing how Vanessa was, Alinna lead them all towards the bar. Meanwhile she had her eyes open, looking around for that guy from the front door.
* * *
“They’re here,” Dante said walking up beside Dre at the bar across the club.
“Where at?” Dre asked as he passed a bottle of Corona over