out,” Dante told her. “Aye you may want to pay attention to what’s going on around you.”
Watching both guys walk away noticing the way people looked at them and moved as to get out their way as they walked past, Vanessa stepped up to be side by side with Alinna. “Who are they supposed to be?” Vanessa questioned.
“I’m still wondering the same thing,” Alinna answered, she was thinking hard on the well-dressed stranger, and the so-called advice he had just given her.
* * *
“Yooooo, what’s up fam? What was that shit about just now?” Vegas asked as both he and Tony T met up in the club with Dante and Dre, halfway back over to the far side of the bar.
“It ain’t nothing,” Dante assured him as he leaned back over against the bar.
“Fam, what’s up? What you plotting?” Dre asked Dante, while watching him staring at the other side of the club, back to the direction of Alinna and her girls. She was watching him watch her as well.
After a pause awaiting a response, Dante said, “Change of plans.”
“Fuck is you talking about?” Tony T asked, looking back and forth to Dre and Dante, completely unaware of any plans.
“Dre will explain,” Dante told Tony T, and then he dapped up with Dre, Tony T, and Vegas. “I’ma hit you up later; I got something to handle right quick.” Dre walked off leaving his boys watching him as he made his way back over to the other side of the club. Walking up on Alinna as she and her girls were talking interrupting them all, he said, “Let’s go.”
“She’s not going no ...”
“Shut up,” Dante wasn’t hearing what Vanessa had to argue. “I don’t want you to say any other shit,” he finished. Looking at her girl surprised, Vanessa was quiet and just staring at the guy.
Alinna looked back at him asking, “Who are you?”
“This ain’t question and answer,” Dante told her. “Let’s go Alinna, we gotta talk.”
* * *
“Who the hell are you?” Alinna asked as she and Dante left the club together. Walking through the parking lot, she asked, “How do you know my name?” Dante ignored Alinna as he walked them to his Altima hitting the remote locks.
Dante walked around to his driver door when Alinna said from behind him, “You were at my house earlier! I saw your car. WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?”
“Get in the car Alinna.” He stood next to his opened door.
“I am not going nowhere with you!”
“Get the fuck in the car girl!” Dante was getting irritated with her.
“Nigga who are you yelling at?” Alinna became stern, looking at Dante as if he was crazy.
Walking over to Alinna stopping directly in front of her, bending to speak to her face to face, Dante said in a low voice, “Woman, I don’t like repeating myself. If you don’t get in the car, I will put your ass in the car. Decide now.” Staring into his eyes for a few moments, Alinna sucked her teeth pushing past Dante as she walked over and got into the Altima. Dante shook his head, walked to the driver’s side, and got inside the car.
Once Dante cranked up the engine and started to pull out of the club parking lot, Alinna demanded, “You really need to tell me who the hell you are and what is going on.”
Cutting his eyes to Alinna as he was driving and focusing back on the road, he said, “My name is Dante, but, you got a problem you don’t even know about.”
“What problem? What the fuck are you talking about? What is this problem I got?”
“ M e ,” Dante spoke clearly.
Staring at Dante for a moment Alinna asked, “What’s going on? How do I have a problem with you and I don’t even know you?”
“You don’t know me, but you know the dude who hired me to get at you.”
“Hired you? Hired you to do what? To do what? What’s their name?” Alinna was not liking this game very much.
“Big Worm,” he said, looking over and seeing her reaction to the name. “Whatever problem you two got going on with one another, he wants you out the picture.