“Yes,” she said somberly. “We can finish this tonight?”
“We definitely will,” I replied while moving to let her up.
She rushed around getting dressed then left the room.
After getting out of the shower, I checked my phone and had a text from Roc.
Need to come through and scoop you up. – Roc
Before the party? Why?
Will tell you when I get there. Be ready. – Roc
Mom is going to kill you if you are just trying to get out of working.
No jokes Bro. Blood business. – Roc
I will be ready.
Blood business meant it had something to do with family. I didn’t ask any more questions. I got dressed and waited for Roc to arrive.
* * *
“Mr. V,Roc is on his way. Count will meet us at the destination,” Brick said when I made it downstairs.
“Where are we going?”
“I don’t know all the details. Roc and Count wanted to explain it to you.”
Roc came through the front door dressed in all black. No jewelry and no brand name shoes.
“You have on work clothes. What’s going on?”
“I will tell you in the car,” he said and turned for the front door.
We got settled in the back seat of the car and Brick pulled out of the garage and headed towards the city. Roc called Countee and put his phone on speaker.
“Count?” Roc said.
“Yeah, I’m here. We are already set up.”
Roc looked at me and said, “I got a visit from Junebug yesterday.”
“A visit! From Junebug?”
Junebug was the one that held Roc at gunpoint for Trell.
“Yes, a visit. He sent word through one of my old corner boys that he was coming. We met at one of my old spots.”
“For what?”
“He wanted to set up a face to face between you and Trell,” Roc explained.
“Yeah, there has been a low hum in the streets that Trell may have had something to do with your shooting,” Countee said.
“We just had this discussion the other day and you told me that there wasn’t any word from the streets,” I said looking at Roc.
“And it was true at the time. This just started within the last day or so,” Roc explained.