Lani sat at the table eating baked chicken and brown rice when Chris came in and said, “Your motherfuckin’ ex had something to do with me getting robbed.”
“Huh?”
“Yeah, Black had this shit set up.”
Lani scooped some rice with her fork and said, “What the hell are you talking about. Black don’t know shit about your business.” She drank some water then said, “Wait a goddamned minute! Are you saying I had something to do with what happened?”
Chris took a seat at the table and said, “Hell no, babe. Never would I ever think you would do anything like that. I’m just saying—”
“Saying what?”
“Me and Mike found Rodriguez and fucked him up pretty badly. He told us that Kyrie and Black put him up to doing this.”
Lani dropped her fork. “Are you serious?”
“I’m dead serious?”
“So Rodriguez knows Black.”
“Well he and Kyrie are cousins.”
“I don’t believe that.”
Chris said, “Why I gotta lie about this?”
Lani said, “This just doesn’t sound like Black, that’s all. I was with him for a long time and I’ve never known him to rob anybody. I mean this dude got money. Why would he have to rob anybody?”
“Come on Lani, I know that’s your boy but he don’t like me and you know it.” Chris stood from the table and said, “I can’t believe you even defending this dude.”
Lani said, “I’m going to get to the bottom of this.”
Chris said, “You stay out of this!”
“What are you gonna do?”
“I don’t know what I’m gonna do, but I don’t need you asking him about shit. That will put him on alert.”
“What about Rodriguez, you don’t think he’s gonna say anything?”
“What is he gonna say? ‘I told Chris that you put me up to doing this bullshit.’ That will get him killed. Naw, he ain’t gonna say shit.”
Lani pushed her plate aside. She couldn’t finish her food. She didn’t want to believe the man that she had once loved had done something so damn cruel. Now her current love was out for revenge. There was no doubt in her mind that Chris and Mike were going to get it. But how? She just hoped nobody would get hurt too bad.