Chapter 22

 

Mike

A week later, Mike stepped out of the car and entered the small diner that he had met Derrick at a few days ago. He didn’t want to be there again, but Derrick called him and said it was an emergency, so he decided to see what was up. Sitting in the back of the diner again was none other than Derrick Mason. “What the fuck do you want?”

“Watch your fucking mouth when you talk to me!” Derrick warned with a finger pointed in Mike’s face. “Now sit down and listen to what the fuck I have to say!”

Mike reluctantly sat down across from the man that raised him. “You got five minutes.” He said with an attitude.

“I saved your life the other day. You owe me,” Derrick said with evil smirk on his face.

“As much work as I put in for this family I don’t owe you shit!” Mike spat. “All I want is to be free. Why can’t you just let me get out and be happy for me?”

“You get out when I say you get out!” Derrick growled. “I raised you since you were a child and this is how you repay me?”

“Why won’t you just let me go, huh? Why do you want me to stay in this game until something bad happens to me?”

“Because I need you right now son, that’s why,” Derrick said. He knew Mike’s heart wasn’t in the game anymore but he couldn’t let something as small as that stop the big picture. 

“Fuck you!” Mike said as he stood up and headed for the exit.

“If you don’t help me I’ll expose you to the media and tell them how big of a part you played in our organization,” Derrick threatened with a serious look on his face. “I’ll tell them everything,” Derrick stood up and walked over, and stood nose to nose with Mike. “You work for me, you always have, and you always will,” he smiled. “Nothing personal but business is business.”

“What the fuck do you want from me?” Mike growled. He knew that Derrick had him by the nuts not leaving him many options.

“As you know it’s been hard for me to move around lately with all the heat on us not to mention these crazy ass Columbians coming out of the wood works,” Derrick said. “I have a shipment of guns coming into town in two days it’s a big shipment, two cars so I’m going to need someone I can trust to drive one of the cars while I drive the other,” Derrick explained. “Don’t even worry; the money we make off of these guns will be sure to put a smile on your face.”

Mike wanted so badly to break Derrick’s face for blackmailing him He couldn’t believe that the man he would of given his life for didn’t want to see him get out of the game and live a normal life. The more Mike thought about this the more it angered him and made him want to kill Derrick even more. He always knew Derrick had snake ways he just never thought that those ways would have ever been used on him.

“We don’t have a problem do we?” Derrick asked with a smirk.

“Nah no problem at all. Can I go now?” Mike asked.

Derrick disrespectfully flicked his wrist in a dismissive manner as he watched Mike exit the diner. He hated to have to play hardball with Mike, but it was crunch time and he didn’t really have time to go back and forth with the man he raised from ground up. Right now, Derrick had to figure out how he was going to get his family out of the hole that they were in. All the time he spent in jail was a serious setback but now it was time for him to regain control and get the family back on top.