Chapter 28

Spin was sitting in a Days Inn in Hayward off Mission Blvd. He’d been restless as usual waiting for a phone call. He hated the fact that he had to hide out in places like a Days Inn, especially when he was technically a millionaire.

After sending his family away Spin was broke. He hid out and then took a grey hound to spend time with his family and plan his get back.

Being wanted by T-money was just about as bad as being wanted by the cops.

He was smoking a blunt on the porch with one of his cousins in Atlanta-where his family was-when his source first contacted him.

“What’s good cuz?” Spin said into the phone.

“How’s the dirty south Spencer?”

His heart stopped. He had not changed his name, but no one called him Spencer except his mother and some other older people in his family.

“How’d you get my number cuz?” he asked.

“Don’t trip, check me out...”

Once Spin was done with the call he went to the airport where he met D-loc. They flew to Reno and then drove back to the Bay.

Spin explained the plan to D-loc which slightly differed from the one he and his source agreed upon. He and D-loc started recruiting and then they began robbing nickel and dimers just for fun until his source made contact. Spin was given an address and told to be careful.

The first few were sloppy, but they got better. Over the past year they cost T-money over seven million dollars. The drugs were stored in a storage facility in Oakland and after their cuts the money was put away as well.

Spin thought about the time he’d be able to come out of hiding when his cell phone rang.

“You’re not asleep?” the voice said.

“Naw, cuz, I been waiting on you to call.”

The voice laughed, “Well, I called.”

Spin did not know who his source was, just that he was someone close to T-money. He had to be in order to set up the hits. There was a time when Spin thought T-money was involved in the hits as a way to find him because it was too easy.

“So... when do we hit this fool?”

“Patience, Spence... Spin.”

He’d already established that he’d be called Spin a while ago. He didn’t like Spencer.

“It’s not that easy; Tommy is a very guarded man and if this is going to work we have to make sure the transition is smooth...”

Spin heard it all before. They had to have all the contacts that T-money had so they’d be able to get their drugs. His source was dealing with all that so they’d be able to take over T-money’s empire and run the Bay, while Spin and his crew grew and robbed T-money blind.

“Well, what’s up?”

“The next million will cost you your family.”

Spin nodded. “Does he know where they are?”

“Florida,” he heard the voice say, and he felt the relief instantly.

His source had informed him that he’d told T-money that his family was in Florida and that T-money had people there watching them. Spin didn’t know what poor family was being watched and could care less.

“Well I guess I need to make arrangements,” Spin laughed.

“He gave you the choice of open or closed.”

“See, he’s getting soft, he needs to be removed.”

“In due time. Why don’t you and yo’ crew take a trip to San Jo’?”

Spin smiled; it was time to hit T-money where it hurt.