"I see, create a diversion."
Melinda rolled her eyes. D-Train pumped harder. "Once the cops are away from the front door, send in four men; one to watch the cops from the door, one to cover the hall leading to the club, one covers security while the other one gets the money. It doesn’t matter how much money they get. The fact that you hit Bobby’s spot will be enough to bring Freeze to the table."
"Yes!" D-Train screamed.
"He’ll be callin’ you beggin’ for a meeting. And at that meeting, you’ll kill him."
"Yes!"
Chapter Eighteen
Bobby pulled up in front of Mike’s house and put his car in park. He was tired, hadn’t gotten much sleep the night before. Even though it was early in the morning when he dropped Mike off, Bobby didn’t go home. He went by Cat’s apartment and did what they do. "Had the best sex I ever had," Bobby said as he got out of the car and went to ring the bell.
From inside the house, Mike could see Bobby coming, and opened the door. "Come on in and sit down," Mike said then took a closer look at Bobby. "You look like shit."
Bobby walked straight to the bar and poured himself a drink. "Thank you, Mike. You’re lookin’ very good yourself. But shit would be a step up from the way I feel," he said as he turned up his drink and poured another one.
"What’s wrong with you?"
"Didn’t get much sleep last night."
"Why not? You and Pam up all night?"
"No." Bobby paused. "I didn’t get home until after nine."
Mike laughed. "Shit, Bobby, is the pussy all that?"
Bobby just looked at Mike and shook his head. "When I got home, Pam was sitting in her spot, waiting for me. First thing out her mouth was, ‘Where the fuck you been?’ I told her that I was out lookin’ for Shy with you. She looked at me and said, ‘That’s your story. You were with Mike lookin’ for Shy, right? That’s your story.’ "
Bobby recounted the story for Mike.
"Yeah, that’s where I been," Bobby said and started toward stairs.
Pam got up immediately and followed him up the steps. "You look tired, baby."
"Yeah, I’ll nod for a couple of hours then I’ll go pick up Mike and we’ll get back to it," he said and went in their bedroom with Pam on his heels.
"You didn’t get any sleep, huh?"
"No, I told you we been riding all night."
"Just you and Mike, huh? Ridin’ all night, huh? Just like the old days, huh?"
"What the fuck is wrong with you?"
Pam gave Bobby a wide-eyed look. "Oh, you wanna know what the fuck is wrong with me? Is that what you wanna know?"
"Yes, Pam. What the fuck is wrong with you?"
"Where were you last night and this morning, Bobby?"
"I told you-"
"And don’t tell me that you were with Mike."
"Pam, I was with Mike. Shy’s been kidnapped, and we been out all night looking for her."
"Did you find her?"
"No! I told you I wanna grab a couple of hours sleep and hit the streets again."
"Bobby," Pam said. "I’ma ask you this one more time, and this time I want the truth. And don’t give me that shit about you being out with Mike all night, ’cause I know you weren’t with him, at least not all night."
"This is insane, Pam. Why don’t you call Mike and ask him?"
"Why? So he can lie to me too?"
"Fuck this," Bobby said and started for the door.
Pam moved quickly to block the door before Bobby got to it. "Who is she, Bobby? Who is the woman who called our house?"
"I don’t know what you’re talkin’ about, Pam. What woman?"
"At six-thirty this morning, some woman called here and said I don’t have to worry about where you are ’cause you were safe there with her."
"I have no idea who that could have been. I was with Mike." Bobby lied to his wife, but now he was thinking, Goddamn it, I’ma kill Cat.
"Well, she must have been with Mike too, because she called from your phone!" Pam yelled.
At that point, Bobby looked down at the cell phone on his hip and knew that he couldn’t say he’d lost it. He was caught.
"It was just that simple, Mike. She had me."
"How’d she get your phone?" Mike asked.
"I was asleep."
"She took your phone while you were sleeping and called Pam." Mike laughed. "Do we need to roll by her spot so I can kill her?"
"You know you don’t kill women, Mike." Bobby laughed right along with him.
"You’re right. I’ll send Freeze over there right now," Mike said, laughing, and then he got real serious. "No, no, wait a minute. I got a better idea. I’ll send Wanda instead," Mike said and busted out laughing again. "Hold up. I know Freeze had to know about you and this Cat woman."
"I told Freeze not to tell you."
"Why’d you tell him that?" Mike asked, wondering why Freeze had chosen to tell him about it now.
"You didn’t need to know."
"I guess I didn’t. But don’t you think you need to put a stop to this?"
"This isn’t the first time she called Pam."
"What?"
"First time she did it, I had just called Pam and told her I would be home in a couple of hours. She asks if she could use my phone, I hand it to her, she says, ‘Never mind.’ But what she does is redial the number and put the phone down. And starts talking to me."
"Damn, Bobby."
"Only thing that saved me then was we must have been ridin’ through a dead zone because the call dropped."
"Now I know you need to put a stop to this. . unless you plannin’ to leave Pam."
"You’re crazy as she is if you think that I’m gonna leave my family," Bobby said definitely.
"Is she?"
"Is she what?"
"Is she crazy?"
"As hell. And strong as hell."
"I heard that about crazy people. I heard crazy women got the best pussy. I guess that must be true too, huh, Bobby," Mike said, still laughing. "How you know how strong she is?"
"I had to fight her off this morning to get out of the house."
"You’re kiddin’."
"No! I told you that I fell asleep, right? So when I woke up, she’s lying next to me, sleeping."
"This must have been after she called Pam."
"You gonna let me tell the story, or you wanna ask stupid questions that you already know the answer to?"
"Both."
"Yeah, this was after she called Pam. Happy now?"
"Very. You gonna finish the story or what?"
"Anyway, I wake up and get dressed, but she wakes up before I can get outta there. She says, ‘Where you think your goin’?’ I told her that I was goin’ home and I would get with her later if I had some time. She jumps out of bed naked, talking about I can’t leave, how she’s tired of me fuckin’ her and leavin’ her. That she love me and Pam couldn’t possibly love me like she love me, and all Pam got over her is the kids and shit, so I need to get back in bed and give her some more dick so she can start having my babies. I said, ‘Your ass is crazy’ and started to leave, but she ran to the door and tried to block it. I said ‘Stop fuckin’ around, Cat. I gotta go.’ She’s like, ‘No! You gotta fuck me before you go.’ So I tried to move her out of the way, but she starts wrestling with me. I had to end up picking her up and carrying her out of the way. Then I tried to leave again, but by the time I get out in the hallway, she jumped on my back. So, I shake her off my back, and she falls on the floor hard, but she gets right up and starts wrestling with me again. So, here I am, at eight in the morning, wrestling with a naked woman in the hallway."
"How’d you get out of there? You didn’t hurt her, did you?"
"No, I didn’t kick her ass, but I started to. I ended up picking her naked ass up and carrying her back in her apartment, threw her on the bed and got the fuck outta there."