Page 11 of Queenpin
Plus, this is the cocaine I stole earlier. Nothing but profit for me.
I take a look at my safe to make sure it’s locked and covered before leaving the office. In my office, I have four safes that keep everything I want and need in them.
Even though both my home and the office can be raided at any time, I still keep a collection of cocaine and money between the two. If someone breaks into one of the places and gets the stuff, then I still have my back up.
“Good. I secured our product and money.”
I look in the mirror once last time in my office and notice how weird I look with a masquerade mask on covering my whole face. I check my pocket to make sure I have my voice changer too.
“Are you sure these fuckers asked for me?” I demand as I lock up my office.
Raul does a lot of my running around since I don’t have a lot of time with the businesses I’m running. Especially since I’m trying to break in a new sub… I don’t have the extra time to collect and trade with these assholes.
“Yeah. They wanted to talk to King McGrace about their bill.”
I roll my eyes. “Those assholes are always trying to get me to lower their fucking bill. I don’t get why it’s so difficult for them to realize that’s not how this works!”
“How did it go in Chicago?” He asks while loading his own gun.
It’s not that is uncommon for him to ask me how something went, it is uncommon from the way he asks me how this went. I think back to my original thought of someone in my ranks ratting me out to the competition.
“Good,” I leave it as vague as possible to see if he will let on about knowing more.
He shrugs. “Just checking to make sure my girl is good.”
“If you really wanted to know how I was doing, why didn’t you come yourself?” I question.
Raul stops me by putting a beefy hand on my shoulder. “I was dealing with Big Heavy and getting them to leave you the fuck alone.”
My eyes widen. “What the fuck do you mean?” I bark. The last thing I need is for some man to think he needs to protect me. I’m fine on my own and I don’t need him thinking he can be my savior.
“Big Heavy’s going to start taking flesh, Luca. You know they think you have more money than you do.”
I ponder what he says. “How do they know what I have? How do they know what I’m doing?” I’m hinting to the big question. Let’s see if he gets it.
Raul shifts on his feet. “Luca, I’m just saying. Word on the street is you’ve got more money than you’re kicking up.”
“Who’s blabbing?” I bark.
“I don’t know. Sorry I brought it up. I did get them paid for this week, though.”
“Have you found Katie yet?” I question.
The only woman who took a chance on me while I was living on park benches after my parents were murdered, was Katie. The woman is a saint. She tried her hardest to stop Big Heavy from jumping me in the traditional way. It would have broken my heart to tell her she didn’t save me.
Katie disappeared last year. No one has any idea where she ran off to. I have a feeling Big Heavy got tired of her interrupting their business and killed her.
Or worse.
I’m hoping they didn’t sell her. There’s no telling where she’s at now if they sold her off.
Raul shrugs. “No, we haven’t had eyes on her since you last did.”
I push the stray strands of hair out of my face. “We have to find her.”
“I know, Luca.”
“This flesh you’re talking about… I’m worried they have already started taking flesh and have Katie.”
