The Pleasure of Pain (7 page)

Things Aren’t as Sweet as You Want Them

Chapter 1
6
             

Tess was working hard on getting her real estate agents to sell as many houses as they could
. Her favorite agent was Claudia. She always found a way to get the job done and Tess loved that. Business was better for her and the real estate company. She was proud of herself for running it so well and knew Bless was too. Sometimes it amazed her how she could go from being a killer in the streets to a business woman in a three- piece suit.

“Claudia
, did you put those two Queens houses up for sale yet?” Tess asked.

“Yes and Ms. Adams’ house too,” Claudia stated.

“I always could count on you,” Tess said.

“Oh yeah, I picked up the rent money for the two Brooklyn buildings and the one in Queens.
The money is in the company account and I have a buyer for Mr. Thomas’ house on Rockaway Boulevard. I have one of the agents working on it as we speak.”

“That’s great Claudia
. In an hour or so you and I will take our lunch break.”

“Al
right,” Claudia replied. “How are the other agents working out?” Tess asked.

Tess had also given Claudia a management spot in the company so she watched the other agents and sold the houses as well.
It gave Tess time to take care of her business on the street without worrying about her real estate company. She knew it was in good hands with Claudia.

“Things couldn’t be any better,” Claudia responded.

Tess’ cell phone began to ring. She knew it could only be her girls or Bless because they were the only ones with the number. “Hold on Claudia, I’ll talk to you later I have to take this call.” She answered her phone.

“Hey girl,” the voice on the other line said.

“What’s good?” Tess asked.

“Just chilling you know,” the voice replied.
It was Vanessa calling from Philly.

“Shit
, I’m just trying to do this company thing,” Tess said.

“Girl
, I know you been busy because we haven’t hung out in a while,” Vanessa said. “I guess Bless got that pussy on lockdown,” Vanessa stated.

“Girl
, please!  It’s the other way around.  I got that dick on lock.” They both busted out laughing.

“I guess you and Ebony are the same because I can’t get her away from that man to spend time with me
either,” Vanessa said.

“Yo
, so what’s good? Are you almost done?” Tess was talking about the twelve kilos of cocaine that Vanessa and Iris were selling in Philly.

“
Half of the work was on the block with the workers out there, almost done. But yo, this bitch Iris just got up and left me out here.”

“What you mean she left you,” Tess said.

“Yo, she’s been gone for two days now, not counting today and she called me talking about she’s taking care of business. Shit, what that bitch think I’m doing out here,” Vanessa said.

“Yo
, why didn’t you call me sooner and tell me this?”

“Girl
, I didn’t want you to worry about that shit. I handled it and thought she would be back sooner than tonight, plus that bitch hasn’t been right. She been acting all funny and shit because you stopped giving her some pussy, HA HA HA HA!” They both laughed.

“Girl
, you’re not right,” Tess said. Then Tess heard a beep on her phone letting her know she had someone else on the line waiting. “Yo, Vanessa someone is calling me. I’ll call you back later.”

“Girl
, you know damn well it’s Bless wanting some of that pussy.”

“HA HA HA HA, b
ye girl!”

Tess clicked o
ver and a woman’s voice came on, “Hello may I speak to Ms. Cage?”

“Speaking,” Tess said wondering how she got th
is number.

“Ms. Cage
, I’m calling you on behalf of Sean Web. He is at Jamaica Queens’ Hospital. He has been in a car accident, but he’s okay.”

“What do you mean he’s been in a car accident?”

“I can’t tell you any more details over the phone.”

“Shit, I’m on my way.” Tess jumped in her BMW and rushed to the hospital.
She parked her car in the parking lot and ran up to the emergency room’s entrance. Tess saw a nurse at the desk. “I’m looking for my husband, Sean Web,” she said out of breath.

The nurse looked up his room and made Tess sign in. “He’s in room 210.”

Tess ran until she found the room with tears flowing down her face and saying a silent prayer. She had already lost him to jail for a while and she went crazy with that thought. She didn’t know what she would do if something happened to him. As she reached the room, a doctor came out. Tess grabbed the doctor by the arm. “I’m here for Sean Web, is he okay? I’m his wife.”

“He’s fine, miss, just a few burns on the head.”
The doctor replied.

“May I see him?”

“Yes, go right in dear.”

Tess entered the room to find Bless getting dressed with his back turned to her.
She looked at all the muscles in his back and arms and his chocolate skin and got all wet and thought, ‘Damn how I love this man.’ “Hey daddy,” her voice made Bless turn around with a smile on his face. Tess ran to him and kissed him while tears ran down her face and onto their lips. Bless pulled back and wiped her eyes. “You had me worried,” she said. “I love you.”

“I love you too, baby,” Bless replied
.

“What happened
? On the phone the nurse said you were in a car accident?”

“Accident my ass Tess
someone put a bomb in my car and they didn’t have enough time to hide it right because I saw it just in time.  I jumped the fuck out of the car, but not soon enough, the fucking blast knocked my ass out. The cops said it was C-4 in the car and were asking all kinds of questions like who wanted to kill me. Shit, if I knew that, the motherfucker would be dead,” Bless stated. He got angry just thinking about it. “Yo, let’s get out of here before those cops come back asking more questions. We don’t need 5.0 all in our business when we’re so close to our goal.”

“Baby
, did the doctor say it was okay for you to leave,” Tess asked.

“He said I’m okay
, but he wants me to stay the night. I’m not with that. So, we’re out,” Bless said.

“Okay Baby,” Tess replied.
On the drive home, Bless was in deep thought. ‘Who would try to kill him? He had no beef with anyone, if he did, he and Tess would have handled it by now.’ Tess was thinking the same thing and hoped it wasn’t her past coming back to bite her in the ass, but she knew she’d been careful with all of her hits and no one knew she was behind them.

Slowing Shit Down

Chapter 17
             

Back in the Bronx, Jose was paying anyone who had information about his brother’s murder.
He was on the phone all hours of the day and even put the word on the street that he’d pay three million dollars for information and more if someone brought the killer to him. This worried Ricardo. He knew if his brother kept digging he would soon find the information he wanted. The streets were always watching and listening and someone would find out. Ricardo couldn’t let that happen because it would lead back to him. There was only one thing to do. Ricardo went into the back bedroom leaving Jose on the phone in the living room.

In the bedroom, Ricardo pulled out his cell phone and called Danilo. “Yo,” Danilo answered already knowing who it was from the caller ID seen on his cell phone.

“Danilo I need you to handle something for me in Brooklyn.” Ricardo said.

“Say no more,” Danilo said already knowing what Ricardo wanted to be handled in Brooklyn.
Danilo had been waiting for this call for a while. Ricardo had told him months ago what he wanted him to do, but told him to wait for his call.

“You know what to do,” Ricardo said.

“Yeah Ricardo, just drop that off at the same spot as always.” Danilo was talking about the money and with that said Ricardo hung up.

The Canarsie Mayhem

Chapter 18
                           

“Damn that was good boo,” Omar said to Ebony.
“You know I needed that,” Omar stated.

“Yeah, but nigga you said it would be a quickie,” Ebony said with a smile.
“Shit that lasted for two hours. You fucked the shit out of me.”

“Yeah, yeah, I love you too,” Omar said.
“But on the real I have to get ready to drop off this money at the stash house,” he said while pulling up his jeans.

Bless and Tess had stash houses just for money and drugs all over the city.
Ebony watched his body as he got dressed. Omar was skinny, but cut up. He was brown skin with long dreads that came down his back. Ebony had been running the Brooklyn spot by herself until Bless put Omar on.  Together, Omar and Ebony ran Brownsville, Crown Heights, Flatbush, South Ozone, and Queens for Tess and Bless for years. They had soldiers that held the block down and Ebony and Omar just picked up money or handled problems when someone tried to take one of their spots or sell on their blocks. They gave the soldiers orders and did hits with them. Each spot had their own lieutenant and any problem got handled through the lieutenant then through them if the lieutenant couldn't handle it. Omar and Ebony was always together which also led into a deep relationship between them. They bought a two-story house in Canarsie together that Tess' real estate company helped them to find.

Ebony was on the bed counting the rest of the money to put in the bag that Omar was taking to the stash house.
She had a long t-shirt on that came down to her waist and a pair of booty short panties on. Ebony's phone rang. She picked up her house phone. "Yo baby sis," Vanessa said, even though they were the same age, but had different mothers. Vanessa was only older by three months. "How are you doing?" Vanessa asked.

"I'm chilling, but I miss you.
How are things in Philly?" Ebony asked.

"Shits running smooth. 
I miss you too girl and what's good with your blocks," Vanessa asked.

"Shit
, we're pretty much done out here. The last of the work is on the block," Ebony replied.

"Yo
, did you feed Crew Crew?" Vanessa asked.  Crew Crew was Vanessa's dog.

"Yeah
, I went by your house today and let him out in the back yard and fed him," Ebony stated.

"Thank you.
So sis, how are you and your boo, Omar doing?" Vanessa asked.

"You know he treats me good."

"He better if he knows what's good for him," Vanessa said. "I'll put a bullet in his ass."

Omar looked at Ebony
smile, "Yo, who are you talking too?" he asked.

"My sister said hi," she lied not wanting him to know what Vanessa had really said.
"Yo, Vanessa I got to go and take care of some business." Ebony said.

"Okay," Vanessa said.

"I love you," Ebony responded.

"I love you too," Vanessa said back and hung up the phone.

"Yo Ebony, you done counting the rest of that money?" Omar asked.

"Yeah,
" She gave him the rest of the money and he put it in the bag.

Two black cars pulled up to Avenues L and M in Canarsie in front of a house.
In each car, were five men dressed in black. Danilo knew where to find his first target because he was from Flatbush, Brooklyn and it was easy to find them. Everybody knew who they were and no one in their right mind would dare fuck with them or their team. But Danilo was far from being in his right state of mind and he loved his work. It paid well. Five gunmen surrounded the back of the house and the next five took the front.

Oma
r grabbed the bag full of money and headed for the door. "Yo boo, I'll be right back," Omar said.

"Hold up nigga
, ain't you forgetting something," Ebony said.

"Oh yeah," he kissed Ebony on the lips, put his tongue in her mouth
, and savored her taste. Then pulled away and looked her in the eyes. "How can I forget that," he replied.

"Mmm," Ebony moaned.
"That was good, but I wasn't talking about that and with that she ran upstairs to their bedroom. Omar looked at her pretty dark skin complexioned ass in her booty short panties jiggling as she went up the stairs. Ebony returned with her hands behind her back, “I was talking about this.” She handed him twin forty caliber handguns.

"Okay yeah," Omar said while putting them on his waist.
He hugged Ebony and grabbed her fat ass in appreciation.

Omar opened the front door to leave
as a man dressed in all black was standing there with a gun in his hand. Four more men were coming up behind him. Omar's first instinct told him this was a robbery. He dropped the bag and pulled out his twin forty caliber handguns, but not before the man at the door raised his gun to Omar's head. Omar knew he was too slow and too late and then a shot rang off. He thought he was dead until he saw the man at the door drop to the floor. He turned to find Ebony holding a Glock 19 pointed right at the front door.

Omar stopped out of shock and started blasting at the four coming gunmen.
Boom, boom, boom! One shot hit one of the gunmen in the head, but the rest were still coming. Omar ran deeper into the house for cover. Omar took a quick look for Ebony, but couldn't see her.

"Ebony!
Ebony! Where you at?" Omar hollered. 

Just then the back door blew open from a gunshot and more men were entering
the house. He tried to shoot at the front door to keep the men from entering. Then he tried to shoot at the front door and the back door at the same time, but it was no use there were too many gunmen coming in at him.

Out of nowhere Ebony came out of one of the rooms from upstairs. She stood on the stairs and aimed for the back door and all Omar heard was rapid fire.
BRRRRRRR! Ebony was on the stairs with a Tech-9 mm busting off shots. Two gunmen at the back door tried to move, but didn't make it in time. The bullets from the Tech-9mm tore through their bodies leaving them dead where they stood.

Omar was shooting at the front door with both forty caliber handguns.
When he noticed he was out of bullets, he crouched low behind the couch wondering what to do next. Ebony was still firing shots, but without Omar to cover the front door. Danilo started to fire at her from the door frame.

"Oh shit," Omar yelled as one bullet hit Ebony in the arm and she fell.
Omar stood up and ran up the stairs and two bullets hit him in the back. He used his body to cover Ebony from the shots making Danilo duck for cover. Two gunmen at the front door fired back, but Ebony’s bullets were coming too fast at them. Bullets hit one of the gunmen in the face and head ten times at once. Ebony moved Omar's body, "Baby get up! I need you! Baby!"

"Hmmm
," Omar pulled his body up and Ebony and him made it up the stairs of their house to one of the bedrooms. In the bedroom, Ebony looked at Omar's wounds in his back. "Shit baby, you going to be okay," she said while a tear fell down her face.

Omar looked at her
, "I love you Ebony." He got up and went up under the bed and pulled out a chrome Mossberg pump shot gun. 

By now
Danilo and his team were making their way up the stairs, moving fast, but being cautious and using the walls as cover. “This is taking too long we need to finish this before the cops get here," Danilo said to his men.

"Listen Ebony
, I need you to go out of the window and run to the car," Omar said as the blood was leaving his body making him feel weak.

"No, I can't leave you."

"Listen!” he shouted, “We've both been shot and you will bleed to death if you don't go."

Ebony almost forgot about her own wound because she was to
o busy worrying about Omar. Ebony looked down at her arm and knew Omar was right. "Baby, I love you," Ebony said then she kissed him.

"Go!" Omar yelled
, "I hear them coming."

Danilo
’s men were up the stairs now. There were three bedrooms up stairs and four of them. They started to reach the first room. Ebony went to the window and looked back at Omar for one last time. She knew it would be the last time she saw him alive. She climbed out the window. One of the men in the hallway heard the noise and headed to the bedroom down the hallway. He made it to the door and was getting ready to open it when boom. A shotgun roared and blew a hole in the door the size of a bowling ball, hitting the gunman and killing him instantly.

The other three gunmen saw their partner die in front of their eyes and were now aiming at the door with their guns.
Just then the door flew open. Omar stepped out and let the shotgun roar. He fired the shots and two of the gunmen went down, but were still standing. One gunman was on his knees firing shots all over the place before he died. Bullets hit Omar on his chest and stomach. He screamed in pain, but kept firing. "I'll kill you all," he yelled.

Omar ran straight at the gunmen and
bullets ripped through his body. He fired the shotgun one last time blowing off the last gunman's head like a pumpkin then fell to the floor and died. His last thoughts were of Ebony. Outside Ebony heard Omar's screams. She wanted to go back to help him, but knew it was already too late. Tears were flowing down her face as she ran barefoot to her car down the block with her tech-9mm gripped in one hand.

She made it to her Benz Coupe, jumped in
, and started the car. Her instincts told her to turn her head. She turned to find a man standing at the passenger side door with a 3.57 revolver aimed at her.

Danilo knew one of them would run to their car if they got away and planned for it.
He didn't go upstairs with the rest of his men. He was waiting outside just in case the target might escape and he was right. Danilo thought to himself this was a sexy ass bitch, but she had to die.

That moment of hesitation gave Ebony time to r
aise her Tech-9mm. BRRRRRR! Boom! Boom! Both guns went off simultaneously. The 3.57 put holes in the car and into Ebony's head, neck, and chest. She squeezed the trigger and was only able to get out a few shots off before she died. Danilo laid on the ground bleeding. His whole right side was shot up. "Damn, that bitch hit me," he said to himself. He was too weak to move soon he would bleed to death. The cops made it to the scene to find a blood bath. They blocked off the neighborhood.

"We have ten bodies inside the house sergeant," one of the cops said.

"Hey guys down here," another cop yelled. Down the block the cops walked to a Mercedes Benz- Coupe. "There's a dead woman in there," the cop said.

"Shit
, look at the fucking holes in this car?  It had to have been a big ass gun."

"Hey
, there is blood outside the car too. I wonder why," one cop replied.

"Maybe she got the fucker who killed her ass
. Fuck it. It's more than likely drug related. Look at the fucking car. I can't afford one of these and look at the house that shit is better than mine. I say they killed each other and made our jobs easier," the sergeant said and all the cops busted out laughing.

             
Danilo somehow made it to his car and he headed to his cousin’s house on Flatlands not too far from where he was. He had lost a lot of blood and crashed the car twice before he got there. "Oh shit," Danilo's cousin yelled. He was sitting on his steps smoking a blunt when Danilo stepped out of the car covered in blood with a gun in his hand. "Danilo," he yelled. He grabbed him and took him to his car and started driving off. "Yo, what happened," his cousin asked.

"Nothing, just take me to a hospital, not in Brooklyn, but Queens fast and when they fix me we're heading out of town."

Danilo already had some of the money for the hit
. It was five hundred thousand dollars a piece for each member he killed in Tess and Bless's team. He had one million because Ebony and Omar were easy to find, but Bless and Tess had too many houses to find them. Danilo had already lost nine men just trying to kill two members of their crew. He wasn't about to put his life on the line to try to kill the rest of them. He'd been shot in his chest and his right side by that bitch. He’d be damned if he’d let it happen again.