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“This has been perfect, baby. Thank you.”
“Always. I’m glad you enjoyed yourself.”
“I always enjoy myself with you. But this was my first time doing something so laid-back and romantic. I’ll remember this forever.”
“Lord knows you took enough pictures to.”
Her giggle was like music to my ears as we walked through the hotel lobby. For our impromptu date, I took her on a gondola ride across the river. After that, we had dinner at the food hall and listened to some live music. As promised, I was about to return her to Mahogany so they could return to their girls’ weekend. I hoped Mahogany was able to find her somewhere to live because I knew how important it was to them that we all move at the same time, which was also why I wanted to talk to my wife.
After we got onto the elevator I told her, “We will have to leave Memphis sooner than expected.”
“Okay… but why?”
“Your pops’ advisor was right. We do have a few rats and they’ve been working with the feds.”
“What does that mean?”
“It means if we didn’t find the rest of the bugs and anyone has been talking shit that suggests we’re a criminal organization or alludes to any crimes committed, we’re fucked. Good thing is, Pops has policies in place to keep himself, me, and our right hands and advisors from ever being personally attached to something like this, but if this is God’s way of getting me out the way, I’m going to take it.”
“Does he know about this?”
“Yeah. He knows. The feds have been watching for years, but this is the first time they’ve ever planted bugs. And if they have bugs planted…”
“They might have men planted too,” she added.
I nodded. “Exactly.”
“Okay, so we’ll leave right after the wedding. After Los is named the head of production.”
Sighing, I ran my hand down my neck. “That’s the plan.”
She turned toward me as the elevator dinged on their floor. “You don’t sound like your confident self.”
“I’m not concerned about something happening to your brother. I’ll talk to him and recommend he decline the position, but that’s on him. If he wants to stay and hope the RICO charges won’t come, or at least not affect him, that’s on him.”
“Then what are you concerned about?” she asked, holding my hand as we walked down the hall.
“How Pops is going to react to me leaving. Family is everything to him. He’s going to see me leaving as betrayal.”
“But this has been your plan for a while. It’s just a coincidence that this is happening at the same time.”
“You and I know that, but he won’t care. So I’m hoping the raids won’t happen any time soon. I need to get you out the city and get us settled here before anything else happens with the business.”
She released a hard breath as her expression turned serious. This was why I didn’t want to talk to her about things like this, but I promised I’d keep her in the loop.
“We’re going to be aight, bae. Okay?”
Her eyes found mine as she nodded. “Okay.” When her arms wrapped around my neck, she held me longer than she ever had before. The risk of prison was always on the table when you lived this lifestyle. I never cared until now. Not until I had someone to lose…
32
Whiskee
Before The Engagement Party
The news Beethoven shared with me yesterday weighed on me heavily. I hoped I would be able to convince Carlos to get out before anything happened, but I didn’t think he would. Still, I wanted to talk to him about it, and I was glad Lisa offered to have a dinner for just a few of our closest friends and some of Beethoven’s family from her side before the actual engagement party tonight.
We decided to do the party three days before the wedding since it was planned so quickly. What I wasn’t expecting was to have to move immediately after, but I was excited about it and willing to do just about anything to get my happily ever after.
