Chapter Seventeen: Storm
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I woke up to my phone ringing. For a minute I forgot where I was, but then I felt Crisa move next to me and I remembered last night. I quickly find it to answer it trying not to wake Crisa in the process. Chris didn’t even wait for a response from me before he started giving me orders. “You have 15 minutes to get out of there. Don’t take the cars and leave your phones behind. We have someone on the way to get the cars. Take a cab 5 miles and you will see a truck stop on the left hand side. Crisa will know what truck to go to. You guys need to hurry and get back. Be safe, protect her, and watch your back.”
Before I could say anything he hung up the phone. I had already woke Crisa up and we were both getting ready. I was worried about what Chris just said, but Crisa just moved like she was used to it. We were out the door in under 15 minutes and our phones were completely destroyed just as an added precaution. We hailed a cab and were on our way to the truck stop neither of us speaking.
When we made it to the truck stop she froze getting out of the cab, but quickly covered it up and made her way over to a truck. As she climbed in the truck she looked at the driver and said, “if they called you in it’s big isn’t it?” As soon as the door was closed he took off not waiting to answer any questions. We rode in silence for about an hour before the driver handed her a phone and told her to call the programmed number.
She took the phone and went to sit on the bed to make the call. I could hear her, but couldn’t make out what she was saying. After about fifteen minutes she came back up front and handed the guy back the phone. She looked at us and said, “I’m not running from this. I’m gonna face this on my terms and between us I deserve the beating that’s trying to come my way. I’ll explain that part later, but right now I need to come up with a plan. Storm if you want to walk away from this fight I’ll understand because it’s going to be bloody.”
I just looked at her as if she had grown an extra head. Did she really think that I would walk away from a fight because it would be bloody. Especially after last night. I’m not walking away from her and I’ll protect her until my last breath. “We are in. We have another charter visiting this weekend so we have plenty of men for a bloody fight. Can I ask what’s going on?”
She looks to the driver and then back to me before she starts to tell me the story. Apparently her ex-boyfriend didn’t like the fact that she wanted to leave him due to his cheating ways. He had someone attempt to kill her, but they didn’t succeed . Now he was back to finish the job, but that didn’t tell me why she thought she deserved the potential beating trying to come her way. I guess she could see the question on my face because she looked at me and said, “he wanted to kill me because he couldn’t control me so while he thought I was dead and he was partying it up I stole money and product. I wanted to bait him as I was the only one that knew where this stuff was. It was about 5 million and completely funded the shelters that I opened. I didn’t need to take his money as I already had my empire which is bigger than his it was just a final f**k you. I wasn’t scared of him then and I’m not scared now.”
This woman is just amazing and she doesn’t even realize it. It didn’t take the three of us long to come up with a plan. It wasn’t much of one, but it should work. We were going to use the grand opening party the bar was hosting to lure the group to us. Right now they don’t know that we know they are coming for her. They also don’t know about her alliance with the club which gives us the numbers we will need to pull this off.
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