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a situation. I was bothered to the tenth power and I couldn’t say or do anything to prevent this shit from happening tonight. Whatever this shit was? I just hoped this whole thing would blow over before Reggie got any worse. Hell, we had just flown in a prime shipment of coke imported from South America, and we needed everyone on deck to get rid of this shit, so we can go back and re-up.
    Being in the dope game didn’t promise you a lifelong career of prosperity. In this type of business, you only had a couple of years to get a good run and save up as much money as you possibly could and get the fuck out. If you messed around and let someone come between that or get sidetracked, then you were the damn fool for overstaying your welcome. In other words, you deserved everything that fell on you for being stupid and greedy. At the end of the day, you were in charge of your own destiny. It was a simple motto, “get what you can while you can.”
     
    After I finally dozed off to sleep, my fucking Blackberry rang and woke me from a semi-sound sleep. When I heard Damian’s voice, I calmed down a little. I peeped at my alarm clock and noticed that it was one-fifteen a.m. “Is everything all right?” I didn’t hesitate to ask.
    “ Yeah, everything is cool,” he answered. “I’m on my way to the Bronx to pick up some money this nigga owes me and then I’m gonna head to the crib.”
    “ Where is Reggie?”
    “ When I left him he was still at the other spot.”
    “ Did you guys get that shit straighten out?”
    “ Not really. Right after he smacked Walt upside the head with his pistol a couple times, he screamed on him and threatened to kill him if he didn’t tell him who ran up on y’all today.”
    “ What did Walt say?” I asked curiously.
    “ He denied having any involvement at all.”
    “ What do you think? I mean, you know him better than any of us.”
    “ I believed him. That’s why I told Reggie to chill out and go at this thing another way. But you know how crazy he gets when we go against him, which is why I believed he started screaming on me.”
    “ Did he say anything else to you after y’all left the spot?”
    “ Nah, he was quiet the whole drive until Vanessa called him.”
    “ Well, did he say something to you when y’all finally parted ways?”
    “ He just told me to meet him back at the hideaway spot when I get up in the morning.”
    “ You going?”
    “ Yeah, I’m going, what kinda question is that?”
    I played off Damian’s smartass remark. But he was right, that was a crazy ass question. If he didn’t show, Reggie would hunt his ass down. “Are you going to talk to him about how he screamed on you in front of Dre and them?”
    “ Of course I am. I can’t have that shit lingering out there and not do anything about it.”
    “ Well, just make sure you handle the situation with kid gloves. You know how Reggie is when you question him about how he handles his business affairs. Not only that, we’re family at the end of the day, so we gotta stick together. We’ve got too much shit going on right now to be falling apart at the seams behind some bullshit. Now I know we lost one of our soldiers and almost ten stacks, but we’ve still got to move on.”
    “ You’re right,” Damian agreed. I could tell he was still pissed but I was glad he called. I could tell he was in better spirits. I just hoped Reggie was in even better spirits by the time they met several hours from now.
    “ I know I’m right,” I stated. “So make things right with Reggie and call me tomorrow.”
    “ A’ight,” he said.
     
    New York’s Finest Kiki Swinson
    Chapter 6 – Operation Get Money
 
    I wasn’t ready when my alarm clock went off at four in the morning. I had to literally drag myself out of bed and into the shower. By five, I was out the house and on the road, heading towards LaGuardia Airport. Thank God the traffic wasn’t bad. I didn’t live far from the airport and on early days like