Tess pulls the papers towards her and carefully reads over all five pages. Then Mr. Blake hands her a pen. Tess twirls the pen around in between her fingers.
'I could just jam this pen into that bitch eyes and yank it out then stick it in the guard's neck behind me and take his gun. Use his body as a shield and kill everybody in this fucking room, but I don't know how many of them are behind that two way mirror, or where they're keeping my daughter and Isis or Layla, Vanessa and Tess.' Tess thought to herself then decides against making her move and signs the papers.
"You made a smart choice." Marina said with a smirk on her face like the cat that swallowed the canary.
Together Once Again
Chapter 15
"I can't believe we're working for the fucking F.B.I." Iris said with an attitude while shaking her head as they sat in a royal blue Porsche Cayenne, watching their fifth target.
"Word and we're working for free. If we were doing these contracts for ourselves we'd be getting paid out our asses." Vanessa replied.
"The both of you stop complaining and look at the bigger picture. We're not sitting in any damn jail cells. We got caught up and this is the price we have to pay, luckily it's this and not life in jail or the death penalty. Let's count our blessings, the F.B.I was unable to find where we keep our money, so after these jobs we will find Ayoyna and Isis and disappear for good. After we take this guy out we will have out immunity and they can't never fucking touch us." Tess stated.
"Iris you're on!" Tess said, giving Iris the go ahead, to make her move.
Their target was Mr. Franklin Langston, a black Democratic Congressman on his way to being the next President of the United States, if he played his cards right. He was sitting in a restaurant in Texas.
"I don't know why I can't just walk up to him and put a bullet in his head and kill his security guards that can't blend in, they stick out like a sore thumb in those hot ass black suits, acting like their customers eating." Iris said as she steps out the passenger side of the Porsche Cayenne, in a pinstripe blue business skirt and a royal blue silk blouse.
She had a pair for seeing glasses and her hair was dyed platinum blonde, rolled up in a nicely neat tight bun, with a back folder in her hand.
"Because, you're a crazy ass bitch, we have to make it look like an accident. That's part of our deal." Tess said in the tiny two-way receiver in her ear, causing Iris, Vanessa and Layla to smile."
"Okay Bitch, we're on!" Iris said as she walks across the street.
Tess, Layla and Vanessa hop out the truck and swiftly walk around the corner. Iris took a seat at a table not far from Mr. Franklin Langston.
"May I take your order miss?" A chubby brown skinned waiter asks Iris.
"Yes, bring me a chicken salad." Iris replied while listening closely to what Mr. Franklin Langston ordered.
She stood up and bumps the waiter as she was returning with Mr. Franklin Langston's order. Unknown to the waiter, she had poured a small tube of pineapple juice in the Coca Cola soda, the only thing Mr. Langston was allergic to. Iris walks out the restaurant.
"Thank you." Mr. Langston said as the waiter sat his drink in front of him along with three other senators at the table with him.
Mr. Langston took a few sips of his Coca Cola.
"Ughhh!" He made a gagging sound as his facial expression twists up and his heart races.
His cheeks got puffy and his throat swells up.
"I can't die like this." He mumbled as he falls sideways out of his chair.
"Ahhh!" People in the restaurant screams and panics while looking at him.
A guy pulls his phone out and took a picture as Mr. Langston went into convulsions and shook like he was having a seizure. Mr. Langston's security guard grabs the phone from the man who took the pictures and smashes it on the floor.
"Hey that was my phone asshole! You're going to pay for it!" The man shouted.
The security guard opens his blazer jacket, showing his 9mm that was in a brown holster under his arm. Five of Mr. Langston's security guards surround him, keeping the crowd back. One of the security guards pulls out a syringe and bends down and stuck the needle in his thigh, sending the drugs rushing through his system, just as an ambulance pulls up to the restaurant. The two EMT workers rush inside and the security guards made room so they can get to him to the ambulance, looking down at Mr. Langston's face and his neck was swollen, he was breathing weakly.
"What happened?" One of the EMT workers asked, while putting a neck brace on Mr. Langston and lifts him on the flatbed.
"He was drinking a Coca Cola and just collapsed, one of the security guards replied.
"Is he allergic to anything?" One of the EMT workers asked.
"Yes pineapples, but I don't know how it got in his drink." The security guard said.
The two EMT workers ease Mr. Langston through the crowd into the ambulance.
"Wait, where are you going?" One of the EMT workers said as one of the security guards try to hop into the back of the ambulance with Mr. Langston.
"I'm coming along! It's my job to protect him!" The security guard shouted.
"No you can't! It's against the law. You can follow behind us in a car to the hospital." The EMT worker responded then shuts the back door as the Ambulance pulls off.
Tess lifts up the EMT hat that she had on to get a better look at Mr. Langston's face.
I'm truly sorry about this?" Tess said as she pulls open his mouth and pours pineapple juice down his throat.
Mr. Langston's eyes open up wide as white foam comes out his mouth. His body shook and went into a violent convulsion as his heart stops. Tess checks his neck for a pulse.
"Is he dead?" Vanessa asks.
"Yes, he's gone. Come on let's get this over with." Tess said as Layla pulls the Ambulance up to the emergency door of the hospital.
Tess and Vanessa act as two EMT workers and push Mr. Langston into the hospital and the doctor takes him to the back.
"They tried to resuscitate him, but it was too late."
Tess, Vanessa and Layla walk away from the ambulance as Mr. Langston's security guards pull up and ran into the hospital. Tess, Layla and Vanessa hop in the waiting Porsche Cayenne and Iris pulls off.
"That was job number five. I guess we got our freedom back ladies." Iris said with a cheese smile on her face.
"Yea, but now we need to get our children back." Tess replied as they head to the airport.
"Where are we heading now?" Layla asks.
Tess turns her head and looks at her.
"We're heading home we're going to New York." Tess replied.
No Place Like New York
Chapter 16
Tess took a deep breath inhaling the air.
"Damn it feels so good to be back in New York." She said as she looks at everything and it brought back memories.
"You ain't never lie. I didn't think we would ever touch down in New York again." Vanessa stated as her Layla along with Iris walks side by side with Tess on 42 Street.
The streets were filled with people shopping and tourist taking pictures. Then there were the regular New Yorker's that were just enjoying their day out or eating in fancy restaurants.
"Well ladies, this isn't for pleasure, this is where the next five targets are at so I can get back my daughter and niece." Tess stated.
They all walked to the Olive Garden restaurant.
"Hi!" The hostess greeted them with a big smile.
Tess states her name, and the hostess leads them to a table in the back were Marina was already sitting waiting with a brown suit on and an orange blouse and a white folder in her hands. Tess and her team took their seats. Each one of them stared at Marina with hate in their eyes as if they were ready to rip her head off with their bare hands.
"Well I won't make this long. I kind of feel uncomfortable with all of you staring at me, as if you want to tear me apart." Marina said.
"Yes please get on with it so we don't have to endure your company
anymore, along with your other agents, trying to blend the fuck in." Tess said with an attitude as she spotted five plain clothes F.B.I. agents in restaurant, acting as if they were eating.
"You are the best, that's why the F.B.I. needed you to work for them. You and your team did a great job on the first high profile targets, making them look like accidents." Marina said and took another sip of red wine.
"These next five can be bloody or any way you like it, just as long as the job is done." Marina stated and passed the folder to Tess.
Tess opens it up and reads the five names and two of the names stuck out, the mean one was Black Ice then Red and Blue-Banger.
"How in the hell are we supposed to find Black Ice? No one knows where he is or how to find him and why do you want the Banger brothers dead?" Tess asked.
The Federal Bureau has their reasons of wanting them dead and if we could locate and kill Black Ice, we wouldn't sign the Teflon Diva's up to do the job, now would we?" I trust you will find him if you want Ayoyna and Isis back." Marina replied with a smirk on her face.
"Bitch, I swear I'll put a bullet in your fucking skull!" Layla stood up and shouted causing Marina to flinch and the plain clothes F.B.I. agents to draw their guns.
Tess gently grabs Layla by the arm letting her know to take her seat.
"Now isn't the time or place." Tess said a little too calmly.
The way that she spoke sent chills through Marina's body. The plain clothes F.B.I. agents put their guns back in their holsters and went back to eating while guest in the restaurant stared at them.
"What I'm really curious about his who is this first target. There's really not much information on him." Tess said as she went through the photos in the folder and stops back at the beginning.
There was a man dressed in an all-black tight fitting body armor suit with a black bullet proof face mask. All you could see was his eyes. He was holding an MP5 9mm sub-machine gun standing over three people he just killed.
"The Federal Bureau code named him the Shadow. We don't know much about him, besides he's an assassin and a pain in our asses. If y'all haven't noticed you were getting less and less contracts, it's because of him, he was taking them." Marina replied while trying not to make eye contact with Layla.
"We never lost jobs, just been turning them down." Tess responded.
"Well whoever this guy is, he's been taking a lot of people out and he's very good." Marina said.
"So if the F.B.I. doesn't know his identity how are we supposed to find this guy called the fucking Shadow." Iris asked with an attitude.
"We have information he's been hired along with 15 other independent contract killers, to take out this man." Marina said while passing a photo of an East Indian Muslim man."
"The target is Aamirah…"
Before Marina could say the name Tess finished the sentence for her.
"The target is Aamirah, who set to sign a new Peace Treaty with the Jews. We were offered that contract, but turned it down. Like you know we only do contracts on drug lords and the shitty type of individuals. This man only wants to help." Tess stated
"I see you do your research. The assassin, the Shadow will be there. He's first of the five most deadly killers and must be taken out." Marina said as she drunk what was left of her wine and gets up and leaves.
Tess sat on the steps of a Brownstone house she owned in Brooklyn on New Lots Avenue and Cleveland Street. She had been able to keep a few houses in New York without the F.B.I. knowing of them. She sips the Hennessey that was in her glass while passing the blunt of haze to Iris, who was sitting on the steps next to her. Layla and Vanessa were sitting on the steps down from them. She pets Beast head as he wiggles his tail. She was so happy to get him back from the FED's.
"Damn it feels so good to be back in Brooklyn." Vanessa stated while exhaling weed smoke from her mouth then took another pull and blows the thick smoke into Beast face. Beast stuck out his tongue and licks up the thick purple haze smoke.
"Word, I can't wait to go see Damou and tell him I'm back!" Layla said with a cheese smile on her face.
"Layla you can't do that yet." Tess replied.
"Why not, we're already in East New York? It's just a hop, skip and a jump from Brownsville. He doesn't even know I'm back. It will only take me a second and besides we're not wanted by the law anymore." Layla said.
"Layla yes we're free from the law with no charges on us, but we still got to worry about the Santiago drug family and the Asian Mafia. Once we take care of these loose ends, we're free from everything." Tess responded
'Schmmp!' Layla sucks her teeth and took four long pulls off the blunt in her hand and passes it back to Tess.
Iris looks at all the people walking back and forth. The hustlers on the corner then the hood rat women, wearing barely any clothes on the hot summer night, flirting with the men with nice cars and jewelry, trying to get a come up.
"It's like if you were born in Brooklyn and grew up here, Brooklyn was in your blood and where you belong, if you can survive here you can survive anywhere in the fucking world." Iris said while taking everything in.
"Yes I do miss Brooklyn, but who would have ever thought four women from the grimy streets of Brooklyn would travel the world. Most of us just get stuck here." Tess said.
'Boom!' 'Boom!' 'Boom!'
Three loud gun shots went off, causing Tess, Layla and Vanessa along with Iris to draw their weapons while ducking low. They scan up and down the block to see where the shots were coming from. They spotted a few men running from a building lobby four houses down, across the street where there was a dice game going on. The Teflon Diva's holster's their guns back.
"Yea, we're back in Brooklyn." Tess said causing everybody to bust out laughing as they finish the blunt they were smoking.
Tess knew that Iris was beyond pissed off that they were no longer sleeping in the same room or bed together, but she could care less as her mind race and heart aches as thoughts of Bless and wondering how her daughter was doing, took over her mind. The Brownstone house they were in now brought back so many memories of Bless. The whole Brooklyn did.
"I can't stay here I need to get out of Brooklyn! My mind is racing and playing tricks on me." Tess said out loud to herself as she rolls up a blunt.
'The stress of everything got me smoking more. I normally don't smoke this much, because it makes me slow to react and I can't afford that in my life.' She thought to herself as she lights the blunt and took a long pull, letting the sour diesel weed rush through her system, relaxing her mind and body. Halfway through the blunt her stomach starts to growl.
"Damn I have the munchies." She said out loud to herself as she got out of her bed, only wearing a sky blue bra with the matching boy shorts.
She slips into a pair of furry blue slippers, and puts a holster on her shoulders then walks out of her bedroom and down the hallway and made a left turn, heading for the kitchen but stops short when she sees a light bright from an Apple Mac Laptop on in the dining room. At first she wasn't going to pay it no mind but decided against it as she walks through the dining room doorway to see Vanessa at the brown chestnut dining room table and her dog Beast by her leg.
"Ummm, Vanessa what are you doing on my laptop when you have yours now?" Tess asked.
The sound of Tess' voice startled Vanessa and her heart skipped a beat. Vanessa quickly pulls out a small chrome 40 caliber handgun and aims it at Tess' head across from the table.
"What the fuck are you doing? Why in the hell are you pointing that damn gun at me Vanessa?" Tess shouted
"Shhh, be quiet, you're going to wake the others up and that won't be good for none of us, now would it?" Vanessa replied through clenched teeth.
"I know you better stop pointing that damn gun at me or else." Tess said as she slowly moves her hand towards her gun in the holster on her shoulder.
"Tess I'm not playing with you, I'll put a bullet in your chest if your fingers touch the handle of that gun. I got the drop on you and
you know what that means. I control the come out of this situation. I learned that from you. Now slowly remove your gun holster and drop it on the floor." Vanessa said.
"Why are you fucking doing this? We're family I'll bleed and die for you." Tess replied with a puzzled look, mixed with hurt on her face.
"Just remove your fucking holster already!" Vanessa said getting frustrated that she was moving slow.
Tess removes her holster and drops it on to the floor by her feet.
"I was trying to break your laptop's password and transfer money from the teams account and everyone's personal account into mines, and find out what Swiss account you put the money from that confused asshole Jole. How much money did you take from him anyway?" Vanessa shouted.
"You're not getting any passwords from me so why even ask. So what in the fuck are you doing Vanessa, you're like a sister to me, fuck that you are a sister to me. I love you and you're betraying me and the team for what, money?" Tess shouted and couldn't believe what was taking place.
"You think this is about money? This isn't about no damn money Tess. This is about Ebony." Vanessa responded.
"You still blame me for her death. I lost a sister that day too. I had no control of what happened to her. I wish I did so we all can still be together, but we got her murderer and killed all those bastards behind it." Tess replied with a tear rolling down her cheek.
"But she wasn't your real sister she was mines. If you love her as much as you say, why didn't you protect her Tess, like you do with the rest of us? No you were unfocused and so damn open to have Bless out of jail and back in your life, you forget about us. Your only concern was him and it cost my sister her fucking life." Vanessa said as her eyes waters up and she tries to fight back the tears that were soon to come flowing down her face.
"You lost your damn mind Bitch, I'd die and kill for my team we all took a lost. Bless is dead and my child is being held until we do these last five contracts. Now my best friend is pointing a gun at me, threatening to kill me, like a stranger." Tess said as her hurt and pain slowly began to change into anger.
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