The Reign of Rain Robinson

by Roy Glenn

“This was my fault,” Barbara cried.

  “Don’t say that,” Bobby said and led her to the bed to sit down. “This was not your fault, it’s mine. Me and your mother should have told you the truth a long time ago.”

  “No. It’s my fault,” Barbara insisted. “Even though I knew, I still let this happen to me.”

  “Stop that. This happened to you because of me and who I am. You had nothing to do with it.”

  “I should never have come outside. I knew it was wrong,” Barbara cried. “I feel so stupid.”

  Bobby sat holding Barbara tightly. Kissing her forehead while she cried. He waited until she had calmed down a little before he spoke again.

  “Tell me what happened, baby. I need to know who this guy is and how you met him?”

  “His name is Ram, he sells weed.” Barbara paused to see his reaction. “I met him one day when me and Destiny got some from him.”

  Bobby let out a little laugh. “We’ll talk about you smokin’ weed later. “I need to know everything that you know about Ram,” Bobby said, and Barbara told her father everything that she could think of, everything he said about himself, everything that she had seen and heard during the brief time she spent either with or talking to Ram.

  Bobby stayed with Barbara and held her for a half hour before Barbara took a deep breath and looked at her father.

  “I’m all right, Daddy.” Barbara broke their embrace. “I know you and Uncle Mike gotta go.”

  Bobby looked at his daughter for a while and then he stood up. What he saw wasn’t a little girl anymore. There was a sense of sadness that briefly washed over him at the loss of her innocence. Sure, she would always be his baby, but he had to recognize her maturity. Barbara was becoming a woman. She’s been looking like one for years.

  He left Barbara’s room and went downstairs. Black was in the living room with Tahanee, Pam, Wanda, Rain and Tenikka, who had just arrived. He came in the room carrying his pump shotgun and Rain smile because she knew that he was coming with them to handle their business.

  “Let’s go,” Bobby said. Black and Rain got up and followed Bobby out the house.

  Once they were in Rain’s car they went to see Carla at Nick’s office. Black told her that he wanted Barnes and Mobley found. Fifteen minutes later, Carla had a location for Mobley.

  “Thank you, Carla,” Black said.

  Bobby turned and looked at Rain. “All this time and nobody thought to ask Carla where to find these niggas?”

  “She did, Bobby. I’ve been working on it the entire time,” Carla said in Rain’s defense.

  “How’d you find them?” Black asked.

  “The police helped me find them.”

  “What?” Bobby asked.

  Carla smiled. “Anytime we kill one of them, the police confiscate their cell phones, subpoena their records and the information is entered into a database that I hacked. I created an algorithm that cycled through all the number and GPS data and I correlated it to locations of individuals that I’ve been tracking based on the information Baby Chris gave me. All of the activity centers around this location in Linwood, New Jersey.”

  “But you can’t be sure that this is where Mobley is?” Black asked.

  “No, I can’t.”

  “I say we go anyway,” Bobby said and stood up.

  “You heard the man,” Black said to Rain and they followed Bobby to the door.

  “Whoa,” Carla said, and everybody stopped. “Y’all ain’t going anywhere like that.” She held up her hand and began counting on her fingers. “I need the three of you with earpieces, night vision goggles and wearing body armor.”

  “I don’t know about that vest shit,” Bobby said.

  “I’m wearing one,” Black said.

  “Since when?” Bobby had to know.

  “Since Shy told him to,” Rain said as she geared up.

  “Well, she is the real boss of The Family,” Bobby said.

  By the time they got to the house in Linwood, Carla had easily hacked the security system, disabled the alarm and was able to identify and monitor the movement of the fourteen people on the property.

  Two of Mobley’s men, Davis and Jones were outside the house standing by a car, smoking a blunt. Inside the house, four of his men De'Shane, Frazier, Cordell and Harris were in the large room kicked back, getting fucked up watching the Knicks along with four women. There were two more men that were in the bedrooms upstairs, Hareem and Mobley. They both had women with them.

  “The best way to get in the house is gonna be through the garage. There’s a door on the back side,” Carla advised. “I’ve disabled the locks. Inside the garage there’s a door that opens into the kitchen and it’s clear. I’ll cut the power whenever you’re ready.”

  “Got it,” Rain said as the three killers donned night vision goggles and moved toward the house. When they got closer, they could see that the two men outside the house had separated. Davis remained at the car, while Jones was walking around the house.

  Bobby crept up quietly and shot Davis in the back of the head before he made his way to the garage. When Jones heard the body drop, he ran around the house where Black was waiting for him. He fired one shot to the head that took down Jones and then Black when around the side of the garage where Bobby and Rain were waiting. The three went in and made their way to the door. Rain opened the door and peeked in the kitchen. She turned to Black.

  “Hallway is clear.”

  “Told you,” Carla said.

  While Bobby and Rain waited in the garage, Black went in and moved quietly toward the living room. He looked into see how they were set up, before going back to the garage.

  “We got four women in there.”

  “And there are two more possibles upstairs,” Carla advised.

  “What do you mean, possibles?” Bobby asked.

  “I mean there could be four men up there, but whoever it is, is having sex.”

  “Let’s try not to kill the women,” Black said. Rain and Bobby followed Black in the house and they approached the living room. “Cut the power, Carla,” Black ordered.

  “What happened?”

  “Power’s out,” one of the women said and turned on the flashlight on her phone in time to see Rain toss a concussion grenade in the room and Black open fire.

  He hit De'Shane with two shots to his chest. Rain fired and she hit Harris with two shots. When Frazier ran for the kitchen, Bobby stepped up and shot him twice in the back of his head.

  As the women held their heads and ran for cover, Rain fired two more shots as she passed Harris and then followed Cordell toward the kitchen as Black and Bobby made their way around to the stairs.

  Upstairs in the bedrooms, Hareem and Mobley heard the sounds of shooting and bodies dropping to the floor. They got out of bed, got some pants on quickly and armed themselves as the women hurried to cover themselves and hide.

  When Rain got to the kitchen, she saw Cordell as he ran out. She raised her weapon, fired and shot him in the back, before moving toward the steps.

  By that time, Black and Bobby had reached the second level. Hareem came out of the room and fired a couple of shots blindly at them. Black fired back and kept coming. When he turned and fired again at Black, he had moved to cover and raised his weapon. He took aim and shot Hareem in the chest.

  It was then that Bobby saw Mobley standing at the end of the hall. Bobby centered himself and fired a couple of shots at Mobley. He fired at Bobby and ran back in the room. Bobby went to the door, stuck his gun in and fired. Mobley stepped out of hiding and fired until his gun was empty, then Bobby shot Mobley and he went down. Bobby approached Mobley as he lay there, pulling the trigger and trying to get to his feet.

  Bobby stood over him, put his foot on Mobley’s neck and fired one shot to the head and another to the chest. He looked over at the woman who was sitting on the floor in the corner with a sheet pulled over her.

  “Hope you got a ride home,” Bobby said, and he left the room and went downs
tairs and was about to leave when Rain stopped him.

  “We need to burn this bitch to the ground, for real,” Rain said and looked at Black.

  “You heard the woman.”

  Once Rain made sure that all the women had exited the house, she and Black planted explosives. When they finished, they moved to a safe distance and Rain blew the joint. Since she liked watching shit burn, they stayed for a while before heading back across the bridge.

  Black called Carla.

  Chapter Twenty-seven

  “What you got for me, Carla? You find Barnes and Hawkins for me?”

  “Not yet. But if cutting them out of the money is still a priority,” Carla began.

  “And it is,” Black said.

  “Then I may have something for you.”

  “We’ll be at you’re location in fifteen minutes.”

  “I’ll be ready,” Carla said, and they ended the call.

  When they got back to the office, as promised, Carla was ready for them. By that time, Carter and Jackie had arrived and since she used to have Carla’s job, Jackie was able to help her get a location for them to hit. Once Rain, Black and Bobby were seated, Carla told them what she had found and laid the setup out for them.

  “On the second floor of this building on Manida Street is where I believe that Barnes and Hawkins process and store their product.”

  “This another one of the places Baby Chris put you on to?” Black asked.

  “Yes,” Carla said.

  “If this is the place, he thinks there is a meth lab there too,” Jackie said to Black.

  “You find it the same way you found Mobley?”

  “Same way, it just took a little longer to process the data, and then Jackie put it all together,” Carla said and then she showed them a floor plan of the building.

  “You get anything on Ram yet?” Bobby asked.

  Barbara’s kidnapping attempt and killing those responsible was the only thing on his mind. Although Bobby was glad that Tahanee killed him, there was a huge part of him that would love to take his time and torture Ram slowly over a week or two before he killed him. He glanced at Black and knew he’d be happy to help.

  “His real name is Ramses Earl,” Carla replied.

  “Anybody know anything about this nigga?” Bobby demanded to know.

  “I talked to RJ,” Carter began. “He said that Ram is a low-level dealer for Hawkins. He got a couple of corners and a house he does business at. Strictly small time, I doubt if this was his play. Too ambitious a move.”

  Bobby pointed at Carter. “Fuck what you doubt, make sure!”

  “I got you, Bobby.”

  “They’re fuckin’ with my family!” he shouted.

  “If they want to play it like that and bring civilians into it, that’s fine by me,” Rain said nodding her head. Doc’s murder and now Barbara’s kidnaping attempt had pushed her to a new level. She looked at Jackie. “Start making me a list of high value targets.”

  “You got it,” Jackie said quickly. She had lost a lot of good people in this war, so she was happy to step it up and take it to them.

  “I’m not comfortable with that,” Black said shaking his head. “I’m just as mad about what happened to Barbara, and I want to hurt them for it. But terrorizing and murdering innocent people.” Black shook his head slowly. “We are not gonna do that.”

  Black looked around the room, but he stopped and looked directly at Rain.

  “I understand the need to escalate, Rain, and it just may come to that, but we are not there yet,” Black said and then he looked at Jackie. “Go ahead and make your list. But it only gets used when I say so.” Black looked around the room again. “Does everybody understand what I’m sayin’?”

  He received a chorus of, “Understood.”

  “Okay. Now, Carla, tell us how to get in place and kill these bastards.”

  At that moment, there was a lot of activity in the building on Manida Street. Barnes and Hawkins had just acquired new product from their supplier, so security was high. The building was outfitted with the latest surveillance and security technology.

  Naturally, there were digital cameras everywhere in the building, but audio surveillance equipment, and signal tracking technologies were in use as well. To secure sensitive areas, laser microphones were used to bounce sound waves off a hard surface which was reflected back to the transmitter that sets off an alarm.

  Tiny radio frequency ID tags were placed on the workers clothes. Each tag transmitted a unique signal, so their location was tracked while in the building. There were motion and heat sensors in the hallways and biometric locks on all the doors. None of that was a problem for Carla.

  “Easy peasy.”

  Antoine, Malik, Janile and Dennard were outside the building. Janile and Dennard were posted on each corner, while Antoine and Malik were in the front of the building. Antoine was stationed at the entrance to the garage and Malik was standing guard at the main entrance to the building.

  Inside the building, Cameron and Jayden were in the garage, while Caleb and Tyler were near the stairs leading to the second level. Barnes and Hawkins were on the second level along with Cornia, Dallan and the product. Everybody was on alert.

  “We could really use Monika to take out the one’s outside on the corners,” Black said when they arrived.

  “I can do it, Black,” Jackie said, and everybody looked at her. “What?” she paused. “I may not be as good as Monika or Xavier, but I can hit a target from five hundred yards away. Monika used to make me practice at a thousand yards to make me a much better marksman at three to five hundred yards,” Jackie said with confidence. “I think I can take out four stationary targets from across the street.”

  “Let me know when you’re set,” Black said, and Jackie turned to Rain.

  “You still carry that Barrett M82 rifle in your trunk?”

  “I got you. Come on,” Rain said and led her back to her car to get the rifle from the trunk. Then Jackie went to find a position on the rooftop across the street where she had a direct line of sight to her four targets.

  While she moved into position, Bobby and Carter took up position on the corner to be ready to move Janile and Dennard’s bodies off the street. Black and Rain would take care of Antoine and Malik.

  Once Jackie arrived at what she determined to be the best position to hit all four of her targets, she set up her weapon and checked the wind. “I’m set.”

  “Fire,” Black ordered.

  Jackie fired four shots in rapid succession, hitting each of her targets with a shot to the head. Antoine, Malik, Janile and Dennard went down.

  “Good shooting, Jackie,” Black said.

  “Now get down here and cover the back,” Rain said as she and Black moved quickly to drag Antoine and Malik’s bodies out of sight.

  With that task out of the way, Rain went right to work planting explosives on the garage door and the main entrance to the building.

  “If anybody tries to leave through either of those doors, it will blow,” Rain said.

  “Leaving them with only one exit,” Black said and then he and Rain went around to the back to the door that opened into the garage.

  “What’s your status, Carla?” Rain asked as they walked.

  “I am in control of their security system; they are seeing what I want them to see. Standing by to execute on your command.”

  “Acknowledged, Carla. I'll let you know when we’re set,” Rain said as she and Black arrived at the back of the building where Bobby and Carter were waiting.

  “You know if Monika were here we’d be all alpha to omega and shit,” Black said, and they all laughed. “Is everybody ready?”

  “Let’s do it,” Bobby said, and Carter nodded.

  With Carla in control of the cameras, and the motion sensors disabled, Black and Rain were able to approach the building undetected, and they took up positions on either side of the door.

  “Ready?” Rain asked Black.

  Wi
th his gun in his left hand, Black reached for the door handle. “Ready.”

  “Execute,” Rain said.

  “Biometric locks disabled,” Carla said.

  When Black grabbed the door handle and jerked open the door, Rain stepped in front of the door and tossed two M67 grenades into the garage.

  The sudden opening of the door caught Cameron and Jayden off-guard and they froze for a split second as the grenades rolled toward them.

  “Look out!” Jayden finally yelled, and both men dove for cover just before the grenades exploded. When they did, Bobby stepped in the doorway and opened fire, and Carter followed him in.

  Upstairs in the office, Barnes and Hawkins were looking on as Cornia and Dallan worked with the product when the grenades exploded.

  “What the fuck was that?” Cornia asked.

  “I don’t know,” Hawkins said.

  “Why don’t you go see,” Barnes said and Cornia and Dallan got up and they went to see what the noise was.

  “You know what the fuck that is,” Hawkins began. “It’s them mutha fuckas.”

  “Don’t you think I know that,” Barnes said and began gathering up the product. “Why you think I sent them two dumb-asses to go see? We need to get as much of this shit as we can and get the fuck outta here.”

  Hawkins got up and began helping. “And I think it’s time we think seriously about breaking ties with that bitch before she gets us killed.”

  “Don’t you think I know that,” Barnes said.

  Downstairs in the garage, Cameron and Jayden got to their feet after the explosion, took cover behind a truck and fired at Bobby and Carter. The two men blanketed the garage with semi-automatic weapons fire. Bobby dove for the ground and stayed there until Cameron and Jayden stopped to reload. He quickly got up and opened fire. Carter came up blasting and they got Cameron and Jayden in a crossfire.

  Carter fired and hit Jayden in the chest, he was dead. Seeing his man down, Cameron fired a couple of shots that ricocheted harmlessly off the wall as he ran for the garage door. When he tried to open the door, it set off an explosion that knocked him off his feet. Bobby walked up on him and fired one shot to the head and one to the chest.