The Reign of Rain Robinson

by Roy Glenn

  “I wanna meet whoever’s pulling your strings,” Mobley said defiantly. “Way I see it, you ain’t nothing but an errand boy here to deliver a message.” He paused. “So, errand boy, here go a message for you to deliver. I wanna sit down. Now get the fuck outta here and run tell that, errand boy.”

  When Mobley’s message was delivered to Rona, it surprised her. She had sized up Mobley and determined that he was no different or smarter than Barnes and Hawkins. She simply had to wave money in front of them and they were all in. Apparently, Rona had seriously underestimated Mobley and that gave her pause. She selected her pawns because they were greedy and stupid enough to fight her proxy war. The fact that Mobley wanted to sit down with her put her plan in jeopardy.

  But since Rona wanted that market, she agreed to meet with Mobley at a restaurant called Marisco Centro. At that meeting, Rona wasted no time telling him what she wanted of him and how their alliance would be to his benefit. She even took the time to make it personal by telling him that it was about getting revenge for her brother and father. Something that she knew he could relate to and then Rona made a promise.

  “If you do the things that I ask of you, you’ll get revenge for your brother, and in the end, you’ll control the entire uptown drug market,” was what Rona promised because she didn’t think he’d survive anyway.

  “I’m in,” was Mobley’s simple response to that, because at his core, he was a stupid and greedy fuck just like Barnes and Hawkins.

  He just needed a softer touch and a smiling face, Rona thought as Mobley gladly accepted the same offer her associate made him. Since he had demanded a sit down, Rona had expected Mobley to ask for more access and lower prices and push hard for his demands to be met. But he didn’t; he rolled over like a puppy for Rona.

  “Just tell me who I gotta kill?”

  Rona stood up.

  “I’ll leave my associate Mr. Davion to discuss that with you. In future, he will be your contact. You and I will never see each other again,” she said and walked away without saying another word to Mobley.

  When Garon escorted Rona out of Marisco Centro, AD sat down at the table with Mobley.

  “Your target is Jerry Demet.”

  “Who the fuck is that?”

  AD looked at Mobley and hoped that Rona knew what she was doing, and more importantly, who she was getting involved with.

  “He’s the target.” AD slid an envelope across the table. “Everything you need to know about him is in there. You’re gonna hit him at the bodega.”

  “A’ight.”

  “Now pay attention, here’s how the job needs to be done,” AD said and laid it all out for Mobley that day and between him Barnes and Hawkins, they had dealt a substantial blow to The Family.

  Now, Mobley and Barnes were dead, and Hawkins was in the wind, so he might as well be dead. But Rona wasn’t worried, not in the slightest. If there was one thing that she was sure of, and that was that there will always be somebody willing to step up for a chance at money and street fame. So, until a new pawn stepped forward, there was just one thing to do.

  Shoe shopping.

  Rona King loved shoes. Her plan for the afternoon was to do a little shopping on 34th street and then have dinner in Tribeca with colleagues at Frenchette, a restaurant that served a very tasty mix of traditional and modern French dishes.

  Rona was in Macy’s at Stuart Weitzman, looking at the Rosemarie sandals, when she looked up and saw Rain coming toward her. She was there with her sister-in-law, Lakeda, and her two children. It was Miles Jr.’s birthday and Rain promised to take him shopping. And Rain never broke promises she made to her niece and nephew. So, despite everything that was going on, there she was at Macy's with Alwan and two of his men.

  Rona would have been perfectly content for Rain to pass by without seeing her, but that wasn’t to be. The second Rain saw her, she headed in Rona’s direction.

  “Do you want me to handle this,” Garon asked.

  “No.” Rona stood up.

  “What’s up, Rona?”

  “Hello, Rain.”

  “I didn’t know you were back in the city.”

  “I’ve been back since my brother was killed and my father was murdered in jail.”

  “I was sorry to hear about your brother and your father,” Rain said, but she wasn’t because she killed her brother personally and organized her father getting shanked on the yard in prison.

  “Really Rain. I have a hard time believing that because I heard that you were the one that killed my brother and that you and Mike Black are responsible for my father being in jail to be murdered,” Rona said and walked away with Garon.

  As Rain watched Rona walk away, she had a feeling that Rona King was involved in some way. It was nothing that she could put her finger on, and there was nothing that Rain could base it on, but her experience told her that Rona King was her adversary and she was the one pulling the strings.

  Them niggas is too stupid to be the brains behind it.

  Chapter Thirty

  One more thing you need to know …

  Catania Social Club, Mount Vernon, New York

  “Fuck that shit!” Alessio shouted and threw his empty beer bottle against the wall. “Fuck you and that shit, Paulie if you expect me to believe that it wasn’t Big fuckin’ Tony that had Nicky wacked!” He reached over the bar and grabbed another bottle from the cooler.

  “Be that as it may, the word from on high is hands off.” Paulie Russo raised his hand. He used to be one of Crazy Nicky’s Lieutenant’s and The Catania Social Club was one of the spots where some of Nicky’s people hung out. He had been sent there by Johnny Boy to keep the peace.

  Paulie knew that Alessio had always been a hot head. Always ready to pull his gun and start shooting. He needed to try and calm him down before he got everybody riled up and they did something stupid.

  “If the Commission says Big Tony had nothing to do with it, that’s good enough for me.”

  “I know we all gotta toe the line,” Lorenzo said calmly and took a drag of his cigarette.

  “That we do,” Paulie said.

  “But Paulie, you gotta admit it’s more than just a coincidence that Nicky addresses his beef to Big Tony’s face and less than a month later he’s assassinated.”

  “Fuck I just say?” Paulie asked. “The Commission says Tony got nothing to do with it.”

  “You know what’s strange?” Matty asked.

  “What?”

  “Somebody hit Nicky and Johnny Boy does nothing about it.”

  “What’s strange about that? Paulie asked. “Johnny Boy’s a loyal soldier.”

  “Or that fat fuck was in on it with Big Tony!” Alessio shouted and drained another bottle.

  “Don’t,” Lorenzo said before Alessio threw the bottle against the wall.

  Paulie pointed in Alessio’s face. “And you watch your tone,” he said with his hand on his pistol.

  Alessio raised both of his hands because he respected Paulie. “No disrespect intended. I’m just saying.”

  “And I’m just saying, the Commission says Big Tony had nothing to do with it. That’s good enough for me and if it ain’t good enough for you, then you need to say it to my face right here and right fuckin now, Alessio.”

  “No. Paulie. I ain’t got no fuckin problem with it. If the Commission says Big Tony had nothing to do with it, that’s good enough for me.”

  Paulie sat back and relaxed a little. “I hear what you’re saying. I really do, but this is business, all of it. Business. Nicky getting wacked, business. You understand that?”

  Alessio nodded his head. “I understand.”

  Paulie stood up. “Come walk with me.”

  Alessio got up and walked toward the door with Paulie. What Alessio didn’t know was that Paulie, and a couple of Nicky’s other Lieutenant’s had been approached by Johnny Boy with a very lucrative offer that they gladly accepted.

  Do nothing, and what was Nicky’s gets cut up between the th
ree of yous, was Johnny Boy’s offer.

  Paulie and the other Lieutenant’s agreed that Nicky’s crazy ass needed to go, and they agreed to stand down and keep the peace when it was done.

  Paulie put his arm around Alessio’s shoulder as they walked. “I need to know that you really are good with this and you’re not gonna do anything stupid.”

  “I’m cool, Paulie.”

  “There’s gonna be big things happening with the movement at the top of the food chain. Some of that is gonna trickle down to me and I’ll make sure you eat, but it’s like Lorenzo said, we all gotta toe the line.”

  “’Cause it’s business, right?”

  “Right.” Paulie patted Alessio on the cheek. “You call me in the morning; we’ll grab some breakfast and talk about where I see you fit in.”

  “I’ll call you,” Alessio said and watched as Paulie left the social club. “Fuck that shit!” Alessio shouted the second the door shut. “Fuck you and that shit, Paulie if you expect me to believe that it wasn’t Big fuckin’ Tony and Johnny Boy’s fat fuckin ass that had Nicky wacked!”

  “Couldn’t have gone down no other way,” Matty said.

  “And fuck that business shit. Killing Nicky is personal to me,” he said pounding his chest.

  “What I wanna know is who they got to do the job?” Lorenzo asked.

  “That's the million-dollar question,” Alessio said and he heard laughing in the background. “What you laughing about ole timer?”

  “Laughing at you, smart guy,” Tommaso Federico said. He was sitting at a table in the back of the club with Pietro and Daniel. “Who wacked Crazy Nicky should be as plain as the nose on your face, smart guy.”

  Alessio bounced up from the bar and came to them with Lorenzo and Matty on his heels. “Fuck is you talkin’ about, ole school?”

  “You kids don’t know nothing about nothing.”

  “No, old school, we don’t know nothing about nothing,” Lorenzo said. “Enlighten us.” He understood that guy’s like Tommaso, Pietro and Daniel had real knowledge and wisdom to share when they weren’t drunk. It was something that Alessio didn’t understand. He thought the old men were just there to drink free and were taking up space.

  “You kids oughta learn your history,” Daniel said.

  “That would mean they’d have to pay attention when grown men are talking,” Pietro said, and the older men laughed.

  Alessio pulled a chair over and sat down. “I’m gonna ask you again, old school, fuck is you talkin’ about?”

  “Think about what’s happened. Commission didn’t sanction the hit on Nicky, but Big Tony and Johnny Boy want him gone, right?”

  “Right,” Lorenzo said.

  “So they gotta go outside the house, right smart guy?”

  “Go on,” Lorenzo said and Alessio looked confused.

  “And if that’s the case, there’s only one person that Big Tony Collette would go to that he was absolutely sure that he could trust to get this done for him.”

  “Angelo?” Alessio asked and Tommaso, Pietro and Daniel all laughed at how absurd that was.

  “Who then?” Lorenzo asked.

  “Mike Black.”

  The end of Deep In It

  The Reign of Rain Robinson continues in:

  DEAD ON IT

  DEAD ON IT

  Dead On It

  Roy Glenn

  Escapism Entertainment

  © Copyright 2019 Roy Glenn

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  This is a work of fiction. Any references or similarities to actual events, real people, living or dead or to real locales are intended to give the novel a sense of reality. Any similarity in other names, characters, places, and incidents is entirely coincidental.

  Chapter One

  For Rain, the reign of Rain Robinson had been a tale of unrelenting war and an irritating annoyance named Marita Bautista.

  It all started when Rain killed David ‘DP’ Petty … but when you really stop and take a very close look and think about it, the death of DP wasn’t the only reason that The Family had lost two captains, a bunch of big earners and a large number of their soldiers. It really started years before when FBI Special Agent McCullough introduced herself to Shy.

  I like you, Mrs. Black, so I’m going to do you a favor.

  The favor that Agent McCullough was referring to was the removal of Jada West from Shy’s daily existence.

  That favor set in motion a chain of events that began with the arrest of Jadonna Marin and three other women; Jenna Bobbit, Moriah Watts and Sheneka Solis for solicitation, which led to Jada being arrested and her eventually having to move her operation to Nassau to avoid prosecution. In order to protect Jada, each of the women were offered and accepted an extremely generous buyout and relocation package to leave New York City and not be available to testify.

  Problem solved.

  However, in violation of that agreement Jadonna Marrin returned to the city, got herself arrested and was forced to become Detective Bautista’s confidential informant. Jadonna took the skills she had learned in her time working for Jada to get close to and then manipulating both Lucus Hill and then Jab Baldwin into exposing sensitive information about parts of their operation; information that Jadonna shared with Bautista.

  The plan was for Hill to unwittingly set up Baldwin in a gun buy from members of El Decreto de Guerra. Bautista was confident that once she had entrapped Baldwin, she could use him to get Rain. The only reason the plan failed was Jada got wind of it. After getting Rain’s permission, she handled the situation.

  “Terminate them,” was what Jada ordered, and although that settled the matter, it was only a piece of why The Family was at war. The other piece of the puzzle was Carmen Taylor.

  For the life of her, she never could resist sticking her nose where it didn’t belong and poking the hornet’s nest. Therefore, when Jada killed the hit man that was sent to kill one of her informants, Carmen began an investigation that almost got her killed more than once and led to DP’s father, Milton Petty and his illegal businesses. In the end, he found that messing with Carmen Taylor was a death wish.

  So, Rain had tempted his son to a madness that made him believe that he could kill her and take over The Family. The move was ill-advised because Rain easily crushed him.

  “She handled that shit hopping on one leg with one arm tied behind her back,” Black told Bobby when it was over.

  However, it was a perfect storm of events that came together at the wrong time and exploded when Rona King stuck her hand in. Truth be told, it all started with her and a promise that she made to herself years before any of those events ever occurred.

  You see, Rona was away at college when she got the call that her brother, Ronnie had been murdered and that her father, Robert King had been arrested for conspiracy to commit murder for his role in the murders of Byron Winter and Cameisha Collins, Mike Black’s son’s mother. When Rona returned home to bury her brother and get a lawyer for her father, she was told that Rain was believed to have killed her brother and that she was working for Mike Black. Shortly after she buried her brother, Rona received the news that her father was murdered on the yard by another inmate and the hit was ordered by Mike Black.

  After burying her father alongside her brother, Rona spent the years since rebuilding her father’s legitimate businesses. As for his illegitimate businesses, rebuilding those were another matter entirely. On the orders of Wanda Moore and under Rain’s supervision, The Family had taken over or burnt to the ground everything her father and brother spent years building.

  Rona, very quietly, opened new spots and began rebuilding her family’s operation from the ground up. But while that was going on, Rona never lost sight of what was important to her.

  Revenge.

  So, Rona watched and waited patiently for her opportunity to get revenge against
the people responsible for the murder of her father and brother – Mike Black and Rain Robinson. She spent the time wisely; getting her money right, getting strong, making alliances that would serve her in her purpose, and positioning herself to be ready when the right opportunity presented itself.

  That opportunity came when Rain Robinson killed David Petty and RJ and Marvin executed Evander and Big Frank. In retaliation for the murder of his brother, Derrick Mobley went hard at The Family and DP’s partners, Barnes and Hawkins tried unsuccessfully to assassinate RJ. When that didn’t work, their men tried to firebomb The Four Kings and that was unsuccessful as well.

  In that, Rona saw her opportunity and she formulated a plan that didn’t involve her people getting in shoot-outs with The Family every day. When the time was right, she’d put her plan into operation.

  In the days following, Rona’s representative, AD, who had worked for her father for years, paid a visit to Barnes and Hawkins. At that meeting, AD offered them access to a purer product at a lower price than what they were getting it from Sterling. When Barnes and Hawkins wanted to know what they had to do, AD told them.

  “All you have to do for it is keep going hard at Rain Robinson.”

  It was an offer that they could not refuse and gladly accepted the terms of the agreement. That same day, AD made Mobley that same offer, but he surprisingly refused and demanded a sit-down with Rona. She was expecting Mobley to ask for more access to her and lower prices, but at the sit-down, Mobley gladly accepted the same offer AD made him.

  With her greedy, but stupid pawns in place and well financed, Rona sent them out to fight her proxy war against The Family. And it all went well for a while. Rona targeted several high-profile and high-earning members of The Family for termination, forcing Rain to expend time and resources fighting them off.