Tied to a Boss
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Chapter Seventeen
Three weeks after Vanessa had the baby and released to go home, Dante received a call from Angela telling him to meet her at the Denny’s on 27th and 199th so they could talk.
Leaving the house and an upset Alinna, Dante pulled into Denny’s twenty minutes later. Finding a spot to park, he climbed out of the Range Rover and headed into the restaurant.
Seeing Angela and his daughter as soon as he walked in the Denny’s, Dante walked over smiling at his daughter who spotting him and began whining and reaching for him.
“What’s up Angela?” Dante asked, taking Mya from her and then sitting down. “What’s so important you had to get me out of my house at this hour?”
“Dante, I’ve got a problem I need you to help me.”
“What problem?”
“It’s my new captain, I’m about to be under investigation.”
“Investigation? For what?” Dante asked, raising his eyes from his little girl looking at Angela.
Telling Dante about the problem she was having with her new captain with him flirting and asking her out and even going as far as feeling on her, which lead her to punch him in the mouth; the captain took it as a personal issue and turned it into a work issue. Angela cried angrily as she spoke.
“You still haven’t told me what you being investigated for, Angela,” Dante told her.
“He knows you’re Mya’s father and he trying to connect you with me. He wants us both arrested, Dante,” Angela told him getting more upset.
“Arrested? For what?” Dante asked confused.
“He knows about the Narcotics Sergeant who was murdered by Alinna. He found out that Miguel was working for your girlfriend and he knows that Alinna and her friends are becoming one, if not the largest drug suppliers in the city, and it’s well known that you, Andre, and Tony T are backing them.
“So what’s the problem?” Dante asked her, “What’s he waiting on? Why hasn’t he sent anyone after us yet if he knows all of this?”
“Because he’s waiting to get us all at once. He thinks that we all work together,” Angela explained.
Nodding his head slowly, Dante said after a minute, “Tell me everything you got on this guy.”
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Returning to the house two hours later, Dante parked the Range Rover in the garage and went through the side door into the kitchen.
Heading up stairs, Dante made it halfway to his bedroom hearing Alinna’s voice, walking into the room only to see Alinna and Vanessa seated at the foot of the bed talking with each other.
“I’ll talk to you later,” Vanessa told Alinna, standing up and kissing Dante on the cheek saying, “Hey big braw.”
Smiling as she watched Vanessa leave, Alinna looked to Dante as she stopped next to the baby bed checking on his son. “What did Angela want?”
“We gotta problem,” Dante replied walking away from his son day bed pulling off his shirt then sitting down on his side of the bed.
Once Dante undressed and climbed into bed, Alinna crawled into bed with him, curling up next to him laying her head on his chest. “Tell me what happened.”
Breaking down the whole story to Alinna that Angela told him about Captain Whitehead, Dante finished his story only to say, “I’m gonna deal with his ass real soon.”
“What’s your plan?” Alinna asked him as she ran her left hand up and down his mid-section.
“I’m still putting it together,” Dante told her as he started at the ceiling. “It’s gonna have to be soon though.”
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Leaving the house again later that morning, Dante drove his old Nissan Altima and parked two houses across the street from the address Angela gave him.
Seeing the heavyset middle aged white man in his police uniform with the noticeable captain bars that shined on his collar, Dante sat watching Captain Whitehead kiss his wife goodbye then walked out to the black and chrome Lincoln Town Car.
Starting up the Nissan Altima once Captain Whitehead back the town car out of the driveway and drove away, Dante pulled off behind him driving right pass the captain’s home.
Keeping a short distance away following it from the neighborhood, Dante pulled the Nissan up alongside of the town car at the stoplight a block away from where the captain lived.
Changing his plan at seeing the perfect opportunity with Captain Whitehead, he took out his cell phone and with the street nearly empty at this hour of the morning, Dante put the Altima in park then calmly opened his car door climbing out of the driver’s seat and pulled out his Glock from the front of his jeans as Captain Whitehead was turning his head in his direction.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Dumping a full clip into Captain Whitehead, Dante turned and climbed back into his Altima, and took one last look over to Captain Whitehead as the fat man laid slumped dead against the steering wheel driving off, Dante made a U-turn and simply drove away.
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Getting rid of the Nissan Altima, Dante called and had Dre pick him up from the Burger King on 199th and 441st standing outside smoking a joint he took from Alinna before leaving the house earlier.
Hearing his cell phone wake up and ringing in his pocket, Dante got the phone out seeing Angela calling. He answered, “Yeah Angela.”
“Dante where are you?” Angela asked sounding excited.
“Waiting for Dre,” Dante answered her and then said, “If you’re about to do some talking just wait till I get over there. Dre’s gonna be here in a minute.”
“Just tell me you’re okay.”
“I’m good Angela.”
“Dante, I love you. I love you so much, baby.”
“Yeah, I hear you,” Dante replied hanging up the phone and shaking his head.
Once Dre’s Land Rover pulled inside the Burger King ten minutes later after Dante hung up with Angela, he walked around to the passenger side and got in.
“What’s up, fam?” Dre said dapping up with Dante after he got in the SUV
“What’s good, braw?” Dante replied and then said, “Roll through Angela’s spot real quick. She wanna holla at me.”
“Everything good with Mya?” Dre asked him.
“Yeah, she just wanna holla about something else,” Dante explained.
“What happened with your ride?” Dre asked as he drove away from the Burger King.
Telling Dre the whole conversation with Angela about Captain Whitehead and his plot to set them all up, Dante finished explaining and explained how they would have to lay back for a little while as Dre pulled in front of Angela’s house just as she was stepping out the front door talking to Mya’s babysitter.
“Hold up a second,” Dante told Dre as he climbed from the Land Rover.
Heading up the walkway as Angela walked out to meet him, Dante crossed the front yard as Angela asked him, “Why didn’t you tell me when you were planning to do this Dante?”
“Did it matter?” he asked as he walked around and climbed inside the passenger of Angela’s ride.
Tossing her bags onto the backseat then climbing inside the driver’s seat, Angela shut the car door, cranked up the engine, and looked to Dante saying, “It’s all over the news what you did, and you must have hit him with every bullet in your magazine. I’ve already received over twenty calls since I’m next in position behind Captain Whitehead.”
“Let me know what’s going on,” Dante told her and climbed out of the car when Angela called his name.
Turning back to see what she wanted only for Angela to lean over and kiss him on the lips, Dante was just about to push her away but found himself returning the kiss.
Breaking the kiss, Dante saw the expression on her face, and said, “Call me later and let me know what’s going on.”
“I love you, Dante,” he heard her call out as he climbed from the car, shutting the door behind him.
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Once Dre pulled off and parked in their front yard, Dante and Dre saw Harmony’s new Audi go flying past them, le
aving the house in a hurry.
After Dre parked his Land Rover inside the garage, Dante climbed out from the SUV just as his cell phone rang.
Looking at the phone seeing once he took it out his pocket, Dante answered, “What’s up, shorty?”
“Dante, where are you?” Alinna asked after hearing Dante voice.
“I’m walking in the house now,” Dante answered, receiving a smile from Rose as he and Dre entered the house through the kitchen.
Hearing the phone hang up in his ear, Dante looked at the screen and seeing that Alinna actually hung up on him. He shook his head.
“Dante, are you and Andre eating breakfast?” Rose asked looking from Dante to Dre then back.
“Yeah, you can hook something up,” Dante answered leaving the kitchen and hearing Dre telling Rose exactly what he wanted. Making it halfway up the stairs as Alinna, D.J. walked up on him.
“Where the hell have you been, Dante?”
“Handling business,” he told Alinna, taking his son out of Alinna’s arms.
“What business?”
“What’s up with you?”
“I’m wondering why is it when I wake up you’re not in bed or even in the house? What business did you need to handle?”
“I told you about it last night,” Dante told her and then asked, “What are you tripping about now?”
Staring up at Dante a moment, Alinna never had a chance to respond as Vanessa and Amber came downstairs.
“A, you ready?’ Amber asked, noticing Alinna’s facial expression cutting her eyes over to Vanessa, seeing her girl noticed Alinna expression also.
Rolling her eyes at Dante, Alinna started down the stairs again calling for both Vanessa and Amber to come on so they can leave.