Her lips twitch as she nods. “I’ll hit you,” she mouths to me. If anyone understands how I feel on the daily, it’s her, so I’m not surprised she has questions.
“You good to go for tonight?”
I look to Rico and nod. “Yeah. It’ll be you, me, YT, and YP. Mekhi and The Collective will meet up with us there. Sincere’s given them the drop on us, but if we bust up they shit, they’ll be too unstable to help him and it’ll draw his ass out.”
“I know you know where he is. Why not just go get him?” Ty asks.
I sigh. “‘Cause he’s been holed up with Sahara.”
Choruses ofaw hell nawsandhard booty bitchesring out, with Nut leading the pack.
I keep my eyes on Ty, who’s fists are clenched on the table. “I’m not tryna do that to Van, so I’m tryna smoke him out. But you know how Sahara is. She too far gone, facilitating meetings between the Mathers brothers and Sincere and shit… telling her to jump ship is lowkey out of the question.”
Ty curses to himself before scrubbing his face. “Fasho, Dub.”
“Aight. Reem and YC will be our backup. Turk will make sure there are no hitchhikers.” I cut my eyes to Mace, who holds her hands up.
“Nah, I seen your lil group chat about trying to help YT avenge some shit about her old nigga with B and Dal.”
“Choc!”
“You tripping, B.”
“Old nigga?” Reem turns all the way around to YT, who slaps her hand on her face.
Mace rolls her eyes. “You love invading someone’s privacy. Me and YT have ran a mission before. I held my own, right?”
YT grins and winks at Mace. “Screaming every time you let that thang go isn’t holding your own, Deeze. It’s no if Shaddy says no.”
“And Nutty. Choc, you wanna be back on punishment again?”
Turk kisses Autumn’s shoulder before smirking at me. “I’ll hold it down here.”
“Fasho. This shit’s out in the desert, so let's get a move on.”
Everybody stands and starts shuffling out the room. The Triplets, Rico, Reem and I are meeting at the Triplet’s place, since it’s closest to a freeway. I’m already knowing Turk, Set, and Nut are gonna all bring the girls and the babies to Set’s crib to wait for our word.
Macy pulls me into a corner. She interlocks our fingers and spreads her lips into the most beautiful smile.
“You actually be listening to me.”
My lips twitch at her smug ass. “I be trying to.”
“Be safe okay? Come back to us.”
I pull her into me, kissing her forehead before resting my chin on top of her. “I will, shorty.”
Shad
Ricocheckshistwinglocks for the fifth time before making sure the clip to his AR is full. His eyes have been dead since we got to the desert, but I know to give him space. All of this shit is personal, too personal for him, and we never got to go to POD to get into the Cages.
But at least he’ll get to satisfy that bloodlust tonight.
“The only guards that are armed are the ones on the lower levels. Rico and Prince, y’all got like thirty minutes to take them out.”
“We only need twenty.” Prince takes his toothpick out his mouth and motions pulling the trigger at me, making YT snicker.
“Well, whenever you give the signal, me and YT will start on the main level. Mekhi and them should join us then, right?”
