The Black Kiss Of Death, page 8
part #1 of Montega Chronicles Series
After they summarized their lives growing up, Diamond dropped JR off at his condo on Sepulveda Boulevard near Manhattan Beach. She headed home, sure that her parents would be worried sick if she stayed out any longer.
When she walked into the mansion’s foyer, the sound of weeping coming from the cigar room caught her attention. Trying to avoid being questioned on her whereabouts, she quickly slipped out of her boots and tiptoed past the cigar room, where her father and his friends were grieving over an opened box that was on the table. When Diamond stopped and saw the box, she frowned, then entered the room to get a closer look.
The second she stepped in, Two Gun Sam tapped Charles on the shoulder as Whisky quickly blocked her off while trying to explain.
“Baby, this isn’t the time. You shouldn’t be here right now.”
His nervous demeanor only gave way to more curiosity and before one of the men could remove the box, Diamond walked up to it and removed the top. “Diamond, no,” Charles said helplessly.
The first thing that hit his daughter was the faint smell of cooked meat. She never blinked as she held the box in her hand. Once she realized that the cooked head in the box was Bonnie’s, tears rolled down her cheeks and she buried her face in her father’s chest.
“It’s alright, princess,” Charles said stroking her long hair as she cried.
“Wha…What happened to Bonnie, Daddy?” she kept crying.
Charles looked up at Two-Gun Sam as if to ask, Should I tell her? Two-Gun Sam nodded. It was always best to tell a child the truth. In the long run, the child would respect you more.
“Baby, Bonnie was kidnapped by the Russian mafia. These sick fucks are no ordinary people, they’re cannibals. They believe that if they eat the flesh of their enemy it will make them stronger. That’s what they did to Bonnie,” he explained while hugging his daughter.
Diamond’s emotions were in overdrive. She had never seen something so gruesome in her life. Her mind was filled with so many emotions that not even her high I.Q. could answer them. The sight of Bonnie’s bloody, decapitated head was tattooed in her memory and would haunt her for the rest of her life. The image was so indelible, it was as if Diamond had witnessed the execution. What really haunted her was the way the scene repeated itself, over and over, casting a terrible shadow over her innocent, beating heart. The worst part of it all was that she wasn’t dreaming. This was real.
All the memories of her life with Bonnie flashed in her head. It was a crazy world. One day a person was there; the next, she was gone. What happened to Bonnie told Diamond that nothing in life was promised but death. When her time would come, nobody knew.
Chapter 20
STREET WAR
(MONTHS DOWN THE LINE)
“Yo, pass the Dutch,” Shug said to his homie, Kev, as they rolled four deep in the black Grand Marquis with dark, tinted windows.
Kev was from Shug’s neighborhood in South Philadelphia. He and Shug grew up together and always stayed true to each other. They rode around South Central LA, accompanied by one of Shug’s cousins, Mike, and his shooter, Maniac, who was in the backseat, playing with his short dreadlocks with one hand, while holding his Beretta in the other. Trailing them was another set of shooters.
Once they got to Crenshaw Boulevard, their targets were outside a small house, smoking sherm sticks, without a care in the world. Before they noticed the car approaching, Kev slammed on the gas while Shug’s shooter hung out the window, blazing away with his fully automatic Beretta .12 submachine gun. Within seconds, he riddled the victims with slugs, turning their clothes to the color red, like the rags in their back pockets.
On the other side of Compton, Tommy Gun and Cheeko were causing havoc throughout Ape Gang and Crips territory like a rampaging tornado. No one had any idea that the hits were coming from Clyde, which caused rival gangs to turn on each other. Before they knew it, a vicious street war began, courtesy of Clyde White.
JR followed Diamond inside Neiman Marcus as she made her final stop in the mall after a five-hour shopping spree. JR watched as she went into a shopping frenzy throughout name brand stores like the mall was closing down. She had so many bags, five of his soldiers had to carry them while he and Diamond strolled around the mall like royalty. For six months, they had been dating. JR had done nothing but treat Diamond like the underworld princess she was. He took her everywhere and showed her off to everyone. When he wasn’t out in the streets, he was with Diamond, schooling her on the drug game that he was so heavy in.
Talks like that inspired her to do what she wanted. Everyone was pushing for her to go to college and Diamond decided that she wanted to be a doctor. She took medical classes five hours a day with one of her father’s good friends as her teacher. Not only was she book smart, she knew how to weigh cocaine, cook crack, and bag it up. There were plenty of occasions when she would stop by JR’s condo to find him bagging up work for his crack houses.
Once they were done shopping, JR took her back to his condo, where they just kicked it all evening until it was time for Diamond to go home. As they sat on the couch, bussing it up about life, Diamond looked over at him.
“Can I ask you a question?”
“Anything, baby. What’s up?” JR asked with his arms around her.
“We’ve been going together for months now. All that time, you never took our relationship any further than making out with me. I know you’re a man, and you have needs. I also know that you probably have some chicks on the side, and I’m not upset about that. I just want to be the one to please you more than anyone else. I know I’m a virgin; all I ask is that you teach me.”
JR’s mind was blown when he heard that. The truth was that he actually did have a few chicks on the side that kept him satisfied so that he didn’t have to put any pressure on Diamond. She was special to him, and if he had to wait for her, so be it. Now, she was ready to experience the most important part of their relationship.
JR gently placed his hand on the right side of her beautiful face and stroked her soft cheek with his thumb. He then gave her a slow passionate kiss before taking her hand and leading her to the bedroom. There, he undressed her, down to just her thong and bra. “Lie back on the bed, while I get undressed,” he instructed her as he removed his T-shirt.
His eyes never left her shapely body.
Diamond lay back nervously. Her heart thumped, but her eyes gazed at the muscular figure who climbed into bed and slowly kissed her again to relax her. Sitting up a bit, he looked her in her eyes to see if the fire and desire still scorched within her.
“Before teaching you how to please me, I’m going to please you first. The reason is because you’re the prize, not me. A real man will always recognize that before they make love to you,” he whispered before lightly kissing her neck.
He savored her smooth skin and her sensual scent. Overwhelmed by her perfume, he sucked on her neck while working the clasps apart to her bra. JR tossed the bra to the floor and Diamond’s nipples instantly got hard as stones.
JR paused briefly to admire her perky breasts like a connoisseur would when he studies a work of art. Diamond breathed deeply as she locked her gaze on him, but then her eyes slowly rolled to the back of her head with pleasure. JR squeezed her breasts and feasted on her nipples like a starving infant. Diamond wrapped her arms around him, heaving deep, passionate sighs. JR’s hands explored her sexy body. Not only was she fat in the ass and titties, she had succulent thighs, and her pussy was trimmed and juicy. Diamond’s mouth widened with delight when JR went downtown on her and tasted her juices. As his tongue probed her slot and circled her pearl, she felt as if she couldn’t breathe any longer.
“Uhhhh!” she panted breathlessly, lost in the heat of the moment.
She was soaking wet and didn’t know what to do but moan. Then a weird feeling came over her; she felt like she had to pee. She was too afraid to ask what was happening to her body and what happened next almost drained the life out of her. JR felt the vibrations of her trembling legs and knew she had had her first climax. Diamond exploded her sweet juices into his mouth. Huffing and puffing with sweat pouring down her face, she watched as he rose to his knees on the bed.
“Come here, baby,” he murmured as he faced her.
Diamond rose to her knees while watching him stroke his dick.
“The key to oral pleasure is the technique,” he told her, cupping both sides of her face.
With one hand wrapped around the base of his dick, Diamond began sucking the head. “Try not to use any teeth, and always give me eye contact. I want to know that you enjoy pleasing me just as much as I enjoy getting pleased,” he instructed as he eased her back and forth with his hand on the back of her head.
Diamond quickly got the hang of it and moved her warm mouth up and down his shaft until he was rock-hard. Once she stopped, he strapped on a condom. There was no turning back for Diamond, now; she was about to leave her childhood for good and become a woman. When JR plunged inside of her and tunneled into unexplored territory, she gripped the nape of his neck and scraped her manicured nails across his chocolate skin.
“Sssss-ow,” she gasped as he rhythmically pumped her full of dick.
He knew she wasn’t used to penetration; she pressed against his chest, so he eased up. After a couple of light strokes, the pain began to subside, allowing him to go deeper down her tight pink hole. Diamond started to move her hips in unison with his. JR cupped his hands under her firm, round, apple-shaped ass and fed her pussy more and more of his manhood until she had all 8 1/2 inches inside of her. Her soft moans had him reaching his own moment of truth.
Their body fluids blended together. This was pure bliss for both of them.
JR lay beside his Snow White princess and silently studied her beauty. Never had he felt this way about anyone. He actually found someone to love, and it scared him because he knew that this wouldn’t last forever. That was the reason he had hesitated with her. Diamond had a spell on him. And, from that day forth, he didn’t want any other woman. He hoped that destiny would keep her in his life until he left this world. Little did he know, there were some very angry South Africans who wanted to make that happen.
Chapter 21
SOUTH CENTRAL LA
(ONE YEAR LATER)
As Steel sat in front of the steps of one of his drug houses, surrounded by his homeboys, Vicious, C-4, Buck, Sid, Poke, and Iceman, he mapped out how he would exterminate the Crips on the other side of town. Steel and his boys were a part of the notorious Ape Gang run by the Agugbo Brothers.
“Listen here. I just got off the phone with Tanetche and he gave the green light on the mark that stole his diamonds,” Steel began. “He also thinks that his foster brother Ronney and them Crips are responsible for all those drive-bys. We gonna let the streets know that we serious, and we ain’t nothin’ to be played with. I say we take out the head, and the body will fall.”
“Well, if we gonna go at this mark, we need Iceman to handle the job,” Sid suggested. Iceman was the king of ruthless hits.
Iceman nodded his head and flashed a crooked smile. It was definitely about to go down.
“A’ight, Iceman’s got the job, but I still want him to take a few apes with him.” Steel instructed. “Buck, you can also tag along. Don’t fuck this up. We got big hitters depending on us. I want the streets buzzing about this tomorrow morning, and I want those bitch-ass Crips hiding when they find out that their supplier is dead.
Mercedes rolled her eyes when she recognized the number on her cell phone.
She pressed talk. “What do you want, Ronney?” she hissed.
“Damn, that’s how you gonna carry me?” Calico replied.
“No, but I told you that I’m in a relationship now. Why can’t you honor that? You didn’t want a relationship, remember?” Mercedes told him.
Mercedes cut Calico off the minute Clyde made a commitment to her. It was no secret that she had had a big crush on Clyde since junior high, so when he came at her, she was delirious. She was now 19 years old and looking bad as ever. Seeing how happy she looked, Calico just couldn’t let her ride out on him like that.
“Look, I understand all that, but I need to talk to you. It’s very important,” Calico pleaded.
“Well, what are you waiting for? Speak.”
“C’mon, Mercedes, the shit I got to say can’t be said over the phone. Why don’t you meet me somewhere, where we can talk face-to-face?” he suggested.
“Look, Ronney, I don’t have time for your bullshit--’
“Just meet me. Please,” he urged, cutting her off. “At least you can do that. Then we can go our separate ways.”
Mercedes remained silent for a whole 60 seconds to think about her choices. After realizing that there wasn’t any harm in finding out what he had to say, she relented.
“Okay, Ronney, after this, though, you have to stop calling me. If my boyfriend catches us, he’ll kill you.”
“Yeah, whatever. There’s a restaurant on Avalon Boulevard. Meet me in the parking lot,” Calico instructed.
“Okay, I’m on my way,” she replied before clearing the line.
When Mercedes arrived at the spot, Calico was already awaiting with three of his soldiers, who were standing nearby. Mercedes got out of her two-door Saab and approached him.
“Okay, Ronney, I’m here. Now, what’s this all about?” she asked, looking around at the rough neighborhood she was in, a far cry from her condo in Hollywood.
“A’ight, it’s like this; I know it’s none of my business what you do since we’re no longer together, but you need to check your boyfriend,” Calico warned.
Mercedes frowned. “What are you talking about?”
“I’m talkin’ about how that Buster be doggin’ you. I watched this nigga every night at the club, leaving with some new pussy, and all I can think about is you. You may feel like I don’t deserve you, but you sure as hell don’t deserve that type of shit bein’ done to you,” Calico explained.
Mercedes couldn’t believe what she was hearing. She had suspected Clyde of cheating, but she wasn’t sure. Until now. She didn’t realize how much Calico cared for her. At that moment, Mercedes reacted with her heart. She was suddenly drawn towards his lips. As soon as they kissed, they were massacred by semiautomatic gunfire from men wearing red bandanas over their faces. His partner fired a Mac-10 while he held a Tec-9 sideways with no remorse for the woman that caught a wig shot next to Calico, who was next to feel the heat.
Calico plopped down on top of Mercedes. The ambush happened so suddenly that Calico’s soldiers couldn’t retaliate. They drew fire from two heartless Bloods who lurked behind a parked car. When their magazines were empty, instead of fleeing, the Bloods simply reloaded their 50-shot magazines. The ambush continued as they both put one in the chamber, then popped back up, blazing.
They didn’t stop until the three men were injured. The shootout didn’t end until the last Crip fell dead on the ground. The fallen and wounded were finished off with head shots before the shooters headed to the car, where Steel was waiting. Removing their red bandanas and tossing them to the ground before they got in, they greeted their boss with wicked smiles. They had just given the Bloods the charge before the car peeled off.
Chapter 22
BLOOD DIAMOND
As JR drove Diamond to her family estate, he popped in his favorite Machiavelli CD and cranked it up. The dashboard started vibrating, so Diamond quickly turned it down.
“That is way too loud for my ears,” she griped, staring at him like he was crazy. “And where are we going tonight?”
“There’s a little outdoor movie theater where everyone takes their shorties. I figured we stop by there and make out or something.”
“Make out, huh? You are too much,” Diamond said, adoring his style of trying to be romantic. “You know what? I’ve been meaning to ask you something. Why did you really wait so long to take my virginity?”
JR smiled as he thought of how smart and ambitious she was. She never let one thing pass her by without addressing it. “You don’t miss anything, do you?”
“Only when a loved one dies,” she smirked.
“Okay, to be honest, the reason I fell back for so long was because I knew you had me, so I was a little shook.”
“Had you-- like what?” Diamond asked, puzzled.
“You don’t even know, do you? I’m sprung over you, baby. I can’t deny it. And nothing is more powerful and controlling than what you have between your legs. My weakness is you, and that’s what scares me,” he confessed as they pulled into the White family’s mansion gate.
Clyde and Justin had just walked out the glass double doors, but they stopped when they saw the blue BMW pull up to the front entrance. At first, the two thought that their plan to have rival gangs at war with each other had backfired. They started to reach for their guns until Diamond stepped out of the passenger’s side.
Clyde was surprised to see his sister still with the Crips supplier.
“Is this bitch crazy?” he mumbled.
When Diamond approached, Clyde began with his sarcasm. “Damn, you still fuckin’ with that nigga?” he asked.
“Yeah, so? Why do you care?” she snapped, as she brushed by the two and stepped inside. Clyde and Justin followed her.
“I don’t, but that nigga is affiliated with them Crips in Compton,” Clyde stated as if she didn’t know already.
“So, what does that have to do with me?” she asked.
“You brung him here. That’s a problem. I’m telling you some real shit. You need to fall back off this nigga. It’s a crazy war goin’ on out there in South Central, LA between the Crips and the Ape Gang,” Clyde warned.
