The Villano Ball was rapidly approaching, like within the next few days and I still wasn't entirely sure what Manolo's plan was, he was extremely tight-lipped about the details, and whenever I would ask him he would either tell me to 'trust him' or he would change the subject entirely. Don't get it twisted, I trusted Manolo with my heart but I didn't like going into things blind and this situation was.... complex; there were so many people involved and whose lives were tied to this plan working out that one wrong misstep would be cataclysmic. Papa Tunde had been out in public a lot more recently, he was emboldened by the fact that he could do what he did to Peyton and face no consequences, he got off that I was tied by this damn plan and couldn't move until Manolo was ready, not realizing that there were several occasions where I could've and should've blown his head off but didn't. I pulled up to the spot where I was supposed to be meeting up with Peyton and Uriel, but when I got there the area was completely surrounded by trees so I couldn't see shyt; always on guard, I grabbed my gun and slowly got out the car... yeah I wasn't feeling this, being in the sticks made me nervous as fuck but strangely also turned on because I could see myself out here with Ramses and Manolo doing all sorts of... The wind blew loudly at the same time someone called my name in a loud whisper so I couldn't be sure if I wasn't imagining things, then it happened again and I noticed Peyton's big ass head popping out from some bushes.
"Pssst.... ayy get over here." Peyton said in a loud whispered loudly, I moved my hand from my gun and walked over to him. Peyton pulled me into the bushes and he seemed nervous, he was looking around as if we were being watched.
"Bro what the fuck is going on?" I asked feeling like I should have my gun out because his paranoia was starting to fuck with me.
"I'm just trying to make sure bro... I don't want anyone seeing me anywhere near that piece of shyt car you be driving." Peyton said and I was dangerously close to beating this nigga's ass because he played entirely too much and he knew how I felt about Sadie. "Nah, but in all seriousness... I'm glad you came." Peyton said as we stepped out of the bushes.
"Yeah, well since you wanna play I probably should've stayed my ass at home... Now, what is supposed to be so important that I had to drive all the way out here in the middle of nowhere?" I asked looking around, then I heard a struggle going on behind me and when I turned around I saw Uriel walking with a young dude who was tied up and gagged.
"Damon, let me introduce you to Henri Burgress.... the younger brother of Herbert Burgress aka Bellatunde Villano, bka Papa Tunde." Uriel said tossing the boy at my feet. The dude was about Daniel's age, his eyes burned with that teenage defiance that I was all too familiar with because I had that same fire in my own eyes when I was his age. "Consider this our bargaining chip." Uriel said looking down at Henri and something about this just didn't feel right to me.
"Ayy Peyton lemme talk to you for a second...." I said pulling Peyton over to the side. "What the fuck are we doing? Are we really going to kidnap a kid because of his brother's actions? You know we've done some fucked up shyt to a lot of people.... now what would you do if some of those people decided to retaliate by going after Daniel or Preston?" I asked looking back at Uriel and Henri.
"Man this is different..... you know what Papa Tunde has done to countless KIDS, what that nigga did to me.... what he tried to do to Daniel! This is a different type of war, Papa Tunde has terrorized the street for entirely too long and all this sitting and waiting..... I'm not with it." Peyton said.
"Does Nolo know?" I asked because Manolo was the one running point on this and if he didn't know I'm sure he wouldn't be with what Peyton and Uriel were doing and if he did know......
"Nah, we didn't tell him because you know how he gets. His plan is moving too slow and I'm ready to act now... we should've been gone in there and killed all them Villano niggas. This will draw Papa Tunde out... it will cause him to get sloppy because if the shoe were on the other foot I know you'd move heaven and hell to get Daniel back." Peyton said.
