OAKLAND's GREATEST

V.3; Part 10

V.3; Part 10: Frenemies.

2 months later

Izzy popped two prenatal pills and swallowed a large gulp of water before looking at his naked in the mirror. He rubbed his five month belly as he heard his husband laughing behind him. He turned around to Gino and asked, "What's so funny? These babies have me with the biggest baby bump already."

"You look like how those women be on the maternity photos all serious and what not holding their stomachs." Gino responded as Izzy rolled his eyes and walked over and grabbed his Gucci duffel bag. He placed it on the bed and zipped it up and exhaled, "So as you know I'll be in WeHo this weekend to see how our designs came out for the beauty bar there. I'm leaving after one so please be here to see me off. Take your lunch early."

"Will do babe you have told me 2 times in the last hour. Your pregnant or have amnesia. Plus, I need to ask you something" he said all vaguely as Izzy grabbed his kimono and put it on as Gino closed the laptop and exhaled.

"I was in San Fran today as you know and I had to go thru China Town collecting what was owed to the organization. My dad have his claws in a lot of necks than I thought! Anyways, when I returned to do lunch with My mom"

"How was that?" Izzy butted in completely shocked he finally took his mother up on a one on one talk. She has been trying ever since he took over the organization. He took a deep breath and stated, "I mean I figured I shouldn't put it off anymore because my dad is bed stricken now and has not even a week left my mom was telling me and she wanted to get affairs in order. She is going to take the money and hightail it to Canada. She wants nothing she said as the head of the organization it's up to me where everything go and I don't want anything either"

"So you gonna give it to Manny and Fabio?" Izzy asked.

"I was thinking that but she confessed that he has a daughter. He had an affair with some maid and she read his will and the girl is not in the Will. She"

His phone started ringing and he reached over and grabbed it. He chuckled, "speak of the devil..."

"In Prada." I mumbled as he answered as Izzy watched his face and saw it went stale and he exhaled, "You want me to come?"

"You sure?"

"Alright well if you need anything let me know."

"You sure you want me to tell them? Alright I got you." He said before hanging up and Izzy asked, "Is everything okay?"

"Yeah. Czar Rodriguez is dead. She wants me to go by the clubhouse and tell my brothers. By next week I'm logging out of this life and our lives return to normalcy." He said with no tone, attitude, and with not an ounce of grievances in his voice. He was talking as nonchalant as nonchalant can get.

"Baby don't get me that face. I'm fine. That man was a terror and had me under his thumb for the last two months. Now I can starts transitioning the twins as the leaders. This is a good thing. Go on to your trip tomorrow. I'm fine." He told Izzy as he squinted as he saw him sliding out the bed to get dress.

"You gonna head down to the clubhouse, now? You want me to come with ?" Izzy suggested as Gino nodded his head and said, "No need. Isn't Adaijah about to call? Tell her I said hello and that I love her."

Son of Roses Clubhouse

Cairo sat in a far corner of the lounge as the other members rambunctiously clowned around, drank, and smoked. He was focusing on A'Manuel Rodriguez who was shirtless doing body shots off some stripper they had invited in here. He rolled his eyes and went back to his sketch pad on his GINAPad. He started drawing as a message came in on his phone.