Hood Math (HDLY#4)

chapter three

Tamel knew that the best way to keep secrets was to put them in plain sight. People never look in the places that they should look because they figure you wouldn't dare put something there because it's too obvious.

Tamel had managed to obtain a lot of properties when he worked under Lady Gayle and even more under his reign taking over King's assets and companies. His most prominent properties was the new renovated strip club, the condo he had set up in Manhattan and the other brownstone he had in Queens, and finally the recording company he had really purchased for Train.

In every one of them, he hid something in them. They weren't under his name and the dummy companies that he used to obtain them couldn't be linked to him even if a money trail was followed. Even though Wiz was playing both sides, his skills in money laundering was impeccable. He could a million dollars in a nun's G-string. Wiz did set Tamel up but that didn't affect the business properties he set up. Tamel was still good and clear with all those transactions.

The renovated strip club was under Tamel's name but the police knew he once used it for his base of operations or at least one of the bases. The FBI only closed down the renovation because of its' ties to Train. They just assume the dummy corporation that held it was under Train's control so they used some law doctrine that basically said they could take what they want. Later did they know, Train had nothing to do with the club now or before. Train hated strip clubs. He thought it was a waste of time, paying money for a female just to dance for you and get you hard so you can go home with tight scrotum.

Tamel used the club to meet the current players in the game. The club used to be real busy until another bigger party promoter in the game that used to be really heavy in the drug game opened his strip joint up the road. Tamel couldn't compete with the guy's business and eventually the high end girls he once had in the club moved to the new guy's house of operation as well. Tamel was left with Kaeron picking up the females that were around the neighborhood that was easy prey to be his new stars of the pole.

However, Tamel knew strip clubs was always a great place to make business happen. Tamel had a good run until the incident with Charmaine pulling a gun out on him and someone calling the cops to come and shut him down. The final straw was his associates trying to rob him while he was wasting away in a police interrogation room.

Tamel had been through a lot trying to build his empire under Lady Gayle and finally off on his own. So he made sure that he kept his assets in order in case a rainy day came. And that day came with a shitstorm advisory.

Tamel looked around the huge space now that was going to be his new place of leisure and smiled. It was under construction when the FBI raided it and they saw what he saw, nothing. Nothing was put up yet, just the walls, the floors, and half of a stage. The bar hadn't even been completely put in.

But what no one except Tamel knew was that he had hidden something very valuable inside this place. The floorboards were placed down and looked freshly done but before Tamel had the construction company cement the foundation and placed the floors in, he had talked to the foreman and told him that he needed something done.

Now Tamel was glad that he had done it. He also placed stuff in all of his other prominent properties that was really hidden, including the building Train's record company was in.

Tamel looked at the floorboards and looked at the tiles that were placed. Each one of them was the same color except one. It was darker than the other tile and if you wouldn't even notice it unless you was looking for it.

Tamel looked back at the book bag that he had brought with him. He opened the bag and pulled out a mallet. It was heavy and basically the only thing that was in the bag but Tamel felt like he was carrying a body in the bag.