Hood Math (HDLY#4)

Chapter 24

"You need to accept the truth."

Charmaine did not look at the paper she was reading on her desk to address her mother, Lady Gayle, who was trying to talk to her.

"You know that you can't keep doing this?" Lady Gayle continued despite being ignored. "You know eventually you have to come to reality and face what is happening. What you are trying to do is impossible, you hear me?"

Charmaine knew what was possible and what was impossible. For close to a year now, she had done the impossible. After invading the hotel suite the FBI had hid her mother, she was supposed to kill her mother. But she spared Lady Gayle, maybe because she was tired of holding to all that hate she once had for her parents or maybe it was something deeper. In the end, she couldn't go through with it, despite all that Envy said and her mother had done, she now knew what it took to survive.

Lady Gayle had survived a treacherous ordeal and came out on top. Not only that, she had built an empire on top of that. As much as Charmaine appreciated Envy for taking her in and showing her how to build an empire of her own, she still needed a family. Her brother-father was dead and her biological deranged father had met his demise as well. Her mother was all she truly had in this right now. Well, not all, she still had...

"You need to let him go."

Charmaine glanced at her mother for a second then went back to her paperwork.

Charmaine couldn't let anything go. She worked so hard to keep things from going astray. She came back to Envy's mansion expecting to confront Envy with her mother in tow but was hit with a surprise of her own.

Envy's whole compound was being raided and add insult to injury, she watched from a distance as federal agents dragged her beloved Train out in handcuffs. Then the real horror happened.

A gun shot was heard and she saw Train drop to the ground. She screamed I horror was almost was about to have whatever henchmen she had with her ambush the agents that were surrounding the compound but her mother advised her against it.

Charmaine was beyond devastated. Charmaine felt like her whole world had been snatched from her. Train couldn't be dead. To her, Train was immortal. Train had been through more hell then the Devil could throw at him and had always come back with a smile and a witty remark.

Charmaine remained where she was at and let the federal agents sweep the area looking for a sniper that she knew was long gone. She already knew who sent the hitman and she made a mental note to pay him a visit real soon.

Charmaine watched as the agents took over Envy's compound in search of more evidence to further add to Envy's list of charges. But Charmaine knew they wouldn't find anything Envy didn't want them to find or would they?

Charmaine knew the feds didn't know offhand where Envy's lair was which meant someone tipped them off. Charmaine added another name to her mental hit list, the fat computer technician. She knew he was the only one that could have gotten information to the FBI without anyone knowing. She couldn't wait to get a hold of that fat geek one more time. This time she won't be as gentle.

Seeing federal agents scurry about Envy's estate, Train's dead body lying on the ground, and Envy nowhere in sight, she knew she had to make haste before she ended being caught as well.

Charmaine left with her mother the cunning Lady Gayle and the rest of her minions and went to start working on a new enterprise of their own. Charmaine knew all about Envy's operations and was able to cease control rather quickly with the help of Lady Gayle's expertise. Charmaine just focused on building up a new glorified illegal dynasty devoted in her honor.