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Chapter 1

Tearney

Rushing my way through the house to get Jermaine dressed I almost fell down and twisted my ankle. This is not how I thought my morning would end up like. I stayed out all night making moves while my mother watched my baby and now I overslept and is rushing to get Jermaine ready to get on the bus since he goes to preschool.

"Maine baby, hurry up and brush your teeth so we can get you on the bus in time." he turned around and smiled at me looking just like his daddy.

"Okay mommy." I smiled back at him. Me and Jermaine's dad, Raine met when I was 18 and a year later we brought Jermaine into this world. What I didn't know was that when you fall in love with someone you become totally blind in the things that they do. Raine tried to make it seem like I didn't know how to run the city myself so he tried to take it over and away from me. When I finally stopped being dumb and naive I had to let Raine go. I just couldn't be in a relationship with him after that and I haven't been in one since. Raine comes and see's Jermaine most of the time, usually when I'm busy and that's almost all of the time. I hate that I don't have that much time to spend with my son, but the less people that knows about my kid the better. The bus driver honked his horn and I rushed outside in only my robe and slippers to send my baby off to school.

"Have fun, be nice, and mommy loves you." I kissed him on the cheek.

"Love you too mommy." He turned around and got on the bus and I smiled at the bus driver before heading back in the house to get my day started.

After putting on my high waist skinny jeans, sleeveless turtleneck sweater and heels, I quickly left the house to head to go do some business. Heading into one of my trap houses, I already felt that someone wasn't supposed to be here. I walked into my office and low and behold Carlo, Raine's old best friend was sitting in my chair like he owned everything. When Raine decided to let go of trying to take my crown, Carlo said he was being soft and continued to try and run things. The thing with Carlo is that the boy is too conceited. If he was running the game something vicious, he'd die in the next week. He doesn't think about anybody but himself and even thinking like that in the game will be one of your death wishes. See, Carlo isn't too fond of me because not long before I met and got with Raine, Carlo was trying to spit game at me also, but I turned him down real quick. I could already see what kind of person he was. I also should've known that Raine was the same way since they were best friends.

"What do you want Carlo?" I questioned him ready to go on with business.

"Aren't too happy to see me my love? I just came to congratulate you. I heard you are branching out into bigger and better things. That must mean you're done with this city right?" I should have known he was on that type of bullshit.

"What me and my people have going on doesn't concern you. I'll never be done with Kansas City. A lot of people might hate me here, but I love it. I'm staying. You can try to take it away from me, but trust and believe... You'll never be me." You could just see the anger in his eyes when he heard those words spill from my mouth. It was a joy seeing him like this.

"Listen here Tear," I cut him off real quick.

"No! You listen homeboy. You're not about to come into my office, trying to take over my shit. I made all of this happen. All this is mine! You want it? You're just going to have to kill me for it." I walked over to the chair of the desk as he got up and I took a seat in my chair, in my office.

"That could be arranged. Watch your back Tearney Jones." With that he left my office with an attitude. Welp, that's another enemy added onto my list. Honestly, I could kill Carlo tomorrow, but I want to see what kind of game he's playing. I want to see if he's really about this life. Either way, he's going to die.

Walking around the trap house I smiled at the work being done. Drugs being bagged, money being trustfully counted, and security watching every move. I have really outdone myself over these last couple of years. I've got wiser, stronger, hungrier. Those are the three things I need to survive in this game, if I was to lose one of those, everything I built would cease to fall apart, and what's a queen without her kingdom? A peasant, and I'll be damned if I ever fall that low in my life ever again. I walked back into my office to get some paperwork done, but it wasn't even ten minutes later before I could feel someone walking towards the door. The person knocked 3 times in a row, waited 3 seconds before knocking one more time and I already knew who it was.

"Come in Kat!" I yelled for her to come in. She opened the door and walked into the office with some bomb ass heels on.

"Hey girl!" She yelled while sitting in one of the chairs in front of my desk.

"Hey, what you got for me today?" Me and Kat go way back. She was like a sister to me. She has had my back through everything that I have been through and I couldn't have asked for a better partner in crime. That's why she was my eyes and ears in the streets. Everything there was to know about other dealers, kingpins, or even drug lords, Kat knew.

"There's those Mexican dealers that keep coming on your corners. Your people are handling it, but it's getting out of control." I nodded my head. These Mexicans been a problem for a very long time and it was starting to rub me the wrong way.

"The Italians have decided to start selling business this way, so you need to jump on that." I smiled and leaned back in my chair.

"Anything else?" I asked her. She nodded her head yes.

"There's also a hit out on your head. I don't know from who yet, but imma find out." I took a deep breath trying to get the fear out of my heart before talking. Show no fear, won't be no fear.

"When you find out, call me asap." She nodded her head, gave me a hug and headed out the office. Whoever got this hit out on my head I guess imma just have to get them before they get me.