Hidden Fighter ~ Rio Fic

Shutdown

Beth ran to my room panting and hyperventilating. "The money it's gone," I woke up confused on what was happening. "Our money is gone" I ripped the covers off running to my dresser. I waited until Beth left to check my hidden drawer. The money was gone all gone how did he enter my room without me noticing. I checked in my closet for my other half of the money. It was all there. Why did he only take some? I texted from the burner phone saying we needed to meet, it was only ten minutes later that he sent me an address. I got dressed heading out there saying bye to Beth.

"Why did you take my money?"

He groaned" My money, mine" He eyed me before continuing to eat. "We're gonna be shutting things down for a while".

"What does that even mean?" I asked him. He looked around lowering his voice.

"One of my associates got picked up" He shook his head sitting up. "When I feel heat, I don't mess around"

"My bad do you want some?" How he could turn to a complete different person in seconds.

"No" I responded.

"You sure? They put they put the hash brown on the inside of this thing"

"I don't understand" I shook my head bringing the subject back.

"Me neither, like And they're still so crispy."

"No, I'm talking about the shutdown"

"Mm Yeah Yeah, you closed for business" There wasn't gonna be a better time to ask.

"Why did you only take half of mines but all of the girls?"

"Because the other half was our little side business" He took another mouthful of his food before wiping his mouth.

"So that deal is still on?"

"Yeah you don't want to back down now right Lil Red," He teased, truthfully I was getting used to the nickname.

"What about the girls," I asked him.

"It's a company-wide shutdown," He said taking another bite. "And if I got closing costs, everybody feels the pain,"

"You can't just mess with people's lives like that!" I still had to defend the girls.

"You want to know what I can't do. I can't do five to fifteen in FCI Milan 'cause some bitches need their pocket money," He stood up taking out some cash.

"It's not like that" When he ignores the statement I asked for how long. "How long are we shut down?"

"Till further notice," He dropped the cash for the meal tapping on my shoulder before leaving.

After the whole discussion we had decided to go legit for a while until the business was opened again but since my talk with Rio I've only had one more job and things went silent. My honeypot was running awfully low and I've heard no words so far. Ruby was counting the money that we made in the month.

"2300," She said dropping the last bill.

"That's it?" Beth asked her.

"It's all I can spare right now." Annie agreed with her.

"I can try and squeeze a tiny bit more out of Dean," She told us. I've been working double for the little league, there's a game coming up and I was nominated to coach it. "I'm getting an allowance again." I already knew but it was the first for the girls. "Don't look at me like that, he offered it and I took it"

"Yea I could probably put in the game's payment," I told them. "I mean, do you think she'll take it?"

"She'll take it and she'll like it" Ruby put the money inside the yellow envelope before heading out.