Growing Pains (Book II)

Chapter Ten

Friday, Jan. 14th, 2022
6:00am...

Aubree

"Di solito inizia qui i suoi venerdì." Leo informed me.

He usually begins his Fridays here.

"Lo salutiamo, Leo?" I smirked.

Shall we greet him, Leo?

"We shall." He laughed.

We hopped out and walked inside the trap, the codes were different so Leo told me them all as we kept moving quietly.

It was so quiet and I knew no one had arrived yet.

Luke was here alone and that was just what I wanted.

"Mr. Keyes." Leo walked in, announcing his presence.

"Damn, Leo. You getting real good at keeping quiet. Might have to turn you into a shooter." Luke joked and Leo laughed.

"Mr. Keyes, you have a visitor." Leo walked into his office.

"Who?" Luke asked.

"Me, nigga." I joked as I walked in.

His eyes went wide and a smile spread across his face.

"My nigga!" He yelled as he took a few steps towards me. "I swear I had to stop myself from jumping in your arms right then."

We dapped each other and he pulled me into a hug.

"Damn, yo! I can't believe this day came so soon." Luke smiled. "You kept this from me, L?!" He jokingly asked Leo.

"Stavo semplicemente facendo il mio lavoro." Leo held his hands up in surrender.

I was simply doing my job.

Luke redirected his attention to me after laughing at Leo.

"I'm here for it, bro. How you comin'? On your bully, humbly, quietly, obnoxious, you know I'm with whatever." He asked, so hype.

"Quiet." I told him.

He nodded. "Where to?"

"Just give me a swing of things." I told him.

He nodded, cool with my decision.

"It's pretty much the same as what you do. Minor adjustments; shit that can always go back to your way." He assured me as he walked to the safe.

"Nah, Nah, bro. I just wanna see you work. Let people start to spread the word that I'm back on their own." I told him.

"Welcome home." He passed me my usual gun.

"Loaded?" I asked.

"You know it." He passed me 2 extra magazines that I put in each sock and then the gun in my waistband.

"And here, I got this custom made for you." He passed me a black box.

I placed it on the desk and slowly opened it.

It was a gold Jaeger-LeCoultre watch.

"Small reminder of how you're coming." Luke patted me on my shoulder.

"My nigga, thank you." I put it on. "I owe you."

He waved me off. "You still rolling them thick ass blunts?" Luke raised his eyebrow.

"Lemme see what I can do." I laughed.

We continued joking and carrying on as Luke began showing me how he had been moving.