Tied to a Boss
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Chapter Sixteen
After Angela and Alinna had their babies – Alinna a boy, while Angela had a little girl, Dante was able to split his time between both his kids after finding out that Mya Blackwell was his actual daughter.
Once Alinna got back in the vibe of things and Angela got back to work, business began picking up to a level where Alinna broke down and gave her girls a different location that Dante, Dre, Tony T, and Wesley ensured was available to them without any problems.
With Amber, Harmony, Vanessa, and Wesley running their new locations, building a crew that ran the trap house only noticing that business was getting bigger and more money and customers were coming in, Dante, Dre, and Tony T went back to work making trips out to West Virginia and Tennessee returning home with nine bricks of coke, ten pounds of weed, and a little over ten thousand pills.
Stopping by Angela’s house to see Mya one Saturday morning and seeing a dark blue Jeep Cherokee parked in the driveway behind Angela’s car, Dante parked the new matted out black Range Rover that Alinna had bought him.
Climbing from the Range Rover and walking around the front end of the SUV just as his cell phone went off, Dante pulled out his cell phone seeing Alinna calling, he answered, “Yeah baby, what’s up?”
“Where are you?”
“Seeing Mya,” Dante answered as he knocked on the door of Angela’s house. “What’s up?”
“I need you to pick up some medicine for D.J. at the CVS,” Dante heard Alinna tell him just as the front door opened and a Spanish dude walked in through the front door to Angela’s house with Mya in his arms.
“Alinna let me hit you back,” Dante told her, hanging up the phone before Alinna could respond while starting hard at the Spanish guy holding his daughter.
“Yeah, you here to …”
“Geno, who’s at the door,” Angela asked as she walked up only to see Dante and broke out a smile. “Hi baby, why didn’t you call and tell me you were coming?”
“Who’s he and what’s wrong with this picture?” Dante asked nodding towards the Spanish guy.
Looking from Dante to Geno then noticing what had Dante’s handsome face all balled up, Angela took Mya from Geno, and then introduced the two of them. “Dante this is my brother Geno, Geno this is Mya’s father, Dante I told you about.”
“What’s up man?” Dante heard Geno say with a thick Spanish accent, ignoring the guy as he took Mya from Angela then walking into the house.
Walking directly into the front room, Dante sat down onto the sofa with Mya, playing with her just as Angela came walking into the front room a few minutes later sitting down beside him. “For the future, I don’t want different men holding my daughter, Angela.”
Knowing better than to argue with him about his daughter, Angela simply agreed and then asked, “Are you hungry?”
“Naw I’m good but you can get me something to drink though,” Dante told her cutting his eyes over to Angela as she stood up beside him. Walking off, he couldn’t help but notice that just as Alinna having his baby did justice for Angela’s body it did hers as well.
Focusing back to his daughter, Dante took the bottle of Corona that Angela handed to him noticing that she now kept a supply of Coronas since finding out it was the only beer he drank.
“Dante, I need to talk to you,” Angela told him as she sat back next to him leaving against Dante.
“I’m listening,” Dante replied, noticing Angela’s position, but allowing it for the moment.
“I’m supposed to go out of town on business next week. I need you to watch Mya until I get back.”
“How long you going to be gone?”
“You gonna miss me?”
“Answer the question Angela
“Just a week then I’m coming back. I’m supposed to pick up a prisoner and fly him back here from New Jersey.”
“Call me and let me know when you’re back,” Dante told her just as his cell phone went off again.
Seeing Tony T calling, Dante answered, “What’s good T?”
“Braw where you at?”
“Seeing Mya, why?”
“We’re all at the hospital. Vanessa’s about to have her baby and Dre’s asking about you. Ya lady on her way.”
“What hospital y’all at?”
“Jackson.”
“Alright, I’m on my way now.”
Hanging up the phone, Dante gave Mya to Angela only to hear her ask, “Dante, where are you going? What happened?”
“Dre’s girlfriend is having her baby,” Dante told her kissing his daughter, then pulling out a large bankroll. He peeled off $500 and handed it to Angela saying, “I’ll call you later.”
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Leaving Angela’s house and pulling into Jackson Memorial Hospital twenty minutes later, Dante found a parking space and even though he didn’t like it. He left both of his burners inside the Range Rover then jogged through the parking lot to the front door of the hospital.
Not bothering with stopping at the desk for information, Dante pulled out his phone and called Tony T getting the information on where they were.
Five minutes later, stepping out of the elevator on the third floor, Dante jogged down the end of the hall, made a left and spotted Tony T, Harmony, Amber, and Wesley as well as Alinna who was talking to Amber and Harmony.
“What’s up y’all?” Dante asked as he walked up on the group.
“Baby,” Alinna cried, walking up to Dante hugging and kissing him.
“Where’s Dre and Vanessa?” Dante asked looking at Alinna and Tony T.
“They just took her inside,” Alinna answered him. “They’ve been there a little over five minutes now.”
“Braw, you should’ve seen Dre. Homeboy looked as if he was about to lose it,” Tony T said jokingly.
“Shut up, Tony,” Harmony told him, elbowing Tony T in his side.
“I wanna see how you act when I have your baby.”
“What do you mean when?” Tony T asked as he began to panic. “You pregnant women?”
Shaking his head at Tony T and Harmony, Dante looked to Wesley hearing him call his name getting his attention. “What’s up Wesley?”
“What’s going on, brethren? We need to talk a second, Rastaman,” Wesley told Dante nodding for Dante to step to the side with him.
“What’s good Wesley?” Dante asked once he and Wesley stood away from the others.
“Member the blood clot rude boy you tell me about?”
“Yeah what about him?”
“Pulling out a photo from his pocket, Wesley handed the picture over to Dante. “Is this him?”
Looking at the photo Dante instantly recognized Vegas even though it was a picture of his head after it was amputated from his body.
Slowly smiling looking back to Wesley, Dante asked, “This your work?”
Nodding his head that it was with a small smile on his lips, Wesley dapped up with Dante once Dante held up his fist showing respect and a show of love.
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Vanessa gave birth to a healthy baby boy. She and Dre named him Andre Payne Jr. Vanessa was then moved to her own room where Alinna and the others was allowed to visit her.
“How you feeling, girl?” Vanessa asked, cursing the others laughing.
“Here we go Vanessa,” is what the others heard just as the nurse came in pushing a nursery bed into the room.
Smiling at seeing her son and watching as the nurse picked him up from his bed, Vanessa reached out taking her son smiling down at her.
“He looks like you and Dre,” Dante spoke up as he stood across from Dre on the other side of Vanessa’s bed.
“That means my little nigga is handsome just like his daddy,” Dre said, smiling as he bent down and kissed first Vanessa then his son’s head.
Spending some time with Vanessa until the nurse announced that Vanessa and the baby needed to rest and that everybody needed to leave, Dre kissed Vanessa and his son again, and then handed Vanessa her cell phone telling her to call
if she needed anything.
After the other girls left and said their goodbyes, everyone else left the room. Dante fell asleep with Dre smiling at his boy. “How does it feel bro?”
Shaking his head and smiling, Dre answered, “I’m still trying to get my head right over it all, but I do know one thing – it’s time that we turn it up because ain’t no fucking way my son will want anything else, you feel me fam?”
Dapping with his best friend, Dante answered him saying, “Don’t even worry braw, everything’s gonna be good.”