Dope Boys and the Women that Love 'Em (17 page)

His thoughts reflected to e
arlier events that happened the prior morning. The confrontation between him and Ronnie was even more disheartening. He never in a million years would think that Dom would ask him to kill his best friend. But, a man in his line of what work did what he had to do, even if that meant not doing what he was asked to do. He was no fool and he knew that killing Ronnie wouldn’t be for his own good. So he shot at him three times with intentions of missing as the bullets passed right by him and hitting the target on a tree that he’d been aiming at. Ronnie didn’t catch on until the very last minute when Dmitri held his index finger up to his mouth indicating that it wasn’t going down like that, so to stay calm.

Ronnie hit the ground hard, pretending that he’d been shot
, because Dom had the clean-up man on standby with a recorder making sure that Dmitri did as he was told. What Dom didn’t know was that the clean-up man owed Dmitri a huge favor and reported back to Dom that he’d gotten rid of the body, only to let Ronnie go.

Dmitri looked up
, and there was his best friend coolly walking by in front of his car with a black Nike book bag on his back. They nodded at each other with smiles as Ronnie chunked up the deuces as a salute to his partner and kept walking. He was now heading to Texas to lay low for a while, but when the time was right, he’d be back and they would have a score to settle with a powerful man. This was only the beginning of breaking down Dom’s empire, piece by piece, and what better way to do it than by completely surprising him with an unexpected standoff that no one would see coming.