Trife Life To Lavish Part 2 Genesis & Genevieve...Am I My Brother's Keeper (12 page)

"As a matter of fact I do. I need to get up so I can get
out of here."

"I think I'll take Aaliyah to Central Park. It's supposed
to be a beautiful day."

"That'll be a good look. I'll call you later on." Supreme
kissed Precious on the lips then went into the bathroom to
take a shower.

"Good morning, Mommy," Aaliyah grinned as she ran
into the room to get in bed with Precious.

"Hi, baby! Guess where we're going today," she said
tickling Aaliyah as she tried to hide under the covers."

"Where?" she asked between loud laughs.

"To Central Park!"

"Can I eat ice cream?"

"Yes, and we're even going to go on a carriage ride."

"With the horses," Aaliyah's eyes beamed.

"That's right. We're going to have so much fun!"

"Can we see daddy Nico too?"

"We'll see, baby."

"Pleaaase," she pleaded with begging eyes.

"Of course, I'm sure your daddy would love that."

"Yeaaaah," Aaliyah clapped her little hands together
and all Precious could do was smile.

"Yo, I didn't think you was going to be able to make
it today for this meeting," Nico said, when he opened the
door to let Genesis in.

"I told you I was coming!"

"Yeah, but that was before you got promoted to a
senior level executive position."

"Nigga, you got jokes! Quit wit' all that."

"I'm only speaking the truth. T-Roc might've put his
foot down and said no playing hooky today."

"Nico, I get it. Enough of the jokes we got real
business to handle."

"True indeed, so let me get right to it. You know that
territory in Philly we can't seem to break into?"

Genesis nodded his head, acknowledging he knew
what Nico was speaking on.

"After diligently trying to get to the bottom of that
shit, come to find out there's this dude that got that
motherfucker on lockdown something pretty."

"Just one cat?"

" )7
Yep.

"How is that?"

"From what I understand his prices are ridiculously
good."

"What about the product?"

"That's the thing, I heard it's semi and it definitely can't
fuck with our shit."

"So what you wanna do? `Cause Philly is a pretty piece
of property that I want back in on. If that Fed shit hadn't
happened, all of Philly would be mine."

"You right. But this nigga done came in and shut the
shit down. From what I understand that's a major reason
that cat Arnez had to get ghost."

"Yeah, Arnez ghost for many reasons. You know I
believe he's responsible for the death of my wife."

"What!" this was the first Nico had heard of this.
Genesis rarely ever spoke of his deceased wife. He assumed
she was off limits and he respected that.

"Yeah, I don't have no proof just my instincts. She
was involved with him before me and once she broke it
off he became obsessed. He tried to have me murdered
but instead got my best friend killed. I can't wait to get my
hands on that dirty bastard. But he got to be the slickest
moving motherfucker I know"

"How you think that is? It take a lot of money to stay
on the move like that."

"That nigga got some money. I'll give him that. He
always kept long paper. But with him getting ran out of
Philly, and us having ATL on lock, I don't know where his
stomping grounds are now. No doubt he making moves
somewhere though."

"That's interesting, but all snakes come slithering out
sooner or later."

"Damn right, and I'll be right there ready to take his ass out unless somebody gets to him first. But back to Philly,
what you wanna do?"

"What I don't want to do is force our way in. The last
thing we need to start is a street war."

"I agree with you on that."

"Good."

"But we still need a way in. What options do we have?"

"We know for a fact that the quality of our product
kills his. I was thinking we make him an offer that he can't
refuse."

"Which is?"

"We give him an even lower rate. I mean we can afford
it. With the price we get from Quentin, we would still make
a profit."

"So basically, we're buying our way in?"

"Exactly but everybody profits. He gives us a prime piece
of property and we give him better product at a cheaper price
that he can make an even higher turnover rate on."

"He can't beat that. When do you plan on hitting him
with this proposition?"

"I got one of our dudes working on it right now. The
nigga Delondo keeps a low profile. But our guy is cool with
his right hand man Roscoe. Once he sets up the meeting,
it's on."

"If you can, try to get the meeting here in New York.
With this shit I'm doing with T-Roc, it might be kinda hard
to get to Philly."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah ...I know you working a nine to five,
nigga. I got you!"

"Here we go with the jokes again."

"Wait, hold on a sec, this Precious calling me. What's
up?"

"Hey, are you busy?"

"Why what's going on?"

"We were in the city and Aaliyah wanted to see you.
But I totally understand if you're busy."

"I always have time for my daughter. I didn't know you
all were still in town."

"Supreme has some business to handle, so we're
staying for a few extra days."

"OK, well I would love to see Aaliyah."

"Are you at your house in Jersey, or are you at your
apartment in the city?"

"I'm at the crib in the city."

"Cool, that works out good then."

"Are you on your way now?"

"We're about to get some ice cream, we'll come over
after that."

"I'll see you soon."

"So your baby mama coming to see you?"

"Now you got jokes!"

"Yeah I do," Genesis laughed. "But I'm glad to see
that somehow you all are making this work. `Cause this is
no doubt a sticky situation."

"Who you telling and if Supreme don't learn to accept
me as Aaliyah's father it's only going to get stickier."

Knock... knock ...knock

"Is that Precious already?" Genesis wondered out
loud when he heard the knocking at the door.

"No, that's probably Quentin. I told him to stop by if he had a chance because I wanted him to be in on the
whole Philly situation. Being the greedy motherfucker that
I am, I'm hoping we can talk him into giving us an even
better rate on the product to makeup the major discount
we hitting Delondo with."

"Shit, I feel you. It don't hurt to try. You go speak with
Quentin, I need to take this call," Genesis said, going to the
back for some privacy. "Hello."

"Hey, you were gone when I woke up this morning
and I wanted to see how you were doing."

"Yeah, I had to meet with Nico about some business."

"Is there a reason why you didn't want me there?"

"Because some of my Philly business doesn't have anything to do with you. You know that a few of the deals I'm involved in are strictly partnered with Nico, this is one of them."

"True, but I thought that since you're going to be
heavy in New York for a minute you would want me to play
a more intricate role with your dealings in Philly."

"You're right, and if I need you I'll pull you in."

"OK, let me know"

"I will... but listen, I'm `bout to leave here in a little
while, do you want to meet for lunch?"

"I can't, I actually have a few things I need to handle.
What about an early dinner?"

"That works. Call me when you're ready."

"Got you."

"Oh, and CoCo."

"Yes."

"Last night was amazing."

"I thought so too, see you a little later, bye."

Genesis got off the phone with CoCo relieved that
they were still able to discuss shit. At first he felt somewhat
awkward but realized it was his mind playing tricks on
him. CoCo was able to come at him on some business shit
even though they had stepped over the line to personal by
becoming intimate. If they could maintain both types of
relationships and also keep them separate, Genesis felt that
could potentially be the ideal situation for him.

"Hello," Nichelle's insides filled with excitement when she
saw the private number pop across her cell phone screen.
She knew it had to be Renny since every time he called the
number came up private.

"Hey, did you finish yet?"

"We're wrapping up now"

"How long do you need before you can get outta
there?"

"Not much, I just have to find a way to shake off my
bodyguard. Where do you want me to meet you at?"

"Come out front."

"You're there now?"

"Yep, I'm on the corner in a black Range Rover."

"How did you know where I was?"

"I always know where you are. So come on. I'm
waiting for you."

When Renny ended the call, Nichelle stared at her
phone thinking about what he just said; I always know where you are. Has he been watching me or having somebody watch me? If
so for how long?

"Nichelle ... Nichelle ... Nichelle!" Akil said louder
trying to get Nichelle's attention.

"Akil, what are you doing here," Nichelle said snapping
out of her thoughts of Renny.

"I told you I was coming back. But clearly your mind
is somewhere else, so you might've forgotten."

"Yeah, I do have a lot on my mind."

"Like I told you before, I'm here if you wanna talk."

"I know and I appreciate that."

"T-Roc said everything went great today, how do you
feel about it?" AU asked, changing the subject. Nichelle's
body language was screaming to switch direction of the
conversation.

"Beyond amazing! Everybody was so patient and
treated me like I was some sort of star."

"You are a star."

"No I'm not. But the fact they made me feel that way
speaks volume about their professionalism. It made me work
harder to deliver. I didn't wanna let anybody down."

"You didn't and won't ...I can promise you that."

"Thanks, you always try to make me feel good and
that means a lot to me."