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to him, but they had never really talked. She just never liked the way he looked at her like she was a pork chop sandwich. “What’s up, Mylo?”
    “You Jackie, right?” he asked, looking at her in exactly the manner which she couldn’t stand.
    “Yeah.” She knew if she planned to be in this game, that Mylo was somebody she would have to deal with, so she would have to get used to it. “I’m here to meet Freeze. Is he here?” she asked even though she knew he was there.
    “He’s back here waitin’ for you. Follow me.” Mylo then said quietly, “with your fine ass,” as he led Jackie into the bedroom that served as an office.
    When Mylo opened the door, Freeze was sitting on the couch, talking on the phone. He looked up when he saw Jackie follow Mylo into the room. “I’ll get with you later, Tanya,” he said and pressed end on his cell phone.
    Jackie smiled to herself when she heard Tanya’s name mentioned. She knew her very well. One night, several months ago, Jackie was at Cynt’s, one of the gambling houses that was run by Black’s organization, when Freeze came in with Tanya on his arm. At the time, she was barely holding her own in the game when she looked up and saw Tanya looking at her. Jackie smiled back at Tanya. When Freeze went into another room to talk to Cynt, Jackie cashed out and went to talk to Tanya.
    “Hi, I’m Jackie.”
    “Tanya.   How you doing?” she said in a sweet and sexy voice that made Jackie want her even more.
    Jackie took a step closer. “I’m doin’ just fine tonight, honey.”
    “I saw you playing; how did you do?”
    “Not too good tonight, but I held my own.”
    As the conversation continued, Jackie said, “I haven’t seen you here before.”
    “Well, that’s because Freeze doesn’t like me to be around this stuff,” Tanya said.
    Jackie understood all too well why that was. Freeze’s former girl friend, Paulleen, used to be around all time and used to be into everything and everybody. In fact, her former partner, Ronnie Grier, used to mess with her. Travis believed in his heart that it was Freeze that killed Ronnie. He remembered Freeze telling him one time when they were talking about how out of control Ronnie was and how that was bad for business. Freeze said, “Whatever I do is always business. Never personal, even if it seems that way. Remember that. And it will never have anything to do with you and me. Understand?”
    Jackie wasn’t as convinced as Travis was that Freeze killed Ronnie, but she had no intentions of asking. She looked at Tanya and understood why Freeze kept her on ice and far away from predators like herself. Tanya was a very attractive woman with a body the begged for attention.
    Jackie recalled how her and Tanya had agreed to go see The One at Impressions. They had a good time together and went out a few times before Jackie seduced her.
    Jackie hadn’t told Travis that she was sexing Tanya because she knew what he’d say. “Ronnie was fuckin’ Paulleen and he died for it. What you wanna mess with another one of Freeze’s women for? It’s a death sentence.”
    Now she stood before her lover’s other lover about to ask him to do her a really big favor. “Jackie,” Freeze said and got up from the couch to greet her. “What’s up?”
    “I’m good, Freeze, I’m good.”
    Freeze gave Mylo a look that told him that his presence was not needed. “I’ll be out here if y’all need anything,” he said, and after waiting briefly for a response from Freeze or Jackie, which didn’t come, Mylo left the room and closed the door behind him.
    “How’s Travis?” Freeze said and sat down.
    “He doin’ a lot better. When I left to come here he was up and around.”
    “I’m glad to hear it. Now, what the fuck were you niggas doin’ for Travis to get shot?”
    “We were stealin’ some computer processors and shit went south for us.”
    “How come I didn’t know anything about this?”
    Jackie was puzzled by the question.