Then he grunted, “No.”
“How you get two hundred K in with the Russians for blow and not do that shit in front of my kids?” Tack asked. “You do that much, you’d have to have that rolled bill permanently fixed to your nose.”
“I hid it, they never saw.”
“How you get two hundred K in with the Russians for blow and not do that shit in front of my kids?” Tack repeated when he got a bullshit response.
Pipe blew out another jagged breath and his head dropped. “To relieve a debt, told ‘em I’d hold onto some of it for them. Keep it safe before they moved it. Had a party. Someone found it. Stole it.”
Jesus, this was one stupid-ass motherfucker.
“Where would they take Tyra?” Tack asked and Pipe forced his head up again.
“I’m tellin’ you, I don’t know.”
Tack looked to Hop and gave him a nod.
Hop moved in but this time he pulled the knife from his belt.
“Fuck me! I don’t know! I don’t know!” Pipe screamed. “But I know who’ll know!”
Hop looked over his shoulder. Tack jerked up his chin. Hop moved aside.
“Oleg,” Pipe stated immediately. “Dude’s name is Oleg.”
Tack felt eyes on him and this was because every brother knew everything about the Russians and none of them had heard of Oleg.
“Do not bullshit me, Pipe,” Tack warned.
“I’m not. I wouldn’t. He’s not tight with the Russians. He’s only tight with Lescheva.”
“Then how do you know this guy?”
“I ain’t stupid, man. My neck’s on the line with these f**kers. I been watchin’ and not just Ride.”
“What’s his connection with Lescheva?”
“No clue but my guess is, he’s his out.”
“His out?”
“Lescheva’s time is up, man. He ain’t stupid. He knows that. Only one reason a man gets tight with a man outside his operation but in the family and that’s because he’s makin’ plans. I didn’t get close. I just watched but, lately, they been meetin’ a lot.”
“You know where we can find him?”
“A bar on Evans. Called The Drainpipe.”
Tack jerked his chin up to Boz and Shy and they moved out.
Then he looked to Naomi. “You’ll get the papers Monday.”
She pulled in a visible breath then nodded.
“You’ll sign ‘em.”
She nodded again.
“You’ll get the hundred K never.” Her face lost all its color and she opened her mouth to speak but Tack shook his head and whispered, “You are not smart. You’ve never been smart. Be smart now. You know I am not payin’ for blow.”