Free The Fix 2 by K'wan

rock he could hide under where Pharoah’s people couldn’t find him. Chucky might as well have blown his own brains out instead of waiting around for someone else to do it. There was no way Chucky was going to give up Pharaoh, but he had to do something to get Wolf off his back and out of his life, so he played on his larcenous side. Wolf was a cop, but he was also a gambler and Chucky had heard through the grapevine that he had some serious debts. Chucky offered Wolf $100,000 to get out of his life. Just as he’d hoped, Wolf agreed to take a pay off but he wanted a quarter of million dollars. That was the price for Chucky to purchase his life back. Wolf also made it very clear that if he didn’t come up with the money that he was going to drop a bug in Pharaoh’s ear about what Chucky had been doing in his spare time.
    It was a lose-lose situation for Chucky. There was no way he could come up with the amount of money Wolf was demanding and he sure as hell wasn’t going to give Pharaoh up, so he was fucked either way he played it. He thought about going to Ramses and laying out everything that had happened with the dirty cop, hoping his relationship with Ramses would at least get him the benefit of the doubt, but decided against it. He might be able to sway Ramses, but there was no way it would go over well with Pharoah. Even though Chucky had never given up any information on their organization, Pharaoh would have him killed just in case. He wasn’t the type of man to take chances. Chucky figured his best bet was to just take whatever money they had made from looting Pharaoh’s spots and blow town. He could take what he had and make a fresh start somewhere else, but Benny would make this easier said than done.
    For as careful as Chucky had been in laying the plan, Benny was equally careless in ruining it. Benny got lazy and deviated from Chucky’s original plan to keep their robberies random, and he hit same spot twice. Doubling back sent up a red flag and put Ramses on alert, but it was Ramses’s new recruits Omega and Li’l Monk who picked up on the trail of breadcrumbs that left a trail leading straight back to Benny.
    From the time Chucky had first met the dirty little street rat who called himself Li’l Monk, he knew he was going to be trouble. He had already hated him for the role his father, Monk, was said to have played in the death of his oldest brother Sonny, but that hate increased tenfold the day Ramses decided to offer him a job opportunity. The day it happened they came across Li’l Monk beating the blood out of one of Chucky’s young workers over some offense. Chucky wanted to kill for personal reasons, but he tried to convince Ramses that Li’l Monk should die for putting his hands on one of their workers. Instead of Ramses feeding into what Chucky was saying, he ended up taking a liking to Li’l Monk. So much so that he offered him a job. Li’l Monk was paired with a young up-and-comer who had been a part of Chucky’s crew and they were hired as muscle to hold the block down. The two kids were sharp and about their business, and fiercely loyal to Ramses. When Benny sent his people to rob the spot for the second time, Li’l Monk and Omega sent them back in bags. Omega had recognized one of the dead men from seeing him with Benny, and told this to Ramses. That was all it took to unravel Chucky’s whole little scheme.
    Chucky hadn’t even realized that Pharaoh and Ramses were hip to their bullshit until the morning he walked into a recording studio and found Benny tied to a chair and being tortured. The moment Chucky laid eyes on Benny he knew that he was dead. Benny was a mess of bruises, blood, and fresh cuts. From the looks of things they had been putting him through it for hours and there was no telling what information they had pried out of Benny. There was no doubt in Chucky’s mind that he would never leave that