The Pleasure of Pain by Shameek Speight

men. He was waiting outside just in case the target might escape and he was right. Danilo thought to himself this was a sexy ass bitch, but she had to die.
    That moment of hesitation gave Ebony time to r aise her Tech-9mm. BRRRRRR! Boom! Boom! Both guns went off simultaneously. The 3.57 put holes in the car and into Ebony's head, neck, and chest. She squeezed the trigger and was only able to get out a few shots off before she died. Danilo laid on the ground bleeding. His whole right side was shot up. "Damn, that bitch hit me," he said to himself. He was too weak to move soon he would bleed to death. The cops made it to the scene to find a blood bath. They blocked off the neighborhood.
    "We have ten bodies inside the house sergeant," one of the cops said.
    "Hey guys down here," another cop yelled. Down the block the cops walked to a Mercedes Benz- Coupe. "There's a dead woman in there," the cop said.
    "Shit , look at the fucking holes in this car?  It had to have been a big ass gun."
    "Hey , there is blood outside the car too. I wonder why," one cop replied.
    "Maybe she got the fucker who killed her ass . Fuck it. It's more than likely drug related. Look at the fucking car. I can't afford one of these and look at the house that shit is better than mine. I say they killed each other and made our jobs easier," the sergeant said and all the cops busted out laughing.
                  Danilo somehow made it to his car and he headed to his cousin’s house on Flatlands not too far from where he was. He had lost a lot of blood and crashed the car twice before he got there. "Oh shit," Danilo's cousin yelled. He was sitting on his steps smoking a blunt when Danilo stepped out of the car covered in blood with a gun in his hand. "Danilo," he yelled. He grabbed him and took him to his car and started driving off. "Yo, what happened," his cousin asked.
    "Nothing, just take me to a hospital, not in Brooklyn, but Queens fast and when they fix me we're heading out of town."
    Danilo already had some of the money for the hit . It was five hundred thousand dollars a piece for each member he killed in Tess and Bless's team. He had one million because Ebony and Omar were easy to find, but Bless and Tess had too many houses to find them. Danilo had already lost nine men just trying to kill two members of their crew. He wasn't about to put his life on the line to try to kill the rest of them. He'd been shot in his chest and his right side by that bitch. He’d be damned if he’d let it happen again.

 
    Bad News
     
    Chapter 19              
    Tess and Bless heard about what had happened to Ebony an d Omar from the streets and not to mention it was all over the news. The cops were calling it the Canarsie bloodbath. "Baby, we have to handle this shit," Tess said. "First, a bomb in your car and now someone put a hit on Ebony and Omar," Tess stated.
    "Yeah , you're right, but how do you know it was a hit," Bless responded.
    "Baby , they left the money in the house it was at the front door and cops found it. I have to call Vanessa and tell her about Ebony," Tess said.
    "Yo , you know she's going to go crazy."
    "I know, but I have to be the one she hears it from." Tess went into the bedroom of their long beach house leaving Bless to his thoughts while he watched the news on TV.
    In the bedroom, Tess cried hysterically over he r childhood friend. Ebony, Iris and Vanessa had been friends for five years now and been in the game together that long. They were all her girls and now Ebony was gone.
    With tears in her eyes, she picked up the phone next to the b ed and dialed Vanessa's number, "Yo Tess, what's good girl," Vanessa said knowing it was her. "I haven't heard from you since yesterday when Bless called you to get some of that good stuff, HA! HA! HA!" Vanessa busted out laughing from her own joke. Even when she noticed Tess wasn't laughing with her nor had she said a word, Vanessa thought it was about business.  It was the one