Rich or Famous...Rich Because You Can Buy Fame by Deja King

me.
“What the fuck is going on?”
“We’re not sure if the offices are secure.”
“You think someone put a bug in the office?”
“We have our people up there checking now.”
“So is that the situation?”
“That’s part of it.”
    “What’s the other part?”
    “Alexus has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom.”
    “How much?”
    “Two million.”
    “Who kidnapped Alexus and why do they think I would pay two million to get her back?”
    “From my understanding this shit all goes back to Darnell. The money he was stealing from you, he wasn’t giving it to anybody. He was keeping it for himself. The two guys he was partnering up with, he took their money too.”
    “So if he was stealing from all of us, where is all the money?”
    “Nobody knows but them dudes want their money back and they somehow found out that Alexus wasn’t Darnell’s girl like they initially thought but that she actually worked for you.”
    “That’s why you think the office might have a bug because they know this.”
    “Yes.”
“How did they make contact?”
“It all went down right here.”
“You talkin’ ‘bout today?”
    “Yeah, right before I called you.”
    “Ok, Brice, I need you to take me through this shit step by step.”
    “Michael and Roy were upstairs. Me, Tony and Alexus was coming into the building. What looked like a delivery truck pulled up. Two guys came out in uniforms carrying boxes. By the time I realized something wasn’t right they had pulled out guns and told us to get on the ground. They called us out by our names. Then a third guy came out the back of the truck and grabbed Alexus. He said Darnell stole their money and they wanted it back. He told us if we didn’t give them two million the next time we saw Alexus she’d be floating in the Hudson River.”
    “Did you get the plate number?”
    “Yeah, as soon as we heard them drive off we jumped up and got the information. I was tempted to start blazing on they ass but I knew they might end up killing Alexus and in this area, people hear gunshots they most def calling the police. I know we don’t want them involved. ”
    “Nah, we definitely don’t want that. So what did you come up with when you ran the plates?”’
    “Nothing, they were bogus.”
    “I figured that. Damn,” I huffed. “Even if I pay them cats, they might still kill Alexus. That foul nigga Darnell making problems for me even from the grave.”
    “So what do you want us to do?”
    “Get the money together but something ain’t adding up.”
    “What do you mean?”
    “If Darnell had gotten that much money together, that shit ain’t just lying around somewhere. Where the fuck is it? The average nigga can’t just hide two million dollars unless they just making up an amount tryna pinch me.”
    “Lorenzo, we found three bugs,” Roy informed me as soon as he came out the building.
    “How the fuck did they get up in my office and have time to do that shit.” I noticed Tony put his head down. “Tony something you need to say?”
    “Last week I did allow a new cleaning crew to come in. I’m sorry. They told me the regular company had outsourced them because they needed a fill in. Everything seemed legitimate so I didn’t second guess them. That had to be when they did it. Lorenzo, I’m so sorry.”
    “Thank fuckin’ goodness we don’t discuss no real business in that bitch ‘cause the way you just opening doors to mutherfucka’s the feds would be hauling all of us off to jail! Fuuuuck!” I screamed out ready to put a bullet in Tony’s head for being so careless.
    “Lorenzo, I….”
“Yo, don’t say shit to me right now. All I want you to do,” I said pointing towards Brice, “is get the money together and let me know when they contact you. When they do, inform them that you ain’t giving them shit until you get Alexus back alive. Then you find out what the fuck happened to that money Darnell stole and how much he got from them. You also find