Page 14 of Heart of a Savage
“Okay. I’ve heard everyone’s statement. I will make my decision sometime this afternoon. Meeting adjourned,” Papi announced.
Everyone stood while it took baby girl almost five minutes to get up from her seat.
“Must have been some nasty fall,” I commented, watching her.
“Yeah... I can be clumsy at times.” She chuckled lightly, grabbed her rolling walker, and left the room.
“She may have the credentials, but her crippled ass can’t sell no houses walking like she’s auditioning forThe Walking Dead,” I stressed just as the door closed.
“That ass is on Houston, Texas, though. I’d make her ass walk straight,” Mo jested. Papi gave him a stern look. “My bad.”
Papi shook his head. “Maybe if you stopped thinking with your little head, you’d get some damn work done around here. Focus, Moses.”
“A’ight, dang. I was only complimenting the lady.”
“What do you all think?” Papi asked.
“I guess ol’ girl is the best candidate. Her sales record is impressive, and aside from her crip walk, I think she could run the day-to-day operations. The other two didn’t even speak up when she was throwing all that shade,” I voiced.
“I agree,” Mike inserted.
“Me too,” Moses followed up.
“All right… then it’s settled. Let Maddie know to call her this afternoon to deliver the news.” Papi was about to stand, but I stopped him.
“Hold up, Papi. We have a problem.”
He frowned as he sat back down. “What’s that?”
“One thousand oxies are unaccounted for. Gary and Norman were in charge of the lab last night. I placed them on temporary suspension until we get to the bottom of this. I also told you thatwe need to get those cameras fixed in there, and Henry has yet to come through,” I told him.
“Oh, I took the pills,” Mike said.
I frowned. “For what? You know if you take anything out of the inventory, you have to log it in,” I told him.
“I forgot… Was rushing because Trevor ran out. My bad,” Mike replied.
“You know better than that, Michael. It’s already over thirty employees in the lab. We can’t afford to make those types of mistakes. We also need to have those cameras back working,” Papi interjected.
“I know. It won’t happen again.”
I shook my head as I finished off my breakfast sandwich. “You niggas stay being reckless. Gary and Norman was about to get fired for nothing.”
“It ain’t that deep, nigga. I told you I took them, so what’s the issue?”
“Ain’t shit,” I dismissed as I stood and headed for the door.
“What’s going on with you, son? Is everything okay?” Papi asked.
“Yeah, I’m cool,” I replied.
“You’re not. What’s wrong?”
“Jalea rocking my fucking nerves, talking about she can’t pick up MJ from school today. Then I thought niggas was stealing from us, and I got a ton of fucking orders to fill. Shits annoying, but I’ll be good.”
“What FTS do now?” Moses asked.
“Her thot-ass sister is homeless, and she’s trying to be Captain Save-A-Ho when her ass barely got a place to call home.”
