The Lipstick Clique (16 page)

He picked up her duffel bag off of the floor. “Is this all you’re taking?”

She snatched it from him. “Let’s go! Now! We can talk later!”

They walked to his car, got in and started it up. It was late at night, but they were both wide awake and alert. They would be in Jacksonville, Florida in a few hours, and they could sort things out when they got there.

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When Danielle and Meatloaf arrived at 5’s house, they were long gone. Grimmer had managed to see the news for himself once he got home, but when he called 5’s phone to let him know what was going on, it kept going straight to voicemail. Grimmer met up with Danielle and Meatloaf at 5’s house and opened the door with his extra set of keys. When they walked in, everything still looked intact. They all agreed that they would come back over there in a couple of hours to check on 5. By then, he should be back to answering his phone.

It was 92 degrees when Milan, Lena, and
Tarra
arrived in
Borocay
, Philippines. Lena and
Tarra
had huge smiles on their faces when they stepped off the private jet and onto the whitest sand they had ever seen in their lives. It was
sooo
beautiful, and they didn’t know what they had done to deserve such a beautiful vacation as this.

“Thank you so much Mommy!” Lena said as she stared at Milan through her matching sunglasses. Milan simply returned Lena’s smile and continued walking until she reached their pre-arranged transportation vehicle. Milan had already arranged most of the things that were happening through the FBI and the CIA’s secret bounty hunter division. Milan took a deep breath as she walked through the scorching sand and got into the vehicle.

Lena and
Tarra
followed suit, and all three of them sat next to each other as the vehicle made it across the soft sand and onto the rocky road. The government had taken a chance, allowing Milan to fly out of the country. But they had made proper adjustments, just in case Milan tried something funny on them. Along with making sure she traveled over there without a dollar to her name, they had also sent a recovery team with her. The recovery team would kidnap her and the other two girls and bring them back to the U.S. if it came down to it.

But the FBI didn’t anticipate any of that happening, especially with the work that Milan had already done in such a short amount of time. They were very impressed with the type of resources that she was able to reach when they allowed her to roam the streets. The results were awesome and all of the big-wigs were impressed with the agent and the prosecutor’s decision to allow Milan to pull off those jobs.

The Philippines was a different animal, and it had to be treated as such.

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They were only scheduled to be in the country for 24 hours maximum. In advance, the layout and structure of the Power Family estate had been laid out on paper for Milan to study. The U.S. government had been tracking their lives while they were living abroad, even though it was nothing that they could legally do to them on foreign soil.

The Bankroll Squad had lost to the U.S. government in a court of law, and had
still
managed to leave the country as if they were found not guilty. They had managed to make a complete mockery of the federal government and everything that the United States stood for. Malcolm and Kyla Powers had managed to flee in such a manner that when the President heard about it, he almost fired the entire federal law enforcement team that was responsible for the mishap.
How the hell could they have them listed as top threats, and number one on the most wanted list, and allow them to just take a got damn airplane out of the country!?

Indeed, it was an embarrassing situation, but they had managed to convince Milan that she was the right person to atone for their mistakes. In exchange, they would allow her to walk free for her own crimes.

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Milan had been planning and discussing the situation for six hours, nonstop. She had appointed positions to Lena and
Tarra
, and had them both convinced that it was going to be a very simple job. She had convinced them that they were all going to get rich from this job, and they had both believed her.

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Once they had made it in, Milan had to make sure that all of the ladies made it out in order for her freedom to be granted. Not only did she need to bring the Bankroll Squad to the FBI, she also needed to bring The Lipstick Clique to them, in order to complete her end of the deal. They had accomplished what they set out to achieve, and they were only tying up the loose end details. Milan handed Kyla and Malcolm’s baby to Lena so that she could write up a ransom note for the couple to read as their entertainment over the next few days.

She was writing away feverishly because she knew that it was time to get their asses up out of that house. They had been there for way too long and she knew it. The only thing she had on her side was the fact that they had entered the house as soon as Kyla and Malcolm began their deep sleep. She had stalked their master bedroom from across the street with high quality binoculars until she saw them lay back against their pillows. But that had been an hour ago.

It had taken them 30 minutes to disarm their foreign security system. If it had been an American system, they never would have been able to disarm it. After they disarmed it, it had taken them another 20 minutes inside the huge estate to find out which room the baby was sleeping in. But Lena, Milan, and
Tarra
had all successfully pulled off the job of the century. They were smiling and high fiving each other quietly while Milan finished the letter.

Basically, her plan was to draw the Bankroll Squad back onto U.S. soil, so that her job with the FBI would be complete. Lena and
Tarra
were going to be turned in as soon as they landed back on U.S. soil, so it really didn’t matter what they thought at that moment. She was only doing the ransom note for effect. She didn’t give a damn about kidnapping a baby for profit. She folded the note and slid it into the baby’s playpen.

She turned around, smiled at the two ladies, and gave them each the thumbs up. But her thumbs up was very brief, as in the distance she heard a voice that seemed to be getting louder by the second. “
Majallaaaaa
! Hey
babyyyy
.
Heyyy
babbbbyyy
! Mommy’s on the
wayyyy
. You awake in there?” It was Kyla.

Lena and
Tarra
took off with the baby in tow. They ran out of the room and into the next room that held the window that they had to climb out of. The problem was that the opening that they had climbed in through was so small that they had to contort their bodies for three minutes apiece trying to get in there.
Tarra
slid through by folding, stretching and twisting her limbs until they made it out of the window. Once she got out there, Lena handed her the baby and attempted to get her body through the window, but it got jammed.

She was in a position where she couldn’t even budge… She was stuck. “Shit I’m stuck Mommy!” She whispered in a frantic voice. They heard the voice when it walked into the baby’s room singing a song, and Milan knew that it was Kyla. She used all of her strength and pushed Lena has hard as possible until she got her to dislodge herself out of the window opening.

Then she turned her own body almost into a compact pretzel as she slid through the window opening with a smile on her face. She stuck her head and left arm out and pointed at the clearing, motioning for them to run. Lena and
Tarra
took off running, while occasionally looking back for their comrade. Once they made it to the fence and Milan still hadn’t made it out of the house, Lena stood there as if she wanted to go back and get her.

“Come on girl, let’s go!!”
Tarra
whispered to her while she held the baby in her arms and rocked her up and down. The baby was starting to cry, and she was starting to get nervous, so she just continued running until they reached the opening that they had cut out of the gate. She slowed down and slid her body and the baby through there. When she looked up, Lena was still standing there like a deer caught in headlights.

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Kyla walked into the room to give
Majalla
a bottle and to change her diaper. She’d heard some faint noise on the baby monitor, and knew that it was that time for them to have their special nightly mommy and daughter time. Raising her child was an exciting time for her, and she had embraced motherhood with ease. It wasn’t a hard thing to do, when she had a loving husband in her life.

For her husband, she had literally laid down her life on countless occasions. It was so awesome to her that he had been willing to lay his life down for her and their daughter ever since they had moved to the Philippines. He kept his pistol on him, and stayed on the high alert to make sure that his family was protected. But that night he was asleep… and
Majalla
was gone.

Kyla let out a scream that pierced the silence with terror. “
Malcolmmmmmm
!” She threw the note back into the play pen frantically. Malcolm ran in there with his gun drawn. “What Kyla?” He asked. When he looked down, he knew what the problem was.

Kyla looked down at the floor and saw at the trail of dust that had been tracked into the house through
bootprints
. She followed the sets of dusty prints straight into the next room where she saw someone climbing out of the window. They seemed to be struggling to get out of there and were just now making it across the threshold. They only had one leg inside of the house trying to leverage themselves, and it looked as though they were about to pull that leg out as well before Kyla grabbed it.

It was a female, Kyla could tell by her weak lower body strength. Kyla grabbed her leg with two hands and fell onto the floor as she pulled her all the way back inside the room. Immediately, she jumped up and stared at her. “What the fuck!!! Bitch, didn’t I
allllready
beat
yo
muthafuckin
asssss
one time?!?!?!?”

Milan wanted to kick herself for getting tangled up in the window. She took a deep breath and slumped her shoulders down as Kyla threw the first fist into her face. She knew that she should have made Lena and
Tarra
get out of there after her if she wanted to make it out alive, but her greed had gotten the best of her.

Kyla’s shoe met the edge of her chin. The blow was hard and cold, and knocked her against the hardwood floor like a rag doll. She closed her eyes because she knew that she wasn’t going to make it out of there alive.

Lena wanted to go back and help her mommy, but she knew that she wouldn’t be able to. Instead, she did the same thing she had done the previous time, she ran. Like always, she would finish out the job that her and her mother had started on so that she could make her proud for when they met each other again. She took off running to join
Tarra
and the baby. They already had a plan to take the child to the U.S., but since Lena didn’t want to go back to the U.S. without her
mother
, they had to figure out which country they would go and hide in with the child. The bottom line was to get the ransom money so that they could be richer than rich.

 
She couldn’t
wait
.

5 pulled up to the address in Jacksonville Florida, and hit the electric unlock button on the doors, allowing Treasure to get out. She looked up at him and he smiled weakly. He handed her a key and leaned over and kissed her on the cheek. “I have to go get us something to eat baby. I’ll be right back. You know what you wanna eat?”

Treasure smiled back at him and shook her head. “No baby… just surprise me with something. I trust your judgment, I know that you won’t let me down. You’re my future husband!”

5 blushed as he accepted the love from his beautiful soul mate. He looked her in the eyes and knew that everything had happened for a reason. He knew that she had come to him in order for him to live his dreams out the exact way that he desired. He knew that when he first laid eyes on her, she was going to change his life drastically. He just never thought that it was going to be this drastic. He was truly in love.