"young nigga move that dope
young nigga move that dope
ayy move that dope, ayy move that dope"

tonight was another night at paul's strip club but only this time, roman and his cartel were going to be in the bronx rather than brooklyn. after the successful first week at the brownsville club, paul wanted them to do his second best selling club in the bronx called dangerousss, emphasis on the three s's.

roman had just arrived at the club a little over an hour and a half after it opened. the club been open so his suppliers should be selling great at this point, especially if this was the self proclaimed "second most successful club" via paul.

he walked in the club and while it wasn't as poppin as the brownsville one was, it was still well enough for money to be made. he looked around and saw his people selling, as they already were outside the club. roman then went to the back to see if paul was there today.

"hey boss man" shiny said to roman as he saw him walking by.

"hey" roman said. "how long you been here?".

"since a little after the club opened, since you said that you had to stay home a little longer I came early" he told him.

"great. where's terrence and my cousins?" roman wondered.

"terrence is out there I don't think you saw him though. jimmy went to the bathroom and jey is on the phone somewhere don't know where though" shiny told him.

"okay, lemme go find them" roman said as he walked away from shiny.

"so would I be getting paid at the end of this month like everyone else or do I have to wait til next month to get it?" jey asked paul on the phone, referring to their deal.

so, jey and paul are officially in business. jey took that stake deal once roman discarded it and now he'll be making that money. roman obviously doesn't know about it as he would go crazy if he knew, but jey didn't care for that. he got what he wanted, finally got some power in his life.

"usually I would wait until the next month but the cartel has been so successful that I wanna give you your cut next week" paul told him. "a lot of money is already being made".

"sounds good, and we're only going up. people are buying out here too" jey told him.

"that's great! is roman there yet?" paul asked him.

"haven't seen him" jey said.

until he did, he saw roman walking down the hallway heading towards him.

"actually I do now, i'll call you back" jey quickly said and he hung up the phone before roman approached him.

"hey roman".

"sup" roman said to him. "who were you talking to?".

"wifey" jey lied. "you know she be calling to check on me".

"I don't know cause i've never seen her call you while we were doing this" roman scoffed.

"well she decided to today" jey said. "when did you get here though?".

"a few minutes ago. iman went out tonight so I stayed back to spend time with jianni, had dinner with her and stuff" roman told him.

"look at you on daddy duties!" jey exclaimed.

"it was pretty good, it's been a while since I actually had one on one time with her too and she was happy so" roman said. "but how are things going on out here? how are we doing?".

"pretty good, it's not as much as the brownsville club but it's still good" jey said. "we'll be making double since we're working both clubs".

"the gap will be huge i'm sure" roman said.

"you're still gonna get your money roman you'll be ight" jey said.

"now he cares about money, but he didn't wanna take that stake" jey thought in his head, but then remembering that he had it now. that left a smirk on his face.

"there you are uce" jimmy said to roman as he joined his cousin and brother. "late but you came".

"did y'all just forget that i'm a dad?" roman scoffed. "iman is out so I had to spend time with my daughter".

"that's funny, cause I thought I just saw iman in here" jimmy said.

"what?!" roman said very confused. "iman said she went out to dinner for her friend's birthday, why would she be here? at a strip club of all things".

"I don't know but I think I saw her she was with a bunch of people, including the one girl you don't like" jimmy told him.

roman immediately rushed to see if what jimmy said was true. iman did say that she was going out to a restaurant in the bronx but he didn't expect her to actually be here, especially where his cartel sells at. she hates what he does anyways so he probably just thought that she went home when her friends wanted to come here.

roman came out to the main area where everyone was. wap by cardi b and megan thee stallion was playing and the strippers were dancing to the very popular song. he was looking to where iman would be, until he found her.

"gobble me swallow me drip down the side of me. quick jump out fore you let it get inside of me!" iman rapped as she was enjoying herself with her friends at the strip club, dangerousss.

it was her friend camille's birthday and they had spent their night in the bronx having dinner at a restaurant called step in and then continuing the night at the club. this was an idea from camille's best friend as it was friday night and they wanted to continue the fun. iman didn't mind though, she always enjoyed turning up with her friends at clubs or parties.

there was a stripper that was dancing in their section and camille was throwing dollar bills all on the girl's ass. everyone in the section, including iman was gassing it up. some of them even threw their own dollar bills at her.

"yo hold up, iman why is your husband here? at a whole strip club?!" aniyah, one of iman's friends asked her.

"what?!" iman said as she looked up.

"oh shit yeah, he is here" janelle added.

iman looked harder and saw roman staring right at her. he looked surprised and so did she. she left her section real quick and went up to him and they walked away to one of the hallways that was near the bathroom.

"what are you doing here?!" iman asked her husband.

"what are YOU doing here?! you're at my strip club" roman said to her.

"your strip club?! since when?" iman exclaimed.

"since I started working with paul. I told you this, the cartel sells at her clubs" roman reminded her.

"oh.... OH! wait he owns multiple clubs? I thought it was just the one in brooklyn" iman said.

"he owns clubs all around the boroughs. we did good at the one in brownsville so he wanted us to come out here since it's the second successful club" roman explained.

"oh" iman said. "now it's making sense on why so many guys are walking around here, they're selling".

"but hold up, why are you here? have you ever even been to a strip club before?" roman asked her.

"no but the girls wanted to come here" iman told him. "camille's best friend convinced everyone to come here to continue the fun and I agreed cause I am fun".

"but what if you knew that my cartel was here, would you have still came?" roman asked her. "I honestly thought that you would've never came cause you hate being around my shit".

"I do but I don't know anyone besides the twins, shiny, and terrence. the twins would've said hi and shiny and terrence probably would've left me alone because they would think that you don't want anyone talking to me" iman told him.

"I am not like that" roman scoffed.

"roman you don't even like me getting door dash or uber eats to the house and you even hate it when I order clothes online, you would definitely hate it if anyone that weren't the twins spoke to me in a public setting" iman said back.

"I still let you do it though! you be acting like i'm some controlling asshole" roman groaned.

"you can be" she said, which caused roman to give her a look. "you haven't been lately though and that's good".

"but i'm about to go back to my friends because i'm pretty sure they probably think that you're cheating on me cause you're here so i'll see you later".

"of course they do" roman groaned. "see you".

iman walked back over to her friends who were staring at her pretty hard. they looked like they were ready to fight someone, specifically roman if they really did think that he was cheating.

"do we need to kill him? I got my heels on, I will throw them" aniyah asked her.

"no you don't need to kill him" iman told her.

"then why is he here?" melissa, another friend of iman's asked her.

"..... work reasons" iman said. they knew about roman but she wasn't about to blurt out that he was a drug lord in front of everyone else so she just said "work". the only friends that knew about roman's "job" was janelle, aniyah, melissa, and their other friend tron. everyone else iman just lied and said that he was a successful businessman.

"oh.... OH! yeah, okay" aniyah said. "that lowkey makes sense now, i've been seeing it".

"I thought it was only one club" janelle whispered to me.

"there's more" iman told her.

"damn, he really is dolla bill. pablo dolla bill escobar" janelle said dramatically which made iman glare at her and janelle laughed. then they went back to partying and enjoying the night.

roman's suppliers were selling all over the club, inside and outside. they were doing a damn good job too as they always did, especially since some of their own friends were in the club so it was even easier to sell to them.

while they were selling, a group of guys in black hoodies walked into the club. the way they were grouped in they were like a pack, and they honestly looked real suspicious. two of roman's suppliers, desean and jackie saw these guys and decided to confront them. they sensed that something was a bit off from them, and they needed to see what it was.

"what you want?" jackie asked them.

"nigga you know what the fuck we want!" one of them exclaimed.

"who the fuck you think you talking to nigga?!" jackie exclaimed as desean was trying to cool him down.

"you nigga!" the guy said.

"look if you gonna be starting some problems you need to leave" desean told him. "get ya shit somewhere else".

"hold up...." jackie began to say as he started to look hard in the face at the guy.

the guy looked very familiar to jackie, and the more he looked in his face the more he realized that he knew the guy. the more that he realized that he wasn't from here, and that he was from victor marshall.

"yo this ain't ya territory! get the fuck outta here!" jackie yelled at them.

"wait what?!" desean said.

"these niggas working for victor! niggas from yonkers!" jackie said. "get the fuck outta here nigga!".

"not until I get my shit" the guy said attempting to grab jackie's coat pocket, before jackie punched him in the face.

the guy got back up, holding his jaw and he had a smirk on his face. then his smirk faded away, and he nodded his head up like he was singling something.

and suddenly gunshots started firing off in the club.

the minute gunshots went off in the club, the music went to an abrupt stop and everyone was screaming and running out of the club. gunshots continued as roman's suppliers and victor's people were shooting at each other.

iman and her friends were quickly running away and out of the club. iman was panicking and she was trying to find roman so that they could get in the car and leave but she couldn't find him. so she split herself up from her friends and ran in one of the hallways in the club.

when the gunshots went off, roman, jimmy, and jey who were in the back quickly ran out to the main floor of the club. people were running out and immediately the three had their guns out, ready to shoot whomever.

they began shooting out at the guys that were still inside. they still had no idea who these people were and why they decided to shoot out at the club but they were causing havoc on their people so they were gonna be dealt with regardless.

"yo who the fuck are these guys?! what happened?!" roman exclaimed.

"niggas that can't stay on they territory that's what!" shiny told him.

roman automatically knew what that meant. there's only one person that would try to take roman and his cartel down, victor marshall. victor marshall sent his people out to his land to start shit. victor marshall sent his people to start a bloodshed and ruin his business and to kill his people, and roman was pissed off. most of all, iman was in this club and if those fuckers would've harmed her.... lord knows what roman would do.

iman.... where was iman?

"did y'all see iman anywhere?" roman asked shiny and terrence.

"no, maybe she ran out the club" shiny said.

that wasn't enough confirmation. roman knew that iman wasn't just going to leave without knowing if he was okay. she already has the anxiety of roman getting himself in trouble, especially him getting shot and killed. roman also had that anxiety of anyone harming iman in any way, this was a prime example.

"roman where are you going?! those guys are outside getting away!" jey yelled at him.

"i'm not leaving here until I have iman with me!" roman yelled back at him. "y'all get the remaining ones!"

roman started to look around for iman, looking to see if she was inside hiding somewhere. if she wasn't then he would've checked outside and call her friends to see if she ran off with them.

he looked and then he went in one of the hallways and saw iman cramped in a corner. she looked so frightened, it had also looked like she was crying as well.

"roman..." she said in relief as she quickly got up and hugged him.

"i'm okay baby" he told her. "we gotta go though, just stay close to me and move quickly".

she nodded her head in agreement and the two got out of the club by taking the back door, the back door that roman entered the club from.

however, right in front of them were more of victor's people. they immediately recognized roman and began to shoot at him. shooting the suppliers is one thing but shooting roman? shooting victor's main enemy and a man that he already wants dead would be even more victorious, pun intended.

roman was prepared though and he started shooting back. he was shooting at them and protecting iman from any bullets at the same time. he moved quickly, and every gunshot he did took the guys down. roman had special bullets, bullets to kill and he made sure that these guys were dead and had no point of return. fucking with his business is what you will not do.

roman and iman got in his jeep and quickly drove out of the club to go home. tonight was a mess and so many were left injured or dead, and many traumatized. that included iman.

"you okay?" roman asked iman.

"considering that I could've died tonight and that you could've died tonight and that I was involved in a whole shootout right now, no i'm not okay" iman snapped at him. usually roman would've clapped back but he knew to just leave her alone.

so the rest of the car ride was in silence. no music, no nothing. iman wouldn't even look at roman, she just looked outside at the window. obviously she was scared and upset. so many thoughts went through her mind, including what if those people tried to come for her or roman again, or even jianni. these fears are exactly why she wished roman would just stop what he's doing. exactly why.

the two arrived at the penthouse and once they got to their rooms, iman took her shower. roman just took his shower in the other bathroom since he didn't wanna wait for iman. plus she was clearly still upset and he didn't want them to end up arguing, especially when roman actually felt bad for her.

when he was done with his shower, he came to the bedroom and iman was already in bed. she wasn't sleep but she was laying down just staring at the wall. roman got in bed beside her and turned the lamp on and attempted to fall asleep.

he couldn't though, because he started to hear what sounded like sniffles. someone was crying, and since he could hear it right next to him it was clearly iman.

"iman are you crying?" he asked her, to see if she would admit it.

iman didn't say anything but she just turned around to face roman and her eyes were red. red from the tears that she just let out. roman didn't say anything and all he did was wrap his arms around iman, embracing her as she just cried in his arms. her fears and anxiety truly haunted her tonight and she hated it. roman hated it too, and it only fueled his anger.

those people not only fucked with him, his people, and his business but they also fucked with iman in the process. roman be damned if someone ever harmed iman whether it was physically, mentally, or emotionally. the whole world would have to pay if that ever happened.

well it did happen, and those guys that fucked with everything he craved would have hell to pay. so tomorrow if it was gonna be war, let it be war.

cause roman's revenge was coming.