“The house where Alicia is staying is a heroin den. Her “boyfriend” is the dealer of the house. So needless to say he isn’t going to be happy to be losing his top customer and best earner in one move.”

“Oh god.” Tina said as she placed her hand on her head trying to bring all this information into her mind. “So he’s like what a drug lord or something?”

“No, no, no, nothing like that he’s just a knuckle head. A knuckle head with a lot of guns though. So this is just a precaution. He knows better than to tango with Toni.” Carmen finished and let her attention be taken by the front door closing behind some more family members coming into the house.

“What?”

Carmen looked at Tina completely puzzled by her reaction “So by your reaction I’m guessing Bette never told about Toni.” Carmen said as Tina crossed her arms growing exasperated by the lack of information being supplied to her. “ Toni back in the day was like… a superhero around here. Have you noticed how everybody here says hi to Bette and how everybody knows about our family?”

“Bette just said that it was a small town and that her roots started in this town.”

Carmen rolled her eyes and silently cursed Bette for not telling Tina more details about the situation at hand “Toni was like the “Jenny Fields” of Cuban drug addicts. Ya know? She had… has her own rehab center for drug addicts.” Carmen finished by correcting herself. “Before she started having kids her and Marlon would go into the drug houses and take out the addicts by force, but only at the family’s request. Sometimes the families would pay off their debt so they could get their loved ones back. So as time went on they had to use more and more force in taking away clients from dealers. They even did a few jobs for government officials. That’s how she got funding to open her own facility. Toni and Bette will take care of her with a couple of mild sedatives and then transport her to the center.”

“Has anyone ever been killed?” Tina asked afraid of Carmen’s answer.