I had twenty-four hundred dollars. That was enough money to cover expenses and get a couple of ounces—maybe two and a half. That would be enough to get us started. My partners didn’t have much money to invest in our new business venture. Shay had no money, which I understood; she got kids to take care of. Teena came up with four hundred, but I was cool with that for the time being. I figured that I should start with a couple of people who did business with Lorenzo and build up from there. My thinking was that if everything went the way it should, I would recoup my investment in no time. Before the deputies took Lorenzo away, he told me that if I ever needed anything, I should call his cousin, Leon, in Jacksonville. Lorenzo would go down there all the time. And I went with him on a few of his trips. Lorenzo never said and I never asked him, but I always thought that Leon was his supplier. I was a little nervous about talking to Leon. We got along okay and he treated me with respect, but I always felt that he really didn’t like me.
