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Alexi popped up from her seat. “I am not fucking anyone else. Don’t try to play me like I’m some big ho out here, Carlos.”

Pop! Damn, Simone punched her in her face again. “Bitch, so what you’re saying is that you’re a little ho? Shut the hell up and listen, silly ho.”

I signaled for Sully to pull up what I needed. He pulled out an international burner phone to call Joey’s burner.

“Carlos, I made the decision that I would more than likely kill you, but then I thought I didn’t want to do that. I want you to kill yaself.”

He leaned over and laughed heartily. “How do you think you’re going to make me do that? Nigga, you got me fucked up for real.” He pointed toward Alexi. “This is the silly ass lil nigga that everyone is scared of?”

“Yo!” Joey’s voice came through the speaker of the phone. Sully asked him if he was in place. “Yeah, boss. I’m right where you want me to be with who you want me to be with.”

“See, Carlos, the answer to your question on how I plan to do that is simple. It’s either your life or theirs. Sully, show him what’s at stake.” All of my deviance settled on my face.

When Sully turned the screen of the phone around, Carlos’s eyes almost fell out.

“Wha-what the fuck! How do you? What’s going on?”

“Oh, is that your wife, mama, and kiddos?” I antagonized him.

“Yeah, you didn’t think people knew about your whole ass family?

Nigga, these lil niggas know it all.” I pointed between me and Sully.

“Now like I said, you’re going to kill yourself, or my boys are going to kill ya people.

No one told you that I was a family annihilator when pushed?

Can’t have ya seeds growing up with a vendetta on their heart because I killed their punk ass daddy. ”

I wasn’t a fan of killing the kiddos, but street code was just that. You never let your enemy’s kids grow up with revenge on their heart. This shit here wasn’t about him fucking on Alexi per se. It was about him touching something that was mine.

“Man, you don’t have to do this. That’s my wife, mama, and kids.” Tears fell down his face. “I won’t touch this bitch again.”

Sully shook his head. “Just a minute ago, you proclaimed that GeGi wasn’t going anywhere. Wait…” He turned the phone screen toward himself then told Joey to put the phone in his wife’s face and take off her gag. “Hello, Mrs. Loris, question for you. Did you know your husband had other children?”

With tears streaming down her face, she nodded her head. “Yes, I knew. I’ve been trying to leave him, but he said he would kill me. Please leave me and my babies out of this. You can take him and his bitch of a mother.”

“Porsha! What the fuck!” Carlos didn’t like that.

Alexi sat there whimpering and shit.

“Alexi, shut all that whimpering up,” I commanded. “Mrs. Porsha, something in what you just said touched my spirit. Now, can I trust you enough to let you go and know that you’ll move on with your life quietly?”

Her head nodded vigorously. “Yes, I have the code to his safe. I will take everything and be gone by the morning. Is he going to be dead, though? I-I don’t want him to come looking for me.”

“Yes, ma’am, he will be,” I said as I walked over to the bar. I grabbed a bottle of brown and popped it open. I wasn’t worried about my fingerprints being on anything because I had gloves on. I extended the bottle to Carlos. “Here, player. Go ahead and drink this.”

He looked at me confused, but he took the bottle, put it to his lips, and started to drink. I watched him for a second. He drank half the bottle in less than a minute. Damn! I told Joey to have Mrs. Loris escorted home and stay with her until she got what she needed to get gone.

“Damn, dude. Looks like we’re setting your wife free,” Sully said with a titter. “Mrs. Porsha, I hope you and your babies have a good life. Remember to keep your mouth shut, or we’ll have another meeting.”

She nodded. “I don’t even know what you’re talking about. Carlos, fuck you and your bitch ass mama.”

His mother sat next to her with fury in her eyes that matched her son’s.

“No, fuck you, bitch. You better not touch my money.”

“Oh my God! Finish that bottle and shut up. Dead people can’t spend money,” Simone fussed. “I’m trying to catch a late dinner, fuck my husband, and go to sleep. I want to go to the Louvre tomorrow.”

“Man, shut up, Simone,” I said before I laughed. “Carlos, looks like it’s you or ya moms. What’s it going to be?”

Without words, he took the rest of the bottle to the head. Sully passed him another bottle. Alexi sat next to him and watched before she shifted in her seat.

“Lo’ak, what are you going to do with me?”

“It’s not your turn yet, Gina,” Simone quipped.

When Sully asked her who Gina was, she looked at him like he should have known the answer.

“Um, Khiaere ’s ex ho ass bitch.”

I wasn’t about to go there with her because I was sure it was a character from one of those smut books she reads. Carlos’s eyes were hooded, so he was faded enough for me.

“Los, time for you to jump off the balcony.”

His eyes bulged. “What t-the fuck! We’re on like the twentieth floor.”

“Splat, splat, bitch,” I said with no remorse. “It’s you or ya moms. What’s it gonna be?”

There was groaning on the other end of the phone. Joey said that Carlos’s mother wanted to say something. I told him to take her gag off.

“Carlos, jump! Just jump! You caused this, so you jump!”

Sully’s head leaned to the side. “Damn, does anyone love your ass? This shit makes me sad for you.”

I wasn’t sure how I felt about his mother’s willingness to put him on the plank. That shit was crazy. It was clear that Carlos’s selfishness was genetic. Yeah, we were on the twentieth floor, but ask me if I cared.

Carlos was full on crying.

His mama had broken his heart if I had to guess.

His mother continued to egg him on to jump.

At this point, she was doing my job. After a few more pleas, he got up and walked to the balcony door then opened it.

Alexi let out a muffled yell when he sprinted then jumped across the banister.

Yule, Superman! Seconds later, the screeching of tires and screams could be heard.

“Now, Alexi, as far as you’re concerned, you deal with that. You mess with the bull, and you get the horns.” I walked over to her, leaned down, then placed a kiss on her forehead.

I wasn’t worried about her ass talking. She’d rather die or go to jail than become a snitch or get killed for becoming a snitch. As I walked out of the room, I heard Sully’s order to put a bullet in Carlos’s mother’s head. She could meet her son in hell.

Back in Charlotte…

I was tired as hell. Jet lag was not a fuckin’ joke.

I had to go to this damn house to see what was up with this bottle girl.

Although Sully and I co-owned Glitter Girls, I rarely went to the establishment during business hours.

If I went in, it was in the middle of the day for a necessary reason.

I could check the books from my home office.

Simone was the manager of the club, so Sully dealt with the club.

Simone knew exactly who Reya was and spoke highly of her.

I got back to town a few days ago. My ass needed those days to get myself back together on this side of the damn world. I told Joey’s ass that I would link up with him soon and to keep ole girl chillin’.

When I walked into the house, Joey was in the kitchen cooking. I wasn’t sure what he was cooking, but it smelled good.

“What you cooking, man?”

“What’s up, boss? I’m cooking some chicken alfredo for Reya and her boy.” He said that shit like he was cooking for his girl and his kid.

I tittered. “Oh, she getting good ass treatment, I see. You had any problems getting her?”

“Nah, not really. When I got to her house, her ass had packed up her truck, and she was about to get out of dodge. I’on think you have to worry about her talking.

She was scared, but she told me she would come with me as long as I didn’t scare her lil boy.

I respected that, and she did what she said,” Joey said before he lifted his shoulders.

I took in what he said. “That’s what’s up. Make me a damn plate while I go see about this girl.”

I walked down the hallway to the room that she was in.

I heard the television from the outside of the room.

I wasn’t worried about her trying to escape with the bars over the windows.

Unless she had the code to open the bars, her ass was stuck.

My hand lifted to knock on the door. Like Joey said, it’s not like she did some shady shit.

There was no need for me to be on some savage shit right now.

After the soft voice told me to come in, I opened the door. When I entered the room, my eyes fell on a beautiful girl that sat in the middle of the bed. A little boy sat between her legs. His eyes were on the television until I spoke.

“Jedi?”

His head snapped in my direction.

“Lo!”

His cheeks rose as he tried to climb off the bed to come to me. His mother stopped him. He glared back at his mother with tight eyes and jaw.

“Lo! Tell her read the room.”