Page 32 of Saved By A Small Town Country Boy

Maya

The following morning

N ews about Khalif and that new girl, Remedi, has been spreading around town.

We heard someone having sex at church, and I was livid when they tried to say that it was Khalif.

There’s no way he would’ve been doing something like that in the Lord’s house, but after I sat outside and waited to see who would come out, it definitely was them.

My heart fell to my ass, and I ain’t been able to get it back up ever since.

I’ve been blowing up Khalif’s phone ever since I saw him and her talking at Khali’s birthday party.

He’s been blowing me off, not wanting to deal with me.

I know that we were only having sex, but damn, he didn’t have to toss me to the side like that.

The hoe wasn’t even in town long, and he was already acting as if she was his saving grace.

I bet once she ups and leaves his ass, he’d come crawling right back to me, but that didn’t stop the fact that I was hurt and I didn’t know where to place this anger.

I’d been sitting down the street from his house all morning, waiting on him to pull out of his driveway.

Khalif’s truck finally came out, and I waited ’til he was two miles up the road before hitting the lights on him.

If he didn’t want to answer my phone calls and tell me what’s going on, then he was going to have to look at me face to face and tell me.

His ass wasn’t being man enough to let me know that he didn’t want to deal with me anymore.

Khalif’s truck pulled over to the side of the road, and I got out the car. Stepping to his door, I waited ’til his window let down. My teeth clenched when I saw who was in the driver’s seat.

“Was I speeding or something?” Dallas Reign asked, already holding her driver’s license in her hand.

“Where’s your brother?”

“Why?”

“I was hoping to speak with him.”

“I can’t disclose his location right now. If you want to know where he is, you’d have to call him and find out for yourself.”

“Why are you bullshitting with me right now, Dallas?”

“I’m not. Call him. Now if I didn’t do anything wrong, I do have somewhere to be.”

I stepped back from the truck and allowed her to pull off. Fuck. I’m just going to have to keep trying his phone or just show up at his house, but he wasn’t getting out of talking to me so easily.

Treading back to my cruiser, I got in and headed for the station.

Enough time has been wasted on trying to talk to Khalif, and I needed to get back to work.

We’ve already been trying to figure out who’s been selling drugs in our town and haven’t gotten anywhere near close to finding out.

It’s really starting to piss me the fuck off.

They were around here killing minors and other people with their trifling drugs. Their asses needed to be behind bars.

Pulling into my assigned space, I got out and entered the building.

“Sheriff,” Oscar said as I passed him. Some of the others were walking around, lollygagging when they should’ve been fucking working.

All they ever did was run their fucking mouths but didn’t have any information for me about anything.

Stopping in the middle of the floor, I yelled, “Don’t y’all think you need to be getting to fucking work! We’re no step closer to finding this supplier. I need this got damn supplier!” And then went into my office and slammed the door.

Yelling at them didn’t make me feel any better.

My ass was still on my shoulders about Khalif.

For whatever reason, I really thought we had something special.

I know that we weren’t behaving as a couple or anything, but I assumed that the longer he dealt with me, the more it would make him want a relationship with me.

All the hard work I’ve put in has gone to waste on some bitch that’s from out of town that probably just wants him for his money.

Everything about her screamed gold digger.

From the kind of car she drives to her clothes. Nothing good comes from her being here.

After I found out that he’s been dealing with her, I’ve been trying to find out whatever I can on her. The only thing I found was that she was from Atlanta and has a thriving animal hospital there. I’m trying to see where she got the money from to open a hospital in such a short time.

Whatever I can find, I was damn sure going to bring it up to Khalif to let him know he’s wasting his time.

Turning on my computer, I pulled up all the information on Remedi.

Her best friend had just died before she showed up here at the hands of her boyfriend.

Right after, he turned up dead, and no one knows who did it.

The knock at my door caught my attention. Quickly, I closed out all the windows on my computer. I didn’t want anyone to know what I was doing. “Come in,” I said and adjusted myself in my chair.

“You’ll want to hear this,” Daniel said as he stood in my doorway.

“Hear what?”

He beckoned for someone and stepped out of the way.

The guy entered my office, and immediately, I remembered him.

He’s the guy from the car accident with Simone.

I felt so bad when I had to deliver that news to her family.

He got out of there with a couple scrapes and bruises.

I just wished that was the fate for her.

“What’s this?”

“Tell her what you just came in and told me.”

He looked at Daniel before turning his attention to me. “Simone’s death wasn’t an accident.”

My forehead wrinkled. “You do understand what you’re saying right now, don’t you?”

“Yeah.” He took a step further toward my desk.

“I don’t think that you do. You’re standing here basically telling me to arrest you for murder.”

“I was hired to run into that woman’s car that night.”

“Shut my door,” I instructed Daniel, and he did as he was told. “Sit,” I told the guy, and he sat down in one of the chairs in front of my desk.

“What do you mean, you were hired?”

“Some guy walked into the bar that night and paid me ten thousand dollars to drive my car into hers.”

“And you did it? Not knowing if you were going to survive or not? That was crazy as hell of you.”

“I know, and the guilt has been eating me up. I saw her daughter earlier, and I just couldn’t keep this in anymore. My life has been hell since that accident. To know that I really killed that girl has been bothering me. I turned to the bottle, but that shit doesn’t help.”

“Who was the guy?”

“I don’t know.”

“Are you saying you don’t know, or are you just lying to me?”

“Just book me.” He lifted his wrists in the air.

Looking at Daniel, I said, “Book him.” He slapped the cuffs on his wrists and pulled him up from the chair.

Once they left my office, I grabbed my phone and dialed Khalif’s number, only to get nothing but voicemail. I’m assuming that he’d placed me on the block list now. Stopping Dallas this morning was probably the icing on the cake for him.

With the information that I have about Simone, I’m certain he’d want to hear it.

Maybe this can be my way to get back into his good graces.

Grabbing my keys, I got up from my desk and left my office.

This newfound information couldn’t just sit on my mind for the rest of the day, I have to get it off my chest and to him right now before someone else gets a hold of it first.

Hopping into my cruiser, I made the drive back out there to Khalif’s house, not even knowing if he was there or not.

As I pulled down the driveway, I saw him on a ladder on the porch, installing some new security cameras as if he needed any more on his property.

Khalif is the only person that I know who has cameras at every corner.

My car came to a slow halt, and he glanced at me over his shoulder. Getting down off the ladder, he placed his drill on the step and turned to face me. “What the hell are you doing here?”

“I really don’t like how you’ve been treating me lately.”

“I thought you got the hint, but I guess not. I don’t want anything?—”

“Simone’s death was a homicide,” I interrupted him.

“Tell me something that I don’t know.”

“No, I mean someone wanted her dead.”

“Now you’re just saying anything.” He waved me off and picked the drill back up.

“I’m serious right now. We just arrested the driver.”

“Y’all should’ve been did that shit. I’on know why y’all placed him on house arrest anyway.”

“He didn’t have any other priors, but that’s beside the point. He just came in and said that someone paid him to run into Simone that night.”

“Who?”

“That’s what we’re trying to find out now.”

“So you mean to tell me that you came all the way over here basically to just tell me nothing.” His hand tightened around the drill as he turned back around and faced me. “You could’ve saved yourself that trip.”

“What I’m saying is that Simone can finally get some real justice. We’re going to find out who paid him to kill her, and when we do?—”

“That’s if I don’t find out first. Get the fuck off my property.”

“Khalif…”

“Bye, Maya.”

I know what I just told him was heavy, but he seemed more distant and bitter than he was before.

I went back over to my car and got inside. Before I pulled off, I sat there for a moment, observing him. Cameras and floodlights surrounded the front porch. I’m not sure what he’s up to, but something’s going on, and I’m going to find out what.

I got back to the station and headed for my office. As I walked through the lobby, I noticed Bobbi and her mama in there. I waved at Bobbi and continued to my office. I hadn’t been sitting at my desk for two minutes before there was a knock at my door again.

“Yeah?”

The door pushed open, and Bobbi stood there with a piece of paper in her hand.

“Hey, Bobbi.”

“Were you busy?”

“Not really.”

She stepped into the office and shut the door behind her.

“What do you know of Remedi?” It’s strange for Bobbi to be in here questioning me about Remedi.

I understand if she was concerned about her being around Khali, seeing how she used to babysit her and all, but she hasn’t been working for them for quite some time now.

“Where is this conversation going?”

“I don’t think she’s a good person.”

“And what makes you say that?”

Bobbi stepped to the desk and set the paper on top of it before pushing it over in my direction. “I think you should take a look at this.”