Page 72 of Search My Soul (Taylor Family Saga #3)

“Damn, shorty. I can’t believe you got a real one like this.

You had a nigga ready to buy a ring so I could marry your scamming ass, and you were sitting back planning the biggest lick of them all huh?

” I scoffed. I was so disappointed in myself for missing the signs.

If I hadn’t found out the truth when I did, who knows what would have happened. I probably would have ended up dead.

“No. I wasn’t trying to steal from you, Soul.

Yes, I should have told you what I had done sooner, but I was in a fucked up position.

My family needed the money, or they were going to be killed.

I was in a desperate place and that money seemed like the answer to my prayers.

When we got together, I wasn’t expecting us to get this close nor was I expecting you to be the owner of the money.

I asked Majesty who the money belonged to because I had a feeling it would come back to bite me in the ass, but I never imagined things would turn out this way.

“When I met up with her recently that’s when I discovered that your cousin was in on it.

I’m telling the truth, Soul. He is trying to take you down, and he threatened to kill my people if I didn’t help him.

You can choose to believe me or not, but I’m telling the truth.

I love you and I never intended for any of this to happen. ”

“I’ll give it to you, lil baby. Your acting skills are top tier.

However, I don’t give a fuck about all of those tears.

Y’all mothafuckas played a dangerous game when you fucked with my bread and plotted against me.

Now you gotta answer for that. Do you have any last words or prayers before you die?

” I stood up from my seat. All of the tears and shit had me conflicted, but I had to remind myself that she was a liar.

“You can go ahead and kill me because I won’t beg for my life.

Yeah, I fucked up, and I’ll own that. However, you’re so caught up in trying to get revenge that you can’t even see the truth for what it is.

What I did was wrong, but I never did it to hurt you.

Nothing about our relationship or my love for you was fake, but you should already know that.

Tell Normandee, Puma, and my siblings that I love them.

” Juicy looked me up and down before rolling her eyes.

I swear this shit only confused me more.

Was I in the wrong? How could that even be a question when she was the one who lied to me?

“Murk keeps calling. I know you said you ain’t want to talk to anyone, but it might be important,” Huncho said. The only thing he would be calling for was to discuss Neeya and there wasn’t shit for us to talk about.

“Tell him I’ll hit him up when I finish.” I walked over to the table where we kept our weapons of choice. While I would normally opt to torture, I decided to make this easy on myself and her. There was no need to drag this out.

“I’m gonna give you one last chance to tell me what I want to know.

You can make this easy, or we can do it the hard way.

” My head whipped around when I heard the loud sounds of scratching and barking at my door.

It took me by surprise because my dogs weren’t loud, and they knew when to stay in their room, yet they were outside of the door banging into it as if the house was on fire.

“What do you want me to say? You obviously have it made up in your mind that I’ve sinned against you, so why ask questions now?

” The stoic expression on her face sent me over the edge.

Usually when I had my victims in this position they would be crying and begging for their lives.

It almost made me proud to see how solid and fearless she was.

My baby had heart. It was such a shame she would have to lose her life for being a thief.

“Do you think this is a game? You think I’m doing this shit for fun?”

“No, I don’t. However, it doesn’t change anything.

You’ve got me chained up like some kind of animal without so much as a conversation.

You and I both know there’s no coming back from this for either of us, so you might as well get it over with.

” There was anger in her voice mixed with hurt, but her face remained unfazed.

“You’ve got a lot of nerve, Juicy baby. You played in my face this whole time.

I’ve never been the type to be manipulated by pussy, but you got me good.

Had a nigga at the jeweler ready to get down on one knee and you were plotting against me the whole time.

I gotta give credit where it’s due because you made a believer out of me. ” I chuckled angrily.

“How long did it take you to come up with this elaborate theory of yours? You should really think about being an author because the way you pulled that story out of your ass is impressive.” I got ready to respond, but the sound of banging interrupted me.

When I stood up, my doors were being pushed open.

I lifted my gun to shoot the intruder, only for my dogs to come rushing into the room.

Rosco and Apollo came barreling past me right over to her.

Huncho and I stood there stunned as they licked and nudged her as if she was hurt. They had never behaved like this, and I was confused as to how to react.

I shouted every command I could think of, but neither of them budged. They knew I wouldn’t kill them, but this was their first time testing that theory.

“Aye, everybody is calling my phone. Tycen, Duke, and Murk are blowing our phones up. I think we need to take a step back from this and see what’s going on.” Reluctantly, I took my phone from Huncho and Murk’s number flashed across my screen again.

“What’s going on? You’ve been blowing my shit up like the world is on fire.”

“Where is she? And please tell me you don’t hurt her, because you’re gonna regret that shit,” he rushed out.

“Oh, yeah? I’m more curious to know how you’re involved in all of this.”

“You know me better than that. The only reason I’m on your line is because my wife was hysterical and she showed me some shit I thought you needed to know about.” I could hear another voice in the background and assumed it was Puma.

“Make it quick. I’m already in a fucked up mood and any more bad news will only make things worse.”

“Check your phone.” I received an alert at the same time he spoke, and when I opened the image, I almost passed out.

“You’ve got to be fucking with me.”

“There’s a lot of shit going on, and I think you need to sit on this for a while longer before you do some shit you can’t come back from.”

It was a little too late for that, but his points were valid.

I hung up the phone then turned back to look at Juicy.

Apollo and Rosco were still trying to figure out a way to set her free while I stood there in disbelief.

Someone had to be out to get me because there was no way my life was blowing up in my face like this by accident.

I went to my messages again to take one more look at the picture before handing it over to Huncho.

Once he saw it, he and Ammo made their way over to free Juicy.

I had no words. All I knew was that I had fucked up majorly, and there was no coming back from this.

I wasn’t even sure if I was supposed to feel relieved or not because everything was hitting me all at once.

All I knew was that I had almost killed the mother of my unborn child and she would probably never forgive me.