“I told Lennox that I’ll sort out his funeral,” I let her know. She lifted her head to look at me and smiled.
“I will help.”
And that was why I wanted this girl more than anything. She kissed my lips and went over to the refrigerator.
I closed my eyes and rubbed at my temples. Today was heavy.
“I found something else out today, too,” I let her know, taking a seat at the kitchen island.
“What?” she asked, her head now inside the fridge, probably trying to find something to snack on as usual.
“There was a doctor friend of Sincere’s who did an autopsy on my brother,” I explained, feeling that heaviness hit me again just from saying the words out loud.
“And he said?—”
I then stopped talking because I just couldn’t form the words to say. Kairi looked over at me and slowly closed the refrigerator door. A bottle of Prosecco in her left hand.
“He said what?” she asked, concern displaying on her face.
“He said that my brother might have been poisoned.”
It seemed like all the color drained from Kairi’s face as she stared back at me blankly. Her eyes changed, and I noticed the way she started to shake. That made me stand to my feet.
“Are you okay?” I asked. Her reaction was making me nervous.
“He said that? Are you sure?” she questioned, stuttering.
“Yeah. He said it was cardiac arrest, but he suspects Kelechi might have been given something that caused it because inside of his mouth was purple with white patches.”
The glass bottle slipped from her hand and crashed at her feet, spilling the bubbly contents.
“Oh my god!” she gasped. Eyes wide, focused on me, and full of tears. “This can’t be happening,” she said, now shaking her head vigorously.
“What?” My heart was racing out of my chest because something in my gut was telling me she knew exactly what I was talking about.
“Don’t tell me—” I couldn’t even finish my sentence. Memories of that night spun around my head, and the realization that she was there that night, too. “Did you?” I asked and stopped.
“No, it wasn’t like that!” she pleaded. Kairi rushed my way, and instinctively, I took a step back, which made her stop.
She looked at me, hurt and confusion shining brightly in her dark orbs. Tears soaked her cheeks.
“I-I put something in Sony’s drink. I thought that maybe he just didn’t drink it, but I didn’t know—” She stopped just as the image of Sony handing his drink to my brother flashed before my eyes.
I remembered how he’d ordered a drink from Kairi, and she handed it to him, but just as my father came to evict me from the club, Sony had given that drink to my brother to calm him down.
I looked at my wife—my world, my comfort, and my heart shattered knowing she was also the cause of my pain!
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
KAIRI SANCHEZ-MOORE
This was my karma—it had to be. My heart was broken to know that I was the reason why Hell lost his life.
As soon as Makari said it, I knew in my soul it was my fault. That night, Sparkle and I finally made a plan to get Sony back for all that he’d ever done to me. At that point, I was tired of being afraid. I just wanted him to disappear, so I took the bottle she gave me, determined to make it end once and for all.
At first, I was just too scared; even when she said that nobody would be able to find out. I even thought against it until that night when Sony showed me that he would never leave me alone.
That night, he showed me that as long as he saw me, he would make my life a living hell, and I’d hit my brick wall. All I wanted was for him to leave me alone, and I felt like that was the only way.
