“The fuck did you do, Trini?” my brother asked.
“I didn’t—” she started and stopped.
“SO, HOW THE FUCK DID THEY GET IN MY HOUSE?” Makari gritted.
“It was me,” I interrupted in a panic.
That made them look at me.
“What was you?” Makari questioned, frowning at me.
“I, uh, I asked Trini to lure them here and get you out of the house,” I lied. Her eyes widened a little as she looked at me.
“The fuck would you do something stupid like that?!” Makari barked.
“I knew they were after you, and I was trying to help,” I said.
He groaned and dragged a hand down his face.
“It isn’t your place to try to protect me, Kairi. That shit was reckless as fuck! What if something went wrong!” he yelled at me.
I grabbed his hand and looked him in the eyes.
“I was just trying to help,” I let him know. He gave me a weird ass look and shook his head at me.
“Havoc, the clean-up crew is here,” Oblique came upstairs and announced. I looked over at Trini, still in disbelief that we’d killed eleven men together. Since Makari trained me how to use a gun, this was the first time I’d ever actually used one to kill someone. All that he taught me stuck with me as fight mode kicked in. But now the dust had settled, my nerves were getting the best of me.
“Y’all go into this room, let me deal with this,” Makari said, pointing to the guest room he’d been staying in. That was the only room untouched by the madness that had just happened in our house. My eyes landed on the bullet holes in the hall, and my stomach sank.
“Go with her, Trini,” he instructed. I welcomed that because right now, I just didn’t want to be alone.
Just as she stepped around him to follow me, Makari grabbed her by the arm and looked in her face. He didn’t say a word, just stared at her with the most murderous look in his eyes before he let her go.
I noticed the way her shoulders dropped.
He then gave me a final look before disappearing downstairs with Shakur and Oblique. I looked at Trini, and she looked shaken. I led her into the room and closed the door behind us.
She looked around the room and then took a seat.
Her breathing was shaky, and she shook her head.
“Why did you do that?” she asked. I sighed.
“I know what happened, Trini,” I let her know. Her eyes popped open, and her shoulders slumped.
“But I’m just glad that you changed your mind,” I let her know. She sat there staring at me for a few seconds.
“Sony told me that he just wanted you and it would be over. I will admit I allowed my anger to go along with it,” she said something that I could understand. It wasn’t that I didn’tunderstand their anger, I just wanted them to know it wasn’t my intention to hurt Hell at all.
“He used me to try get to Havoc. I’m sorry,” she said, dropping her head.
I just stood there looking at her, part of me understanding her and the other part struggling. She said she was Makari’s best friend, yet she would lead men to his house to hurt us.
What if he hadn’t taught me to shoot?
I swallowed a breath and continued to look at her.
“That’s what Sony does. He lies and uses people,” I said, finding one thing to sympathize with.
