Trini lifted her head to look at me.
“He had been coming to my job harassing me,” I spoke, voice shaking. I had to pause to control my breathing. Just talking about it again was bringing back painful memories.
“I just wanted him to leave me alone, and so I made a bad decision,” I rubbed my arms, guilt eating away at me.
“But I swear I had no idea the drink had been given to Hell. I just assumed Sony put it down or something,” I explained what I’d been trying to tell Makari for the longest.
She looked at me.
“If I had known what would happen, I never would have done it. God knows how much I wish I could take it all back,” I confessed and sniveled.
I knew part of her decision to lead those men here was because she believed I killed Hell purposely. Makari had already explained about how it was only the three of them for the longest, so I knew she was hurting too behind his loss.
Trini just continued to sit there looking at me, and then she looked down at her feet.
“I’m sorry I let my anger take over for a moment.”
I paused. My mind telling me to pull away from her because she had the potential to hurt me, but at the same time, she could have left and didn’t.
I was grateful that Makari thought to teach me how to handle a gun, but Trini’s life was at risk too. They could have killed her as well.
“Thank you for coming back,” I let her know.
She made a mistake, but she had the chance to escape, since we didn’t even know that she was there until she killed the first two. However, Trini chose to stay and help me. That was all I cared about.
“Truce?” I offered with my hand out. She lifted her head to look at me and then smiled.
She then stood to her feet and shook my hand.
“Truce.”
And finally, we saw eye to eye!
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
MAKARI “HAVOC” SANCHEZ
THE NEXT NIGHT
“What do you mean they’ve disappeared?” I fussed. The information Oblique just gave me had me pinching the bridge of my nose.
After I dealt with the bodies in my crib and moved to a safe house, I had the crew looking for Viper and Sony, only to find out that they’d vanished.
I wasn’t stupid; I knew that I would have to take them out for this shit to end. Sony violated by sending two teams of niggas to my house. Thank God I had the sense to train Kairi to use a gun; otherwise, I knew I would have come home to find my wife gone.
The shit she pulled with Trini was reckless as fuck, and I was still struggling with believing what they were saying, but God knows, my wife still being here was all I cared about.
But it would all be in vain as long as Sony and Viper were still breathing.
As soon as I moved her to safety, I was on those niggas’ heads only to find out that they’d already gotten away.
Trini got hold of the security footage from the club, some shit I didn’t even think about doing, and it showed what Kairi had been trying to explain.
She handed that drink to Sony, and he gave it to my brother without her knowing. When my father came in with his bullshit, Kairi was no longer in our section, and that was when Hell was given that drink.
At first, I didn’t want to watch it, but I did. Seeing my brother drink something that hurt him pained me so deeply. I wished I could reach into the video and stop him from doing it.
I was still hurt that it happened, beyond fucking hurt, but I knew it wasn’t her intention.
