“About time you woke up.” Sariah was on the other side of me.
“The driver is outside waiting for us.” Completely confused, I laid there thinking she was mistaken with her words. I just had surgery and now she’s telling me that we have to leave.
“I’ll explain at the hotel. Right now we have to go before Cairo gets back.” Sariah removed the covers off my legs, lifted me up and tried to help me off the table. My legs were too weak and yet here she was rushing me.
“Sariah, I have to wait for the anesthesia to wear off. What’s…. wrong…. with you?” My words were stuttering because I was trying to talk and the medicine was still heavily in my system. My head was spinning and I couldn’t move on my own.
“Young lady what are you doing?” I heard a voice just as Sariah moved her hands and let me fall back.
“Ahhhhh!” I screamed. My head hit the bed hard since no pillow was there and my hand felt pain as well because it hit the side of the bed where the railing was. Both of my legs were hanging and had the woman not ran over and caught me, I’d be on the floor.
“I was trying to take my friend out of here before Cairo returned.” The woman helped me get comfortable and yelled at Sariah to grab the pillow off the ground.
“Your friend was in no condition to leave and we both know it. She can’t walk, move on her own and from what I heard; barely talk. What is wrong with you?” The woman had her hands on her hips staring at Sariah.
“I’m sorry but Cairo—” She cut Sariah off mid-sentence.
“Who cares what my son thinks? It’s his fault that she had to come here so it’s his responsibility to take care of her.” When she mentioned him being her son, everything in me wanted to get up and leave but I couldn’t. All I could do was let my eyes continue to close like they were.
“Where am I?”My eyes fluttered and opened to darkness. The window shed a little peek of sunlight from outside but not enough to see anything.
Click!The light in the room came on. Slowly lifting myself on the bed to sit up and see who was in here, my eyes stared at some young woman. I’m not gonna lie; her beauty intimidated the hell out of me.
She was brown skinned with glowing skin against that shed of sunlight. Her hair was up in a wrapped up ponytail but you could tell by the texture that it was long. Her shape was perfect for a woman and didn’t appear to be a BBL or showing any signsof surgery. Her face was pretty and there weren’t any signs of makeup or fake eyelashes yet from a distance, you could mistake her for having it on.
The woman reminded me of those gorgeous brown skinned naked women in magazines whose body’s are covered but their beauty overshadowed the entire picture. I felt ugly, fat and ashamed to be here at the moment. What if she were Cairo’s wife or girlfriend and here to make sure I’m a mess? With all the thoughts running through my head, I had no idea he stepped in until his voice gave me an instant headache.
“When the fuck you leaving?”
CHAPTER 9
Rosalina Romano
“Why the hellare you so damn rude?” I playfully pushed Cairo on the arm when he snapped at the chick named Kateri. None of us knew anything about her beside the fact that my brother broke her hand for minding a business other than hers.
“Ain’t this my shit?” He spat. I swear he was my father’s child. Because Cairo refused to pay any hospital bills once the family doctor stated she needed surgery, he brought her to his house here in the Islands to perform the surgery.
The place was so big he had a small hospital wing in back of the house just in case and it was needed at the moment. He wasn’t cheap but also didn’t feel like it was his place to not only care for this woman but pay for any medical procedures when her hand wouldn’t be broken had she not interfered.
“Anyway, our mother said to take good care of her and not to be mean. Now, if you would like for me to let Anabel Romano know you’re doing the exact opposite of what she requested, Ishall do so.” With my arms folded across my chest, I waited for him to answer.
The only female Cairo didn’t fuck around with was our mom. They had a mother and son bond that no one could break, and if he thought you even looked at her wrong it was off with your head. My dad said it’s because she babied him. I said it was over the fact that when he was seven years old, they were at a store food shopping when some man approached them in the parking lot. He was scary looking from the description my mother gave and they were both scared. Security wasn’t around because my mother fought tooth and nail with my dad not to have them following her. Unfortunately, he gave in and it almost cost her life.
The man ripped Cairo’s hand away from my mother’s, started punching her in the face and drug her to a van. Cairo had a cell phone at the time that only called my father and security. He made the call and knew they wouldn’t make it in time. Hearing our mother scream, Cairo ran over to the van with the hunters knife my dad gave him when they went on excursions to kill animals, opened the door and stabbed the guy a few times in the leg and back.
My mother was fully dressed and come to find out; he was her abusive ex-boyfriend from her teenage years. She didn’t recognize him at first but when she did, he wanted to kill her for leaving him but decided to beat her up one last time first.
Little did he know, Cairo was her savior and not to long after, my father and uncles showed up. From how they tell the story, they took him home and in front of his family, killed him and everyone there. I couldn’t say it wasn’t a good thing because he deserved it. Sadly, his family was caught up but it was what it was.
Ever since that day, my father and uncles groomed him to be a maniac. Some people were terrified to look at him, scaredto walk by and frightened with thoughts that he may come after them and their family. I guess it would happen that way when you were raised not to care about anyone or anything.
What’s sad, was him taking the life of Victoria. I despised that bitch and hated her more for cheating on Cairo, but he was in love with her. I’m not saying she should’ve stayed knowing he was unfaithful or that she didn’t earn the right to give him a taste of his own medicine but why do it with the help. Everyone knew who Cairo was for sure and Glenn knew better; hell anyone working for my brother knew.
She had the audacity to be crying her eyes out watching her family die as if she wasn’t the cause of it. The icing on the cake was seeing her face after hearing Cairo slept with her best friend. Then again, she had no right to be mad when she was fucking the help.
“Whatever. Just get her out ASAP before she has another accident and succumb to her injury.” Cairo gave the woman a death stare after she gasped hearing him threaten her life. Moving closer to the bed, I stared down at the woman lying in bed appearing to be uncomfortable.
“He won’t hurt you.” I tried to calm her nerves.
