“I was and I’m not sure your brother would be ok with him putting hands on you.” Kateri said, making Sariah lift her head from the phone.
“Shhhhhh and it’s not bad. I do hit him back at times.” I glanced around and peeked behind them to make sure no one heard what she said.
“What? Oh hell no. I’ll fight him for you with this cast and deal with the medical bills from the hospital. We don’t play that domestic abuse shit. What’s your room number?” Kateri was mad as hell. It was crazy because we only met a few days ago at Cairo’s mini hospital. Yet here she was ready to fight for me.
“I’ll be ok and please don’t mention it. If you do, I’ll tell Cairo that you were going to be a witness if that girl pressed charges.” The way Kateri’s mouth dropped let me know she understood. Sariah shook her head and told me if she wasn’t worried about me lying on her, she’d tell Raul. At least they both knew what it was.
I have no problem watching Cairo take their life for not minding their business.It’s not right when they were only looking out for me but it was what it was.
CHAPTER 10
Felix Sanchez
Walkingpast Lina with a smirk on my face because we both knew she wanted me; I pressed the elevator button. I’m nowhere near conceited but I’m no ugly nigga either. I had girlfriends and women around me constantly, yet the only one worthy enough of me to even consider settling down with and not cheating on would be Rosalina, who I called Lina for short. She was my crush since I was ten; I’m twenty nine now and to this day she never gave me any of her time.
Of course I flirted, whispered sweet nothings in her ear, made sure to buy her birthday and Christmas presents every year when I could and still, she wanted no parts of me. At events she wouldn’t sit next to me or allow me in her space to try and smell the perfume she wore. When she made a pact not to ever date what she considered hood guys, she stood ten toes down by it.
Rosalina was perfect in my eyes even as we were growing up. Never got out of character for any man nor did she show any sign of weakness when her first boyfriend cheated with her wayfriend from kindergarten. She only found out when the chick got pregnant and he showed up at the baby shower wearing the“Daddy to be,shirt. One would’ve thought all hell break loose especially with all of us and her family there but nope. Lina kept her cool, congratulated them and moved on, only to find out the first baby her friend had was by him as well.
I tried to be there for Lina but she shut down and stayed in her room for two months. No one could get her out until Cairo said enough was enough and kicked the door down at the house. He had a glam team set up downstairs and forced her to get it together. Granted, she did but every now and then I noticed her being very standoffish at the family functions.
I was infatuated with everything about Lina. From the way she wore her hair, her style of dress, her smile, her voice and the respect she required walking in a room. By far she was the baddest chick I knew and wanted her by my side.Now that it seems there’s trouble in paradise, I’m gonna make sure she feels the pressure.
Stepping on the elevator, I went to my room to take a nap. Cairo’s birthday was tomorrow and we still had shit to set up for him. Since he sent Manny’s ass home, me and Raul were stuck with handling his part as well. It’s all good because the party was going to be epic if I do say so myself.
See, me and Cairo been friends since kids and that’s because our fathers were best friends growing up. We were always around one another, did the same sports at school, fucked the same chicks and killed together. He was my brother from another mother and vice versa. Our parents treated us as their own kids and we’ve considered each other blood regardless of DNA.
When Cairo found out about Victoria cheating, I’m not gonna lie, he was hurt. Yea, he dipped out with other women and expected her to seek revenge. He just didn’t think itwould’ve been with someone employed by him. To Cairo, it was humiliating that Victoria didn’t upgrade and that she became pregnant. Especially when Cairo wanted her to have all of his kids and vowed to never cheat once they tied the knot.
Unfortunately things didn’t work out the way he planned and Victoria’s family suffered a lot. Yet, so did he because that nigga was ten times worse than before he killed the family. Niggas were scared to breathe around Cairo because of the fear he instilled in them for messing up. Me, Raul and Manny would come do our jobs and leave. If he needed us for anything else, he’d call.
After a few months he seemed better but his kill game was still scary. I mean Cairo had a mean streak but the way he killed people and had them begging for mercy should be studied. He was the world’s most notorious “Don”and killer that no one wanted to cross paths with and that’s exactly how he wanted to keep it.
KNOCK!KNOCK!Hearing someone at my door, I glanced at the clock and saw it was three in the morning. Me and Raul just finished setting up the ballroom with Cairo’s family and instead of staying at his mansion, I came back to the hotel.
KNOCK! KNOCK!As the person continued, I grabbed my gun and headed towards the door. Opening it with a smirk on my face, I couldn’t help but get turned on. Lina stood there wearing a pair of pajama shorts exposing her shaved legs and a matching tank top. The slippers had some fur on them and the smile on her face let me know this wasn’t a venting session.
“What’s up? You good?” I had to play off the fact I wanted her in the worse way.
“Can I come in?” Stepping aside so she could do that, I closed the door and bit down on my knuckles like one of those corny guys in a movie when a beautiful woman walked in. She wasn’t super thick but she had meat on her bones and her ass moved up and down in those shorts. Moving over to the couch inside the suite she patted it for me to sit next to her.
“Why you here at three in the morning?” I cut to the chase because if we not fucking, I’ll leave her sitting here and go in the other room to sleep. We had to be at Cairo’s mansion by eleven to have brunch which doesn’t give me a long time to sleep. She kicked her slippers off and folded her legs under her.
“Who do men cheat?”Was she serious?
“Oh hell no. I’m going to bed.” Leaving her right there, I went toward the stairs that led up to the bedroom. Ain’t no way in hell we were about to have this conversation.
“Felixxxxxx.” She whined following me up the steps. Removing my Nike slides, I pulled the comforter and sheets back, got in bed, shut the light off and turned the pandora station on the television. I had to have music playing in order to sleep well.
“Are you really not gonna talk to me?” Staring up at her standing on the side of my bed, I chuckled when she became bashful.
“Get in.” Sliding over and removing the covers so she could get in, I waited and wrapped my arm around her waist. Her back was to my chest as she scooted closer. She smelled good and this was the first time we’ve ever been this close or half naked around one another.
“Lina, fuck that nigga if he cheating on you.” She turned over to look at me.
“You’re way too beautiful and good of a woman to allow any man not to respect you.” She laid there in silence. After a minutepassed without her saying a word, I turned over, put the pillow over my head and closed my eyes.
“Felix, can you make love to me?”Did she really just ask me that?
