“I couldn’t even begin to tell you where.” I turned to see Felix and Raul walking in. Raul just came from ending his ex’s life and making sure his mess was cleaned up.
“You doing a lot for a chick you’re not sure about marrying.” Felix always had something to say.
“Nigga, she passed the tests I’ve been giving her so she good.” I waved him off looking down at my phone.
Kateri’s mom was supposed to call me when she woke up. It’s not like she hasn’t but due to the pain, Kateri would wake up for a few minutes and beg for pain medicine. The doctor said it wasn’t a good idea to continue giving it to her because she’d become dependent and never want to be awake. Therefore, I made the executive decision to stop it and she’ll have to stay awake longer than ten minutes. I don’t know why they even allowed her to dispense morphine when she wanted to.
“What tests?” Manny inquired and Raul moved closer to hear as well.
“That nigga had almost every guard try to get with Kateri. They offered her money, gifts, dick and secrecy.” Felix thought it was funny.
“And?” Raul wanted to know the answer right away.
They knew how hard I took that shit when I found out Victoria was fucking Glenn. Like I told my family, I definitely would’ve been mad she stepped out but I deserved it. However it never should’ve been with the help and for that, she’ll never see the light of day again.
“And she told each of them to get the fuck out her face and if they came on to her again, she would find a way to poison each one.” They started laughing.
“Why she ain’t just say she’d tell you.” Raul asked the same question Felix did when I told him.
“Because she knew what Victoria did with Glenn and probably didn’t want me to think she was down with it.” Ishrugged. That was the answer she gave when I confronted her about it. I made it seem like they were on camera.
“Ok then. I guess she’s the one.” Raul started talking shit about how he still didn’t like her. I could care less, as long as he didn’t put his hands on her or be disrespectful. I knew about him being rude to her in the past but that shit stopped once I made her my girl.
“Hell yea she’s the one. You should see the big ass ring he got her. I ain’t even get one for Rosalina yet and his ass about to get on his knee before me.” Felix was at my house when the jeweler stopped by to show me different rings.
At the time, it was just to get an idea of what I wanted her to have. She wasn’t into materialistic things and I didn’t want her to think it was too gaudy either.Kateri really had me going back in the promise I made myself never to get married.
“Damn cuz. She must’ve gotten you strung the hell out.” Manny joked making all of them laugh. I had to join because he was right; I didn’t even think about marrying Victoria that fast. It was something about Kateri that fascinated me about her.
“BOSS, CALL AN AMBULANCE!” We heard from the basement. Rushing down the steps to see what he found, all of us were in utter shock seeing Jackie half dead on the ground.
“Where the fuck was she?” I shouted and Felix was making a call for an ambulance. Manny patted her softly on the face and Raul covered her with a small blanket he ran upstairs to get.
Jackie was shivering, her lips were blue, skin was pale and you could tell she had nothing to eat in days. The room reeked of urine and feces and what’s worse was seeing photos of me and Kateri out to eat, at my house and one showed my bare chest at the window of the same house Kateri got shot at. Who the fuck was watching me?
“We didn’t see her the first time because there was a wall made to cover where she was.” The guard admitted. I couldn’teven be mad because how would they when I’ve never sent them to her house.
“A wall?” He pointed when I said that. Sure enough it was a shitty one that you could tell was put together quickly. How did the person get it done without Jackie knowing?
“They’re going to kill Kateri.” My cousin spoke barely above a whisper. Raul lifted her and carried her up the stairs.
“Who? Who’s going to try and kill her?” Why did she say they’re as if it was more than one? Hell yea I said try. I wasn’t about to let no one take Kateri from me and I’m still blaming myself for not going to the car.
“Grab more blankets and get some water for her.” I barked out orders. All of us were trying to make sure she was ok. At this point, I no longer had her as a suspect to what happened to Kateri. I’m just hoping she would be able to say who the people were so I could get them before they went after my girl again.
“The ambulance is here.” Felix yelled, running in from outside.
“Send four people with her and I want one of them to ride in the back.” Manny went outside to relay my message as the EMT’s and paramedics rushed in. One started an IV, another was taking vitals while the other two were getting the stretcher ready.
“Cairo.” Jackie squeezed my hand when they put her on the stretcher.
“Don’t talk. I’ll be at the hospital and when you get better, we’ll talk then.” She shook her head no.
“Kateri wants to be your wife and have your kids. Make sure to protect her. She’s not Victoria.” I’m not gonna lie, her remark made me smile yet we were all worried about her health. Jackie looked horrible, and still all she worried about was Kateri. Rosalina did say she wanted to plan our wedding and baby shower. Clearly they were closer than I thought.
The paramedics pulled off and it was time to start searching her house to see if we could find something; anything.
“Ahhhhhhhh.Ok. Ok. I’ll tell you what you wanna know.” The dude William screamed as Raul jammed a knife in his hand that went through the table.Two days after Jackie was at the hospital, she gave us the rundown of who shot my girl.
