Stone nodded at him, “You looking for a war or something?”
The two men locked eyes, years of bad blood, betrayal, unfinished business, and even some emotions vibrated between them.
“I’m not looking for anything, but I ain’t running either. Tell that nigga to watch his mouth when he wakes up.”
13
Ace stormed into his house with Stone and the girls in tow, they went straight to Farrah’s room. Ace carried deep humiliation of knowing how many people had just witnessed him fall, especially his daughter.
Ace touched his jaw and hissed, “I can’t believe that bitch ass nigga really hit me.”
Stone didn’t even look at him, “You stepped in his space.”
He paced the floor because he was ready to kill Rich, and his daughters, too. That nigga thought he was crazy, but Ace was a loose cannon, always had been.
“You on the nigga’s side?” he looked at Stone.
“I don’t take sides, that’s kid’s shit. You got in the nigga’s space and he dropped you, that ain’t taking sides, that’s the truth. What you gon’ do about it?”
Ace paced the floor as anger radiated off him like heat.
“I want his head!”
Stone narrowed his eyes, “I feel you, but that shit ain’t gon’ be no walk in the park.”
“That nigga can’t fight bullets. I ain’t scared of him!”
“Fear ain’t the problem. Don’t get it fucked up, Rich is good with the tool, too.”
Ace threw his hands up because he wasn’t trying to hear that shit that Stone was talking about. In his eyes, Stone was holding that nigga’s dick.
“Well, may the best shooter win.”
Stone didn’t speak right away, he just looked at Ace.
“You don’t get it do you? You think you can just walk up and shoot that man? You ready to risk it all because you got knocked out? I don’t need that type of heat around me.”
Ace screwed up his face, “So, just let the shit go? Fuck that!”
“I never said that but calm the fuck down while you’re talking to me.”
“So what you saying, Stone? Because right now you not making sense.”
Right then and there Ace knew he was about to take matters into his own hands because Stone was soft on Rich.
“You right, handle it your way, but if anything comes back and fuck up my operation, Rich is going to be the least of your worries.”
The way Ace was feeling, anybody could get it, even Stone.
“I hear you.”
“Feel me, don’t just hear me.”
Stone said what he said and walked out. Ace was pissed off to the point of no return. He didn’t even want to look Farrah in her face as she came down the stairs and joined him in the living room.
“I’m sorry, Daddy. This is all my fault.”
Ace tried to calm himself down, he didn’t want to talk to his daughter out of anger.
