“I was picking my son and his mother up today because they were being discharged from the delivery unit. We got into a car accident when we were leaving. Were they brought in? I don’t know where they are. The accident knocked me out, and when I woke up, they were gone,” I told the receptionist, out of breath.
“What are their names, and do you need medical attention yourself, sir? You look a little bruised up.”
“Harmoni Cole and Cadence Thomas. He was just discharged today. He is only three days old. Do you all have cameras near the highway on the back side of the hospital? I need to know what happened after we were hit and who hit us. They left the scene, and now my family is missing.”
The receptionist made a phone call, then told me to take a seat, and the doctor would be with me. I called Harmoni’s cell, and it went straight to voicemail. I tried three more times and got the same results. After waiting damn near twenty minutes for the doctor, Trell walked into the hospital with my pops directly behind him.
“What’s going on, son? Where are Moni and my grandson?” my dad asked in a shaky tone.
There was nothing this man loved more than Cadence. He hadn’t stopped talking about him since he was born. My pops was visibly shaking, and I couldn’t tell him that I had no idea where they had disappeared to. As he stared into my eyes with a sad look on his face, Trell ran the story down that I had told him over the phone, and my pops instantly started pacing.
“Ain’t no way they just disappeared from the car. That shit is impossible, son! We passed the Jeep when we pulled into the hospital, and it’s clear that was no accident! You wereambushed, and they took my fuckin’ grandson! I know you hit yo’ head pretty hard but be smart about what’s going on around you!” my pops spat.
Trell and I looked at each other without speaking. I just knew what my pops said couldn’t be true. I had faith that when the doctor came out, he would tell me that they had been checked into the hospital and they were alright. Just as that thought crossed my mind, Harmoni’s number popped up on my phone. I quickly answered.
“Moni, where are you, baby? Are you and Cadence okay?” I answered.
“You couldn’t have thought you could kidnap me and my son, and I wasn’t going to touch yours. I told you that Jakari was a bitch, but I wasn’t going to let that shit slide. I meant that!” a female replied before hanging up in my face.
I sat there frozen and unable to speak as I let that conversation replay in my head. I needed to be doing something, anything other than what I was doing, but my mind couldn’t grasp what I had just been told. As I allowed my nervousness to turn into anger, the doctor walked into the waiting room. Not wanting to believe what I had just heard. I asked the doctor if Hamoni and Cadence had been in the ER. He advised me that I needed to call the police and alert them of what happened because they had not been seen. He begged me to let him check out my injuries, but I didn’t have time for that. I was about to make bitches’ mommas cry behind mine. Fuck having a knot on my head. That was the least of my concerns.
I told my pops and Trell to follow me outside, so I could tell them about the phone conversation I had just had.
“Diamond just called my phone telling me that she touched my girl and my son because I snatched her and her son. She said Jakari was a bitch, but she told us that she wasn’t about to let theshit we did slide. This bitch ain’t dead, and she got my son and my muthafuckin’ fiancée!” I spat.
“What? I watched this bitch get slumped. You sure it was her? Did she say what she wanted in exchange? If that hoe ain’t dead, she’s about to be. Hell nah!” Trell said as he rubbed his head.
“I don’t know this Diamond bitch, but she just started some shit that she couldn’t be prepared for! My grandson? I don’t care what type of shit y’all had going on or street beef. Cadence should have been left out of it. Now I’m about to paint this muthafuckin’ city ’til I get him the fuck back!” my dad barked as he headed toward the car.
I knew this shit was about to get ugly as hell. Anybody from Jackson, Mississippi, knew not to fuck with Grimy. His name said it all! He would go to extreme lengths to get what he wanted handled, and now Texas was about to feel his wrath. I heard so many wild stories, and now I was glad that I would get to see him in action. If I was going to war about mine, I couldn’t ask for a better team than my pops and Trell.
Calling the police was not an option. I knew who had my family. I just had to find the bitch! What I didn’t know was how she knew where and when to find us. That hoe was so jealous of Moni, and it was critical that I get to them asap. I wouldn’t put shit past that dirty ass hoe. I treated her son well when I snatched them, so I could only hope that she would do the same to mine. Either way, this bitch was about to die!
I jumped in the car with Trell and my pops, and Trell called Taylor on speaker.
“What’s up, stranger ass nigga? Long time no hear,” she answered.
“Girl, you wanted a nigga to chase you. You know that ain’t my type of time. Where you at, though? I’m trying to link!” Trell responded.
“Nigga, you started ignoring me! I’m out of pocket right now, but I might be free tonight. What you tryna do?” she asked.
“Yo’ memory a lil’ different from mine. You tryna go to pound town or what? You know yo’ ass miss this. You went crazy after that first link.” Trell fake laughed.
“Hell yeah, I am. Shid, I’m gon’ make time for you tonight, Daddy! Send me the addy, and I’ll call you when I’m on my way. Don’t start back ignoring me either!” Taylor advised.
Trell ended the call as my pops sat beside him with his fist balled and veins popping out his neck.
“Bitch ass nigga, my grandson got snatched, and you sitting here talking ’bout going to pound town with some funky bitch! You just sat yo’ tender ass up here and caked with a bitch in my muthafuckin’ face after someone snatched what’s mine. I should rock yo’ shit right now!” my pops spat.
“Damn, old school! Calm the fuck down! That’s the sister of the bitch who took Harmoni and Cadence. I’m not trying to fuck her! I’m gon’ kill that hoe if she don’t take me to my nephew and his momma!” Trell said.
“Shit, tell me something, ’cause I was about to say! My bad, my boy. I’m on edge like a bitch right now. I’m glad I didn’t fuck you up over a simple misunderstanding,” my pops joked, causing us all to laugh.
That was short lived because reality kicked back in, and my family was still in the hands of this crazy bitch. I told Trell to drive around to the front of the hospital because I needed to see the security camera footage. They would have to show me a license plate number or something. Diamond couldn’t have snatched my son and fiancée on her own. She had to have an accomplice, and I needed to know who it was so they could get smoked too. I knew she had to have a nigga helping her.
We all jumped out of the car and quickly walked into the building. When we entered, there were signs directing us aroundthe hospital that led us to the security room. I felt my pants pockets to make sure all my money and my wallet were still there. People could be sheisty, so I had to check. I knocked on the door to the security room, and some big, buff ass nigga opened it. As he stood in the frame, I approached him as politely as I could.
“Hey, my mans. I was wondering if you could show me some security footage from earlier today. I need to see if you have cameras pointed toward the highway right there.”
