“I don’t know who the fuck you are or what you want, but put my son down right the fuck now! Y’all want me? Okay, you got me. Just don’t harm my baby,” Harmoni cried.
“Looks like you’re not in a position to be calling any shots here Ms. Lady. Chill the fuck out, and everything should be fine. ’Cause if you don’t, shit can get ugly for you and this handsomelil’ fella. You hurt the woman I love, now it’s time to pay up. Y’all didn’t think about the consequences before yo’ nigga snatched my girl and her son up.”
Harmoni started to cry and scream at the top of her lungs. She begged for her baby, and Serg walked out of the room with him in his arms. In the middle of Harmoni crying, I placed my hand around her throat and choked her ass until she almost passed out.
“Shut the fuck up, you stupid ass bitch! If yo’ nigga comes through on the offer I present to him, I might let you and that crying ass baby live. You know something else? You a real lucky bitch. If that was Jakari’s baby, I would have killed you and that little muthafucka by now!”
“You a dead bitch. You gon’ wish Jashawn had really killed you once my fiancée comes for me! You think he gon’ let you play with his only child’s life? Rowdy ain’t shit like Jakari. Just watch!” Harmoni barked as she sniffled.
I looked at her hand and noticed that she had a fat ass ring on her finger. It was nice as hell, and that bitch definitely didn’t deserve it. I snatched the ring off her finger and slapped her as hard as I could across the face, then I grabbed a handful of her hair. I bent down and got eye level with her as she was still tied to the chair.
“Ain’t shit special about you, bitch! You like to look down on me, and you forget that I’m the bitch who ruined your life. I’m the reason that all the years you invested into Jakari have gone down the drain. I gave that nigga something that you couldn’t. I also had Black in the palm of my hands, playing stepdaddy to JJ and shit! It’s nothing you have that I can’t take! You not special! You think you cute, but watch how ugly I leave you when it’s all over,” I said before continuing to beat the shit out of Harmoni.
Watching my pops kill Taylor didn’t faze me. At that point, I was ready to kill Diamond’s entire family. We needed less sick muthafukas like that in the world. Trell used the information that Taylor had given us about Diamond’s new nigga and made some phone calls. As he did that, I could feel the tension between Ciara and Trell. Now, I was sick of their asses, and I really hoped that when all of this was over, they could work this shit out. My boy had never acted like that behind any woman before, and I knew he really wanted to be with Ci.
Trell parted ways with us so he could head out to Memphis and handle some business with that nigga Serg’s people. I told my boy to be safe, and we headed to Journei’s spot. My pops was quiet as he rode; I could tell that he was trying hard not to goback to his old ways, but against his will, it was slowing coming back out.
We arrived at Journei’s house, parked across the street from the address given, and turned the lights off. I laughed to myself at the team I had with me. I still didn’t know why the fuck I agreed to let Ciara ride. Although she was a real nigga at heart, she was still a female. I didn’t want her to get hurt, nor did I want her slowing us down. Just as I hit the lights, we saw Journei leaving her house with a duffel bag and a suitcase. She was clearly in a hurry to leave.
Before I could come up with a plan, my pops slid out of the car and casually jogged across the street. As Journei placed items in her trunk, he took his knife out of his pocket and crept up behind her. He placed his hand around her mouth, and the other hand held the knife that was placed on her neck.
Grimy forced Journei to the front door of her house, then inside. As soon as we saw that they were inside, I took that as my invitation to get out of the car. Before I could tell Ciara to sit in the car and look out, she gave me a look that said she wished a nigga would. I didn’t say shit to her; I just let her get out and follow my lead. We rushed into the house and found my pops ramming Journei’s head into the island counter.
“You don’t know shit? Let me jog yo’ memory! We already saw you on footage from the hospital helping that bitch take my grandbaby. Your other cousin confirmed it and gave us your address. Lie again, and this shit gon’ get wicked. Ain’t nobody playing with yo’ funky ass! My grandson is in the hands of a crazy ass bitch!” Grimy barked.
“Okayyy! I don’t know where she is! I can let you call her from my phone. She never gave me an address or told me anything important at all!” Journei cried as my pops turned her loose.
“You sat up in our faces and plotted with yo’ sick ass cousin to snatch my baby and my fiancée? You gave her our location and let her take them from me? What the fuck was all that about? You knew that shit was wrong, and you still did it. You had been caring for my baby the whole time he was in the fucking hospital, just to turn around and put him in harm’s way,” I told Journei as I walked up to her.
“Diamond promised not to hurt the baby. This shit is deeper than you could understand, and I had no choice. Had I not helped her, I may as well have been dead. Diamond is crazy and has always been crazy. She has an obsessive personality disorder and has always been on meds for it. Once she gets something in her mind, she will not stop until things go her way. I’m so sorry! I didn’t want any parts of any of this. That’s why I was trying to leave.”
“How you didn’t want no parts of it, but you still helped the bitch kidnap them anyway? We all have choices, and every choice comes with a consequence,” Ciara blurted as she rushed over to where we stood.
Before I could finish questioning her, Ciara threw a punch that connected with her face, and she instantly dropped to her knees. Ciara started kneeing her in her face, then she grabbed her by her hair and dragged her around the living room. I went to stop her, but my pops put his hand out and stopped me. We both knew Ciara was pregnant and didn’t need to be on this bullshit, but I wouldn’t dare challenge what Grimy said. Once Ciara was tired, she backed away.
Journei lay on the floor in the fetal position, still covering her head and crying like a new ass baby.
“Bitch, get the fuck up and call your cousin, ’cause once I catch my breath, I just might kill yo’ ass in here!” Ciara barked.
“Yeah, I like her. She gets straight to business. If my grandson not home by tomorrow, everybody gon’ be dead!” my pops stated.
Journei slid her phone out of her pocket and dialed Diamond, then placed it on speaker. When Diamond answered, I immediately started speaking. I told her that if she wanted to keep breathing, I needed her to give me my family back in the same condition they were in when she took them. I also threatened to kill Journei.
In so many words, Diamond said she didn’t give a fuck what I did to her cousin.
Hearing that changed Journei’s whole attitude. Diamond told me that she wanted two million in exchange for Harmoni and Cadence. I agreed and asked for her location. She told me that she would call me later with the details, and I explained that I didn’t have time to waste. I needed them back right now.
“Since she wants to play it like that, I know someone who knows where they are. The guy who helped them kidnap Harmoni and the baby is named Smutty. I’ve seen him around before, and I know he likes to hang at The Lounge downtown. I’m not sure how they know that nigga, but Diamond told me that he got scared and dipped once he found out it was Harmoni who had been kidnapped. He was in on it, and he can lead you straight to them,” Journei blurted.
I looked at Ciara and my pops. Ciara looked as if she knew something that we didn’t. I waited to see if she would tell us, but when she didn’t say anything, I shrugged it off as nothing. I made a mental note to knock this Smutty nigga off too. Nobody touched my family and escaped the consequences. I wasn’t about to give Diamond a dime. The only thing I had to give her was a bullet to the dome.
I called one of my hittas and told him to bring two clean up guys with him. I needed there to be no traces of what was aboutto happen to Journei here. I told Journei to call her job and let them know she had a family emergency and would have to leave town for a while. Since I was on camera at the hospital looking for her today, I didn’t want her body to be found and I became a suspect. I held my gun to her head while she made that call, then I took her phone and powered it off. I grabbed her car keys from her counter, placed her phone in the bag that she had when my pops forced her back into the house, and placed the phone inside it. We waited in silence thirty minutes for my guys to pull up. When they came inside, I gave them her bag and instructions to dispose of her and her car. I also told them to leave the place spotless.
Journei begged and pleaded for me not to hurt her, but this was her karma. It just happened to came back around quicker than she expected.
We left there and dropped Ciara off at her car. I knew she was not going to just sit down; I just hoped she didn’t do shit to get herself into trouble.
“Son, you have a group of loyal people surrounding you. Trell will place his life on the line to protect yours and Ciara will go to war with the world behind Cadence and Harmoni. You have a crew that you can call, and they’ll make a muthafucka disappear in a heartbeat, no questions asked. I know this shit is not how you imagined life, but we gonna fix this shit. When shit gets rocky, you know you are not doing this shit alone! I’m here now, and I’ll move mountains for you, son. This whole town finna feel my wrath until I get the bitch behind all of this.”
