“Thanks, man. That means a lot coming from you. I know you think I’m crazy as fuck sometimes.”
He chuckled as he headed to the door. “Hell yeah, I do, but you my brother, no matter what.”
I smiled at him as he walked out the door. After taking a deep breath, I headed to my bedroom. When I walked in, I chuckled. Noni had made a heart in the middle of the bed with her under garments. Slowly shaking my head, I went to my closet to grab some jeans and boots to get my day going.
CHAPTER 18
BALI
“So you saying that muthafucka was involved?” I asked Ali.
“Hell yeah. That nigga wasn’t finna let his niece get caught. He knew what she was doing. He’s gotten sued before for administering wrong medication. His history says he guilty as fuck. I don’t have concrete proof, Lil Storm, but my gut don’t lie.”
Watchful Eyes always called Noni and me Lil Storm. I didn’t take offense to it. My daddy was the shit, so being a twister spinning off his hurricane winds was an honor. I slowly shook my head. I knew that pharmacist knew some shit for Mythic’s baby mama to get away with the shit she did. Unfortunately, I didn’t know what could be done about it.
There was no footage, nor was there evidence that Maui had any of that medicine in her system. When Vanessa told that shit to Treasure, it had already been too long.
“Fuck!” I said.
I began pacing in front of my house, trying to think of something we could do to prove it. Ali was watching me intently, like he was reading my fucking thoughts.
“What’chu wanna do about it?” he asked.
I stopped pacing and stared at him. I wanted him to give me options. That ho was in prison, so I couldn’t get at her. After I didn’t say anything or allow my gaze to waver, he turned his lip up and nodded.
“Got’chu, boss,” he said and chuckled.
That muthafucka was going to suffer the consequences his niece couldn’t for fucking with the Hendersons. I took a deep breath as Ali drove away and went inside the house. I just called a fucking hit. I couldn’t believe I’d done that, but I didn’t feel the least amount of regret.Fuck him.I flopped on the couch and sent a text to Noni.
You still at Red’s?
She didn’t go home last night. I would have heard her car. My bedroom was close to her driveway. That was done on purpose. I was the big sister. Although it was only by a few minutes, I took my role seriously. If she didn’t come home, that meant things had gone well. I was glad she decided to go to him, despite what he said.
No. I’m at the hospital. I think I’m going to have to perform a hysterectomy on Kim. I hate that. She’s only thirty-two years old. She wanted kids so badly.
I took a deep breath, feeling sorry for her for a moment. I was at least able to take Clomid to try to get pregnant. I still had all my female organs. Then I thought about her situation in detail. Kim was in a whole ass relationship with a woman. Unless she was gonna get sperm from a sperm bank, she wasn’t gon’ get pregnant anyway. Instead of saying all that, I just texted,Keep me posted.
Hopefully, that could wait until Monday. I didn’t have a single appointment on Monday, so I would be able to go with her and assist wherever she needed me to. I’d seen Maui and Ashanni yesterday morning, and both of them were doing well. Maui’s blood pressure was perfect. Ashanni was two steps fromchildbirth. She’d dilated to three centimeters. There was no need to put her on bed rest because she was almost full term and the baby was progressing perfectly, just gaining weight. She was nearly thirty-six weeks.
That time seemed to just fly by. I knew it probably didn’t seem that way to her. My phone rang, and when I saw my daddy’s name, I smiled.
“Hey, Daddy Mayor.”
“Hey, baby. What’chu up to?”
“Not too much. You coming over?”
“Yeah. On my way.”
He ended the call. I wasn’t sure what this visit was going to be about. He typically just dropped in without calling. Maybe this was something serious. Daddy could be over dramatic at times. He was so protective of all of us, especially his daughters. We had to constantly remind him we were grown as fuck.
The doorbell rang, so I went to it and let him inside. He kissed my cheek as I closed the door behind him. He went and flopped on my couch. “Hey, Daddy. What’s up?”
“We have a meeting tonight at the family barn. Those muthafuckas fucking with Marcus. Watchful Eyes found out some interesting information about Cici’s family. Dad had gotten all of Marcus shit straight when he had his name changed. That shit proved he was a citizen, because he officially claimed paternity. I think Dad knew some shit, though, and that was why he left Marcus’s shit in his name.”
“Damn. How is Uncle Marcus?”
“He’s good. He’s in Puerto Rico, chilling with Ali and Dinalee’s family out there. He just misses his Synna and the kids.”
