“So, you real-life slicker than a can of oil,” I had to laugh.
She nodded. “The cameras have audio too. I paid extra for the app to store all the footage,” she revealed, causing my heart to palpitate. “And Too Low might not be the type to say much over the phone, but he had plenty of conversations at that apartment. And I think that he intentionally had Mattie with him at my apartment, so that Tera could go over your mama’s house to plant those drugs without much interference. There’s camera footage of that
too,” she revealed. “And one of the reasons Too Low probably was dealing with Mattie was to get control over the situation. They had a big argument on camera, because he was going through her phone, and factory reset everything, stopping her from having access to your mama’s cameras at her house. Everything he was doing was going way over Mattie’s head. She didn’t knowingly help him do anything. Judging by some conversations, Tera sent him in her direction, and I guess getting some pussy was just a bonus. But his dumb ass never factored in your mama having the app to monitor the cameras herself.”
“What the fuck?” My jaw dropped in astonishment. “How… how did you come up with all that footage?”
“I been up for three days straight. Just gathering recordings. Piecing shit together. And then, I decided to come to you first, before I bring everything to your lawyer. Because this is gonna implicate your BM, and I didn’t want you thinking that I was being vindictive, throwing her under the bus.”
A smile gradually invaded my face. “That was real as fuck.
You going with whatever I’m on, huh?”
She nodded. “If you rocking, then I’m rolling. So, what we doing?”
“What’s up, baby?” I opened my arms, as I stepped out of the building.
After laying eyes on me, Babi immediately rushed me, jumping into my arms, and wrapping her legs around my waist. Saying absolutely nothing, she rained kisses all over my face.
Gleefully, I laughed, while carrying her back to my G-Wagon. “I’m home.”
“I know,” she smiled, as I leaned her up against the truck. “Wherethetwinsat?”Iquizzedafterpeeringthroughthe
tent, realizing that she was alone. “They’re at home with Britt.”
I sighed in disappointment. “I asked you to bring them, Babi.” “I know you did. But I know that you aint gon be able to settle
in at home, when you don’t have the girls at home too. So, I figured that we could go out to Sugarland and pick them up.”
I nodded in agreement. “Now you talking. Let’s ride out.” I placed her back on her feet. “But wait a minute.” I grabbed her arm. “The fuck you got on?”
She glanced down at her biker shorts and sports bra, like she didn’t know her damn self. “Oh. These are just workout clothes.”
I lifted a brow. “Really?”
“Yeah.”Shegrabbedthehandleonthetruck.“Comeon.
Let’s go.”
Ten minutes later, we were on the freeway, headed to Sugar-land. I was riding shotgun, while my mind was all over the place. My lawyer was now optimistic about me and my mama beating all the charges. In the meantime, I’d just bonded out, and I was hoping to have all my charges officially dropped by my next court date in a few weeks. My lawyer had also mentioned that the D.A. was definitely going to pursue charges against both Tera and Too Low.
The thing was that I didn’t know when exactly any of this was going down, and I just wanted to shield my girls from all the bull-shit. Tera had literally changed their phone numbers, switched their schools, and cut off all contact with my family, all within a few fucking days. Which means that all this had been in play.
It fucked me up to think about how devious my BM was. She had every intention of sending me to jail for several years, while running off with my kids. I know that I’d played with her feelings in the past, but I didn’t think that she’d ever take shit to these extremes. And now, she had my kids around a nigga who had some fucked-up intentions.
All I kept thinking about was Too Low’s promise that he was never letting Babi go. And something deep down told me that the last thing he wanted to do was be Tera’s knight in shining armor. Her dumb ass was probably just a part of the plot within a whole other plot. But she probably couldn’t see it. Was too worried about shitting on me.
Nonetheless, by the time we pulled up to Tera’s townhome, there was no doubt that she was there, as I spotted Aspenriding on her electric scooter down the sidewalk. So, before Babi could come to a complete stop, I hopped out of the jeep.
“Aspen, where is your sister?” I asked her, as I stepped onto the sidewalk.
“Daddy!” She shouted, after immediately stopping her scooter. “Mama won’t let me call you,” she snitched, as she dropped the scooter, and ran up to me.
“Well, I’m here to get y’all.” I wrapped my arms around her. “Where is Shi?”
“She’s in the house.”
I nodded. “Who else is in there with her?” “Just mama. Her boyfriend went to the store.”
