“You came to the right place. We can get him to help us locate that fucking book. Once I get that bitch, you’ll have your freedom and millions to go with it.” He smirked sinisterly.
“Take this bitch to the dungeon.” He nodded his head at Lucille. “And this thick piece right here…” He nudged his head in La’Nova’s direction.
“Take her to my royal prison and search her big neck ass thoroughly. I want her clean, feed her good… You still like crab legs and watermelon?” Lennox smile widened.
La’Nova swallowed down the bile that rose in her throat and nodded her head inattentively.
“Good.” Lennox licked his lips. “Get her some king crab legs, butter dip, and fresh watermelon.”
Chapter 20
Vegas Bound
Luca sat in the passenger seat with one arm resting on the door with conflicted thoughts stuck in his mind. Roy’s Cyber truck zipped past other cars on the freeway effortlessly with Rod Wave’s latest album on blast. Vegas waited ahead of them.
Luca and Roy had things plotted out thoroughly. Men awaited their arrival with their eyes glued from a distance on Lennox’s main headquarters. After all the plotting and thoroughly proclaiming war with his uncle, Luca found himself sleepless every night.
He thought it would be easy to condition his mind into believing that he would end La’Nova without any second thoughts. He’d only known her for six weeks. Forty-two days. A handful of nights and conversations with her that somehow carved themselves into him deeper than women who had known him for years.
She crossed him in the worse way. Luca reflected to the hesitant looks she gave him each time he drew closer. He felt her body stiffen when he was near and touched her. Luca ignored a lot of signs along with small confessions of her not being the womanfor him. He even saw her battling with herself, forcing herself to not like his touch. La’Nova forced herself to check out of conversations that he’d tried to spark with her.
A lot of times the pair sat in silence. Just being in each other presence was hard for them both to deny the raw chemistry that kept them both curious. La’Nova gave Luca nothing but a feeling too strong to shy away from. She had his mind betraying him in the worse way possible. He found himself back in the pits of darkness. The same hollow feeling returned to the center of his chest, radiating throughout his entire body.
Luca was back at square one. His throat hurt, he only felt better when he laid in the twins room and talked to them each day up until it was time to hit the road to Vegas.
Her gray eyes haunted him. Her spicy vanilla smell lingered in his nostrils. Luca felt sick to his stomach, mouth watery like he’d throw up at any moment.
“Get your head together.” Roy turned down the music.
“I’m getting there,” Luca whispered truthfully.
He shook his head then looked out the window.
“Our connection wasn’t imagined.” Luca flexed his jaw. “I know energy, I can feel when some shit locks into place.” He shook his head.
“I’m trying to unlock what happened between No—La’Nova and I because?—”
“You don’t want to kill her,” Roy bellowed out.
He flicked his eyes over at Luca, not caring that he had to cut him off. Luca’s heart skipped; he kept imagining himself looking at La’Nova’s heart-shaped face, sad eyes, and pulling the trigger.
“I loved Dontrell,” Roy paused. Sadness caused his throat to constrict thinking about his late mentor. “I used to wish that he was my real pops.”
“Niggas got plenty of excuses why they deadbeat parents. Men like us… our excuse is we busy, securing the legacy. Making this money, so we ain’t got time to stick around and raise no kids… That wasn’t Dontrell.” Roy smiled.
“Dontrell made time for you and Kentrell. He even made time for me. My dad hardly even acknowledged me, while my momma tried her hardest to wear both hats. She was mom and dad since Ronald’s bitch ass was too busy with his side pieces.”
“That’s why you were always at our house. Mrs. Gracee hated how much you loved being there.” Luca smirked.
He couldn’t stand Roy’s parents. Luca never knew much about them except how they looked. He wasn’t welcomed over their house, but Roy always found a way to the Bonetti estate. The boys went to the same private schools together. Dontrell and Lucille knew how much Roy meant to Luca, so they always included him in family gatherings. Unbeknownst to Roy and Luca, Dontrell threatened Ronald when he tried to keep the boys apart.
“Yeah, she did.” Roy smiled.
“People we look up to, love and follow behind not perfect. Whatever Dontrell did to La’Nova was unforgivable. Doesn’t matter how we view it. She knew his status when she pulled the trigger…which tells me, she already ready to die behindher decisions like Kentrell was ready. We all got to take accountability and answer to our sins. This shit right here ain’t shit but a fucked-up cycle that’s gone keep spinning.” Roy shrugged his shoulders.
“So, what you saying?” Luca inquired.
“I ain’t judging you…” Roy answered, switching lanes.
