Page 61 of A Beast Captured My Heart

Those gray eyes stared back at me with so much intensity, like she was challenging me.

"You no pow me, daddy. I pow you!" She balled her little face up, and there was no denying that she was my child. I smiled back at her and grabbed her hand as we made our way down the hallway.

"We gotta find auntie Yori," I mumbled. A million thoughts were now circling in my head.

We lost her. You fucked everything up, now she's gone!

I set Mattea up in the living with her favorite movie Frozen, I went to search for my cellphone. Going inside our master bedroom, I could still smell her sweet scent so that meant she had just left. I checked the closet all her belongings were still in there, that should’ve calmed me, but it did nothing, I needed reassurance. Picking up my phone, I shot her a text asking where the hell she was. She sent a one-word text saying Work. I asked her what time she got off and was she coming back home. She didn't give me a response.

I sat on that bed for ten minutes, Kayori had me checking my phone every couple of seconds. I tried calling her, I received no answer. I stood to my feet, pacing with thoughts of going up to her job. Kayori acted like she didn't know how my mind really worked.

Just give her some space! Let her chill and have some time to think, she not going nowhere she's pregnant with our baby.

Shaking my head, no, I was not trying to hear that soft ass shit.

"Give her space? So, she can go hop on the next nigga's dick while she carrying a nigga baby? Hell, fuckin no!"

I gripped my phone tight as I went to contacts to search Leandra's number. Kayori was playing mind games with a nigga, and I wasn't feeling the shit at all.

"What do you want Praise?"

She asked with attitude evident in her voice.

"Are you still out here? I need you to come sit with Mattea for a couple hours, before you start bitching, I really hope your close by. I really need your help right now Leandra."

I needed her to fall the fuck through, I couldn’t risk losing Kayori all because of Nia dog faced ass.

"I'll come, ya ass lucky I'm still out here visiting. If I come though, you need to do me a favor."

"I won't kill your punk ass son, but when I see him... I'm gone beat him so bad, he gone wish I did kill him."

I gritted as I couldn't believe the words that left my mouth. When it was all said and done, Leandra got on my nerves, but I loved her. She was my mom and Mattea was going to need her more than ever after I killed her damn momma.

"Okay, Praise. That works for me. I'm five minutes away, so I'll be there shortly. You need to take your meds. You’re on edge, son."

Saying nothing, I hung up in her face. I checked my text messages one more time and became furious when I realized Kayori still didn't respond. I called her two times before she finally blocked my number. Smiling to myself, I went to the bathroom to take a quick shower and prepared myself to go up to her job and drag her ass back home.

Chapter Twenty-Nine

KAYORI

“You want to take a couple weeks off, what’s your reason Kay?”

Brian stared at me with concern, I stacked a couple of papers that I was getting ready to file for new patients. I swallowed down the anger and hurt that I was feeling from last night and brought my ass to work. I could deal with a lot of shit from a person, but playing me like I was nothing was something that I had no toleration for.

The way Beast said he fucked his ex is what had bothered me the most. I didn’t care about him killing her, which probably made me crazy. A sane person would be very concerned with Beast’s logic. To me, he betrayed me. Here I was helping him and trying my hardest to love on him and he just casually sleeps with his ex. His nonchalant attitude is what really pissed me off more.

His dumb ass constantly asked and questioned if I was fucking someone else, when he could do the shit so easy. Me imagining Beast giving my dick away had me sick to the stomach. I wanted to teach his ass a lesson. I desperately needed to get away and take a break from it all. I was about to take a step away from Beast for the sake of my baby. I didn’t want to go through a stressful pregnancy and that’s exactly what it was starting to feel like.

“I’m going back to Cali; I have a lot of business to handle out there. I suppose to start on renovations for my mom’s house… I just want to get a head start before I get further along in my pregnancy.”

I gave him a reassuring smile, I really wanted to break down and cry. It felt like everything was starting to go wrong. I had a gut feeling that things were about to get worse.

“Kay, you know I’m your boss… but on a serious tip, I’m your friend. I used to be in love with you. I know when you’re masking something, if you need the time off… I got you but I’m really worried about you. I mean this Praise character acts as if he’s totally obsessed with you. He has threatened me, talks about you as if you’re some sort of object. I just don’t like it, and he’s not screwed too tight. Now your pregnant by him, it’s not too late to get rid of it.”

I looked at him in shock, at what he was suggesting.

“Look Brian, I appreciate your concern but that’s not an option. Praise would kill me if I was to kill his baby. Plus, I’ve already grown attached to the baby.”