Her Last

Cʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ Eɪɢʜᴛᴇᴇɴ

Lᴇʀᴏɴ "Rᴇɪɢɴ" Kɪɴɢ

I walked into Rome's crib and dapped him up. He lead me to his room and we sat down.

"You want a drink or sumn? This is gonna be... long." He said with a nervous look on his face.

"Just a water." I said as he was typing his password into his computer.

"You can look through this if you want until I get back, but imma explain everything." He got up and started to walk out the door. He paused before turning back around. "Brace yourself."

A nigga's heart was racing. My leg was bouncing as I avoided eye contact with the computer. I didn't even wanna read that shit. I was too nervous.

I torture niggas. I take lives. But I was scared to look at a fuckin screen.

Rome came back and passed me a bottle of water.

"You good?" He asked as he sat down.

I shook my head, "Just lemme know what you found out."

He sighed, "Josiah set Ken up."

My heart sank. I felt sick. I was livid. My throat got tight. My eyes started to burn.

"I have all the messages from up to a year before the incident happened."

I was breathing fast and shaking my head.

"He got into contact with this guy named Antonio-"

"No. Nah man. No fuckin way dawg." I yelled as I started to tear up.

"Y'all know him?" He asked concerned.

"That's Tia's fuckin ex bruh."

Rome's jaw dropped for a second before he got himself together.

"He offered him $100,000 and a year of protection to pull off the hit successfully. They planned for every scenario. It was originally supposed to be an invasion but Josiah caught him before he went outside for something. He distracted Ken with a conversation after he sent a message to Antonio telling him to prepare."

I was sick to my stomach. The thought of J having a conversation with Ken, knowing moments later he'd be dead by his hands, was gut wrenching.

"You know Rebecca?"

I did. Rebecca was our private head Nurse, but I couldn't answer him. He realized this and then carried on.

"Josiah offered her and the other nurses $500,000 each and a year's stay at some apartments out of state. He would pay for the cars, tickets, everything. And they got protection. But, they had to meet him at a place they called "Point B" instead of the trap." He said, showing me the message log. "They only knew about three months ahead of that matters."

"Point B..." I said.

"Any significance?" He asked.

"Can you show me where it is?"

He pulled up a map and suggest vaguely to an area I was familiar with, and I knew exactly what it was.

"That's his nightclub. But why would he make them go? Why didn't he ask them niggas who get rid of our bodies?" I asked.

He scrolled back up to some messages.

"When I first saw everything I thought the same thing, but as I looked deeper into it I realized what might have actually happened. I thought it was weird how J asked dude to do it so early on, but I thought it was just common drug lord practice when pulling off something like this. Then he started talking about practice. Learning how to shoot a gun doesn't take a year to learn how to do. You need a month at best, because shooting to kill is easy. But shooting to ONLY harm is where it gets tricky."

I looked at him confused.

"They spoke in code a lot so I didn't wanna come right out and say it just in case I was wrong about it, but he was very clear about what would happen if Antonio fucked up."

He closed his laptop down.

"I think Ken is alive, and he's at The Dirt."

"Stop fuckin' playin wimme Roman." I grunted.

"Leron. Why else would he want the nurses at some random location? Why else would he be stopping there every single night? I wouldn't say it if I didn't think I was right. You're my boy, I wouldn't do that to you."

I felt like I was about to pass out. What was I gonna do?

My thoughts were interrupted by my phone ringing. It was Ti.

Tɪᴀɴᴀ Kɪɴɢ

"Cmon pick up." I whispered frantically as Janet banged on my front door.

My mother and Kiana were next to me comforting me while Tommy tried to calm Janet down from inside.

"Hello?" came from a vaguely familiar face. I wanted to ask who he was but I didn't have time.

"Where the fuck is Ron? I need him to come here now!"

Leron must have sensed the urgency in my voice and took the phone from his friend. He was about to say something but I interrupted.

"Janet is downstairs and she has a fuckin weapon. Please, come get her!"

He perked up immediately and started moving.

"Stay on the phone!" He demanded.

Within minutes Ron pulled up and hopped out the car.

"JANET CALM YA LIL ASS DOWN!" I heard him scream.

Janet

"TELL YA SCARY ASS COUSIN TO COME OUTSIDE!" I yelled.

Reign lunged at me trying to grab the arm I was holding my dagger with, but I pulled it bank and swung at him with my left hand. In a swift motion I flared my right hand towards him and sliced his shoulder.

"BITCH!" He shouted before finally getting ahold of my wrist and squeezing it with so much force that I dropped my blade.

He pinned me up against the wall, "WHAT THE FUCK IS YA PROBLEM?" he barked at me.

"JOSIAH AND TIANA BEEN FUCKIN!"

It's damn near 5:30 a.m. and I haven't proofread this so please forgive any spelling errors 😭