Reckless

Epic 60

I can't say that I was too surprised that Ezequiel managed to evade us for all these months, that nigga always had multiple duck off spots and was a master of moving from one to the other without being detected. Him hiding by a college campus an hour and a half away from Columbus was smart, I'll give him that much... but if he was really smart he would've left the country and that was his fatal mistake. I wonder how Edmund wanted to handle this, one of the things that Meraux suggested I start doing is letting my generals make decisions, I couldn't always be the sole authority and sometimes it was smart to listen to my advisors. This one was difficult for me because Eileen was my wife... Elisha was my daughter, I felt like it should be me doing the work, but Eileen was Edmund's sister... he was probably more hurt by what happened than I was and this was his brother.... I needed to fall back and let him take point. We sat in the car watching the apartment, I saw movement in the window and then spotted Ezequiel walking through the living room... bold for him to have the curtains open but that was good for us because it confirmed that he was in there. I looked at Edmund who hopped out of the car, before I could catch up to him he started to knock on the door, then paused before twisting the handle... to my surprise the door opened and Edmund stepped inside.

"Man bout time you got here... hurry up and strip, I've been holding this nut in for almost a week and..... Oh shyt......" Ezequiel said fumbling with the gun, Edmund walked straight over to his brother, smacked the fuck outta him, picked up the gun tossed it to me.

"Lock the door.... you know even when we were kids mom used to always be on your ass for forgetting to lock the door, I guess what they say is true, some habits are hard to break. Sit the the fuck down... we need to talk...." Edmund said as I locked the door. "Expecting company?" Edmund asked, I noticed the lube, the weed, and the unopened bottle on the table. "I guess I'll make this quick then... there's only two things I need to know.... why the fuck did you turn on Eileen and who the fuck were you working with?" Edmund asked.

"Ed... look you got it all wrong I didn't..... it's this niggas fault..... he's the reason Eileen got killed and....." Ezequiel didn't get to finish because I was whoopin his ass.... all the pented up anger I've been feeling about his betrayal and the fact that he's been hiding..... Edmund didn't even try to stop me, he just let me go until I was out of breath and tired.

"You definitely deserved that.... but let's not pretend I don't know everything, I know you were fuckin that bitch Destiny and I know you were feeding her information... information that led to the death of our sister and our niece." Edmund said looking down at Ezequiel who was bleeding from his mouth, nose, and ears.

"Ed... please....." Ezequiel said. "You gotta understand... I was young and stupid I didn't know that Destiny was feeding information back to the Lawsons...... and I....." Edmund smacked the fuck outta Ezequiel who looked stunned, I had a feeling Edmund was holding back.

"Forget that this nigga is here...." Edmund said pointing to me. "This is me, your big brother.... the nigga who was there from the beginning...... me, you, Eileen we....." Edmund wasn't the emotional type but his voice cracked a little before steeling himself. "No more lies... tell me everything."

"I... I was there that night...." Ezequiel said and I felt my heart starting to race. "But Eileen wasn't killed because of the Lawsons.... remember when Icon got kidnapped.... it was Eileen who set it up.... she needed him out of the way, the thing is she went to the wrong people... enlisting some of Legend's old Marine buddies as well as Icon's 'friend' Terrence... she wanted to show Epic that he could be touched... that he wasn't invincible..... She fucked up because she underestimated how ruthless those niggas were and when Qwantay intervened and got those dudes killed well.... They came back wanting revenge, they started talking to Destiny, I think one of them was fuckin her.... they came to the house..... I had run to the store to grab Eileen a few things and when I came back.... the fire was going crazy, there was no way I could get in there and then."