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                      DOMONIC

It's like everything happened in a flash. I was just laughing and clapping along with the crowd at the gender reveal, now I'm on the floor bleeding out. Life's funny eh?

Kenya is screaming and running toward me as soon as she sees me. A stout man peels her away from the ground.

She kicks and screams in his arms but she couldn't free herself. All she could do was look at me

My body felt weak as I looked down at the blood I was losing. My eyes find her tear stained face and that was the last thing I saw before my world went black.

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                       KENYA

It felt as if hours passed as I sat and waited for the gunshots to subside. My ears rung and my eyes burned.

Mommy hugged me but I felt numb. Her comforting words went from one ear through the other as my world came crumbling down around me.

"Mummy we cyaah mek him dead" my voice was barely recognizable. I had screamed until my voice faded.

"Gary's not gonna make that happen baby, I promise" she assures me.

I sob lightly in her arms as hot, wet tears cascaded down my cheeks. It hurt. It hurt so fucking much.

Just when I was getting back on good terms with him this happens. I couldn't help but think it was my fault.

There were no problems when we were apart but as soon as we see each other he gets shot and potentially killed.

When Gary and his men check the area and see that it is clear everybody left.

Mommy and Kj leaves to rush Domonic to the hospital after finding a faint pulse in his wrist.

Sitting on the floor, I let my thoughts consume me.

What if he never met me? He would be happy with Candace in some fancy place. Married with kids and a dog.

He'd probably be with someone else, just not Candace.

What if I left him alone like his stepmother wanted? He wouldn't get shot.

"Kenya nothing naago happen to him, stop the worrying" Imani says beside me, trying her best to comfort me.

"Imi, I'm leaving Teddy with you and Kenya. Squid and I are going to find out who is behind the shooting" he places a kiss to her forehead and mine, shrugging on his jacket and leaving.

Curiosity washes over me. How is he going to find the people behind the shooting and why did everybody have an alias?

Him a badman.

He couldn't be. Gary was too sweet and loving to be one of them but it did make sense.

Tek telling nuh.

"How?" Is the only thing I say.

"Kenya, Daddy is a don. Which means he has enemies all over. He's also got skilled and powerful men working for him" my jaw drops as I take in the words Imani just said to me.

"How's that possible?"

Stop asking stupid questions, me nuh just answer yuh?

"A Jamaica dis. Plus, why do you think someone has to accompany me everywhere? Do you think it's because I'm his only child? Nah. It's because every time I step outside, I'm stepping into danger because of my fathers title".