I make the call closing down all my trap houses for the foreseeable future. Slim would definitely be looking for me assuming that I knew that Yah was his daughter all along. Jasmine has gotten past security into my home so that was no longer a viable spot for me to lay my head I had it cleared out and cleaned. It would be on the market and sold by next week. As Yah snores loudly in my ear I'm texting my realtor and she found a loft in Oaklawn that was suitable for us. I had Nataviah and my sister go to get clothes for Yah and groceries. Digging in her medicine bag I grab a couple Tylenol 30s and swallow them dry. My muscles burned and ached. My back filling taut from the stitches. I have Jazmine waiting in a safe house I can't wait to be rid of her.
"Maybe you should slow down on those we don't need both of you slumber back there." Jakobi insisted on coming after momma had been hysterical thinking me and Yah had been killed. She wanted Jasmines head on a spike and though I agreed with her she was safe until she dropped that baby. I had her in a safe house under 24/7 surveillance. I'd all but had her chained to the bed. She was furious but as long as she was living off my dime I don't really give a fuck about her comfortability. Look at Yah I feel bad. Her face is as beautiful as ever but she will definitely scar. The doctor said it was anything a plastic surgeon couldn't fix but Saaliyah was much too prideful to got under the knife to fix so that high self esteem could cure.
"Can you stop staring at me like a weirdo."
"What year is it?"
"Nigga what?"
"The doctor says I have to ask you questions to make sure you ain't to fucked up in the head, so what year is it?"
"2023."
"Who's the president?"
"Biden'a geriatric ass unfortunately."
"When's your birthday?"
"September 30, 1998. Big Libra Shit."
Shaking my head I can't help but laugh at her goofy ass.
"You good for now? You hungry?" She shrugs sitting up straighter in the seat assessing me.
"So we just not gone talk about all the bullshit that's transpired in the last twenty four hours? Starting with who the hell attacked me when I was trying to buss a nut." I slide closer gripping her thigh.
"Shit, I can't help you get another one if you want to." I press a kiss to her neck making her giggle.
"Stop changing the subject."
"Yeah E, and yall don't forget I'm back here too with yall horny ass. Both of y'all are fresh off gurneys and already tryna hunch. And that what got y'all in trouble in the first place. And Yah, Key said answer the group chat before she comes whoop your ass too."
He burst out laughter going back to texting our sister.
"Tell her I can't Nataviah is in the groups chat." She wrings her hands still absorbing the information her mom dumped in her lap.
"You don't need to give your sister the cold shoulder she was only doing what she was told. You can't blame her for that." She shrugs snuggling deeper into my side.
"I know but I can't help but feel betrayed. The people that are supposed to be honest with me no matter what have been keeping this from me. Especially momma. She fucking siblings but telling me to stay away from you." My phone buzzes with a notification and my heart drops.
469-778-3367: I'm coming for what's mine.
I look up and Jakobi is already looking at me, the only one in the car able to read my subtle shift in demeanor. I screen shot the text and send it to him. We won't bother tracing it because Slim is too smart to use his personal phone. I text the rest of my family letting them know I'm beefing up security and to keep they head on a swivel.
Slim just initiated war
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"Look at this place!" Yah happy squeals come from the master bedroom. She was admiring the Alaskan king bed that took up a majority of the room. Looking at the bed made me realize just how tired I am. Helping her undress I get her comfortable before go back to the living room where my boys waited patiently. Jakobi hands me a blunt and they allow me to take a couple of hit before bombarding me with questions. Tailor being the first to open his mouth and voice the one question that seemed to be on a lot of people's minds
"I'm still not sure what the fuck he actually wants with Saaliyah. Do you?"
"The Thurgoods aren't your traditional gang. They're a crime family and have been for the last five generations. Slim wants to do what all crime bosses do when they don't have a son to inherit the throne. Combine his family with another through marriage."
"That's doesn't make any sense. He didn't raid her and she's a grown ass woman now, he think she just gone go for that?" He screws his face up as if he's smelled something bad.
"He not exactly the type of nigga you can tell no. He doesn't see Yah as her own person. She a means to an end. He only cares about her because he's too old to have anymore children and he needs a legacy. That's what she represents."
"He had another daughter."
"She's illegitimate. He doesn't give a damn about her."
Ashing my blunt I survey the room. Everybody who meant anything to me go to Yah and me were present except for our parents. My momma was never in the streets like that and my dad stood on business when it came to her so he took her on vacation until all this blew over. Nataviah looks uncomfortable having hid in the bathroom on our arrival so she didn't have to run into her sister. She looked up feeling me eying her. She looked guilty.
"If you have anymore secrets you should let them out now."
"I think this is the worst one. Momma told me about Yah's half sister a couple years ago. They were allowed to have a relationship as kids but one day she showed up to Slim try kidnap Yah from school. He'd been tell his other daughter that once he had Saaliyah he'd take both of them away and they bed able to be a family. Once he couldn't have Yah and completely abandoned his other daughter, never claiming her but still coming around to fuck on her momma."
"I'm not seeing how that's got anything to do with us."
"It's has everything to do with you since she's your baby momma."
