Hard To Give (ℭ𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔢𝔡)

24• Plot

     
  
   
"I own a security firm, Jehlani, and my sister-in-law needs my support." Xavier answered, smiling at me as he hugs his mom.

"Uncle Zee." Hari, Sani and Cassidy sings, rushing to his feet.

"Hey, Rug rats." He laughs as they climbed up his leg.

Sani giggled as she knows the cartoon.

Hari frowned. "No rats."

He lifts all three of them in his arms.

I held Lani's hand as I felt his anger. An just like that, his emotions were turned off.

Nonchalant about everything around him as he took out his phone, checking his emails.

I sigh, looking at our family and friends who all refused to tell me what happened. Even daddy.

Mainly daddy, since Maxwell knows everything about Jehlani, French and Lani. All three characteristics of this one man.

The anger I felt surfaces, after I gave my phone to my cousin.

They got busy doing some computer work and in a few minutes they got what they needed.

"Do you know someone by the name of Devon Pierre?" Xavier looks over at us.

I frowned and thought about it for a while.

"No...but I know someone named Perry." I said.

Then my eyes widened.

"Which Perry?" Daddy asked.

"Ashawn waste man friend from Harrison." I held back my scoff. "The guy who took us from Pier one to the private party that you almost eat my head off for."

"When you almost got shot in the face?" He frowned.

All eyes turned to me.

Grandpa got up from his seat.

"Did Ashawn call you?" Grandpa inquired and I shook my head. "I had someone watching him after you told me he wasn't present in Sani's life. He moved to Shortwood road five months after your wedding was announced to the public."

"He's still there?" Daddy asked, holding his phone in hand.

"He is. Currently working at a bar on old hope road the last time I checked."

"Boston is running that job?" Xavier asked and that got Lani's attention.

"He is."

"You need to call him, the last time I saw Boston was at the toll booth heading to Ochi." Lani announced and I got confused with all the back and forth.

Everyone knew Boston but me.

Grandpa hired him to watch Ashawn, Sani's biological father who suspiciously moved to Saint Andrew after I got married.

He's associated with Perry, or Devon Pierre. A guy who was in bad company as a teenager and seems to join a gang in salts spring Montego bay.

Are they suggesting that Ashawn puts a hit on my head?

How are the twins connected to this?

I looked at my stepmom who was seated aside marking test papers. I know my question will hurt her more than before. Knowing her daughters are in police custody already.

"Where does the twins live?" I inquired.

"Shortwood road." She answered and her eyes widened. "Mom said they've been living on Shortwood road with a friend since my wedding."