Queen

11

3 months later

India is in her father's house helping him cook dinner she hasn't told him about Tony or that she engaged to him.

He knows that India is strict about getting involved with the street life, but she doesn't know that Tony is her father prodigy on the come up in the street. He is everything like her father minus a few things.

When India goes to her father's house she doesn't wear Tony's ring she pretends like everything is normal "Princess" Raymond calls out "Yes papi?" She responds back, "How do you know Tony?" He asks her as he cuts up potatoes & places them in the pot "I met him at a party I had went to he is very nice guy" she tells as she doesn't look up at him "Are you seeing him?" He says as he shoot a daring look at her "What, no you know papi I am very particular about the men I choice to be with" "she tells him still not looking at him "You know thats exactly what your mother said to her father but she seeing me behind his back after he didn't approve of me because I was working for him" he tells her as he is looking directly at his only daughter when he clearly know everything that is going on.

India looks up at him, she knows  her father like the back of her hand & knows he isn't stupid, he knows that India & Tony have something going since the day he was at her house for thanksgiving."India would you ever keep things from me?" he asks her "No, papi I wouldn't" she says to him as she heat up the rice "India, I want you to keep away from Tony" he tells her "Why?, Papi he is a very nice guy well I think he is" she replies back as she looks at him.

"That's great & all, I want you to stay away from him, I just have a feeling about him princess. I know I am the last person who should give you advice on dat....." she cuts him off "Then please papi don't" she says as stops & goes into his living room grabbing her things he follows her "India where are you going?" he asks "To my house I don't wanna be here anymore" she says as she keeps taking her things "He works for me, India" he says.

She is just looking at him like she had no idea he just said "What?" she tells him "He works for me..... he has been since he was 16 just like your brother.... he is on the come up Princess & I know you have feelings for him I am not stupid you are my daughter" he says to her "You are just like your mother, she acted the same way towards her father & she ended up being with me for 20 years" he adds "BUT NOW LOOK WHERE SHE ENDED UP SHE'S 6FT UNDER & ITS ALL BECAUSE OF YOU !!! I WATCHED HER DIE BECAUSE OF YOU!!!!" she screams at him & he slaps her across her face "Don't you ever in your life disrespect me, I loved your mother I never wanted her in any danger. She was my world" he says to her as he stands over, she stands up with nothing but tears in her eyes "You loved enough to cheat on her" she says as she leaves out his house.

Raymond calls Tony "Raymond we gotta talk" Tony tells him as he interrupts him "Let me tell you something right the fuck now...... If I catch you anywhere near my daughter I will kill you personally myself. She is my only little girl I don't care how old she is, now if I see you doing anything to her you are done everything you have worked for will be done" before Tony could get a word out he hangs up the phone.

Tony looks at the phone knowing that something went down between him & India but before he goes to Raymond his main priority is & always will be India the woman who he fell in love with, the only woman who he has ever loved since everything happened with Melaine. India owned his heart & he owned hers.

......

India in the bathroom looking at how red her cheek is from her father's slap, she hears keys she knows Tony is at the door.

She goes downstairs, he sees her "Ma..." Her hand flies across his face "Your working for my father when the fuck were you gonna tell me that!!" She screams "I was gonna tell Ma.. But I didn't wanna loose you I love you India, I didn't want my job to push you away from me" he tells trying to reason with her "I MADE LOVE TO YOU, I ACCEPTED YOUR PROPOSAL & YOU PROMISED THAT YOU WOULD HURT ME BUT YOU HAVE HURT ME IN THE WORST WAY......." She continues to scream "Why is it even problem your father is kingpin.. Most of your family was involved with the street life..." Before he could her hand goes flying about to slap him again he catches it she starts hitting him & pushing him away he sees she breaking down in tears.

As she is hitting him he holds her tightly she can't even be upset with him as much as she should be she holds on to him "I don't wanna loose I can't loose the man I am in love with... Your in the same position my brother was in & he was taken from me.... I can't bury another person who has my heart I can't do it again Tony I love you I can't loose you" she cries in his arms & he feels so much love coming from India he can't hold it in any longer his tears fall from eyes he has never had anymore love him so much as much India does.

He lifts her head up he sees her face & the red mark "I am nothing like your brother, I am a completely different man India I will never leave you, my love for can never make me leave I wanna spend the rest of my life with you that's why I asked you to be my wife.

I wanna be able to come home & see you cooking dinner with our daughter right next to you helping, I wanna see our son playing the backyard, I came up from nothing no family, no friends nothing I was foster child my entire childhood I always wanted something to come home too....

I thought I seen that with Melanie unfortunately that didn't happened but now I look at you I see my entire life with you, I needed to make money I was so tired of being on the street going home to home, now I never gotta worry about money, I don't gotta worry how I'ma eat where I am now I always gonna eat regardless.

Since the day I met you, I have seen so much in you that I once had in myself, you got tired of being alone, now you don't ever gotta worry about being alone Ma you got me I ain't going anywhere.

Yes, I am working for you father I have been seen I was 16 he taught me everything I know about this street life & he showed everything that it has to offer but what I always kept with me is how you can loose it all. I have vowed to myself that I won't fall to streets by the grace of god I haven't & I don't plan to" he tells sincerely she looks at him not that as the man she met at he party, not as the man who she made love but as the husband she dreamed off since she was a little girl "I love you so much Tony" she tells him she wipes his tears from his eyes.

"I love you so much more... Explain to what happen to your cheek? What happened between you & your father?" He asks her.

She explain to him what happen between her & her father Tony clenches his jaw showing off his perfect jawline he kisses her forehead he is about to go meet Raymond.

India says something that is gonna change his outlook on life "Tony wait.... I am pregnant"