The New Man and My Baby

Chapter 17

            "What the hell is going on in my house? Who the hell are you? Mary where are my babies?"

"Ma'am we are going to need you to calm down," said thug number one. I gotta say that man was huge. He had to be at least six-five or maybe even taller. Now that I look at it he is kinda about the same height as Xaiven. Wait did they say Xaiven?

"Wait did you say Xaiven?"

"So you do know him," stated thug number three.

"Look am I in any trouble," I asked with my hands on my hips. I just knew my day was going to go from bad to worst with the shit Nick put me through outside of the building.

"Ma'am we need to know when was the last time you seen Xaiven. We have it on good authority that you two are an item," thug number one said again. I noticed thug number two didn't talk that much. He just stood there looking like he could kill you with a look. To tell the truth he was scaring the hell outta me. They were all looking like they were ready to kill someone and they were in my house looking for Xaiven.

"An item?" I asked with a arched eyebrow. "What do you think this is the 1950's? Are you kidding me who the hell told you we were an item? I only talked to the man a few times. I don't know anything about him so if he is in some kind of trouble with the law then y'all better get on up out my house because I don't know nothing' bout nothing."

"Listen ma'am we-" before thug number three could say anymore the stupid door bell rang.

"Excuse me," I said making my way to the door as fast as I could so I could stop the bell from chiming. I really needed to get that damn bell checked. As I opened the door I came face to face with a smiling Xaiven. Too bad I wasn't smiling. I was still pissed about those three thugs in my living room.

"What are you doing here?"

"What? Did you forget we were supposed to have an outing today?"

To tell the truth I really did. That whole Nick thing this morning really put me through a loop and messed up my whole day.

"Actually I did. I didn't have a good day to start off, but that's not nothing compared to what I just came home too. I need you to come with me," I said taking him by the arm and dragging him into t he living room with me. When we got there he stopped up short.

"Blade, Sniper, Silent, what the hell are y'all doing here? What the hell is going on?"

"Wait you mean you know these thugs?" I was stunned I didn't think Xaiven knew these people but I guess he just showed me. What the hell kinda names are those? It was crazy. I'm not dumb enough to know that those were code names. I didn't want to know their names. I didn't even want to know them. The faster they are gone the better for me. Was this what Nick was telling me about when he told me about that stuff with Xaiven. I just couldn't believe Xaiven would do anything to hurt me or the kids so maybe these guys were not so bad, but then again they still look like thugs.

"Shadow, man we been looking for you everywhere."

"Shadow?" I asked still surprised that Xaiven knew these men. They must have been really close because he had a code name too. Since they were standing in my living room in army gear I'm thinking they are or were in the army at some point in time. I could be wrong though. There are so many branches of the military that I could be wrong.

"What are you guys doing here in Karri's house?"

"Well we kinda tracked her from-" he stopped and looked at me.