#2 :: Royal By Name, Loyal By Blood Pt2.

Ch 35.

TYRONE
Is He Declaring War?

"He shot him...he killed him. He's dead. Reese is dead..." I heard Layla say.

I had to have been hearing things. Her brothers were making noise because they wanted to know why she was crying. West was in my face telling me to pass the phone. All I wanted was silence.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP." I bellowed. I put the phone on loudspeaker.

"Layla. I need you to explain to me what happened." I said calmly.

"No. I want my brothers, I want my dad. Y'all need to come. I'm sitting on a side road with my fiancé in my arms and he has bled to death...SOMEONE NEEDS TO COME GET ME AND BRING MY FIANCÉ BACK TO ME!!" She screamed and then hung up.

"I got a tracking device on her phone." Maine said. I wasn't really paying attention to much. All that kept playing in my head was that one line.

"He shot him...he killed him. He's dead. Reese is dead..."

"TYRONE!!"

I was brought back to the real world by the sound of West's voice. I looked at everyone. Somehow this affected us all.

"We need to go. My daughter needs me and yo son needs you. Come on."

Then it clicked. I got up and ran to the car.

"Maine where she at?" I asked.

"Lennox Way. Near the mall."

I nodded and jumped in my car. I skipped every red light but I didn't care. I was there in next to no time. We all ran on to the side road where Layla said she was. I almost dropped to the ground when I saw my son laying there. Lifeless. My boys held me up.

"That can't be Reese man... that can't!!" I heard Antwan say.

"I'm calling an ambulance." Tyrell said.

As we got closer my heart ached even more. I knew it was my son. I didn't want it to be, but I knew. All I kept thinking is how am I going to tell Tammy one of her sons is dead.

"Somebody bring him back...please." I heard Layla sob as West picked her up.

I ran to my son. There was no life in him. I turned to Layla.

"Sweetie...I need you to tell me what happened. Take yo time and don't miss out a thing."

"Well...it was our anniversary. He proposed. I said yes..." She started to cry. "...we had a lovely day together and we were leaving the restaurant heading back to the car...then a car came out of nowhere, the guy jumped out and shot Reese four times...four."

She started crying. I don't know how I stayed so calm. Maybe because even though I knew he was dead; a part of me that believed he would come back alive.

"Can you describe the guy to me?"

"No need. Reese told me who it was before he died."

"He did? Who?"

"Terrence." She said and started crying.

I started to laugh.

"So you mean to tell me that this motherfucker sets me and Tammy up to go jail and now kills my son? Is he declaring war? I will paint this motherfucking town with his blood. Has he forgotten who the fuck I am? I am TYRONE ROYAL – I will kill for my children." I said out loud.

Just then a phone rang. Everyone was checking their phones but it wasn't a phone that belonged to any of us.

"He..he..he threw that phone at me before he jumped in the car it's been ringing non-stop." Layla added as she pointed to the phone next to Reese's body.

I answered the phone and put it on speaker. Nobody said a word.

"Put Tyrone on the phone." I heard this bitch nigga say.

"Where you at? Lemme kill yo ass now."

"Now, now, now. Why so hostile? Oh. Maybe because I killed your son. You see all these years I been tryna find your weak spot and it was always in front of me. Your children." he said so calmly.

"Back to my first question, you sick son of a bitch. Where. You. At?"

I was getting more pissed off by the minute.

"No, no, no, no. This here game has only just begun. You gon have ultimate heartache before you get to see the King. War has been declared and I know for a fact I'ma win the next two battles. Did the pretty girl not tell you what I said to her?"

I looked at Layla. She shrugged.

"No. She didn't."

"One down...so many more to go. THAT'S what I said."

Was this man mad?

"If you harm another one of my..." he cut me off.

"Too late..." he laughed.

My heart skipped.

"The fuck you mean too late?" I was starting to grow impatient.

"I suggest you run along home...before it's too late." He said and then hung up.

Everyone took out their phones trying to contact someone at the house. It either rang out or didn't go through. I didn't know if it was a set up or not.

Layla and Antwan stayed with Reese's body to await the ambulance. The rest of us sped back to the house. Security was with us tonight but my house is not in public knowledge. But Terrence knew everything about us. I almost lost control of the car when I saw smoke coming from my house. I jumped out and ran towards the house. Just as I got close, it blew up in flames... I watched in horror as my house burned to the ground knowing all my family was inside...

To be continued...

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