Jewel I (In the beginning)

Chapter 24

        I walked in Elijah's house and sat my things on the sofa.

        "Baby!" I called out. "Where are you?"

       I walked upstairs and into the master bedroom. Elijah was nowhere in sight. I decided to walk to his office.

        When I got to his office door, I could hear him talking to someone. I knocked on the door. I could see sometime moving the doorknob.

        Moments later Markus was cracking the door open. Once he saw that it was me he opened the door fully.

        I walked into the office and James was tied up to a chair with duck tape. his nose and mouth was bleeding and his right eye was swollen.

        "Who did this to him?" I asked Elijah.

         "ya mans got everything taken care of." Said Markus pointing at Elijah.

        "You did this to him?" I asked with my eyes spreaded.

        "it's his job." Said Clayton. "I called him to take care of James for me."

        "Why aren't you answering for yourself Elijah? What does he mean, it's your job?"

         "I take care of business. You gotta go so I can finish. You shouldn't be in here." Said Elijah.

        "What exactly is your job?"

        "I just told you. Now you need to leave. Your interrupting a very important meeting."

        "You got alot of explaining to do Mr."

        "Baby. Not right now. You should have called before you came over anyway."

        "come on jewel. Let him finish what he doing." Said Markus.

        "Whatever. You lied to me!" I snapped.

        "We can talk about it later. I'm trying to help you out so chill." Said Elijah.

        "I got yo chill." I stated before walking outside his office.

        I was so pissed off. I couldn't believe that Elijah would beat James. He lied to me. He  told me that he only was in the game for money. I didn't know That the game meant beating and killing people.

        Elijah didn't even seem like that type of person. He went to school and had a decent job. Why would he become a killer.

        I ran downstairs and grabbed my things. I saddled outside and called Ciroc. She told me that She would be to pick me up in a few minutes.

        I sat down on the stone steps with my things in my lap. I texted Renee and Michelle to meet ciroc and I at browns café in an hour.

        Five minutes later, Ciroc was pulling up with Beyonce's Drunk in love blasting.

        I got into the car and turned the music down. "Hurry up before they finish."

        "Finish what?" Asked Ciroc,.pulling out of the drive way.

        "This nigga a killer up in there."

        "Who? Elijah?"

        "No nigga, Dora. "

        "what? No he ain't."

        "I walked in and he was beating James. He says that I shouldn't be there and he needed to finish the job."