DEDICATION | Book Two

C H A P T E R 28

C H A P T E R
T W E N T Y - E I G H T

Leaving from out of Marquette's hospital room with his dad, Ahmad leaned up against the wall and sighed as his dad stared at him waiting for him to speak on what is on his mind. "I don't want to blame Cali, I swear I don't .. but I can't help but feel some type of way because of this whole situation.." He mumbled.

"What do you mean? Why would Cali be at fault behind this?"

"Two months ago Cali discovered bruises on Marquette and I told her to look into it and see what is up. I knew something wasn't right, but Cali wanted to play dumb with the shit and didn't take it as serious as she should have since she believed Reggie wouldn't have done this to him .. but now look, he in the hospital beat badly and Reggie fuck ass is no where to be found." He snapped. "Now I feel like shit because I should have done my own fucking investigation instead of leaving it in the hands of Cali's, because she fucked up. When it comes to Reggie, she always gives that nigga the benefit of the doubt, and never tries to hold him accountable for anything. I'm trying not to blame my baby because she already feels like shit because of this, but this could have all been prevented if she did what I told her to do,"

Touching his shoulder, Aaron understood exactly how Ahmad felt at the moment. "No parent is perfect son, yes Cali was wrong for letting this go on and not look more into it as she should have. But don't hang this over her head son, just be grateful that he is alive and not dead, and handle this shit so it doesn't get worse and I also say y'all need to fight for full custody as well."

Stopping his sentence when a doctor came walking by, they both smiled weakly at him before turning back to each other. "I love Marquette, that's my grandbaby and seeing him like this hurts and I'm not tryna see him like this again. You gotta handle this son, and I'm willing to help."

"I know no parent is perfect, but pops Cali literally argued me down behind this nigga. Like that shit forreal hurt how she basically cut me out the loop and started throwing around that my son shit like I don't love that boy like he's my own. I ain't forget that shit, she basically put that nigga before me." He stated getting mad all over again. "But I'ma do what I have to do to keep him safe, I'll discuss the custody thing with her and whether she fucking wants to or not, we doing it."

Since that argument him and Cali had two months ago, he still had some iffy feelings towards her. He looked at her differently since the way she acted was unusual. The way she stuck up for and defended Reggie after all the fucked up shit he has done during the course of their relationship, it had him questioning a lot of things ..like her feelings towards Reggie.

At the sound of his phone ringing, he pulled it out his pocket and answered it when he saw it was Alisha calling. "Hello?"

"Hey Ahmad, have you seen Cali? She called me about an hour ago and told me that she was headed over here to get the kids and she hasn't showed up yet. I tried calling her cell, but I'm not getting no answer or anything." She explained.

Scratching and pulling at his beard, Ahmad sighed. "She left here telling me the samething. Let me put on the cell tracker I got on my phone to find her location. I'll call you back."

"Okay, talk to you soon."

In the middle of the app loading to locate her whereabouts, the sound of someone arguing caught Ahmad's attention. Reverting his eyes and attention to the scene he frowned when he saw Reggie in the middle of having a yelling match with a doctor and a nurse.