Her Beef 7: Better Days

Chapter Five

                            Shakeya

I was sitting here with Riggs mother an I couldn't help but remember all the good times we shared. I remembered how I told him he was going to be a daddy right here in this very same living room.

"What brings you by here to see me?" She asked me sitting down lighting a cigarette.

"I just happened to be in the neighborhood. I saw the light on so I tried my luck. I wasn't sure if you still lived here." I said giving only a half truth.

Linda was an old school gangsta. She was the one that give Riggs the game after his father was killed. Riggs gave me the game, but Linda later gave me so much more. She taught me so much about the streets.

"Wus up Key? You look like something is up. You keep checking the time an you seem on edge." Linda said taking another pull of her cigarette.

"Do you know who Keily is?" I asked her.

She frowned her face up at me. She looked as if I had just cursed her or just stolen from her.

"Keily ass back around her? She was married to Matthew so she claimed. She came by here telling me she knew who killed Riggs and that she knew Desire had killed Matthew." Linda said blowing out smoke.

"She has a grudge with Desire. I think she took my husband from the hospital tonight." I said to her.

Linda just looked at me. Instantly my instincts went into high alert. I felt uneasy like something wasn't right.

"Linda I will see you later. I gotta get going." I said standing to leave.

"Ok" she said standing too.

I started walking to the door when I was hit from behind. The room went dark an I drifted into unconsciousness.

My last thought was I should have known better than to come here. Than thoughts went dark.

Linda stood over my body, then she pulled out her phone an made a call.

"Hello." The caller said.

"She is here. Come get this bitch." Linda said ending the call.

                                Carlos

I just there looking at Desire threw my one open eye. She was calm like she wasn't worried about a thing. I couldn't read her face, but I could see the anger in her eyes. I felt to blame for this whole situation.

"I have a little surprise for the both of you. We have another guest about to arrive shortly." Keily said.

Fear instantly struck my heart like a lightning bolt. Who else was she about to bring into this drama? My question was answered sooner than I thought.

In walked two men carrying my wife. They sat her in the chair in the middle an tied her to it. She seemed to be unconscious. I started shaking an trying to free myself.

I looked at Desire who now had a worried look on her face.

"Oh you thought she was going to save you." Keily said laughing like a villain in a movie.

"This is only the beginning of what's to come for you guys." She said exiting the room.

An older looking lady walked in looking hurt an angry. She stood in front of Desire. Desire's eyes grew in size.

"Hello Desire. Funny seeing you here after all these years." She said with a devilish grin.

Desire tried to yell, but the sound was muffled by the rag stuffed in her mouth.

"Shakeya took my son from me. Now she will watch me take her husband from her." Linda said exiting the room as well.

Here we all were in this room together not knowing what our fate would be. I prayed that my children and my nieces and nephew's wouldn't be lefted orphaned by the mistakes of their parents.

My wife was out of it. I don't know if she was drugged or not. I looked at Desire who's eyes grew huge.

"You don't seem happy to see me Desire." A women said from behind me.

I didn't recognize the voice, but she was someone who knew my sister and my wife.

I pray that my wife has backup coming or we might just all be dead.