King Pin Wifeys VOL 1

Chapter 21

Lani was driving like a Nascar driver to the hospital when she got a call from Black.

“Hello.”

“Hey, Babe.”

“Black, I ain’t got time for this shit today.”

“What’s wrong?”

“My man’s in the hospital.”

“What happened?”

“I don’t know, I think he got robbed.”

“Damn, yeah? Niggas is real thirsty out here now. I’m sorry to hear that.”

“Yeah, so I’m gonna have to talk to you some other time.”

Black said, “So you want me to meet you at the hospital?”

Lani said, “Black, you gotta be out of your fucking mind.”

“What? I’m just saying you need somebody to help you get through this, and what better person than me.”

“I ain’t got time for your bullshit. You know my man would not approve of shit like that.”

“He’s unconscious, how is he gonna know.”

“What the fuck do you mean, he’s unconscious. I ain’t tell you no shit like that.”

“If he got shot then he’s probably doped up.”

“I don’t know what happened. “

“Okay, go handle your business. Call me when you’re done okay.”

She hung up the phone and phoned Chris’s brother Michael who was already at the hospital. “I’ll be there in fifteen minutes.”

Michael said, “Okay he’s in ICU.”

Lani prayed that Chris would be okay. He was such a good man, she was happy God had sent someone like him into her life after such a roller coaster relationship with Black. Chris was like a breath of fresh-air. He was the opposite of the very loud and flamboyant Black, but he was no sucker and he was street smart. She wondered how he’d gotten robbed. Who was responsible for it and how he’d let his guard down. When she entered the hospital, she signed in at the nurses’ station and headed to ICU.

Lani started weeping as soon as she saw Chris with all the IV’s hooked up to him. His eye and lips were swollen and he was unconscious.

Michael said, “It’s real bad, Lani.” They embraced.

“What do you know about this, Michael?”

“I don’t know shit! All I know is whoever did my brother like this is gonna fuckin’ die.” Michael was usually calm and Chris was the wild one. Lani had never seen this side of Michael before.

“Chris don’t fuck with shady characters. How did this happen?”

Lani said, “I don’t know.” This just didn’t make sense to her. She knew that Chris almost never went outside of his circle. He’d told her more than once that he only had four customers and he’d known all four of them for years. What could have happened? Did Chris go outside of his circle? There was no way of knowing.

A doctor came in, a thin Asian man with speckled glasses, who introduced himself as Dr. Wu. He said, “Lani? Are you Mr. Jones’s wife?”

“No I’m his girlfriend.”

“He’s in a coma right now. He’s suffered severe brain trauma.”

Lani said, “How long does comas usually last?”

“It could be a day, could be a week, could be years, ma’am. It’s hard to tell right now.”

Michael held her hand and Lani said to the doctor, “So what else are you going to do?”

He said, “There’s not much we can do right now. The good news is the internal bleeding has stopped and that’s a good sign.”

Lani said, “But we don’t know when he’s going to come out of the coma?”

Dr. Wu said, “We don’t know, but just keep the faith, I’ve been a doctor for twenty-five years and I can tell you having faith does help in these situations.”

Lani said, “I’ve started praying already.”

When Dr. Wu left the room, a tall gorgeous brown-skinned woman with a very expensive weave entered the room.

Michael said, “Cassie.” He embraced the woman and then said, “He’s not doing good at all.”

Cassie eyed Lani, finally Michael said, “Cassie, this is Lani.”

The women exchanged fake smiles and Cassie said, “I’m Michael and Chris’s cousin from Connecticut.”

Lani said, “Pleased to meet you. Chris has never said anything about family in Connecticut.”

Michael said, “Yeah, we have lots of family in Connecticut.”

Cassie said, “I live in Atlanta now, in the Sandy Springs area.”

Lani said, “Oh okay.”

Cassie said, “What happened?”

Lani said, “There is no way of knowing right now, Chris is in a coma. He got beaten up really bad, but how it happened is a mystery. Thank God he’s still living.”

Cassie said, “Yes, I don’t know what I would do without Chris.”

A thin blond nurse name Barbara entered the room and passed Michael a zip-lock bag containing just over three hundred dollars in cash, a wallet and his iPhone . “These items were found in his pocket.”

Michael said, “Thanks.”

When the nurse left the room, Michael said to Lani, “I’m going to go home now.” He removed the wallet and the money and passed it to her. “I’m going to hold on to the phone till tomorrow. I got a feeling this phone has some clues to what might have happened.”

Lani hugged Michael.

Cassie said, “I’m gonna leave now too.” She shook Lani’s hand.