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“Wait, what the fuck is at Memorial hospital?”
I quickly filled him in on what was going on with Charlie and why we had to meet at the hospital.
“Damn, man, today just isn’t your damn day. But I’ll be there before you even get there. I’m about to go and get Toya from work and we’ll head straight there.”
I nodded as if he could see me. “Speaking of Toya, how is my sis? I hope you treating her ass right because Charlie will kill your ass dead if you on some funny shit,” I told Dre, being dead ass serious.
“That’s my baby, man, honestly. She got me running around these streets looking like a little bitch. I send her ass roses to work every fuckin’ Monday, and I’m dropping by the office damn near every day, bringing her lunch and shit. That woman is changing me, and Lord knows I didn’t think I would ever settle down for no broad. But Toya got me ready to put away my player’s card and make her my only one,” Dre said.
I knew the feeling all too well.
“Alright, nigga, just treat her right. That’s all I’m asking. We’ll link up in a few,” I said and ended the call.
I was trying to find little things to distract me from what was going on right now because the more I thought about a nigga having my daughter with him, the madder I got. I really wasn’t big on religion, and I can’t even remember the last time that I actually prayed. But while we were in that car, I asked God to keep my daughter safe and pure. I don’t know what I would do if and when I got my daughter back, and she confessed to me that a nigga had touched her in there. As a father, it’s just certain shit that I know I wouldn’t be able to hamdled.
As for the nigga who had the balls to take my daughter, when I catch his ass and whoever the fuck was in association with this shit, I hope their mama is funeral ready because now it’s personal.
Chapter 3: Dre
I was parked in the lobby area of Toya’s job, waiting for her to come to the car. I told her over the phone that I would be there shortly, but I didn’t tell her where we were going when I picked her up. I knew the shit that I was about to tell her with Charlie and China was going to send her over the edge, and I didn’t even think a nigga was ready for her reaction. The thought of not knowing if China was going to be okay was a hard pill to swallow.
I sat in the car, hot boxing, and I knew Toya was going to start tripping about the smell as soon as she stepped inside. I watched as she got off of the elevator, and I kept my gaze fixed on her as she scanned the parking garage for my car. She spotted my car, smiled and made her way over. I put the blunt out and rolled down all the windows, even though I knew that wouldn’t help with the smell.
She made her way to the passenger’s side door, pulled it open and got inside. “Dre, I hate when you do this shit! You knew you was picking me up and you got the car smelling like weed,” she fussed as soon as she got into my whip. No hello, no kiss, nothing, just straight to the point.
“Toya, sit your ass back and put on your seatbelt,” I said.
She turned around and put her purse and briefcase in the backseat.
“Ooohh, baby, remember you promised that you were going to take me to Benihana’s tonight?” she said.
I had completely forgotten about that shit. We weren’t going to go anyway because of what was going on right now.
“We going to have to do that another night. Some shit is going down, and we got to head to the hospital,” I told Toya as I pulled out of the parking garage.
“What’s going on?” she asked, turning around in her seat to face me.
“I just got off the phone with Quan, and he was telling me how somebody took China and they asking for a million dollars in exchange for her. Also, Charlie is in the hospital because she fell down the stairs, but we still don’t know if she fell or if someone pushed her,” I told Toya, and watched as her eyes got watery.
“Oh my God. This shit is crazy. Who would do this?” she cried.
“I don’t know, but we damn sure are going to find out tonight.”
“What do you mean by that? What are you and Quan going to do?” she asked with fear in her eyes.
“What the fuck you think we going to do, Toya? You think we going to ride over there and just hand this nigga a million dollars in cash, just because he asked us to? Hell no, because if we do that, them motha fuckas are going to think that we’re a joke and that they can just go around snatching up our loved ones and we’ll just hand they ass over some money. Nah, shit don’t work like that.”
I knew she wanted to say something, but in the short amount of time that we’ve been together, Toya had learned when to drop conversations and to let certain shit go.
We drove the thirty minutes that it took to get to the hospital in silence, mainly because I knew she was mad at me for snapping on her. I parked in the emergency room parking lot and turned the car off then stepped out and waited for Toya to get out as well. We made our way inside and headed over to the young security guard who was sitting behind the desk, checking people in.
“We’re here to see Charlie Williams,” Toya said as soon as it was our turn in the line.
The security guard, who’s name read Bianca, looked at me with lust filled eyes. I silently prayed that Toya didn’t see her, but my prayer went unanswered because Toya noticed and she looked at me over her shoulder to make sure that I wasn’t checking Bianca out as well. I wouldn’t even do no disrespectful shit like that in front of my girl. I’ll admit, I’m a nigga and I had eyes, so yes, I was going to look if a bitch walked past me with a fat ass and a small waist, but damn, I wasn’t going to do the shit in the presence of my lady.
“You know him or something?” Toya asked Bianca.
I sucked my teeth because I knew she was about to be on some other shit. Every place Toya and I went, if she caught a bitch staring at me, she would automatically assume that I had fucked the bitch. It wasn’t even insecurities, it was the fact that since I had laid th
