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I’ve never been called Daddy.
I’ve never made a family.
Man pulled out his gat seconds before I saw there were guns out already. Terrifying screams and aggressive shouts rang out in the air. There were girls with short skirts and mini dresses with their hands over their heads, wailing frantically. The doors of the back of the van were open. Inside were girls with blindfolds over their eyes and hands tied behind their backs. A nasty, bitter film covered my tongue.
“Ashira!” I called out. “Ashira!” I looked all around, body swinging wildly. Women with their breasts and ass out from being shuffled and maybe having wrestled to get away were crying like crazy.
“Sin!” someone called me. “Over here! We got ‘em, man. Just in time!”
“Ashira!” I yelled again.
“She over here, bro!” Man called out.
“Where?” The sobbing from the women. The struggling of niggas on niggas. I had no idea who was what and ain’t give a fuck about nobody. Shoving someone aside, I found Man holding Ashira then going for the zip-tie behind her. She bawled in silence, body shaking uncontrollably, face completely wet, and a bleeding cut on her knee.
“Baby,” I could hardly get out, so sorry about this.
“I got her.” Man pulled out a Swiss army knife and yanked at the plastic cord.
I jumped to my feet. “How the fuck did this happen?” My eyes searching for familiar faces of the security team. “I paid fifty fuckin’ stacks. I wanna know how the fuck did this happen?”
“Sin!” Marty, one of the main guys I communicated with, called out, “Calmdown—”
“Fuck that!” I caught a glimpse of a rip in the suit jacket of one of our security team. He was wrestling a dark skinned nigga with gray eyes. We caught each other’s attention at the same time. My blood turned cold, neck began spasming. “Who did this?” I walked up on them. “WHO THE FUCK JOB WAS THIS?”
It was like a movie, completely unreal. I couldn’t decipher between my inebriation and reality. One minute, I was squatting over a toilet peeing and the next, I was being dragged out of the bathroom stall with my shorts down. With a gun pointed to my face, my body shook violently as I struggled to pull them up. I didn’t even button them in place when a bomb sounded and we were being shoved toward a smoky hole. None of us could see, crawling through rubble and debris, I cut my legs trying to follow the girls ahead of me. My mind was on Shizu. She’d come into the restroom as soon as it was my turn to go into the stall. I laughed before closing the door, shuffling before I peed on myself.
Where was she? Was my best friend okay?
As soon as they got us on the other side of the hole which was outside, there were other guys waiting with zip-ties who bound our arms. I was just about to be blindfolded and gagged when a few other guys showed with guns. I was so fucking scared I forgot to scream. Although the other girls around me were yelling, between the music from the club and the explosion in the bathroom, my ears felt clogged.
Man!
I saw Man and Jas was right behind him. I wanted to jump into his arms. I knew he’d protect me, take me far away from here. My god, I could have been killed. The thought hadn’t occurred until now. This was human trafficking on an intricate scale!
Jas walked away. Then Man left me and, before I could panic, he’d returned with Shizu’s curled body. She was filthy, covered in black debris like me, but even more so on her milky skin tone. I hugged her with weighted arms as Man removed the gag cloth from her mouth then uncovered her eyes. Her eye makeup was purely intact, but for the raccoon undereye from her tears. I couldn’t hear clearly still, but could see she was still bawling her eyes out. I hugged her hard, squeezing as I wanted to Jas, but he’d left me.
“This was you?” sounded muffled to me, but bodies shuffled and a path was opened to Jas brooding, back flexing and neck twitching. “You?” he shouted.
A man I’d never seen before was bound with two guys surrounding him. His gray eyes glistened against the one lightbulb now shining out here. When we crawled from the hole in the wall, it was pitch dark, so I didn’t see much of the people around me. The guy’s body swayed as they forced him to his feet. His grin was cocky, eyes straight on Jas, head to the side. He was slightly larger than Jas’ six-foot even frame and nearly twice his width.
Jas spoke again, Man and Juggy taking to his sides now as he motioned to the guy. The two security released the gray-eyed man.
And without a minute to spare, he and Jas charged each other. Man and Jugg never left Jas’ side. They kept a close eye as Jas threw several rapid punches landing on the man’s face, chest, and belly. The guy’s head bounced back at the last one, swinging behind his shoulders at whiplash speed. Jas positioned himself to move around the man and leaped into the air, grabbing him at the head and shoulders. It all seemed like a “Gladiator” choreograph. The man’s hands thrashed the air then reached back, slapping Jas in the face.
Undeterred, Jas hung on to him, eyes going empty, face tight. The ropes in Jas’ muscular arms flexed, veins swelled with power. Within seconds, the flaying arms failed the man. Seconds after that, his knees gave out on him. A few barks could be heard from the guys apprehended, lying on the ground. It was now clear to me who the players were. This was a heist disrupted.
Jas was angry.No. That wasn’t Jas at all. His face so swollen from strain, I didn’t recognize him. I watched as the grey-eyed man’s face began to turn purple, the white of his eyes red. That’s when I knew.
Jas was going to kill him.
His body clenched the man’s neck with the intensity I documented in his eyes when we made love. It was passionate force I saw when he exploded inside me, especially since we’d been skin-to-skin. It was that same intensity he maintained after leavingDellawhen I’d judged him, doubted us. Jas never turned me away when I came to his bed at night, attempting to satisfy the need to connect with him in the most cowardice way. He didn’t call me out when I gained the courage to resume our meetings during the day either. Our conversation inDellaat the lake had still been left drifting in the winds as I tried to outrun the torrid growth of my perfervid emotions for him.
And apparently, he was acting out his ardent passion for me. Or was Jas being Sin? Was this the evil he’d warned me about? Had I finally met Sin who’d been diagnosed with Cluster B personality disorder?
I jumped to my feet, rabidly searching my brain at the same time. “Jas, no!” Juggy caught me before I made it to the cobra choke that was about to take a man’s life. “Jas, baby!” I screamed, stomping my heeled feet. “I’m okay. Look at me! Look at me! I’m right here. I’m fine!” Frantically and through tears, I gazed at Juggy. “Help me! He’s going to kill him! Is that what you want? You want to lose him again!”
“He gone now, Shi-Shi. Sin don’t come back when he out this far. You gone get hurt if you try!” Juggy warned as my girlfriends begged me to stop.
