A Philly Millionaire Snatched My Soul 3
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1. Brick
2. Ahniyah
3. Brick
4. Ahniyah
5. Dom
6. Shayla
7. Brick
8. Ahniyah
9. Brick
10. Dakari
11. Brick
12. Dom
13. Ahniyah
14. Dom
15. Brick
16. Rowdy
17. Ahniyah
18. Shayla
19. Dom
20. Jalynn
21. Brick
22. Ahniyah Epilogue
Also by Yona
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
BRICK
Today was one of those days I felt happier than I’d felt in a while. I woke up and made myself breakfast. Being able to walk outside and not worry about any more problems and watching over my shoulder was the best part. Shit like that, to me, was priceless. I couldn’t bring myself to do too much partying just yet. I was waiting for my girl to get home because I liked her company and wanted her with me all the time. I couldn’t wait for her to push my son out so I could give her a push gift and whatever else she wanted. I didn’t want her working now that she was carrying my child.
Walking into my mom’s house, something was off. Usually everyone was there, especially since she had been home more. My sister’s kids would be running around and my mom would be cooking. Today there was no food on the stove, and I didn’t see anyone downstairs at all. Looking in the fridge, I made me a plate of food and warmed it up. Once it was hot enough to my liking, I grabbed a soda out of the fridge and sat down on the couch.
My head was pounding and why my mom wasn’t here for me to take her shopping was beyond me. I was ready to leave her ass when my cell phone rang. Seeing it was my brother, I answered it.
“We are all down at Presbyterian. You need to get down here. I don’t know why ain’t nobody called you,” he fussed.
“What y’all at the hospital for and who y’all at the hospital for? What’s wrong, you good, y’all good? Where my mom and Juicy?” I asked, and he just hung up on me. That shit pissed me off because somebody could have told me something. Instead, they want to call with just a piece of news and leave me to guess the rest on my own.
Getting up, I tossed the whole plate into the trash can and ran out the door. Jumping in my car, I headed to the hospital. I had to cut the music off so I could think straight. Being stuck in traffic didn’t do anything to help my nerves. I had not seen Juicy in a few weeks, so I was hoping nothing was wrong with her. I knew Ahniyah
was cool because she had called me like an hour ago. Once I made it to the hospital, I ran into the emergency waiting room. I didn’t see anyone, so I called Rowdy’s phone.
“Come up to the ninth floor, room two eighteen,” he spoke.
Walking back outside, I walked around the building to go into the other side. By now I was sweating bullets and not sure what was going on. I made it inside the building and took the elevators. I slowed my pace down as I tried to find the room. When I did, I pushed the door open and walked past the curtain.
“Fuck going on with you, Juicy?” I asked as I stared at my sister who was laid in a hospital bed.
She had a scarf on her head that had slid back a little, showing her hairless head. My sister wasn’t the same Juicy I was used to. Her skin was darker, she looked tired, and her body was so thin. She had me feeling like she had cancer. This was exactly how my grandpop looked right before he left the earth.
“What the fuck is going on, and why ain’t nobody tell me shit? Ma, this why you came back for so long? Juicy, you got to get better. When my son comes, you got to meet him,” I said as tears fell from my eyes.
“Messiah, I have cancer, and I’ve had it for a while. I beat it and it came back, but now it’s beating me. You know I am gone hold on to see that. I am really trying to, bro. I love you most,” she spoke barely above a whisper, but I heard her.
I sat there holding my sister’s hand. I didn’t care what kind of cancer she had, how long she had it, or anything else. I just cared about being there for her in that moment. The more she coughed the more my stomach hurt. I wasn’t sure how I missed this when I talked to her all the time. I never popped up on her but in my mind, a phone call was more than enough. Now I was seeing it wasn’t. Had I seen her I would have been able to spend more time with her and help her more.
“I was going to stop chemo and just let life run its course, but if you have a baby on the way I need to meet him or her. You’re giving me a reason to keep trying and to keep fighting,” she said in between pauses.
My mom came over and sat on the edge of my chair and wiped my tears. Rowdy was in the corner biting his knuckles while tears of his own fell. I needed to know what she was going to do with her kids and her fake ass husband. I hoped like hell if things got worse, she didn’t leave everything to him. My mom was her power of attorney so I knew she would be in control if anything.
I walked out of the room. This was too much for me, it was starting to get hot, and I needed to drink some water. Walking around until I found a vending machine, I got a drink and leaned against the wall.
“Baby, you know if she sees you breaking down it’s not gone help her,” my mom spoke to me.
“And y’all knew me finding out when she got bad wasn’t going to help me. I am trying to process this shit. Y’all let me find out when my sister up in this bitch looking dead. I ain’t expect to see this and you kept it from us, why? Why the fuck would you keep something like that from us until it is bad like this is bad. This reminds me of Grandpop, and I don’t know if I can deal with this bullshit. This is fucking wrong. Ma, that’s my sister my fucking sister, we have done almost everything together. I was supposed to be there for her like she would have been for me, and yet y’all ain’t tell me shit,” I yelled at her.
“Calm down, Messiah, she asked me not to say nothing because she thought she could beat it. You all had enough going on so she didn’t want y’all to have any distractions. She needed y’all to be fully focused on whatever y’all had going on.”
“That’s bullshit, you know damn well I would have stopped everything or even handled it faster. I deserve to be there for her. Y’all don’t get that shit. Imagine if she ain’t fucking tell you. Fuck all y’all, I’m tired of being the calm one, the understanding one. I don’t keep a damn thing from y’all.” I stormed out of the hospital before I could disrespect my mom or sister further. No matter how much they made me mad, I never even got loud with them or acted like I was going to try and overpower them. Getting in my car, I leaned my seat back and put my weed to my lips. I took a deep pull before
pulling off and heading to my house just to sit somewhere and have time to think.
Seeing my lawyer’s name pop up on my phone, I answered it, not wanting any more bad news.
“Yo. Everything good?” I asked.
“Umm, yes. I may have found a way to get her out,” he said just as my phone died.
CHAPTER TWO
"A AHNIYAH
hniyah, come on, you have a visit," the guard called.
I had just won a game of cards for a bag of Jolly Ranchers, so I was in a good space after beating everyone. So far, I had two bags of Jolly Ranchers, four bags of chips, and a Pepsi. My baby didn't like noodles so I was only doing bets for my noodles. Getting up, I grabbed my stuff and walked out to the guards. I was checked before going out.
Walking to the seat they told me to go to, I sat down. When the doors opened and Brick walked in, every head in the room turned. A few of Jalyn’s friends were looking, so I smirked at their asses.
"What's up? Why you ain't been calling me or responding to my messages for you to call? I put money on the phone and the tablets. I don't get what you on," Brick started as soon as he saw me.
"I ain't the only one you putting money on the phone for, but we ain't gone trip. I told you don't come up here. I'm sure Dom sent that message, so why you here?" I shot back.
"Stop playing with me. Get the fuck up and give me a hug and a kiss. I know you missed me, baby, ‘cause I missed you. Home ain't the same without you." He pulled me in for a hug and kissed me so deeply the guards had to tell him to stop.
"When was you gone tell me about the bitch you got in here?" I got right to it.
"The day you told me you was having my baby I would have, or maybe sooner. While you sitting in here holding secrets, that bitch don't mean shit to me. I look out for her on the strength of why she here. That's it. I never fucked that girl or nothing, she worked at my store,” he said, hinting on the store part so I knew she was one of his workers.
"Okay. She shouldn't be able to make it seem like you fucking with her like that, so cut that shit short,” I said, giving him the same look he was giving me.
"So we ignoring the fact you ain't tell me I got a fucking baby on the way? Like, what the fuck is you on? I'm sitting here because I care. I could have left your ass in here high and dry. You on some bullshit. I'm telling you that bitch can lose it all behind you, so if she on dumb shit or acting like anything, let me know. You know it's me and you against everybody. Baby, I love you and can't wait for you to have my son," he spoke a little louder than he needed to.
"Messiah, stop. I'm sorry I didn't tell you, but I found out in here. I was trying to wrap my head around me being in jail and pregnant. I ain't even do that shit. Then I got the little hoe and her friends fucking with my stuff. I'm over it, I ain't trying to fight nobody. I did punch her in the face; she asked for it though. Bitch came in my hut talking ‘bout she wasn't letting up off you. I'm not trying to have people in here knowing I'm pregnant just off that alone. Them bitches hate my guts and I know it's because of you,” I said, wiping my eyes because I felt myself about to cry.
"Tighten up, you good. Let a bitch touch you and watch how fast shit shake behind you. You know that,” he said, licking his lips.
The little swipe across his lip that he did had me squirming in my seat. I missed the way he licked on me, the way he made my body shiver and come. How he held me right after and let me snore on his chest. I knew I would go to bed tonight picturing me laying on his chest while he rubbed on my booty.
"I miss you so much, baby. I can't take being in here. The food is nasty so I have to survive off tuna packets and chips. I'm tired of being here. I want to go home,” I said as my voice cracked and tears formed in my eyes. I tried to blink them away but they fell anyway.
"I miss you too, I love you baby. I'm gone do everything in my power to get you up out of here."
The guards called my name and I knew it was time to go. Brick pulled me up to my feet and rubbed my stomach before kissing me and walking off. I slowly walked back to the room where they made me squat and cough just to check and make sure I didn't have nothing.
"Girl, he was in there saying all this shit like he don't fuck with you like that," I heard one of the girls who was in the visiting room
say as I walked past.
"He also said if y'all don't cut y'all shit, he gone make shit shake up in here too. So suck my dick," I let them know what my man said.
"He ain't say shit." Jalyn frowned.
"Call that man and ask him what he said,” I replied.
I sat back down at the table where the game of cards was still going. They had just started a round of Spades so I sat on the side and watched. I could play but I wasn't good at it like these girls were. Auntie Mocha had a cigarette dangling from her mouth that wasn't even lit.
"I'm about to spank y'all ass, ain't that right, Ann," Auntie laughed. They gave each other a high five.
Looking around the room, I noticed Tiny wasn't anywhere around. That girl was always down for a game of Spades or anything to do with gambling. When I didn't see her, I figured she was on the phone. After some time went by, I got up and walked over to our cell.
Stepping into the room, I saw Tiny standing on the top of the bed with a rope around her neck. She was sobbing loud enough for me to hear her in the room but not outside.
"Nooo," I screamed just as she jumped, and something hard hit me on the back of my head, causing everything to go black.
CHAPTER THREE
BRICK
“Iwant all hands on for these next few days. I will be at my store, so my focus will not be here. Rowdy will be the sole person to contact unless some shit goes completely wrong and he needs assistance, which I am sure will not happen. If anyone needs me personally y’all know how to reach mem” I let everyone know.
The moment I heard my baby was coming home, I began to focus only on the business side of things. Since she had endured so much already through her pregnancy, I wanted to make the rest of it as easy as possible. Doing that meant I had to step back from the life I knew and the shit that got me living so good, and focus more into the life for us I was trying to create. The life I needed to live to generate wealth for my great-grandkids. I needed to have all of my businesses up and running smoothly before my baby was born so I could spend as much time with him or her as I needed to. I also wanted to be able to shower Ahniyah with the attention she really needed. After I was sure my family was good and loved on, I would slowly start to return to the legal business side of things.
I had not told Ahniyah nor my brother that I was completely stepping away from the illegal shit. I knew Ahniyah would be happy about that even though she never complained about what I did.
“Who’s in charge now?” one of the guys asked.
“Y’all know Rowdy is who y’all gone go to. If he ain’t picking up or taking too long to get back to y’all, then call me. However, make him y’all first option, and Rowdy, don’t make them your last option.” I paused, giving them a second to take in what I had just said.
Time was ticking and I didn’t want to waste another second. I felt like we had been through the storms and we stood tall, having each other’s back every time. Ahniyah was carrying my child and that alone was enough to make me feel indebted to her. The best thing about it was that spending my life with her didn’t scare me. It made me have something positive to look forward to.
“I’m cool with that,” I heard sounding off around the room, and it brought a smile to my face. I was happy that no one was going against what I said or felt some type of way. That let me know two things: I was doing good as a leader and so was my brother. It also let me know that I may not have to keep my eyes on my team as much as I thought I would have to. Our team was solid and that was the best thing for us. Before I could open my mouth to finish my statement, Dakari came bursting inside of my building causing everyone to draw their guns on him. Smirking, he continued to walk toward me with his hands raised in the air. I had a clear view of the gun on his hip, yet it didn’t faze me. It wasn’t in his hand and the look on his face when he first came in was a look of concern.
“Tell them put their guns down and let me holla at you. It is very important. Dom sent me here,” he spoke.
“Put y’all guns down,” I spoke quickly.
If Dom had sent him to me, it was important and more than likely about my bitch. What I didn’t like nor understand was why he was the one to tell me any information, especially the important shit. Taking big steps, we walked over to the side of the room, which was now completely quiet.
“Something happened with your girl and she’s in the hospital. I ain’t really get too much information because Dom ran out the house. I knew where to find you and figured I’d just come let you know what was up,” he spoke.
It took everything in me not to show what I was feeling on the inside. My blood was boiling but more importantly, my heart was hurting. I felt something I had not felt since I was a child, and that was fear. I was afraid that my wife and child were severely hurt, and I wasn’t there to protect them like I should have been. Or even worse, that it was my fault, and she would be okay but leave me.
“Fuck,” I shouted, knocking the chair over.
Storming out of the building, I pulled my phone out and called Dom’s number. The first time it went straight to voicemail. Climbing in my car, I started it before dialing Dom’s number again. This time the phone rang.
“We at University,” she spoke, and then the beeping sounds blared in my ear, indicating she had hung up.
Throwing my car in drive, I went to pull off, but my door swung open and Rowdy jumped in.
“Fuck is going on?” he asked as I pulled off before he could fully close the door.
“I don’t know, he came and told me Ahniyah’s in the hospital, I just keep thinking of all the possibilities of why. I hope my seed cool, bro. I know she gone be good, she a solider.” I tried to convince myself by saying it. However, on the inside I was all over the place.
Ahniyah had been through the worst in my eyes. I just wanted to make her life better. It was like God or nobody else was trying to let me do that. The drive to the hospital should have been a thirtyminute drive, but the silence we rode in and the thoughts in my head had me driving faster and making it there in thirteen minutes. Not wanting to waste any more time, I pulled in the spot that said pick-up only and hopped out of my car. If they towed it, I would just get it back later. Jogging inside of the emergency room doors, I went to the front desk.
“Hey, my wife was brought in here. She is pregnant. I’m not sure what room or anything she’s in,” I started, and the receptionist just looked at me.
“I need her name and birthday,” the man said with his fingers on the keys like he was ready to start typing.
“Ahniyah,” I got out before Dom came in and started talking.
“Come on, she’s in the operating room. We have to go wait. They ain’t letting nobody back there and you know the cops outside her room because she was you knowwhere.” She started pulling me by the arm toward the waiting area.
“All they told me was some bitch up there knocked her ass out. Now I was contemplating on doing some shit so I could go to jail and beat the bitch ass, but they might not put me in that one and then I’ma be done fucked up all my shit for no reason. It was the little bitch you been fucking with or her friends. See, I was rooting for you and on your side, but not if she the reason behind her being in here. Because if something happens to my niece or nephew and
my sister, I can promise you I’m gone make your life a living hell,” Dom threatened me.
I looked at her and laughed. Taking threats lightly was something I didn’t do and never would do. I knew by far she was in her feelings, yet it was no way I was going to spare them. Taking a step back, I looked at her and stared into her angry eyes. The expression on her face was straight, making it appear as if she had not just threatened me not even seconds ago.
“Only reason I’m not gone disrespect you is because my girl loves the ground you walk on. But check this right, bitch. I ain’t or never been one of them. I am not sure who y’all used to fucking with or talking to, but ma, I ain’t that nigga. On my mama, a bitch ain’t never threatened me and not sleep peacefully with her arms folded across her chest in a dark place, and no worries at all. Ain’t shit that happened in there my fault and Ahniyah knows what the fuck is going on and was going on. You gone put me and ya nigga at war ‘bout some dumb shit when you could have just kept your threats to yourself,” I calmly stated. I was anything but calm, though, and I was hoping she left shit alone.
Dom stepped up in my face like she was a nigga, which made me laugh. I side stepped her and took a seat in the chair. I was wishing I had smoked me about five to six backwoods full of OG Kush before I came in here because my nerves were shot, and my anger was about to be through the roof. I was hoping anyone else approaching after this was pleasant, because I wasn’t sure how much more shit I could take.
“You think ‘cause I’m a bitch I won’t swing on you in here? Let’s face it, this shit is your fault. You the reason she here because you couldn’t keep it a bean with bitches you were fucking. Now what? Huh? Your little bitch in her feelings and wants to do shit to my sister when she been through enough. Everybody always putting her in fucked-up positions and then playing like they don’t know why. This shit’s on you, Messiah. You’re to blame, and if the doctors come out here with bad news, I hope that shit eats you up. All because you feel like you owe a bitch. When all your loyalty should have just been to my girl,” she spat, pointing her finger in my face.
Smacking her hand down, I tried to walk to the other side of the waiting room. This girl was bugging and clearly didn’t know when to stop or shut the fuck up. I really wanted to knock her ass out, but the way Ahniyah would feel about that kept crossing my mind.
“Man, go the fuck ‘head. You really testing me, bro. Call your nigga at this point so he can come sit your crazy ass down. Just know, if you touch me, I am fucking you up, female or not. Say what you got to say but say that shit over there,” I snapped just as Rowdy walked in.
He immediately grabbed my arm, and I pushed him off of me. Looking him in the face, I tried to show him that I was chilling and wasn’t going to do nothing to her, so it was no point in grabbing me.
“I don’t have to call nobody. You might put fear in a lot of people but Brick, I ain’t one of them. So, anything you are thinking about doing, do it. Just know you won’t live too long to talk about it.” It was at that point I snapped.
“Bitch, you are threatening my life.” I stormed toward her. Instead of yoking her up like I wanted to, I tossed a chair across the waiting area, causing her ass to jump back and scurry across the room like a roach when you trying to kill it.
“I let you get your shit off one too many times. Ain’t no pussy in me, your man knows that. You are threatening a nigga that would put your whole family down and will hold my bitch every time she cries. Leave me the fuck alone,” I spat.
The security guard came running over and I was ready for his ass. He stopped when we locked eyes.
“Hey, I’m going to need you all to calm down.” He held his hand on his little weapons like that shit would scare or really hurt somebody.
“Where the doctor? I been in this bitch too long and I don’t even like hospitals. Somebody update me on my baby and my wife, or I am gone cause some real problems in this bitch. And that’s on me, fuck all this other shit everybody talking about,” I told the security guard.
His ass was looking like he was about to piss himself with each step I took toward him. Rowdy grabbed my arm again and just like the last time, I pushed him off of me. This time he stumbled into the chairs.
“Bro, fuck is wrong with you? You push me like that again and I am gone punch you in your shit. I am trying to calm you the fuck down so they don’t put your ass out. You letting that little ass lady piss you off, and for what? Whatever happened, happened. That shit ain’t your fault and you and sis know it. That’s all that matters. You corrected what you did wrong and that’s what you were supposed to do. You are a man, stand on ten. You need to be here right now, this moment. Them people back there is what matters most and you need to be here for them. I’m gone keep telling you that because if you push me or throw some more shit, your ass either gone be leaving out of here or we gone be in this bitch tearing shit up,” Rowdy barked at me.
“Whatever man, if you want to tear this shit up, let’s go. Long as that bitch stay over there and somebody come tell me what’s up with mine, I’m cool.”
“Call me another bitch and watch what I do.” Dom laughed, sitting her bag on the chair.
“Bitch, go ‘head. Fuck is you talking about,” I snapped, ready for whatever.
What I didn’t expect was this little bitch to run over and spray mace in my face. The moment I blinked my eyes started to burn, and I wanted to kill her.
“Call me another bitch, pussy,” she snapped.
Wiping my face on my shirt. I used what little vision I did have and grabbed her by her throat. I didn’t want to choke her, so I tossed her little ass across the room like I had done the chair not too long ago. Rowdy stepped in front of me and called someone over for help. My eyes were burning like a bitch.
“I’m about to fuck him up,” I heard Dom yelling, and I swore I wished I had brought Juicy with me to beat her ass.
“Sit the fuck down now. What your ass in here doing? Do you think your best friend gone be happy about this? You are not no
fucking nigga,” I heard Dakari’s voice boom.
“He just threw my ass like a rag doll,” she replied. Hearing her plop down on one of the chairs had me laughing on the inside.
“You lucky his ass ain’t do worse. Now mind your damn business. Whatever they got going on ain’t got shit to do with you. You supposed to be here supporting your friend not making shit worse,” he spoke.
“Family of Ahniyah,” I heard just as a nurse led me into one of the rooms to help with my eyes.
CHAPTER FOUR
AHNIYAH
Looking over at the nurse coming into the room, I quickly twisted my face up like I was in pain. My head was slightly pounding but not as bad as I was making it seem.
“You have visitors out there and by all the commotion that’s going on out there behind you, I’m glad someone can come back here to see you and let everyone know for a fact you’re okay. We are going to allow two people back at a time. Is there any two you prefer?” she said while checking my vitals.
“Yeah, they should know who they are too, so just go let them know two people can come back,” I replied, not really wanting to talk. I had them cut the lights off because looking into the light made my head hurt.
Once the nurse finished what she was doing, she walked out, and I waited to see my man and best friend walk in. However, when I only saw Dom walk in my heart shattered. The whole time I felt like my man was gone bankrupt through this bitch yelling and screaming to see me and his child and make sure we were okay, he didn’t. I wanted to ask where he was or even if he was here, but decided against it when I saw the evil look on Dom’s face when she walked in the door. Once she laid eyes on me the look was quickly replaced with one of concern.
“Sis, you okay? I was out there waiting the whole time. Do you know what happened? Who did this? The baby okay?” she asked, looking over at the monitors. Of course, they had me hooked up to all kinds of monitors to be able to watch the baby.
“I’m fine, the baby is fine. My head hurt and no, I don’t know who did it. One minute I was walking in my cell the next I was waking up to these bright ass lights. I hate they have me cuffed to this damn bed like I’m gone try to escape,” I expressed while trying to lift my hand, which was cuffed to the bed.
“I see you keep looking at the door. Your man here but I maced his ass, so he is getting cleaned up,” Dom told me, causing me to try
and sit up.
“You WHAT? Why the fuck would you do that? What happened? Y’all was just cool,” I asked her, not understanding what went wrong.
“He called me a bitch because I told him this shit was his fault. I might have threatened him a few times or whatever. I told his ass call me another bitch and he did, so I sprayed him.” She sat back in her chair like it wasn’t a big deal.
“I just don’t understand why you would do that though. Like, you could have just cursed him out. Y’all supposed to be here for me. Now if he would have knocked your ass out, what was I supposed to do? You know you my girl, but that’s my man and y’all shouldn’t have even let it go that far.” I sighed, feeling more stressed than I already was.
“I may have been wrong, but you know I don’t be thinking about shit like that. Once I said call me a bitch again and he did, it was up. Now I will apologize for spraying him, but that’s it. Whatever else I said, I meant that shit.”
“Dom, that’s the problem. That man is my child’s father and hopefully he’s gone be around forever. Even if we are not together, we share a family. You would not want me and Dakari beefing if it was the other way around. I’m not asking you to feel like you have to take back what you said but for me, I’m asking you not to make it weird and to watch what you do and say, just like he should,” I replied.
“Why I feel like you taking his side? I am just gone agree with you because I would not want you and my man beefing, and I apologize for that. I wasn’t trying to stress you. I am just upset that you are here and that it was behind some shit dealing with him. You cannot tell me I am wrong for that. You my heart, bitch. I don’t play about you and I’m sorry if that makes me act a foul. It’s always been just us, so you getting hurt got me heated.”
Just as she finished her sentence, Brick came walking in the door. His entire face was red, and he wore a mean look. Brick walked over to me and wrapped his arms around me before kissing my forehead. He never even acknowledged Dom being in the room.
“You good, baby? My baby good? Did you talk to your lawyers yet? They called me and said they had a way to get you home. The next thing I hear about you is this. What happened? Do you remember anything? You know who did it? If so, tell me. I’ll have that shit handled by tonight,” Brick told me as he rubbed on my belly.
“I don’t know who did it,” I told him.
“Okay, I miss you. Are you comfortable? Hungry? Thirsty? In pain? Let me know and I’ll get on it to make you feel better,” he said, kissing me on the lips before kissing my belly through my shirt.
Any anger or stress I felt was slowly leaving me. Brick had a way of making me feel like everything would be okay even when I felt like everything was going to go wrong. Looking up at him, I smiled, showing all thirty-two like only he could make me do.
“Umm, I’m going to go out there and let everyone know you are okay,” Dom said after clearing her throat.
I had completely forgotten she was in the room. Had she not said anything I would have been about to tell my man to handle the throbbing sensation that was thumping between my legs. With each touch and simple show of affection he was doing, the more my panties grew moist. Brick was about to have to look past the Chia pet that grew between my legs and give me something to be happy about when they took me back to that cell.
“What are you thinking about, ma? Come on, talk to me,” Brick spoke again.
“I’m horny as hell,” I whispered to him.
Brick looked back at the door where a guard was standing before looking back over at me.
“I might not can put dick in you just this second, but I can help you get one off,” he replied, causing me to smack my teeth.
For a few months now I had been playing in my coochie, and while it got the job done, that was all it did. I needed something to satisfy me, and the piece of meat I had been dying to get a taste of was right in front of me. I wanted him to fuck me like he missed me, like them men did the girls on pornos. I needed some rough, harsh
sex. Something to take my mind off of everything I had been going through, even if it was just for a second. Brick did that for me, and he did it every time. Bringing me peace was one thing I always could look forward to him doing.
“Dom told me what happened,” I blurted out.
“I don’t want to talk about that, it’s whatever with ole girl. That’s your best friend so let’s just leave it like that. Whatever y’all have going on is on y’all. I know you are needing somebody to vent to or whatever else, but please refrain from discussing what we got going on with her. Simply because I am not allowing her to do no shit like that again. I am letting it slide this time because she is your best friend and you gone be my wife soon. I don’t need no room for error. I am keeping my distance from her. I would like if she did the same for now,” he told me.
I couldn’t do anything but respect what he was saying. I just wished it didn’t end up bad. I wanted them to all be cool so that when I did have my dream wedding with him, it would be perfect not awkward. Laying back on the bed, I closed my eyes. I could feel the throbbing pain in the back of my head start up. Pressing the nurse button, I sat quietly until she came in.
“My girl in pain. Could you get her some pain meds? I am gone sit here with her, if that’s cool. I don’t want to leave her side until she is coming up out of here. What are her plans? What does the doctor have in store for her? You mind going to get him or her so I could talk to them. I also need her medical bills so they can be paid in full,” Brick started.
I loved the way he took charge and did it so calmly. My man wasn’t thinking twice about handling stuff when it came down to me, and I loved it.
“My child cool? Can we find out what we are having while we here or do we have to wait any longer? I am wanting to see him or her. I haven’t been able to see my baby, hear the heartbeat, nothing. I would pay for it if I have to. Whatever y’all want, I got it, just to be sure my baby still moving around and good up in there. I need to know he or she is growing right, don’t need no extra food, and is eating right. Please,” Brick said, practically begging.
The nurse smiled at him before replying. “If you listen, that little thumping sound you hear is your baby’s heartbeat. You have been hearing it since you walked inside this room and just didn’t know. I can see what we can do as far as another ultrasound. The doctor did run tests and had the baby checked out. Everything as far as the child is fine and going exactly the way it is supposed to. We just have the monitors on so we can make sure everything stays fine.”
“Hold on, my lil’ baby shit strong.” Brick was smiling so hard it made me smile.
The nurse scanned my arm band and handed me my meds, which I quickly took, while Messiah made a recording of the baby’s heartbeat.
My man came back over to me and hugged me. Moving down, he placed his head on my stomach. I could feel him rubbing my stomach, but what got me was the moment I felt something wet.
“Messiah?” I called out to him.
Brick ignored me as he continued to rub my stomach and sniffle. This grown ass man was crying at the sound of his baby’s heartbeat. I knew he was gone be a good father and I knew his love for us ran deep. However, this moment showed just how deep his love for us really was. I didn’t want this feeling to go away for nothing or no one. I was going to have to get him and Dom back in good graces because they were two of the three most important people of my life. Brick lifted his head and wiped his tears away.
“I swear to God I’m gone make this shit right, baby. I am gone get you home if it takes everything I have to do so. It is really going to be us over it all. I need you home, baby, for real. I hate missing these moments with you. Shit, after this one we gone have to run it back so I can be there for every single thing. Like watching your belly get to this size. I missed this and I hate that I did. I’m so sorry, yo,” he spoke.
“It’s okay, baby, I know that you want to be here and you’re going to. I know you love us and want us home. I want to be home too. This just a test that we gone get through, baby. I ain’t leaving you, ever,” I promised, and I meant it.
I was really feeling like the saying “I love it here.”
CHAPTER FIVE
