Page 82 of Another Night With Me

Without a second thought I went fell into his arms allowing him to lift me from the bloody mess that had surrounded us. Out of my mental fog I couldn’t bare to look at Maddison’s lifeless bloodied body. I buried my face into his chest as I let out a loud wail. “She tried to kill Zuriyah.” I sobbed into his chest as he carried me from the room.

“Grab my daughter,” Niko told somebody but I was to scared to look up to see who he was talking to.

I heard him opening a door, walking into a room, then another door opened. “Ima sit you down,” Niko said as he gently placed me down. I looked around, noticing we were in the bathroom.

He walked over to the whirlpool tub turning on the water faucet. He started filling up the tub, walking back over to me. “Lift up,” Niko said in a soothing voice as he gently pulled my shirt over my body.

Niko tossed it on the ground then he wrapped my arms around his neck, then he tugged at my shorts and lifted me up simultaneously. Wiggling them free from my body, I wrapped my legs around Niko's torso as he carried me over to the tub. He gently lowered me into the warm water allowing it to soothe my body.

“I was scared you weren’t coming back,” I said to Niko as I gaze at him sitting on the edge of the tub.

“What I tell you? I’m always coming back to you and Zuriyah. That’s a fact.”

“Did I kill her?”

“Fuck her,” He coldly spat washing my back with a wash rag.

“I’m not a monster am I?” I was slowly realising I had taken someone’s life and it was starting to get to me a little. I didn’t regret protecting my daughter though.

“You perfect, you did what you were supposed to do to keep our family safe.” Niko lovingly responded. “You know how many mutha fuckas I’d kill to make sure you and Zuriyah were good?” I shook my head, No. “I’d kill everybody on this planet if it meant keeping y’all safe. I love y’all both. There aren’t enough words in the dictionary for me to explain the love I feel for you. You and Zuriyah are my world and I can’t wait to spend forever building our family.”

“Me too. I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you.” I said as I leaned forward, meeting Niko’s lips with mine.

Epilogue

Niko Freeman

What Happend…

My adrenaline was pumping as sweat dripped down my brow. My heart raced as I tried to wrap my mind around what I had to do. Being the oldest of my momma’s five boys I always felt like it was my job to protect and keep all of my brothers safe. Even though each of my brothers were grown, had their own minds and did their own shit I still took my role as big brother seriously. When I said I am my brothers keeper, I meant that shit and that’s why this shit was fucking we me so bad. I never thought I’d see the day when my own blood would turn against me. Growing up, we ain’t have the best childhood, our mama was fucked up. She often tried to pit us against each other. For whatever reason in our mama’s fucked up head she wanted us to hate each other.

I thought all of us had overcome the division our mama was trying to create between us. Between Ya’, Titon, Nakeem , Sonni and me, everything was supposed to be good. It was petty fights and shit between us but we were brothers that was to be expected. I didn’t think anything was serious enough for us to end here. My brothers and I worked our asses off together building an empire together. Our shit was air tight, nothing could break the bond we built. At least that’s how I was thinking, clearly a nigga was wrong as fuck.

A nigga was so blinded by loyalty that when shit started to go wrong, I turned a blind eye to the shit that was going on right in my face. I couldn’t grasp that a nigga I’d love since we were kids would do some fuck shit like this. My blood brother was willing to betray us for a little bit of extra money. It ain’t make no sense to me. Sonni was my mutha fuckin’ heart, I loved the fuck outta my little brother, gave his ass the fucking world. Anything he wanted he had. The only reason he was getting his hands dirty was because he wanted too. Claimed he didn’t want to depend on his older brothers for the rest of his life. He wanted to be a man and I respected that to a degree. Still didn’t want to put him on but our mama convinced me otherwise. She had a way with making mutha fuckas bend to her will. I regretted not standing firm in my decision I should have kept Sonni out the streets. I didn’t though and now I was stuck with making the hardest choice of my life. My heart broke the more I had to face the reality of this shit.

“How you wanna do this?” Ya’ asked, looking over at me as he drove the slider we were in.

Titon and Nakeem were in the backseat, as we all rode in silence as we trailed our baby brother Sonni. Each of us in our own thoughts. The heaviness of our reality was finally settling in. If this was any other nigga it would have been a no brainer on ending the niggas life. Stealing from us was a no go. Everybody knew that if you took something from us it meant death. To add insult to injury, putting a hit out on us and our families was an entirely new form of being diabolical. Sonni had let money change him into a new nigga who gave no fucks about us. He wanted all four of us dead, including Nakeem’s baby mama and their daughter. That was some sick shit I couldn’t get past. To put a hit out on us was fucked up but your niece was sick as fuck.

“Shit, cut the nigga off at the light. Let’s get this shit over with,” I mumbled lowly.

A part of me wanted Sonni to admit to his wrong doing. Ask for forgiveness so I wouldn’t have to end his life. I needed the nigga to ask for help or something. I prayed for some kind of resolution that didn’t end in Sonni losing his life but in the pits of my soul I knew that wasn’t going to happen. Sonni had become grimey as fuck in the streets. He didn’t give a damn about anybody but his own well being. He didn’t even give a fuck about his own seeds. Sonni just didn’t give a fuck about shit besides money. I hated the nigga he’d turned into. The nigga had gotten an ego out of this world. He really believed he ran shit and thought he was untouchable. He failed to realize he was untouchable because he had the four of us behind him. Plenty of niggas wanted his head but they knew they would have to go through us and that wouldn’t have been easy. Sonni was so fucking arrogant he hadn’t noticed we’d been trailing behind him for the last thirty minutes. His lack of awareness showed how green he really was to the streets.

Sonni pulled his flashy ass lime green G-Wagon to a stop at a red light. Quickly Ya’ skirted from behind Sonni cutting him off from leaving. Without saying a word all four of us were out the car, guns in hand, we surrounded Sonni’s car.

“What the fuck y’all niggas doing?” He angrily spat balling his face up once he saw all of our faces. There wasn’t a point in any of us wearing mask, we weren’t leaving any witnesses behind. He rolled down his window where Ya’ and I were.

Nakeem tapped on the window with the butt of his gun and Sonni lowered the passenger side window.

“Shit,” I calmly responded. “Tryna catch up with our baby brother.”

“Y’all nigga coulda called me instead off hopping out on a nigga at a light like we got a problem,” Sonni’s eye twitched, something it did when he was nervous.

“Joi, might not fuck with you no more.” Nakeem gritted out through clenched teeth, he was on the passenger side of the car, glaring at Sonni with hate and hurt in his eyes. He was the maddest of us all. Sonni had placed a hit on his daughter’s life and that broke something deep in Nakeem. ‘

“I-i ain’t did shit to Joi’s crazy ass,” Sonni nervously stuttered.

“You coulda fooled the fuck out of me,” Nakeem bitterly replied.