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  “I have something I want to say—I need to say. Let me start off by saying—”

  Blu stopped him. “It’s over.”

  Chapter 33

  A few days later…

  G’Corey hopped the fence from Yuriah’s neighbor side of the yard where he’d been camped out and into his backyard.

  Today was the day of reckoning. There was no more waiting. No more hesitating because there was no perfect plan. He had to go King Kong and take his girl and kill anything that stood in the way of it because time was no longer an ally of his.

  Standing at the top step, he lifted his gun to his shoulder and raised his Timberland boot to do a kick door. However, he hesitated when he heard the faint sound of a car door closing from up front. He ran along the side of the house to investigate if someone had come by or if they were leaving.

  When he reached the wooden fence and peeked through the hole in the gate, he saw Yuriah sitting behind the wheel of his truck with his window down but he didn’t see Minnie. He pressed up against it, scanning the tiny scope he was allotted but his view was limited. Then suddenly he heard her. It appeared she was standing on the porch from the projection of her voice.

  “Baby, how long are you going to be again?” Minnie didn’t want to see him leave but he had business to handle.

  “No longer than three hours but of course you know it will be sooner than that if I can help it.”

  “Okay,” she bobbed her head.

  “Nah get inside and put the alarm on. I’ma pull off when I see you in, ya heard me.”

  G’Corey stuffed his gun in his waist and jetted to the back of the house. He removed one of his shirts while in motion, wrapping it around his fist.

  He decided to punch through the glass window of the door. It would be quieter than the thud of the door crashing against the wall, allowing him to sneak in undetected since she was still outside.

  Effortlessly, he was inside within seconds. He hurriedly closed the door back and he did so just in time because the security system’s intercom said, Alarm activated.

  ***

  Reds looked in the mirror and giggled softly at her reflection. She was on cloud nine and she was about to lift Munch up there with her.

  Every day since BG was killed and G’Corey lived on untouched was hell for him. He barely ate, slept or talked. And there was nothing Reds was able to do shake him out of his madness, until today.

  It was 4 a.m. when Munch walked inside. Reds was up to hear him come in because she was having a difficult time sleeping without him.

  She walked into the living room and cut on the light. She didn’t want him to take her concerns out of context but she couldn’t keep her fears bottled up.

  “Baby, you’ve been coming inside like this every morning for weeks and I’m scared every time you leave out of the door because I wonder if you’re gonna walk back through them.”

  Munch understood her worry. He heard her cries and he felt her pain but he was unable to cater to them. It wasn’t that he didn’t care because there was no denying she was his world but it was just that his brother was his life.

  “What you want me to do? Sit on my hands and forgive those who trespass against me? Nah, I’ll leave that shit up to some holy roller. I believe in street justice so I gotta do this.”

  “No, you don’t! You not the only one who’s out for blood. You keep lookin’ for his troubles and you will find it. And I don’t want you to die, Munch. Do you hear me? I don’t want you to die!” Reds screamed at the top of her lungs.

  She was shaking as she watched him stare straight ahead, seemingly unfazed. But then he turned to look at her. The pain he carried in his heart was engrained on his face.

  He wanted to make her understand why he was adamant about his brother’s business but there was no way he could. He tried.

  Reds was having a difficult time trying to calm herself down, so he stood up from the sofa and walked over to her, holding her trembling body. She buried her head into his chest but cried even harder.

  She didn’t want to lose him but he wasn’t trying to lose.

  After minutes of being in his arms, Munch tore her away from him. What he was about to say wasn’t going to put her at ease but she had to hear it.

  “Bae, if death comes, ya heard me, I gotta be ready for it. It’s not that I’m lookin’ for it to happen but death is the consequence of the living.”

  That conversation hadn’t left her since she heard it but she was hoping after today she could help him see things a little differently.

  When Reds walked into the living room, she found Munch on the phone. She whispered, “I’m ready when you are.”

  He nodded his head and then returned his attention back to his call.

  “If you not at the house, I can just pass through tomorrow and get them thangs, ya heard me.” Munch wanted to relieve him of the choppers he had scored from an old connect of his.

  “We pullin’ out ‘round four in the morning.” Yuriah looked at the time. “So, I’ma lay up there and turn around. Minnie’s at the house but I don’t want her touchin’ that. I can be there in twenty.”

  “Nah, don’t change your plans for me. I’ll just dip through before you kite out.”

  “It’s all good, bruh. Shit ain’t gon’ start ‘til I get there so you straight. Come through.”

  “A’ight then. I’m on my way.” Munch hung up the phone and turned to Reds. “We gon’ need to holla at Yuri before we do your thang, ya heard me.”

  Reds smiled and agreed. A quick detour wasn’t going to offset what she had planned.

  ***

  Minnie turned the television on in the living room and had a seat. She channel surfed looking for anything to occupy her time until Yuriah got back.

  She looked around at her home and felt sad to leave it behind. Her and Yuriah made so many wonderful memories in it, but she couldn’t enjoy being there comfortably. Not anymore.

  G’Corey crept down the hall, stopping at the entrance where Minnie sat with her back facing him. He treaded softly so he wouldn’t be heard.

  He stood behind her for a moment inhaling her eye rolling perfume and his mouth watered. He then raised his hand and delicately brushed her hair from off of her shoulders.

  “Ahh!” Minnie yelped as she jumped out of her skin and off from the sofa. She turned around and then every muscle in her body froze when she saw G’Corey standing there.

  “Honey, I’m home,” he smiled. “You look surprised. I’m guessing you wasn’t expecting me but you should have known I would come for you.”

  Her mouth made several clipped aah and oh sounds as she tried to speak. She shook her head no then finally answered verbally. “What are you doing?”

  “To take you far away from here.” He walked around the sofa to stand on the same side as her but she inched away as he did. He saw fear spilling from her eyes. “Are you scared of me?”

  Her voice shrilled as she spoke, betraying her. “No—ooo, I’m not.” She continued moving away slowly, casting her eyes off to the side in search of anything blunt she could use to defend herself.

  “You are scared. But of me? Imagine that.”

  “You just shouldn’t—shouldn’t be here.” Her voice was shaky.

  “You shouldn’t be here, either.” G’Corey looked around at the lavish yet cozy tri-level home and then back to her. “You should be with me. And I’m not waiting another day for that to happen.” He balled his mouth and forced his next words. “I can’t and I won’t.”

  She followed his shifty eyes and saw they glanced at each of her packed boxes. She had to think on her feet. “As you can see, I am leaving him to be with you but if things are going to play out smoothly, I need you to leave and once I get my things out of here, we’ll run away together. I promise.” Her words were weakly spoken but she hoped he believed them.

  G’Corey allowed his sudden laughter to die down to a weak smile. “I love you so fuckin’ much, but when did you become a lia
r?”

  “Wha—what am I lying about?”

  “Everything! You lied about it all because if you meant half of the shit you was saying in those emails, you wouldn’t be looking like you wanna piss your pants right nah. But you clearly was playing me, telling me all the shit I wanted to hear and for what? So you could get ghost on me? Oh, but you didn’t know that I am Ghost? I was everywhere you were. Even the day you had your ole punk ass man show up in your place. I was there, too. And at the time, I spared his ain’t shit life so you wouldn’t be all fucked up but now it don’t matter. I gotta drop him because he has some kind of hold on you that somehow made you forget our vows. ‘Til death do us part. You remember that?”

  Tears slipped from her eyes. “I do.”

  “Exactly! You said I do. So, I’m not the bad guy just because I want what you promised me, what was owed to me.”

  Minnie wished, in that moment, she had listened to Yuriah and not go behind his back by getting involved when he said he had things covered. But she feared ignoring his relentless emails and thought she could satisfy G’Corey with false hopes of their togetherness to keep him at bay long enough for her to slip out of the city.

  G’Corey was smaller in size from how she remembered him but his unwelcomed presence was huge. His stare was icy yet his tone was warm. Everything about him, his energy, his movements, his reason for being there was frightening.

  She clasped her prayer hands up to her lips. “G’Corey, you are scaring me.”

  He chuckled. “Finally, some honesty.”

  “Listen, G’Corey, Yuriah will be home any minute.” She began choking through her tears. “You gotta go. Please just go and I promise we will leave off together.”

  He clenched his jaw. “Now you’re lying again.”

  She whined her words. “I’m not. I swear I’m…”

  “Shut up!” He raised his voice and it shook her up. “You think I give a fuck about that thuggah? He took my soul when he took you away from me. I want him to come back so I can return his ass to sender.” G’Corey pulled out his gun and Minnie’s body almost shut down at the sight of it.

  “Please, please, please, don’t hurt him. I’ll do whatever you say. Just don’t hurt him.” Both cheeks were coated with her tears.

  G’Corey looked at her sideways. “You really beggin’ for this thuggah’s life? You love him that much?” He snarled.

  Minnie didn’t know how to answer and that infuriated him. Now he had a mind to make her remember who she truly loved.

  He motioned for her and she moved, stepping out of his reach. “Come here.” She didn’t listen as she circled the sofa. He leaped for her and missed. “I said come here!” She ran and he began chasing her.

  She ran around the open floor plan with hopes that she could make it to one of the doors and get help but when G’Corey fired a shot into the air, she stopped almost instantly. She was paralyzed with terror. Minnie was so fearful of where the next shot would land that she couldn’t even turn around to face him as he walked up behind her.

  “Please don’t hurt…” she managed to say.

  “I won’t hurt you, baby. I could never do that,” he said as he placed his gun on the table in the foyer and yanked her pants down.

  “No, no, no, no,” she shook her head, pulling them back up.

  “Don’t fight me!” He jerked them back down, pushing her to the floor as he unzipped his jeans.

  She scooted away from him and stood to her feet, trying to pull her pants from around her ankles so she could run but grabbed her foot, yanking her toward him and causing her to smack the floor hard, face first.

  “Aaahhh,” she cried as blood began filling her mouth.

  By this time, G’Corey had his jeans and boxers girdled at his feet. He turned her onto her back and climbed on top of her. “I don’t want to hurt you. I just want to make love to you so you’ll remember it’s me you want.”

  She struggled to move from under him but it took no exertion for him to pin her and manipulate her body at his will. He had her panties and pants all the way down to her ankles again.

  “Please don’t do this. Please don’t do this!” Minnie cried out but he wasn’t listening. She still felt him maneuvering his penis toward her opening.

  She settled on the fact that she had to fight, so Minnie went berserk. She began hitting him on both side of his face, screaming for help.

  “Somebodyyyyyy! Hellpppppp!”

  G’Corey covered her mouth with his kisses but she was still clawing at him, making it impossible for him to make love to her.

  “Shut the fuck up!” He head butted her twice, quieting her screams. “Don’t resist me!”

  He grabbed ahold of his aching dick and pushed it inside of her. He groaned at their connection and she gasped from the pain of him penetrating her dry walls.

  “Oooow! You’re hurting meeeee!” She clawed at him to get off of her.

  He stopped pumping. “Yell again. Hit me again and I will kill you!”

  That deflated her fight. She turned her head off to the side and cried as she felt him resumed his savage attack on her body.

  “Oh, shit, Minnie. Grrrr. Damn! You feel so good. Oh, I missed you. I missed you.” He began kissing on her neck, breathing his breath in her ear as he moaned with every hump.

  With Minnie now under his full submission, he was free to make love to her that way she liked. He tenderly ran his hand under her shirt and bra as he pulled out one of her big breasts and sucked on its nipple.

  He then pulled out of her and removed her pants and panties all the way off and slid back inside, resting one of her legs on his shoulder as he drove in deep.

  “That’s still your spot? You gonna cum for me? Huh, baby? Ohhhh! Shit! I’m gonna cum for you. All inside you.” He talked her through each stroke.

  Minnie lay there motionless. No reaction. No sound. No tears.

  “Oh, baby, I’m ‘bout to cum in you. I don’t want to but I’m ‘bout to.” He dropped her leg and began pumping fast and then faster. “Ahhhhhhh! Ooooohhhh!”

  Minnie closed her eyes. She didn’t want to see what was to come next.

  He wanted to go again but he had time for that once he whisked her away to some state up North, where no one could interfere with them again.

  “Get up, baby. Grab your keys and let’s go.” G’Corey stood to his feet, snatching his gun.

  She couldn’t move. She didn’t try.

  “Minnie, get up. I’m not playin’ with you.”

  Still no movement.

  G’Corey let out a gruff sound as he tucked his gun in his waist so he could use both hands to bring her to her feet. Playing possum wasn’t going to stop destiny.

  Meanwhile…

  Yuriah pulled up to his house. He thought to sit outside and wait for Munch but decided to head inside and see what Minnie was up to.

  Right as he was walking up his steps, he heard the blares of police sirens growing louder. They were coming down his street. He found that odd, considering his neighborhood hardly ever had use for the N.O.P.D.

  Nonetheless, he continued on to his porch and unlocked the door. He called out for his wife while stepping inside. “Oh, bae…”

  Yuriah cut himself short when he saw G’Corey standing over his wife with half of her clothes on.

  G’Corey looked over his shoulder and went to reach for his gun but couldn’t pull it out in time.

  Yuriah had already ran down the stretch of his hallway, grabbing G’Corey with him and ramming his back into the wall, knocking the wind from him instantly.

  Yuriah was so crazed at what he walked into that it brought out the animal in him and he fought with random viciousness. He shaped his hand like he was reaching for a bowling ball and gouged into G’Corey’s face, trying to puncture his eyeballs out of their sockets with one hand while punching him upside the head with the other.

  Disarm alarm. Disarm alarm. The security system forewarned before it was set to shriek its alert signal. />
  G’Corey managed to remove his burner and banged his gun against Yuriah’s head, cracking his skull.

  That made Yuriah stumble but it didn’t keep him at bay long because a second later he rushed him again, maneuvering the gun out of his hand and onto the floor.

  “Aaahhhh!” Yuriah picked G’Corey up and body slammed him, straddling him immediately. He then looked over to Minnie who was now sitting up watching him in horrid disbelief.

  The bloody look on her face fueled his inner demon and Yuriah roared anger. “Aaaaaahhhh!” He began squeezing G’Corey’s throat with the determination to crush his windpipe.

  “Aarrggh! Aarrgh!” G’Corey was gagging as he tried to reach for the gun that wasn’t close enough for him to grab.

  Then a flush of policeman who responded to his neighbor’s report of a single gunshot came running through the house.

  Yuriah didn’t notice them coming. He could care less they were there. He was on a mission. “I’m gonna kill you!” Spit flew from Yuriah’s mouth and then his entire body spasm’d as his grip around G’Corey’s neck grew weak and he fell over.

  “Nooooo!” That’s my husband.” Minnie stood up to yell on the cop who tased him.

  “That may be so but he’s under arrest right now,” the officer stated.

  Minutes later…

  What in the hell happened here?” Reds sat up on the dash as she looked at police cars lined up in front of Yuriah and Minnie’s home.

  Munch’s adrenaline spiked as he brought his car to a halt. He placed it in park and looked to his left to see Yuriah being thrown to the ground and Minnie hysterically petitioning for them to let him up.

  Munch gritted his teeth and hoped to God they didn’t catch him down bad with those guns. He reached into his pocket and handed his phone to Reds. “Call Shenae. Tell her get here and bring Kamal.”

  He was about to get out of his car when he noticed bitch ass Officer Santemore bringing a handcuffed man to his feet and walking him to a police unit.