internet. I want Ajoni brought to me today by any means necessary, and I will see Hankin tonight. He needs to learn a lesson about taking another man’s shit and being disrespectful afterwards.”
“King, I understand that Hankin stole something from you, but I’m not helping you hurt Ajoni. She has not done anything to us that I wouldn’t have done if I had family. She didn’t ask for what happened to her that night either, just wanted to run with us to get that paper, and see about her moms. There are some lines that should not be crossed even in the streets where anything goes.”
“I’m not going to kill her Raw, and she did do something to me.”
“What was that?”
She made me want her more than anything else in this world. “She broke the oaths to the Blue Kings.”
“After you made her take them King, in a way she did not want to at first.”
“But she took them Raw, and there are consequences for breaking them.”
“What the fuck are you going to do with her?”
“Make her mine again.”
Raw swipes a hand down his face. “Abu Dhabi, here I fucking come. I am not going back to damn jail for a piece of ass I wouldn’t stick if somebody offered to pay me. Ajoni’s cockpit must have gold inside it, the worst kind to stick and makes men lose their damn minds.”
“I wanted her badly before I made love to her, Raw.”
“So you love her?” he asks disbelievingly, but even I do not have a clear answer to that question.
“I guess. How the hell can I know what love is when I’ve never had it.”
Raw turns in his seat to face me, forgetting he is driving. The truck swerves into the other lane of an oncoming car traveling on the two-lane highway with us. I wonder if I am going to die before I can get out of these damn clothes, and grab for the wheel.
“Raw, watch where the fuck you going!”
He gains control of the truck again, and then turns his head to me again. “You guess you love her, King! Motherfucker, you better know it if we’re about to risk everything again to find her. And you didn’t say you fucked her; you said you made love to her. There’s a difference, you crazy bastard.” He shakes his head again and turns his eyes back to the road. “You’re going to get us killed! I just know it!”
I start to laugh. “You’re the one going to get us killed with your damn driving. Do I have to teach your ass how drive all over again?” Raw is the only one I let speak disrespectfully to me with bass in his voice, call me out of my damn name, and get away with his life afterwards — well, make that one of two people — but there are three that I will not let get away with it, and they are still missing from the family. “Where is the rest of the Kings, Raw?”
“All over the damn place, and I guess I’ll tell you where Ajoni is since you’ll only probably try to romance her ass again.”
I stop laughing and ask, “You know where she’s at too?”
“Yeah. When Larkin relocated her, he forgot to change her damn name. I wouldn’t be surprised if he wants us to find and kill her since she wouldn’t play his politics game his way. But what about Lex?”
“We scope out his ass and my runners that he is paying. I’ll let that pass since everybody has to make a living, but we will remove him and whoever is loyal to him from Mecca permanently and quietly as soon as possible. I’m not going back to prison either if I can help it. For that, we’ll need all hands on deck.”
CHAPTER fivE
~*~The same day in Hillcrest, Washington, DC~*~
Ajoni
“Mama, come look at what I made for your birthday tomorrow,” Anjuwan yells through the house from the kitchen on a rare furlough day from school, making me shake my head one room over in my office. She is seven-years old, and neither I nor her grandmother can break her habit of shouting every time she gets excited about something, no matter where she is at. That could be because neither of us
“King, I understand that Hankin stole something from you, but I’m not helping you hurt Ajoni. She has not done anything to us that I wouldn’t have done if I had family. She didn’t ask for what happened to her that night either, just wanted to run with us to get that paper, and see about her moms. There are some lines that should not be crossed even in the streets where anything goes.”
“I’m not going to kill her Raw, and she did do something to me.”
“What was that?”
She made me want her more than anything else in this world. “She broke the oaths to the Blue Kings.”
“After you made her take them King, in a way she did not want to at first.”
“But she took them Raw, and there are consequences for breaking them.”
“What the fuck are you going to do with her?”
“Make her mine again.”
Raw swipes a hand down his face. “Abu Dhabi, here I fucking come. I am not going back to damn jail for a piece of ass I wouldn’t stick if somebody offered to pay me. Ajoni’s cockpit must have gold inside it, the worst kind to stick and makes men lose their damn minds.”
“I wanted her badly before I made love to her, Raw.”
“So you love her?” he asks disbelievingly, but even I do not have a clear answer to that question.
“I guess. How the hell can I know what love is when I’ve never had it.”
Raw turns in his seat to face me, forgetting he is driving. The truck swerves into the other lane of an oncoming car traveling on the two-lane highway with us. I wonder if I am going to die before I can get out of these damn clothes, and grab for the wheel.
“Raw, watch where the fuck you going!”
He gains control of the truck again, and then turns his head to me again. “You guess you love her, King! Motherfucker, you better know it if we’re about to risk everything again to find her. And you didn’t say you fucked her; you said you made love to her. There’s a difference, you crazy bastard.” He shakes his head again and turns his eyes back to the road. “You’re going to get us killed! I just know it!”
I start to laugh. “You’re the one going to get us killed with your damn driving. Do I have to teach your ass how drive all over again?” Raw is the only one I let speak disrespectfully to me with bass in his voice, call me out of my damn name, and get away with his life afterwards — well, make that one of two people — but there are three that I will not let get away with it, and they are still missing from the family. “Where is the rest of the Kings, Raw?”
“All over the damn place, and I guess I’ll tell you where Ajoni is since you’ll only probably try to romance her ass again.”
I stop laughing and ask, “You know where she’s at too?”
“Yeah. When Larkin relocated her, he forgot to change her damn name. I wouldn’t be surprised if he wants us to find and kill her since she wouldn’t play his politics game his way. But what about Lex?”
“We scope out his ass and my runners that he is paying. I’ll let that pass since everybody has to make a living, but we will remove him and whoever is loyal to him from Mecca permanently and quietly as soon as possible. I’m not going back to prison either if I can help it. For that, we’ll need all hands on deck.”
CHAPTER fivE
~*~The same day in Hillcrest, Washington, DC~*~
Ajoni
“Mama, come look at what I made for your birthday tomorrow,” Anjuwan yells through the house from the kitchen on a rare furlough day from school, making me shake my head one room over in my office. She is seven-years old, and neither I nor her grandmother can break her habit of shouting every time she gets excited about something, no matter where she is at. That could be because neither of us
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