Page 73 of A Toxic Redemption

KHALIL

Boom!

"Ahhh!" Mia's parents screamed as I kicked the door in to their home. It's been twenty-four hours since Kaine and my rat-ass baby mama snatched my son, and somebody was going to feel me until my lil' homie was back to me.

Her parents lived about an hour away from us, and I wanted to roll up on them in hopes that they know where the bitch was. I had zero patience or time for games, so I hoped they would give me the information I was looking for with zero hassle. I was not above killing their asses if it came down to it.

"Shut the fuck up with all that damn noise," I seethed at Miranda. Mia's mom jumped from the couch. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Jake and Bino shoot upstairs to check the rest of the house. "Where the fuck is your hoe ass daughter and her nigga?"

"We're not telling you shit!" Mia's father, Melvin, grilled me as he remained seated. This nigga has always hated me, and the feeling was mutual. Apparently, when she got with Kaine, they all felt as if she had won some sort of prize. Imagine that. "Youshould have never taken KJ away from her and I hope she never gives her back. He's her son and—"

Pop!

The screams of Mia's mother were getting on my fuckin' nerves, and I told the bitch to shut up once. Maybe this bullet would pipe her old ass down. Her old ass husband jumped from the couch and tried to make his way over to her as she bled out from the chest wound in the middle of the floor.

"Now let's try this again," Bino began as he returned to the living room. "As you can see, this man isn't in a playing mood. "Now, if you and the old bitch that's upstairs asleep want to make it out of here to save your wife and bury your daughter, tell the man where his son is."

"I don't know," he cried as he looked down at his wife as she struggled to breathe. "Mia called me and said that you won the custody battle, but she wasn't going to let you have her son. When she found out you got some whore pregnant, she went berserk. She said you were not about to be playing house with her son and some other woman."

"First of all, watch your fuckin' mouth when you mention my girl. I don't give a fuck what your daughter may have called her, but you're going to watch your words." I went across his head with the butt of my gun and sent him crashing to the ground beside his barely breathing wife. "Call her." I handed him the cell phone I retrieved from the end table. "On speaker!"

I eyed him intently as he unlocked his phone and went to an unknown number. He stared down at his wife as she struggled to breathe. She reached out to him and tried to speak, but her words were inaudible.

"Hey, daddy," Mia's voice came through the speaker, "I thought I told you I would call you when I was able to talk. We're a little busy and—"

"Your mother is busy too, love," I interrupted her. "She's having a hard time breathing. Welp, never mind. The bitch just clocked out."

Looking down at Miranda, she had, in fact, taken her last breath. Once Melvin caught on, he dropped the phone and burst into tears. Over his ass, I sent two to the head and shut his ass up, too.

"Mama! Daddy!"

"What is up with y'all and the fuckin' screaming?" I picked up the phone from the floor as I stepped over her dead parents. "Where the fuck is my son, Mia?"

"Khalil? Oh my gosh, what did you..." Her wails sounded off through the kitchen. "Why did you do that?"

"Me? You did this shit!" I shouted. "What did you think was going to happen? You took my fuckin' son!"

"He's mine too! All we had to do was be a family! You said fuck me and got that bitch pregnant! It's been all over social media! How could you do that?"

"It was never going to be you, Mia!" I roared. "Where. The fuck. Is KJ?" I seethed as I pinched the bridge of my nose. "I'm not going to ask you again."

The line went quiet, and I had to look to make sure she hadn't disconnected the call. I didn't know what that bitch was doing, but she was pissing me off.

"Check your phone."

Pulling my phone from my pocket, I had one unopened message. It was a picture of KJ sleeping peacefully. I was able to breathe easily, knowing he was okay, but I wouldn't be okay until he was back home with me.

"Mia, where are you—"

"I have to go. Kaine is back." She was now talking in a whisper. "I will make sure he calls you soon with his demands."

Demands?Before I could ask what Mia meant, she disconnected the call. Throwing it across the room, I watched as it shattered against the wall. Had I killed that nigga months ago, I wouldn't be going through this shit.

"Cleanup is here, bro." Jake came into the kitchen and looked at the broken phone on the floor. "You straight?"

"Yeah, KJ is straight. I gotta wait for that bitch of a brother to call. Let's go."

Walking back through the house, I stepped over the dead bodies as the crew came in to discard the bodies. I was walking out of the door when Bino called out to me.

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