Page 44 of Read the Room

“Bitch, fuck you.” Alexi finally got herself together to say, “It doesn’t matter that you married him. You will always be a bum fuckin’ bitch.”

I pushed Tsireya behind me. “Alexi, she already popped you twice. What the fuck do you think will happen if I let her ass loose on you? What will happen if Simone decides to assist her friend? Watch how you talk to my fuckin’ wife.”

I glanced over at Ma. Although she was out of it, I was sure she probably heard this bullshit. If she was awake, she would have tried to get out of bed herself to whup Alexi’s ass.

“Fuck you, too, Lo’ak! With your bitch ass. That’s why your brat ass, read-the-room son got snatched.” As soon as it left Alexi’s mouth, she knew she fucked up. She gasped at her own words and fear danced in her eyes.

I didn’t even feel myself rush to her. My hand wrapped around her neck so tightly that I lifted her off the ground against the wall. Her nails scratched at my hand. When I heard the hammer to a gun pull back, I knew Sully was turned on. His gun went to the side of her dome.

See, Alexi had never been around Jedi to know that he said read the room. I never told her that shit. That told me that she had been around my son. The only chance she would have had to do that was after he was taken.

“Bitch, where the fuck are our sons? You’re on my to be dead list anyway, so if I kill you today, that will take something off my list. You know… eat the frog first mentality.”

“Lo, she can’t talk,” Reya said before she hit my shoulder. “Loosen the hold a little so the stupid bitch can tell us where our kids are. Don’t let go, though.”

I peeked over my shoulder at this perfect woman. “Come here, Tsireya.”

With Alexi’s neck still in my hand, I leaned my body toward my wife and slammed my lips onto hers. Like we weren’t in a dire situation, I tongued her sexy ass down. When our kiss ended, I loosened my hold on Alexi’s neck like she suggested.

“Now, where the fuck are our children?”

“Please, I’m sorry. Jer-Jeremy had his people get them. I didn’t know that they were going to hurt anyone. Mama Bee shot Logan,” she cried.

Reya punched the shit out of Alexi again. “Bitch, did you say Logan? How the fuck do you know Logan?”

Before she could answer, Simone punched her ass from the other side.Damn.Alexi started to get a little too loud with her whimpering and crying. I tightened my hand around her neck.

“Shut that shit up. Where are our fucking kids, bitch?”

My hand loosened around her neck again.

“I have the address in my phone. I-I can get it.” Alexi tried to convince me to let her go.

“Nah, bitch, I got it.”

Simone grabbed Alexi’s purse that fell on the floor when Reya reached back to hell and punched her in the face. She rifled through the purse then threw it back on the floor once the phone was in her hand. There was a facial lock on the phone, so she held the phone to Alexi’s face to unlock it.

“Where the shit at?”

She told her to go to the first text message thread. Simone laughed before her attention went to Reya.

“Sis, I love you, but ya mama is dying today. I promise that you can lean on my shoulder to cry.”

Mixed emotions displayed on my baby’s face in rapid fire. After a deep breath, she said, “I can’t cry over someone who never loved me.”

Based on the conversation from the thread, they had no idea that Alexi would come in here and tell on their asses. I could guarantee that she didn’t come in here because she cared about Mama Bee. It was no secret that neither of them liked each other.

Sully finally broke his silence. “You’re coming with us, bitch. Like my boy said, you’re on our to be dead list. Might as well dead all you fuckas at the same time.”

Her head knocked side to side. “No, please don’t do this. Lo, I love you.”

“Bitch, fuck you. When we broke up, and I flew my ass over that water, you should have read the room and left me the fuck alone. You should have read the fuckin’ room when you walked in here, but you chose not to. You had another opportunity to read it when my wife chin checked you. Now, illiteracy will be the cause of your death.”

Sully took his burner out to get at Joey and Ethan, so that our team could mobilize with Seneca’s team. By sunrise, everyone involved in this shit would be dead. It was time to get our boys.

Five Hours Before Sunrise…

The girls stayed in the hospital with Mama Bee like they said they would. We were on track to have our boys back by sunrise. Failure was not an option for Sully and me.

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