Page 53 of A Player's Prayer
“Wild, please! I’m with child!” I waved my hands and mimicked as I stood in front of her. “You should have thought about that shit when you harassed and tried to plot on my girl, Rasputia.” The fellas chuckled as I folded my arms and hovered over her. “Girl, I don’t give a damn about you or that damn baby. However, I wouldn’t mind entertaining a quick segment of Maury. So tell me… who’s the pappy? Is it your man here, Sed? Or that half-dead nigga over there, Biggie Smalls?” I nodded toward a barely conscious Bear. “I think the niggas deserve to know before they die.”
Finding these muthafuckas was the easiest thing I’ve ever done. When I sat back and thought about how I was going to get to them, the simplest thing was to tell them to come to town. With Noemi’s help, I was able to have Kodi’s cell number duplicated, which allowed me to text Bear and Zaria’s phones pretending to be her. The dummies came to the city together, even sharing the same hotel room. It was nothing for me to snatch them, and for the past couple of weeks, this is where they’ve been, rotting away.
“What the fuck are you talking about?” Sed groaned as he peered up at me. Like his girl and homeboy, he was tied to a chair facing me. His right eye was swollen shut, while his jaw was more crooked than Bobby Brown’s in the 1990s. “Why would you think the baby would be anybody’s but mine?”
“That girl has been fucking your homie like a dog in heat for years.” I pulled her phone from my pocket, showing him the pictures and videos from her phone. “You’ve been tasting that man’s nut the whole time y’all been together.”
Her cries filled the room as sounds of her and Bear grunting like pigs began to play from her iPhone. From the look on hisface, he didn’t know they had been messing around. Dragging his eyes toward her, tears leaked from his eyes before he bucked in his seat and tried to get to her.
“I’ma kill you, bitch!” he shouted as he rocked. “I’ve been busting my ass trying to make a life for us, and this is what you do? You’re dead to me!”
“You’ll both be dead soon. Don’t you worry.” I pulled my Glock from my waist and walked towards Bear. “You got any last words, fuck nigga? Your uncle is in hell waiting for you, so you’ll be in good company. Make that shit quick, so I can get back to my wife.”
Before I left the prison, Maine, in so many words, informed me that he’d gotten word to some of his old friends on the outside to handle Percy. He was angry and pissed that someone he once called a brother would want to bring harm to his daughter, and he wanted him gone immediately. Within days of speaking to Kodi, Maine put out the hit, and Percy was dead.
“Your wife?” He coughed as he peered up at me as best he could. The day we dragged him from the hotel, I hung him from the ceiling and have been using him like a punching bag ever since. “Y-You married my girl?”
“Your girl?” Zaria screamed from her chair at the end of the row. “After all of this, you still love that bitch?”
Hearing her disrespect my girl for the last time, I walked over to the table and retrieved my favorite carbon steel knife. Placing my Glock in the waistband of my jeans, I walked over to Zaria. Shaking her head profusely, I held her in place as I pried her mouth open and removed her tongue.
“My girl loved you, and all you did was shit on her. And for what? Some money she didn’t have, and a nigga that’s sick about her being another man’s wife?” I pointed to a clearly upset Bear. “You’ll never get the chance to hurt my girl ever again.”
“Mmm! Mmm!” she cried in agony. Stepping back, I smiled as I eyed my handiwork. Sed, crying for his hoe, was pissing me off, so it was time for him to go too.
“No, please!” he yelled. “I didn’t know about money! I?—”
Yanking his head back, I stuffed his girl’s tongue inside his mouth. “Might as well taste your homies’ kids one last time.”
I watched his eyes expand in horror at the muscle being placed in his mouth, but he didn’t have a chance to object before my blade was sliding across his throat. Blood squirted all over the place as I stepped back and watched him gargle and gasp for air. It didn’t take long before the life left his eyes.
Pop! Pop!
Sending two to Bear’s face next, there was no need to keep him around any longer. He can vent to his uncle and homeboy in hell about the woman he lost to a real nigga. Turning back to Zaria, I sent one to her head, shutting her the fuck up too. I told Kodi the first day I met this broad that she was a snake. Her head was officially gone, and she would never get the chance to strike at my baby.
“I feel like a proud father right now.” Skip walked over and patted my back. “My baby brother is a married man and is knocking off everybody in the name of love.”
“Man, watch out.” I chuckled, shaking him off of me. Wiping the blood from my knife onto Zaria’s shirt, I nodded over at Money. “Call the crew to come in and handle this for me. I’m ready to get home to my wife.”
When I made vows to be Kodi’s protector, I meant it in the most literal way. She will never walk around looking over her shoulder, waiting for the enemy to strike. Her man will be right there, eliminating the problem before it ever reaches our doorstep.
A soft life full of love is what she wants; a soft life full of love is what she’ll get.
Looking at my watch, I had about two hours before I had to meet my wife once she was off from work. Thankfully, she had an early shift, but I knew she wasn’t going to want to be out late. She hasn’t spoken to her father in almost two weeks, and she’s been in her feelings about it. If he didn’t call my girl by the end of the week, I was going to hop on a flight to check his ass. When I said no one would hurt her again, that included him too.
“What’s up, Pop?” I walked into my dad’s mancave. “It’s good to see you’re in here chilling and not somewhere feeling up my mama.”
“Who said I wasn’t just in here doing that before you walked in my house, nigga?” He smirked as I took a seat on the sofa across from him. “I wouldn’t sit there if I were you.”
Hopping up like my ass was on fire, I frowned as I checked the back of my sweats to make sure everything was cool. Deciding to play it safe, I stood in the middle of the space, not touching anything.
“See, this is why I don’t fool with you, old man.” I mugged him as he continued to laugh. Walking over toward his bar, I decided to take a shot to ease my racing heart. “I just came over here to holler at y’all before I go pick up my wife, and you’re playing games.” I took a swig of his Cognac before placing the bottle back down. “Let me go find Evie so I can get out of here.”
I give my dad a hard time, but I love the way he loves my mother. Deep down, that’s what motivated me to do right by Kodi. She’s the type of woman that you want to just love on and adore with no limitations.
“Wait a minute, Adrian.” He stopped me before I made it to the door. “I haven’t told you lately, but I’m proud of you, babyboy. From your business to your marriage… You have made me so happy and proud to call you my son.”
“Damn, Pop. So you were just out here denying me before or something?” I crossed my arms and eyed him. “That’s messed up.”
