Page 49 of His Obsession Her Cure
“Char checked her computer and found an American airline receipt for a 5:00 pm departure from BIA with a seven-fifteen arrival at BWI. She should be home soon,” Alestar said, looking at the time on her watch. “From what I found the plane ride isonly about an hour and she’s like one hour twenty minutes from BWI. Her cousin is that niggas brother and he helped her get here.”
“We got his number?” I asked.
“I got it, you want me to call him?”
“No, get Char over here and I’ll have her do it. I need to know if we can trust him. He could run and tell his brother everything we talked about. He may be more willing to talk to her friend opposed to us.”
“How, do we know we can trust that nigga. That’s his brother after all.” Aren said.
“And Pepper is his fucking cousin who he should have protected from a fucking pedophile. But instead, they offered her up on a fucking silver platter because he payed a few of their bills. That nigga going to have to choose and if he chooses wrong, their family going to a double funeral.”
It took Char about twenty minutes to get to the house and up to the office to make the call.
“Put him on speaker." Alestar told her. She dialed the number, and we waited. After a few short rings a dude with a gruff voice answered the phone.
“Who diss?”
“H-Hello. Hey Tyron, this is Charlotte, Pepper’s friend from Brookview. She left me a note saying she had to come back home for a family emergency and that she wouldn’t be returning. I’m calling because I’m worried about her giving up on school. Maybe me and my family can help her with this emergency, and she can return to school.”
“He was quiet for a beat, letting out a sigh, before answering.”
“Man, there ain't no family emergency. I told her little ass not to come back here no matter what. I cleaned everything up and that was supposed to be the end of it, but I got a heads up that hewasn’t as dead as we thought. I’ve been out of town since I found out. If she’s back here it’s not to see the family. I’m sure if you are her friend you know about what my bitch ass brother did to her. Taye is dangerous and is known to do anything to keep what belongs to him. She’s gonna need some help.”
“Fuck your brother. Pepper was mine. And I’ll kill anybody that thinks they can take her from me,” I growled into the phone. “We need your help to find her and bring her home. You failed her once; it won't be a second time.” I told him hoping he heard the threat in my tone.
“I can hear it in your voice that you love my cousin and I'm happy that she found someone to care for her and protect her like we didn’t. I’ll help you find her. Just tell me what you need, and you’ll have it. I know you probably don’t believe me, but I love my cousin, I truly didn’t know the extent of what he was doing to her. She kept a lot of that shit to herself. She didn’t know it but I’m the reason she never moved into one of his homes with him. I was adamant that she stayed with family so we could monitor her mental health, but I wasn’t always around to make sure she was good. I let her slip through the cracks. But never again,” he said with a somber tone in his voice.
“Alright, then tell us something helpful.”
“Taye tried to hide his wife from anyone that knew Pepper, but it turned out she didn’t want to stay hidden. I had the pleasure of running into her at a nightclub down here at the beach, the summer before I helped Pepper get away. We’ve been cool ever since. She’s nothing like her husband and once she found out what he was doing with Pepper, she ran to me for comfort. That comfort turned into our one-year-old son. So yeah, I want that nigga gone for real this time. I’ll make a few calls to get the ball rolling on finding out where he has her. Until then stay in touch, as soon as I hear something I’ll reach out. It’s up to you if you decide to come down now or wait for my call.The choice is yours, but I would suggest you wait. It won’t do her any good if you pop up out here asking questions and alerting him to your presence.”
“We can do it your way for now, but nothing better happen to my girl in the meantime. I’m forever going to be the man she can depend on above all others. I'll also be your worst nightmare if my girl is hurt in any way by your bitch ass brother, feel me.” I growled before ending the call.
It took a week for Tyron to get a solid lead on where my lil baby was possibly being held. But there was no fucking way I was waiting in another state while she was missing. So, no sooner than we got off the call with Pepper’s cousin, we had the jet take us to the eastern shore of Maryland. We stayed in a hotel outside of town in the fucking boonies as we awaited any updates. We stepped off the jet and were greeted by a matte black suburban. We planned a meet up for the next day so we could feel her cousin out and make sure we weren’t walking into a trap. We decided to meet at the local IHOP during their busy hour. We arrived first and waited inside for that nigga. Five minutes after we arrived A big dark husky nigga that had the same eyes as Pepper walked in the restaurant, he was about an inch or two shorter than myself but had me by at least fifty pounds. He walked in looking around until his eyes landed on us. He gave us a nod, walking over and dapping Aren and Alestar up. I stayed seated gritting on that nigga. He still hadn’t earned my respect for that fuck shit he let happen to lil baby. We’d see how I felt about him after we got her back.
“What up? I’m Tyron,” he said. I hit him with a curt nod.
“I’m Alestar, this is Aren, and this evil ass nigga is Gunner.”
Tyron nodded.
“So, you're grumpy ass nigga that’s going to be my cousin in-law.” He smirked, clearly not giving a fuck about my glare.
“As soon as we take care of this little business.” I grumbled.
“Does she know that?” He laughed.
"Pepper knows this shits for life. Where is my lil baby?”
“I put a couple of my people on it, and they found out he’s been staying at a new beach house out in Ocean City. It’s about an hour and a half drive from here. Nobody has seen Pepper, but if he’s there, she’ll be there too. You know Pepper so you know that if she’s with him and he’s still alive it's for a good reason. Let's get going, it should be dark enough soon for us to go unseen when we arrive.” He said and we all climbed into the SUV and headed to find my wife.
Chapter 22
Pepper
Ithink he’s been putting them in my drinks and in the food to keep me compliant. I could taste the residue on my tongue. That familiar flavor of risperidone, olanzapine, quetiapine and a hint of lithium wasn’t easy to hide.
He’s trying to kill me, Nyx. I feel less and less like me every day.
