Page 89 of Heart of a Savage
“Bro, you need to find her before she does some more crazy shit,” Mo stated, rolling up a blunt.
I pulled from my pre-roll in deep thought. I heard my brother. I’d gotten a call from my father saying the same shit, butin all honesty, I wanted her to do whatever she was going to do to get her shit off.
I knew the risk. I took the chance and made the decision, so this was on me.
I sent my moms, sisters, and son to our safe house with my pops, while Mo, Mike, and I tried to find Arie.
“Y’all should head to the safe house with Ma and Papi. I’ll find her on my own.”
“Nah, bruh. We in this shit with you,” Mike countered.
“Listen, I don’t want to hear that shit right now. Just go!”
I was agitated. I knew I shouldn’t have been taking my aggression out on them, but this shit was fucked up. I needed to find her. She needed to know that this situation was out of my control. She knew the rules of the game. I just loathed the fact that both of us got caught up in our family’s shit.
“Yeah, a’ight, Si. I’ma let you make it, but watch your fucking back. Clearly, shorty is moving like a ghost. You never know when her ass is going to strike. Come on, Mo.”
They both stood as I watched them leave. My head fell back on the couch as I pinched the bridge of my nose. This was stressful. All my years, I’d never had to deal with anything like this. Falling in love was never on my bucket list, but I was never opposed to it. I just preferred to stay single because of situations like this. Arie was hurting, and it was only a matter of time before she did something else to show that pain.
My mom began calling me back-to-back, but I ignored her. I didn’t want to talk to anyone but Arieana. I needed her to know that this situation was out of my hands and that my back was against the wall.
Forty boxes that held two thousand bottles of prescription drugs in each box had gone missing, and her uncle was the cause of it. We lost six point five million dollars because of thatreckless nigga, so there was no way Papi was going to let this just roll off his shoulders.
Something had to be done.
It was just too bad I had to be the one involved.
My phone vibrated again on the table in front of me as I sighed heavily and lifted to grab it. The number was unknown, but I knew who it was. I connected the FaceTime call as her pretty face popped up. Her eyes were red and sad, but held a look of anger before it transformed, and she smiled at me.
“Hi, Messiah.”
“Arie, baby. What are you doing, mama?” I asked, trying to figure out her angle.
“What I should have done before you were able to get to my heart and my uncle.”
“Listen—”
“Shhh.” She placed her finger to her lips. “You don’t want to wake baby boy now, do you?” Her camera toggled, and MJ came into view, appearing to be sleeping in the back of her car.
Instantly, anger and fear gripped me as I stood abruptly, moving around to find my keys. “Arie, don’t do this shit. Leave him out of this. This is on me. You can do whatever you want to me, but leave my son out of it.” Finding my keys, I rushed out of the house and got inside my truck, pulling out.
“Aww, baby. Didn’t your mama ever teach you not to play with women? Specifically, a bitch like me. I’m not going to kill him. I actually like him. However, I did give him some special candy. That’s why he’s asleep. Didn’t want to scare him when I called you to let you know I’m going to kill you.”
“Where are you? Just… tell me where you are so I can grab him. We can do an exchange. Me for him,” I told her, looking between the phone and the road.
“Nan… I think I’m going to kick it with him for a while. But check this out…” She switched the camera around as I lookedto see that she was at the safe house. She was backed into a driveway across the street with a sniper’s rifle, aiming toward the house.
My chest grew tight as I swerved a little, almost driving into a ditch.
“I’m about to light that house up with all of your family in it. Let’s see how you feel to lose the people you love.”
“Arie—”
The line disconnected as I pounded my fist on the steering wheel. “Fuck!” I quickly sped in the direction of the safe house while dialing my mother’s number repeatedly. When she didn’t answer, I called my brothers until Mike picked up.
“You must need us now, huh? Did you find that crazy broad?”
“Mike, she’s at the safe house. She got MJ and is about to do something to them.”
